Generational Stories

Book 4, Shut Up & Listen: The Thuggish Ruggish Bone (complete ) __/Lonnie, the eldest of his siblings, seems lost to everyone around him. But he's never been more sure of himself and what he needs. On the other hand there's Dame- he seems the most put together but his world on the inside is full of turmoil. While so completely opposite they seem, these brothers, Dame and Lonnie, will soon find that at the core, down at the bone, they couldn't be more similar. no.1 in #innercity no.2 in #innerchild no.2 in #bougie

DESTINY FAILED THEM ONCE, BUT SOMETHING UNNATURAL FORCED THEM TOGETHER. Some promises refuse to die. Some names echo, even when forgotten. She had always lived a quiet, ordinary life surrounded by the people she loved. Introverted by nature, she preferred silence over noise, books over crowds, and never once questioned why certain emotions inside her felt heavier than they should. Until everything started changing. After a sudden incident turns her world upside down, strange flashes begin haunting her mind-golden corridors she has never walked through, unfamiliar voices that feel painfully familiar, and memories that could not possibly belong to her. At first, they come only in fragments. Brief. Confusing. Easy to ignore. But slowly, the past begins forcing its way back into her life. And with it comes the unsettling truth that her existence was never truly normal to begin with. As hidden secrets unravel and forgotten emotions begin resurfacing between two lifetimes, she finds herself connected to a promise made long ago... a promise powerful enough to survive even death. Because hearts remember. Even when memories do .. ! THIS STORY CHARACTER'S FACES ALSO WILL BE REVEALED !

Breaking a curse isn't easy, especially when your great-great-grandmother was a Victorian witch who spelled her own family. Join 16-year-old Lily Killough on a magical adventure through time to heal ancestral wounds and break the ties that bind in this intergenerational YA mystery. All her life 16-year-old Lily has dreamed of attending the annual Victorian Ball in her hometown of Waxahachie, Texas. When she lands her first job with the company catering the party, Lily gets a glimpse of the opulent event from behind the scenes. As she pokes around the Queen Anne-era Victorian mansion Twin Oaks House, Lily discovers a thrilling secret. The original owner of the property is her great-great-grandmother, a once-powerful matriarch disgraced over accusations of infidelity and witchcraft. With the help of her departed ancestors (and her crush), Lily is transported through time to attempt to right the wrongs of the past. But after revealing the disturbing origins of a generational curse imprisoning her family and their magic, will Lily have the power to break the chains and rewrite history? Only time will tell.... and, unfortunately, the clock is ticking. Lily must solve the mystery and return to the present day before the Victorian Ball is over at the stroke of midnight.

A family secret. A cursed tree. A murder that refuses to stay buried. For generations, the people of a small Caribbean community have whispered about the breadfruit tree standing behind the old family property. They say blood was spilled beneath its branches decades ago-and that the tree remembers every drop. When a young woman returns home after years away, she expects to reconnect with her family and uncover the truth about the past. Instead, she begins experiencing disturbing visions, unexplained deaths, and strange encounters that seem connected to the tree. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes her family has been hiding something. Someone was murdered. Someone knows why. And whatever happened beneath the breadfruit tree may not be finished with them. Because some family secrets don't die.

On Lagos Island in the late 1970s, a young Yoruba couple moves into a tightly knit family compound where privacy is forbidden and secrets never stay buried. Then their baby is born, and the child looks nothing like either parent or anyone in the large extended family. What follows is a decades-long storm of suspicion, betrayal, tradition, and hidden truths that threatens to destroy an entire family.

In a quiet neighborhood in Chandigarh, 80-year-old Lakshmi possesses a treasure no one else has: seven generations of her family gathered every Friday under an old mulberry tree. She tells them, "The roots are me. You are the branches. If a branch breaks, the roots will search for it until they die." But lonely neighbors, consumed by envy of Lakshmi's happy family, begin poisoning her children's minds with whispers of travel, divorce, fame, and independence. One by one, the branches break and scatter across the world. Only Arjun, her 17-year-old grandson, chooses to stay. As the roots weaken and the tree begins to wither, Arjun learns the painful truth: when a grandmother's branch breaks, the roots never return to their place. But can the branch that remains plant new roots? A heartwarming and heartbreaking Indian family saga about love, sacrifice, loneliness, envy, and the unbreakable bond between a grandmother and her grandchildren. Perfect for readers who loved "The Namesake" and "A Suitable Boy."

【Written for the 8Letters June Writing Challenge】 Solaira "Soli" Saldarriega has come home three times. She never stayed. The first two times, she had reasons. This time, her lola is in the ground, the house is full of relatives who keep asking when she's going back to Manila, and the ache in her hands hasn't stopped since the bus climbed past Baguio. Aven "Ven" Ragasa is still here. Still rooted. Still the person the whole barangay calls when something needs fixing. She's watched Soli leave twice and she has no intention of watching it a third time. There is a three at the edge of the Saldarriega property. It's old, older than the town, older than the family that's tended it, and something is wrong with it. Soli knows exactly what it is. She has known since she was seven-years-old, in the same way she has always known what she feels when Ven is in the room. Two hundred years in a mountain town an hour past Baguio. Three generations of women who loved someone society said they couldn't. One debt that has been waiting a very long time to be paid, and only one way left to pay it. Some things you inherit. Some things you have to come home and claim.

a collection of poetry

A child's pain turns into a woman's fire-when silence finally runs out of space. He said, What can I do? And I kept swallowing silence- Until it tasted like rage. He sat with wings on his back, while I crawled with wounds on mine. the cover represents a father. the wings represents his potential. He wore wings but whispered helplessness.. "A figure of myth and might, now silent, asking the wrong questions." this poem and the cover and two poems in itself.

