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  • Rings from the past by SeiJshikawa
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    When the past comes calling, the line between reality and curse becomes blurred. Keiko must confront haunting ancestral voices and chilling premonitions to break a chain of pain that threatens to consume her. Will she escape her fated end, or succumb to the Rings from the Past?
  • The Unheard by ToobaAzeem5
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    Safa's birthday is filled with surprises but also shadowed by family problems. Juggling OCD, a heavy workload, and a financial crisis at home, her special day becomes more about managing her struggles than celebrating. Though she enjoys an office party and a loving dinner with her mother, Safa still feels overwhelmed by her worries. As she tries to solve her family's money issues, she faces unexpected challenges that could change everything. Can Safa handle all this, or will she find herself facing even bigger problems?
  • Circled by kafhoover
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    A short story about a man in a circle that symbolizes something a lot deeper.
  • Echoes That Swirled Ink by Blossommari
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    Ink leads a quiet life-teaching by day, writing between the lines, dreaming in silence. Echo lives under lights and in lyrics, adored but quietly restless. When her anonymous voice reaches him through a late-night message, something shifts. One lives in the calm. The other, in the noise. But a single moment sparks a connection neither expected. A soft, stirring story of two lives drawn together by a voice, a song, and the feeling that someone out there might already understand
  • Returning Home by areal_16
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    This is a short story written for the Contemporary Lit Contest: A Fantabulous Easter. Running from home after the aftermath of loss, Mari finds herself in California. Alone for Easter, she reluctantly agrees to attend a coworker's Easter party. The lingering memories of spending holidays with her family continue to pull at her as the bright cheer surrounding her ignites. What she doesn't expect is a face from her past to appear. Through reminiscent Easter fun, Mari begins to cherish the very things she ran from. Will it be enough to bring her home, or will the pain of her past keep her miles from the one place that still holds her heart?
  • It's Write or Die by CuriousKittyKillz
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    Just quotes that suddenly pop inside my head. A 'Freedom Book' you don't have to give a damn about.
  • A Third Wave The Survival by lisamariemeadows
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    As the world emerges from the pandemic a light of hope has awakened on the horizon. Will Shelby and Simon overcome the final obstacle. Will our world look the same. We will just have to wait and see in- A Third Wave-The Survival
  • Not Born for This World by ooh-terriblekaraoke
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    Lulu Gemma. She has a normal life. She has always stuck to herself. She has never had real friends until she leaves her hometown to live in some mansion after her parents murder. Love,secrets,betrayal,revenge become part of her new found life. ---- I knew it was rude of me to continue staring at her,but I was unable, to take my eyes of her,as I explored every inch of her naked body. A slender waist, whistling down from her bust, as smoothly as the water from a waterfall, the bends of her hips, so voluptuous that you feel as if it has been carved out by the creator who sculpted out of care and feel just like a potter sculpts a vessel from raw clay. The bends of her hips and the fullness of her bosom, reminiscent of the idea of perfection. As she raised those long slender arms to cover her mouth in shock her navel was left naked for the world to view. Her glistening skin the its colour infused with a hint of cocoa was enough to give heart aches causing my heart to skip a few beats and my breath to quicken. She was a complete African woman...nothing about the way her body was curved out was innocent. I had not expected it when she got down on her fours and crawled away. She had knocked the breath right out of my chest as I had stood there now amused as i watched her crawl away on her fours. All I had wanted to do was haul her ass up my shoulder an take her to my room and treat her body just right,the way it should.
  • Cursed Fate by KassidyPppioPereira
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    Vincent always knew that his lifestyle made him different than his peers, but when two mysterious strangers show up and ambush him after his graduation, his life is completely turned upside down. He must find his missing father, discover his ancient royal lineage, and control his supernatural abilities with dark ritualistic magic! Can he help Lalaina and Hery undo what has already been done and save himself from his Cursed Fate?
  • Celestial by eris_dais
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    Celeste lives in the post-apocalyptic city, Effluent, on planet 7125. Their society overflows with creativity and colorful ideas are easier to find than a needle in a haystack. Every person is born with one mishap or another. It wouldn't be out of the norm to find a girl with an extraordinary birthmark, a man with sentient hair or a child with a cat's tail. But what if you were born completely normal? You have plain skin, normal hair and no tail whatsoever. Just a basic human being. How would you survive? In a world where everything is whimsical and out of the ordinary, how do you make your presence known?
