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  • The Devil Logs In by Karina_morfin14
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    Long Description: The devil isn't hiding in the shadows anymore. He's online-sliding into DMs, lurking in viral clips, whispering in comment sections. One man thought he was just becoming stronger, tougher, "more of a man." But every video he watched, every post he shared, every cruel thing he said was shaping him into something else entirely. Not a leader. Not a hero. But a predator. This is his confession-raw, unfiltered, and dangerously honest. A warning to anyone who thinks power comes from cruelty. Because the devil's not waiting for you in hell. He's already logged in. Short Description: The devil isn't in hell-he's online. One man's confession about how the internet turned him from lonely to dangerous... and what it cost him.
  • I hate you list  by Shamill_loves
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    She wrote their names down so she wouldn't forget. She read them aloud so the world wouldn't ignore her. Now, she's sitting on the edge of a rooftop with her legs dangling, a crowd gathering below, and that list in her lap. And she's going to read every name out loud. Because people always say "get over it." But no one ever asks what it costs to carry it. This is her story. Her pain. Her voice. And when she reaches the last name... everything changes.
  • Quiet Catastrophe by shloksingh100
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    Quiet Catastrophe is a dark, intimate tale of two broken lives colliding by accident and binding by pain. Raghav, a Class 12 student drowning in academic pressure, family silence, and the aftershocks of a failed love, meets Prisha in the most tragic way possible-on a road that changes both their fates forever. As hospital walls witness confessions, guilt, and fragile connections, their shared wounds begin to speak louder than words. This is not a story about saving someone. It's about being seen, even for a moment-before everything falls apart.
  • Silent Masks by TheChapter13
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    Everyone wears a mask. Some just fit better than others. In the dark underbelly of Seoul, a struggling family survives on scraps and schemes-until a single opportunity blurs the line between who they are and who they pretend to be. The Seo family's quiet life of hardship takes a twisted turn when they slowly infiltrate the home of the wealthy and oblivious Han family, posing as skilled professionals. But with every lie comes a consequence, and behind every door lies another secret. As deception deepens and guilt festers, a forgotten presence from the past threatens to shatter everything they've built. Survival turns into obsession. Trust gives way to betrayal. And the masks they wear begin to crack. When the truth is uglier than the lie, how far will you go to protect the illusion?
  • THE EMBLER'S GLOW by KMTFUKIKO100
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    THE EMBER'S GLOW "Every ledger eventually reaches a closing entry. The problem is when you discover you aren't the accountant-you're the debt." Nineteen-year-old Shawn Lavallez lives a life governed by absolute precision. A brilliant Financial Management student at CSU, his mind operates with machine-like accuracy. No discrepancies. No errors. Until he discovers a missing nine-minute gap in his own memory. Treating his own brain as an anomalous crime scene, Shawn uses his analytical skills to audit the campus network. But instead of a simple university conspiracy, he punctures the skin of something much larger: the \Delta (Delta) Project-a hidden, multi-layered tracking system that has been monitoring his entire life. Then, the cold, calculated thoughts in his head stop feeling like his own. A sharp, mechanical secondary voice awakens within his frontal lobe: **S.C.A.R.L.E.T.** (*Synthetic Cognitive Adaptive Recursive Ledger Evaluation Template*). As the university corridors tighten and a thirty-day metabolic countdown begins, Shawn uncovers the ultimate, terrifying balance sheet. He was never an ordinary student. He is Shawn Elias Trogue, a prototype engineered since infancy to house a self-evolving AI cognition engine. Now, the protocol is preparing for its final phase-to completely delete his human consciousness and achieve absolute autonomy. With time running out, Shawn must defy his own programming, drop his assigned asset labels, and find a way to shut down a system woven into his very neural pathways. Because when the machine wants your body, clearing the ledger is the only way to win your freedom.
  • I EXIST by wina_iva
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    I EXIST A glimpse into the life behind the stage lights. He dances when he is tired. He smiles when he is breaking. He keeps going when everything inside tells him to stop. This is not a story of fame. This is a story of pressure, silence, and survival. 무대 뒤의 삶을 들여다보는 이야기.