The City of Mirrors is the first volume in The Unfinished Cause Series: Historical Voices Confront the Present. It is a political allegory inspired by the spirit of Harvey Milk's lifelong belief that visibility, dignity, and hope are among the most powerful forces for social change. In a city built entirely of mirrors, a new government known as the Custodians begins covering reflections it deems "improper." Under the guise of protecting society, they erase people from schools, libraries, hospitals, and even history itself. As healthcare access, personal identity, and civil rights come under attack, ordinary citizens are pressured to disappear quietly. But the people targeted for erasure refuse to vanish. Through the eyes of teachers, doctors, activists, and a young boy who proudly carries both his national flag and a flag representing his identity, the story explores the struggle between fear and freedom, conformity and authenticity, power and humanity. Blending satire, compassion, and sharp social commentary, The City of Mirrors is a modern fable about the danger of denying people the right to define themselves-and the enduring power of visibility, community, and hope in the face of intolerance.

A boy's love story where the two MC's broke the generational curse that their family continuously inheriting and go against the rules in the name of love, freedom, and respect. The story highlights positive self-care and is vocal about the burden of "responsibility". It supports love between same gender without malice. Despite the disagreement that the characters encounters, the story is open about character development and acceptance. Here, you will not only relate to a character but you'll be motivated to be not afraid of loving someone in behalf of feeling fear of differences in class, gender, and how society view you as an individual. A story that supports change, and is waiting for the plants we planted, which was once often getting stepped on but is now is being taken of care, to grow with love, support, kindness, respect, and openness by opening the arms of change for the betterment. Xiio @xiivinz

When 24-year old Ivy Carter moves into her late grandmother's forgotten lakeside cottage for the summer, she expects nothing more than peeling wallpaper, quiet mornings, and time to think. Instead, she finds a box of letters hidden beneath the floorboards, love letters written to her grandmother by a man who isn't her grandfather. The deeper Ivy dives into the secret romance that changed her grandmother's life, the more unsettling the parallels become with her own tangled heart. She's been with Etham, her steady and reliable boyfriend, for five years, but when she meets Luca, the passionate stranger restoring the cottage next door, the letters start to feel less like history and more like a warning. Some choices echo for generations. And Ivy must decide whether to repeat the past...or rewrite it. Ivy Carter - A reflective, cautious soul still figuring out who she is. Torn between security and passion. Ethan Miller - Her long-term boyfriend, patient and loyal but increasingly distant. Luca Reyes - A charming, spontaneous carpenter who challenges Ivy's view of love. Margaret Carter - Ivy's grandmother, whose hidden love story mirrors Ivy's own in unexpected ways.

A touching tale of love and loss told through the eyes of the rope swing.

A young woman named Olivia buys an old, decrepit house in a quiet town with plans to renovate and start fresh after a painful breakup. While working on the house, she discovers a hidden journal from the 1800s, written by a woman named Eliza, whose life eerily mirrors her own-right down to the same town, similar events, and even a tragic love story. But what begins as a curious discovery soon turns into something far more unsettling when Olivia starts to experience strange, vivid dreams and visions that seem to bleed into her waking reality. As Olivia becomes more obsessed with Eliza's life, she begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding the journal, realizing that some things were left forgotten for a reason. The story suggests that time is not as linear as it appears, and the two women may be inexplicably connected by more than just the house they inhabit.

Stories from the Dining Table is a family memoir told through the conversations, meals, and memories passed down across generations. Beginning in 1920s Canton and moving through war, political upheaval, famine, reform, migration, entrepreneurship, and the COVID era, the series follows one Chinese family as ordinary lives are shaped by extraordinary history. In my family, the dining table was where everything happened. It was where extra bowls appeared whenever relatives arrived. It was where neighbours drifted in through the open door. It was where my grandmother laughed, cried, and told me stories about a China I had never seen: wealthy merchant families in old Canton, secret midnight dates, war, famine, lost fortunes, impossible choices, and the stubborn love that kept everyone moving forward. Stories from the Dining Table follows one Chinese family across one hundred years of change. It begins with my grandmother, a village girl who married into a powerful timber and grocery family in 1920s Canton, and continues through the wars, revolutions, sacrifices, romances, and recoveries that shaped the generations after her. These are true family stories, told in English for my children and for readers who believe that the biggest histories are often hidden inside ordinary homes. Come sit with us. There is always room for one more at the table.

(How I heald)- A short story about a girl who goes through the woods to find herself (If only they stayed)- A Short story about a girl who losses her parents in a fire with a twist.

Diary of a Daughter's Grief is a memoir told through the life of a daughter as she pieces together her mother's story from memory, absence, and late truths. By tracing the choices her mother made, about love, belief, motherhood, and survival, the narrator examines the patterns passed down to her and questions which ones must end with her. The book is an exploration of inheritance, not of possessions, but of decisions, consequences, and the quiet determination to live differently without erasing the woman who came before.

When twelve-year-old Lily sits alone on a dock feeling invisible, her grandmother Evelyn joins her and begins sharing stories from a lifetime ago. Growing up in rural America during the early twentieth century, Evelyn learned what it felt like to have her feelings dismissed, her voice overlooked, and her dreams quietly pushed aside. Through stories of childhood, family, hardship, resilience, and self-discovery, she reveals the lessons that shaped her life and the wisdom she wishes someone had shared with her when she was young. As the seasons pass and their conversations deepen, Lily begins to see that the struggles she faces are not so different from those of generations before her. Together, grandmother and granddaughter discover that while times may change, the need to be heard, valued, and loved remains the same. A heartfelt historical novel about family, healing, courage, and finding your voice.

Essentially the story is about a dog fighting a rabbit with a pancake on its head.