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  • The Hollow shell by Cap1094
    Cap1094
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      Parts 25
    In a world where hope flickers like a distant star, a young boy clings to the remnants of a feeling he once held dear. This fleeting grasp of hope, now dissolved into nothingness, sets him on a journey to mend everything that has fallen apart. Driven by a desperate wish to fix his fractured world, he embarks on a perilous quest. However, as he delves deeper into his journey, the boy realizes a devastating truth: the most precious thing he once had is forever lost because of the very wish he made. This wish, intended to bring resolution, has instead unravelled his life, leaving him with a profound sense of regret. As he navigates through trials and tribulations, the path to redemption remains uncertain. The boy's journey is a poignant exploration of loss, regret, and the arduous search for self-recovery. In the end, we are left to wonder: will he ever reclaim the hope that once illuminated his heart, or will he remain adrift in a sea of his own making?
  • On Life, Love, and Loneliness by Dovahkiinshade
    Dovahkiinshade
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      Reads 46
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      Parts 5
    Works of poetry.
  • Hear the White in the Waves by xltrxmxr
    xltrxmxr
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      Reads 28
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      Parts 1
    Grief.
  • Detachment by EllaST3_R
    EllaST3_R
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      Reads 18
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      Parts 3
    A short, emotional story about what it feels like to just... float. It follows a girl, or honestly just anyone, who feels out of place and overwhelmed by her own thoughts. This isn't a guide or a lecture, just a small glimpse into what a noisy mind can feel like, from the inside. Its very short, but i hope you enjoy🤗
  • Excerpt From A Book I'll Never Write by girl_in_the_moon
    girl_in_the_moon
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      Parts 13
    I have always wanted to write a book but I seem to never follow through so I just create little excerpts that I have no idea what to do with. So I'm going to put them here. I can't usually come up with a plot for any of these excerpts so please feel free to let these ideas come to life in your writing.
  • As I am laid in Earth by UsamaTariq
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    “Demolish what must be demolished, once and for all, and take the suffering on ourselves”
  • My Teenage Son Shows No Emotion: Unlock Hidden Feelings by teenageparenting
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    Are you concerned about your teenage son's emotional numbness? Learn the signs, causes, and ways to address emotional detachment in teens, fostering emotional intelligence and well-being. https://digiteenageparenting.com/my-teenage-son-shows-no-emotion/
  • Law 36 - Disdain Things You Cannot Have: Ignoring Them Is the Best Revenge by VoloAuxilium
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      Parts 8
    (A1k Detachment Mastery Edition)What you react to controls you. What you chase owns you. What you envy drains you. Law 36 teaches you to remove your energy from anything that diminishes your power- to ignore, detach, and rise above in a way that starves the problem instead of feeding it. In this A1k Edition: Activated Layer dissolves attachment, envy, emotional reactivity, and psychic hooks that pull your energy downward. Enhanced Mastery Layer gives the strategic frameworks for redirecting attention, maintaining composure, and undermining enemies by starving them of psychological oxygen. This law teaches you the rarest form of power: winning by absence.
  • Dying flowers in new soil by BloomingCactus
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    Life is not all skittles and sunshine. Sometimes our roots feel drained and our petals fall down and even water and sunlight do not give us the nourishment we need. The older I become, the more I recognize the value of watering my flowers and tending to the garden of my soul. There will always be aspects of life which hurt or harm us, but the very nature of life is balance, and thus, for every drought, the rain will eventually fall upon us again. For each parasite, a new place within will be born. Every step leads to the next. May I stay confident in knowing I planted my seeds mindfully, and will in turn, reap what I have sown.
