Disillusionment Stories

Hadley Elliot's life is not where he expected it to be at seventeen. He feels like his friends no longer understand him, his parents' apathy is getting harder to ignore and his girlfriend, Elodie, just left him for their more popular classmate, Spencer. As Hadley finds himself becoming more and more detached from the people around him, an incident at school lands him in trouble and leaves him in Spencer's bad books. But as he tries to heal from his first heartbreak and find some deeper connection to a world that seems to be moving without him, Hadley decides to find love in the little things and, in the process, begins to form a bond he didn't expect with the boy who stole his girlfriend.

« Woman i can't wait to get you pregnant...» 𝐈𝐧 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 Alina Cassel-the mesmerizing Italian-French supermodel with a heart wrapped in mystery,drops a bombshell confession live on the world's most-watched TV talk show, revealing her forbidden crush on Kenan Yildiz, the Turkish golden boy whose name alone sparks . #KenanYildiz #AlinaCassel

ROMANCE - SWEET - SLOWBURN - FEMALE & FEMALE When Sabrina's world falls apart, she finds solace in the unlikeliest of places - a quirky household with a brilliant little girl and her stunning mom. Join Sabrina as she trades heartbreak for happiness, and discovers that sometimes, the best things in life come with a side of syrup.

Gianna Rossi tends her family's olive grove in northern Italy, sending letters across the miles to Amerigo Conti, a young soldier newly drafted, full of pride and hope. Their correspondence grows from friendship to something deeper, each letter carrying their fears, their dreams, and the fragile intimacy of life in uncertain times. As war spreads across the countryside, the beauty of the Italian landscape stands in stark contrast to the dangers closing in. Letters arrive late, letters go unanswered, and both must navigate the distance between them and the secrets that war demands they keep. In a world of silence and small gestures, how much can love endure when the truth is never quite within reach? ///New Chapters Posted Weekly - Mondays at 2PM UTC///

a wry, hallucinatory novel about one man's misguided attempt to flee the wreckage of his life - and what he finds instead. Lodge Gratz has had enough. Orphaned, recently divorced, and quietly convinced he's dying of a slow, invisible illness he traces back to the dust of September 11th, Lodge does what any desperate, spiritually curious New Yorker might do: he buys a one-way ticket into the Amazon jungle. What follows is not a neat arc of healing, but a humid, often absurd plunge into ritual, ceremony, and the myth of reinvention. As Lodge stumbles barefoot through the unfamiliar terrain of ayahuasca retreats, silent guides, and his own crumbling psyche, he begins to confront the very thing he was trying to outrun: himself. Told in a voice that's as sharp as it is compassionate, Holidays, Travel, and Other Misconceptions explores how we project meaning onto holidays, travel, and transformation - and how those projections, shaped by personal trauma and cultural noise, often obscure the quieter truths hiding in plain sight. It's a story about grief disguised as escape, about the rituals we inherit and the ones we invent, and about what's left when the curated version of ourselves finally collapses.

This poetry collection is about going through disillusionment in lots of aspects in life and trying to handle the frustration and anger it brings inside of you.

If you live in terms of what others expect you to be, then are You really living?

Say, a server in a hotel, if only he senses his service at the tables as a contribution to the society at large, notwithstanding his modest earnings, still the quality of his fulfillment could be immeasurable. Thus, expanding on Peter Drucker's 'a first-rate truck driver is better than a tenth-rate executive' we can say that the former could feel fulfilled on account of his sense of contribution, which would be beyond the grasp of the latter despite his material overreach. So, that is how the sense of contribution is the source of fulfillment in life that mere contentment cannot bring about.

Funny how I made the world laugh and can't smile at the mirror. Funny how those makeups covers my pale skin. Funny how you see me with people and assume an not lonely. Funny how it's not fun but I made it funny. Funny how my tears washed away my mask.

I wish this was a novel about being a tramp. I wish I could have witnessed the gulag, the concentration camps of world war. It would have given myself such a unique point of view, a voice to stand above it all... but my upbringing staved off any lucky strike at a down and out skid row experience. Thus starts the journey...of never wanting to work...never wanting to do much really...

Set in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a fourteen year old girl experiences the pains of growing up. When left on her own, what starts out as a glorious few days of independence ends up as being anything but.

To save your world- you asked this man to die, would he, could he see you now, ask why? W.H.Auden -

Read and found out why I think so.

Poems about a sputtering engine of a soul. (c) Avollea 2015

Corruption associated with the villainous illusion of a meaningless material object and it's accomplices in crime/tyranny.

A memoir of sorts......