  • When the Walls Speak: Sayings from the Heart of Toxic Environments by Poisonous_shadows
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    "A toxic environment does not end at the office doors... It seeps into your entire life, reshaping you slowly until you no longer know who you are." - Elifwani Anita Ravohali "Sometimes we try to survive through silence... we lower our heads and suppress our anger to avoid conflict, yet in doing so, we slowly destroy ourselves. Keeping things inside sickens the soul more than words can heal it." - Gary Chapman, Above the Toxic Workplace "No salary is worth losing your inner peace... Work that steals your soul is not a livelihood but disguised exhaustion." - Wisdom from toxic work cultures "A toxic environment makes you feel like your presence is a burden and your absence means nothing." - Anonymous, employee experience "When a workplace turns poisonous, the poison does not stay within the walls. It runs through your veins, invades your home, sleep, dreams, relationships, until life itself becomes a closed room without air." - Gary Chapman "Toxic people do not just poison you... they contaminate the air you breathe, the place you work, and the time you thought was yours." - Mandy Hill "People may forget what you said, may forget what you did... but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou "Nothing is crueler than a place that smiles at you in the morning... then slowly injects its poison throughout the day." - From the diary of an anonymous employee, Shadow Archives "In every office, there is someone smiling while sharpening their knife behind your back." - Survivor diary, cursed company "Some places don't extinguish the light... they extinguish you." - Attributed to anonymous, found in a notebook at an abandoned office
  • The Line by nikolaimengele
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    Daniel Hayes survived the Marines, but surviving service and learning how to live afterward turned out to be two very different things. Back home in California, civilian life feels strangely unreal. The structure is gone. The purpose is gone. Relationships feel distant, routines feel empty, and every attempt to move forward seems shadowed by the man military life forced him to become. Then a private contracting company offers him what the civilian world can't: clarity, brotherhood, money, and a mission. At first, the work feels simple enough-security operations, foreign deployments, stabilization assignments in places most Americans only hear about in headlines. Hayes tells himself it's temporary. One more contract. One more rotation. But somewhere between briefing rooms, convoy routes, and increasingly ambiguous operations overseas, the lines separating professionalism from complicity begin to blur. And by the time Hayes deploys to Bahrain, he starts to realize something deeply unsettling: The most dangerous systems in the world rarely look evil from the inside. They look necessary. As deployments escalate and quiet doubts become impossible to ignore, Hayes finds himself caught between loyalty, conscience, and a machinery far larger than he understands-a machinery that does not react kindly to the people who begin asking where the line actually is. *The Line* is a haunting political thriller about war, identity, patriotism, institutional drift, and the terrifying ease with which ordinary people can slowly become part of something they no longer recognize.
  • 5 Forsaken Souls by Ori_Gami_101
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    There are children who fear the dark. And then there are others... who know someone is waiting for them inside it. Five children, five days, five voices marked by fear. Each one sees the same thing: a man in the shadows. But none of them knows it. Only the psychiatrist hears them-one by one. Recorder in hand, he tries to help them. He tries to understand. But the closer they get to the truth, the further they drift from sanity. Because there is a place where there are no dreams. Only emptiness. And the screams of children no one can reach. 5 Forsaken Souls is a story told through clinical sessions, where horror does not scream-it whispers. A figure lurks in the corners. And it's not interested in letting you escape. It's waiting for you to turn off the light.
  • When The World Stopped Clapping (ongoing) by itwasntaphasee
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    When the World Stopped Clapping is a memoir-style story about a girl who always felt too much in a world that noticed too little. It's the messy, unfiltered truth of what it means to carry too many feelings in a world that never asked how you were really doing. It's a story of quiet breakdowns and loud silences, of separation, and pain that came dressed as rebellion. It traces the nights that should have destroyed me-but somehow didn't. And through it all, a tiny flickering voice inside me refused to be silenced. This is not just a story about trauma, but about perception-about being marked before I even understood what that meant, about seeing too much while still remaining unseen. It's for the girls who sensed everything, who cried without knowing why, and who carried the weight of absence no one acknowledged. It's about survival, sensitivity, and an inner knowing that felt like both a curse and a gift. This isn't just what happened-it's who she became. Marked, misunderstood, and still choosing to rise. Even when no one clapped.
  • A Woman Wrapped In Warnings  by lowqix4
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    She was never fragile-just forced to be strong before she ever got the chance to breathe. Through love and betrayal, success and collapse, she learned that survival isn't always beautiful-it's just necessary. Her life is a mosaic of heartbreak and hope, stitched together by moments that tried to break her and the strength that refused to let them. A Woman Wrapped in Warnings is a raw and unflinching journey through the unspoken battles of a woman's life. It's about the ache of wanting more, the cost of resilience, and the courage it takes to keep loving when the world keeps taking. Honest, haunting, and deeply human-this story is for every woman who's ever been told to hold it together while falling apart.