  • Mischievous  by MrObscure
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    Set in the mid-2000's, a young man tries to make sense of his surroundings while simultaneously doing everything he can to escape them. Fueled by drugs, his friends, his car and his desire to maintain constant mobility, he unknowingly subjects himself to a series of rigorous tests to establish exactly where he belongs in the dysfunctional society around him.
  • A First Wave - The Emergence by lisamariemeadows
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    A Pandemic Romance-The landscape of our world changes as the pandemic engulfs us. Shelby Stone a renowned Infectious Disease Physician is facing the battle of her life. Will she outrun its devastation or will the virus or her haunted pass catch up to her. Will the love she never thought she find again, save her and save the world.
  • THE MAD MAMMOTH by Sholarewa
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    Tolani had been married to her husband Tunji for twenty-one years in a society that preached and encouraged male superiority and partiality. She took all the hurts and betrayals from him until the day she learnt he had been keeping a shocking secret from her for twenty years. At that point Tolani knew it was time to take her revenge not just against her husband but also against every single person who had been his enabler and she wouldn't let anything stop her in her mission.
  • The Path by kafhoover
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    what path will you choose?
  • Bete Noire by ceceshawty
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    When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there's nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You've done this before. But what happens when you no longer feel like yourself anymore? When fires spontaneously start-up around you, when you hear growling coming from underneath your bed, and you no longer recognize your face in the mirror. What happens then?
  • the bee and his sunflower home by alignedinchaos
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    From the perspective of a bee. Making a story themed from a flower.
  • Readers have decided - NIGHT IN ZAGREB and "Đavolja noć" series are the greatest by Brian784646
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    "Night in Zagreb" is a novel written by Adam Medvidović, a writer from Europe. It is the first part of his series "Đavolja noć"! The series currently has four parts, but it continues, so we can expect more installments in the future, much to the delight of the community of millions of faithful followers of "Đavolja noć" worldwide, of which I am one. As I am a professional novel critic from New York I have known the book for a long time and the history it has, so I can speculate on claims. According to various reader portals, forums, and websites, it has already been praised as the greatest novel of all time. The series has attained cult status worldwide, especially among the part of the reading audience that considers itself demanding and rejects what could be called "mainstream crap". Admittedly, mainstream literature also includes many books that rightfully capture attention, but bookstore shelves are also cluttered with many publications that stand on those undeserved pedestals because their authors are backed by publishers who have invested a lot of money in promoting those products. "Đavolja noć" is the opposite of that. The book was never advertised anywhere by anyone because the author of the book is just an ordinary person from Europe who began his writing career when a publishing house in Eastern Europe released "Night in Zagreb," which immediately gained cult status in Slavic countries in Europe because, from the very beginning, the book was accompanied by the echo that it wasn't "just a novel." The book is written as a novel, but soon rumors spread that the book has a "revealing" effect and that almost everything written in the book is actually the truth concerning the European and Christian future and past. Reporting from New York, Brian Deville.
  • Blinders by altiemeyer
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    An instance riddled with misunderstanding, but how could it not be when you can only really see from your own perspective?
  • Tale of a Guy by hiddentruth16
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    Down in the lows, up in the skies, but no medium. Al just wants to have a normal life, but it looks like the only option is to be one or the other. Will he ever see the sun rise and fall on the same day? A short story:)
  • The Puppets of the Marionettes by LMuradi
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    He took a leaden breath. "A smart man learns to live with placid waters, making them rage will sweep him away. Do not speak much because you will never know a friend or family from a foe; the wrath you incur will be obliterating." "Water is meant to flow, not to remain placid." "Here, it is meant to remain placid." "And my dignity?" "What about your dignity?" "How will it succumb to this?" "It must succumb. You must bury your dignity, otherwise, it will bury you." Beautifully intertwined with compelling Arabic poetry, The Puppets of the Marionettes depicts the struggles of nations, of hundreds of millions of people: puppet governments, degradation, disguised slavery, corruption, stripped rights, hopelessness, this is a story of a trampled Middle East. Follow Omar as his life unwillingly turns into a life carved for him. Will his dignity ever be restored, or is its loss the main objective?