  • Book of Ascension: Root by HeritierKasanda
    HeritierKasanda
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    If you immerse yourself into the unknown, does it become known to you? If the Blind man sees nothing and nothing is still something, does he see everything? Detachment is often the greatest attachment, for it leaves you unbound and limitless. All you have to do is remove the tether
  • Indifference  by luvie_97
    luvie_97
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    They say this city never sleeps, but that's a lie. It sleeps with its eyes open-watching, calculating, forgetting. Here, power doesn't shout; it whispers through sealed deals and stained hands. Love is not forbidden, just irrelevant. People learn early: care too much, and you become the weakness someone else exploits. And then there was her-calm, unreadable, almost empty. And him-trained to win in a world where losing meant disappearing. They should have never noticed each other. But indifference, in a place like this, doesn't stay harmless for long.
  • How to get that guy you like to never ever talk to you again by HaydenM
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    A short narrative exploring the idea of dating as a calculating and emotionally detached routine.
  • THE ART OF DETACHMENT by harshiwrites
    harshiwrites
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    Sometimes all i hope for is it let go and not leave at the same while... , emotions do kick in... but the best form of theatrics is not to feel anything at all... This one has been in me for a while until i vent this out here... read and have fun.
  • When the leaves fall by anastrumendo2006
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    Aurora lived at the time when novels were designed and dreamed,at the age of eighteen she loses her parents and moves to live with her Aunt Mary, who did not know until that moment. She discovers within that property that the bonds of family love go beyond death. And that love is so much closer than she suspects.
  • What's Wrong by LostDreamsandSouls
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    some of these might not make sense but trust me neither does my mind
  • Relapse by zenevadoni77
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    Sixteen-year old Dante Evadoni is a normal boy with a normal life - he's in eleventh grade, he has a fair few friends, he's not popular and he's quiet - and a problem that has followed him for two years: he's heels over head in love with a girl he can't seem to get over. Seventeen-year old Carolynn Quirox is in the same grade level as Dante, in the same circle of friends, although a bit apart from him. For two years, she has been avoiding Dante in an attempt to make him forget about her. She has never felt anything for Dante, believing that he isn't the one. Then, after some practices and one dance during a party, everything turns upside down. Just as Dante feels that his life has finally begun to go uphill, he is plagued by a memory that compels him to consider the way things are and how things should be. What happens when the past he needs to forget becomes the only way he can be happy? After that one party, Dante seems to be a different person in the eyes of Carolynn. She is confused at first, but the longer she tries to come to grips with her views of Dante, the more she realizes what she has been overlooking. How could someone she has known and avoided for two years seem to change in one evening? The two are forced apart, brought together, and both can't help wondering if they truly are meant to be without one another. Laden with dances, music, laughter, and heartbreak, 'Relapse' is the story of what happens when the first of feelings refuse to die out.
  • The One Who Executes Reality by ChrisC2
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    The One Who Executes Reality is a dark philosophical poem that explores the evolution of a mind beyond humanity. It tells the story of a being not shaped by heaven or hell, but born in the silent void between them - an intellect stripped of emotion, refined by betrayal, and elevated through collapse. Cold, calculated, and disturbingly self-aware, he does not seek power - he embodies it. As others orbit his gravity, he manipulates thought, bends futures, and transcends the illusions of fear, loyalty, and even death itself. This poem is a meditation on control, consciousness, and the cost of becoming something greater than human - a transformation where empathy is sacrificed for clarity, and identity dissolves into revelation. Dark, cerebral, and unsettling, it questions whether evolution of the mind is enlightenment... or erasure.
  • 《Tuyển - Đóng》Debtor Detachment - Biệt Đội Những Con Nợ Chồng Chất Thích Đào by Debtor_Detachment
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    Chào mừng bạn đến tham quan cái hố của của những con nợ chúng tớ.
  • Fitting Out by lettingitoutforfun
    lettingitoutforfun
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    Navya is finally stepping out of college and into the 'real world'. Will the ambitious, driven young girl with a baffling way of living and an uncontrollable stream of dark thoughts she'd never say out loud, be able to keep up with the demands of new adult life? Or will she lose everyone and everything she cares about in the process?