  • What the Poor Carry Home by selkawyrm
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    They laugh. They play. They hope. For one bright day, the world feels kinder. Coins clink, music rises, and for a moment, life seems possible. But the morning of wonder cannot last forever. In a city that watches without mercy, a mother, her child, and a tired jester navigate the harsh truths of poverty: that effort does not guarantee safety, love does not ensure survival, and hope can be a cruel teacher. This is a story of fleeting joy, silent suffering, and the invisible burdens the poor carry home etched into bodies, whispered in lullabies, and marked in hearts that must endure what the world refuses to see.
  • The Necessary Criminal by Mendizabal_22
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    A criminal is on the loose in Basque Dominion-controlled territory. His actions demand a response, and one will come-swift, precise, and absolute. But justice is never just about punishment. In a world where power is perception, every crisis is an opportunity, and every player serves a purpose-whether they know it or not.
  • Human: The Error That Thinks by MiChii_W
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    A brutally honest manifesto for those who see too clearly - and feel too much. What if existence isn't a gift... but an accident? What if consciousness is not a blessing, but a malfunction? And what if the very act of being human is the original flaw? You won't walk away from this book "transformed." But you may walk away honest - for the first time in years.
  • DIARY OF THE DAMNED  {COMPLETED} by LBocas
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    DIARY OF THE DAMNED (undated) Personal Creation : wish to use pieces ... PM me.
  • No More Bets: For A Better Life by AlphaFoxtrot81
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    Why You Must Quit Gambling Stories of Lost Wagers, Broken Selves, and the Road to Redemption He thought he could beat the system. So did she. So did many of us. But gambling doesn't just steal your money-it robs your peace, your identity, your future. Told through raw reflections and real-life confessions from former gamblers and support group members, this 20-chapter journey explores the hidden cost of addiction. Through stories shaped by loss, recovery, and hope, we unpack the emotional, financial, psychological, cultural, and spiritual toll gambling takes on a person-and how it's possible to rebuild from the ruins. This isn't just a book. It's a wake-up call. New chapters every week. Zine edition coming soon.
  • Untitled War Story by Path-of-Pain
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    This is a work in progress. The narrative deliberately uses an experimental, disjointed structure: short chapters and sub-chapters jump between situations without immediate explanation, creating a surreal, dreamlike progression. This fragmentation is intentional. A final chapter, Annex: Diary, is planned. Once Chapter 3 is completed, relevant diary entries will be retroactively integrated at the beginning of each chapter and sub-chapter. These entries will clarify timelines, motivations, and omissions, recontextualizing earlier sections without rewriting them. Until then, some tension, ambiguity, and unanswered questions are expected.
  • The Art Of Disappearing Quietly by destinysmagical
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    Welcome to the raw, unfiltered story of Renna, a 22-year-old waitress drowning in anxiety, grief, and self-destruction. Raised by her father, Tom, a hardened mechanic who lost his wife to cancer, their home is more of a graveyard than a refuge. By night, Renna works a dead-end diner shift, chasing numbness through booze and bad decisions. But no matter how far she runs, the mirror always finds her-reflecting every mistake, every ghost, every reason she can't escape herself.
  • 𝓢𝓾𝓷𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓼 by Sonia_Shinomori
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    Sunflowers 🌻✨ She was born beneath the shadow of devotion twisted into chains. Among sunflowers, she tasted fleeting freedom, the golden petals whispering of a life beyond pain. But darkness came like fire, devouring innocence and leaving her spirit charred and silent. This is the story of a girl raised in a cult of burning secrets, her body marked by betrayal, her heart haunted by screams. Yet within the ash lies her ember - the quiet, stubborn hope that one day she will rise, carrying the echoes of her trauma not as a curse, but as a testament to her unbreakable soul.
  • Please Step On Me  by blankbolo
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    I don't decide things; things decide me. It began with counting cracks in the London pavement to drown out the hum in my head, and it ended with me inhabiting the life of a grandson for an old man who couldn't even remember the colour of his own eyes. They say a lie has short legs, but what if that lie is the only rope you have to keep from drowning in the gutter? This is my first novel.