Free-will Stories

In a world where magic was buried and forgotten, it's starting to wake up. Selene Vireya, a curious young historian, finds a glowing crystal-and it speaks. Inside is a starborn prince with a warning: The Serpentfire is coming back. To stop it, Selene must journey through cursed lands, face ancient beasts, and uncover the truth about her past-one tied to a cosmic love, a hidden bloodline, and a war erased from history. Magic. Memory. Destiny. Selene must decide: Will she destroy the Serpentfire... or become it? _________________________________________________________________ All characters, places, events, creatures, and organizations mentioned in this story are purely the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, real locations, or actual events is entirely coincidental. This story blends elements of fantasy, science fiction, historical revisionism, romance, mystery, and mythology. It is not intended to represent real historical facts, religious beliefs, or cultural systems. Reader discretion is advised. This book is written for entertainment purposes only - to spark wonder, emotion, and imagination. So take a deep breath, open your mind, and remember: Not every glowing crystal is safe to touch.

Brief story/excerpt about our surrender to time itself from a project

Do you ever feel like a puppet on a string? Having someone else lead your own life? Having someone else be the hero of your own story? Well this is a story about a Puppet that wants to be free from it's Puppet Master, and will do anything to gain it's freedom. Please enjoy.

In the Beforelife, before the souls were born, they were briefed about how their lives would turn out. If they deemed their happiness would outweigh the pain they would endure in their lives, they would be born. If they refused the proposal, they would be sent to roam mindlessly over the Neitherworld until their names were called again. This was the Fate of Grace Adler, and other souls she saw in the Beforelife. - TW: mentions of violence and torture, rape and prostitution, war, suicidal thoughts.

Flavio Mancini is a brilliant but lonely student from Rome who has a crush on Claudia, a wild and reckless girl. He doesn't know that he is the result of a genetic selection by the Interdimensional Assembly, a group of beings who can manipulate quantum probabilities and influence the development of planets and civilizations. The Assembly has a plan for Flavio: to awaken his mental abilities and make him the savior of Earth. But Flavio's life, already full of tragedy and pain, meets some cosmic bad luck and he ends up thinking of Claudia as his last wish. To find a project, a reflection and a perspective for his existence, Flavio needs to live... a few times. And the gods from the Assembly are not just watching. The story is full of twists and explores themes such as free will, destiny, morality, identity and love. ******* The story is complete, is 90 chapters total (last chapter being number 89)

In a modern world where gods walk among mortals in secret, Thalia, a demigod unaware of her divine heritage, lives a quiet life in a remote coastal town. When a celestial rift disrupts the balance between Olympus and Earth, ancient prophecies reawaken-and so does war. With Zeus missing, the gods descend into bitter infighting. Thalia discovers she is the lost child of a powerful Olympian and the key to uniting the fractured pantheon. Reluctantly drawn into a world of divine politics, legendary monsters, and powerful relics, she must master the divine weapon Astrapos, a blade said to command the storms of Olympus, and face ancient betrayals that could doom both gods and mortals.

Miciela and Zakarius were once young lovers torn apart by their rival families. Forced to separate when Miciela's mother discovered their relationship, Miciela was sent abroad under threat to protect Zakarius. Years later, they reunite at a gala-Miciela now a flight attendant, Zakarius a successful pilot. Though time has changed them, their bond remains. Stronger and more determined, they face lingering family tensions and past wounds. No longer willing to be victims of circumstance, they fight to reclaim their love. But with old threats resurfacing, they must decide if love is enough to defy the weight of their past. Can love rekindled defy the legacies of betrayal, or will the past destroy their second chance before it begins?

What if you could discover a psychic power unique to you? A boy dips his efforts around mind manipulation. What happens when he looks into a mind and finds something looking back at him?

Free-will or destiny? You'll have to decide for yourself. ------------ Hi. I'm learning how to write and I want you to join me on my journey. I wanted to be an author when I was a kid but save for a few short stories I was never able to really complete a book and all but gave up. I found some of my old writing recently and started to think I should try again for real this time. I figure posting online will keep me accountable and maybe I'll get some feedback. And if anything at least my characters will have a home other than my attic. Also! If you have any short story ideas you'd like to see come to life message me and I'll write it the best I can and compile them into another book on my page (with credits of course). So you can get a story and I can get practice. If you made it this far, thanks for listening and if you'd like to join me I'd love to have you.

Those who wish for power will seek fame and riches but, a legend wishes for a second chance. Maybe even more if faith allows it.

Cyrene never set a paw outside of Abandoned Atra. For the past year and a half of her life she had never said a word that wasn't heard by her brother or sister. In fact the closest she had gotten to the other glarings, and out of Abandoned Atra, was dreaming about the day she could join them. On an island there lives a haven of creatures. Believed to be superior, the island was divided up into three nations: the felines, canines, and birds. Atra is set up so that any feline, of any age, may switch glarings once in their life if they feel the need to. Cyrene, along with her brother, Ares, and her blind sister, Otium, can't wait for the day. However, it all changes when Cyrene is told that she belongs to the glaring, Veilded. She soon is pulled into a world of magic, murder, and not-so mythical necromancers. Cyrene finds herself weaved into an inescapable prophecy, that doesn't just involve her and her family, but the future of Atra too.

"My dear, you've been living the equivalent of two lifetimes in one. And at some point, these lifetimes would converge and collide." Themis lightly waves her hand and the blue butterfly flutters out of her hand. "Two lifetimes?" Crystal is highly skeptical again. "Yes, and at some point, you would be faced with a moment of great change. The road will become forked somewhere. And the path you chose to go down would have an enormous bearing on the rest of your life." --- Crystal's childhood was anything but normal, plagued by strange happenings and tragedies. The person who saved her from depression and isolation was her best friend, Jackson. Now the founder of a highly successful company, she starts finding strange and unusual things happening to her again. Recurring dreams led her to meet a psychic named Themis, who tells her that she was living the equivalent of two lifetimes in one and that at some point, these lifetimes would converge. Themis also warns her that she is in grave danger. There are people who need her alive and there are people who need her dead. But in order to understand her life and who she truly is, she must confront this situation. Soon after her meeting with Themis, she is ambushed by people looking to capture her and encounters the man who's voice she's been hearing in her head. And quickly, Crystal is pulled into a world unlike anything she has ever seen before.

When young scientist Ethan builds a time machine, he accidentally traps himself in a time loop. Now he relives the same day over and over again, with no way to break the cycle. Determined to find a way out, Ethan travels through time, witnessing some of the most important events in history. He meets famous figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Galileo. He also learns about the dark side of history, such as the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. Through his experiences, Ethan comes to understand the true meaning of time and free will. He learns that even though he can't change the past, he can still make a difference in the present. A thought-provoking and suspenseful story about the nature of time and free will

The Lords of Land have been having small skirmishes on the border of late, and all four, the Lords of North, South, East, and West have gathered great armies and are marching for the Valley of Order. Rorik Didricson, a weapons smith turned warrior has been caught up with the Lord of the West, Rylon of Cyr, and must battle his way to the front to prevent a bloodbath.

I like the idea of believing there's a higher power, whether it be God, fate, destiny or a grand design and plan, surely we, humans and life can't just be random? There must be something more? But on the other side of the coin maybe we use fate as an excuse- maybe we are more in control of our fate than we like to admit. But we're afraid to affirm this fact because it means we're responsible for the mistakes and wrong choices we've made. But if we're more in control of our own fate than we realise- then we have infinite potential. This poems about all these 'big question' musings...

Freedom is a word which