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  • Songs of War What If Thalleous survived the burning of Sendaria? by Gisnl9
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    Allright then, we all know Thalleous died in Sendaria, but what if things were different? What if Thalleous led the attack against the Voltaris? What is the relation between him and Galleous? How will he retrieve all of the Prime Songs? Well, time to find out... Cover and Part 5 picture made by Mavereich. Part 1, 11, 18 and 35 picture made by Xolus Sendaris. Other pictures are from Squared Media. I'm not interested in art for my story parts, I have my own contacts for that
  • Dark Water by sara_l_roberts
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    An arrogant British hydrologist attends a conference in the Southern United States. He decides to explore the town at night and has a terrifying encounter when a local river floods.
  • To my Icarus - From your father Daedalus. by annailldoitagainho
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    A letter from a father promising to love and cherish his young boy. Even in death. A tale retold throughout the times. This is a work of fiction. Wrote based on the myth of Icarus from his father Daedalus before he was captured. It is only a letter. Children, take heed of your parents warnings and know it is better to die for an attempt of freedom than to die rotting in a cage.
  • Views Through Old Men's Eyes by pdoneil
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    Social commentary on the world first from the prospective of young man then the rebuttal by an old man. 1. The young man has the prospective that his vision is clear and sharp 20/20 vision while the old man is cloudy and has failing vision. 2. The old man was once a young man and so understands the prospective of youth but now has wisdom and experience.
  • kill your darlings  by -DREAMTHIEVES
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    and so the scholar fell in love.
  • Death by Arrogance by RipleyKleckner
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    Everything is fine! Even after a history of that not being true?
  • The Parable of the Bridge and the River by bien2025
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    "the parable of the bridge and the river" tells the story of an empire that builds a perfect, unchanging bridge, declaring it eternal. over time, the living river secretly erodes the bridge's foundation, creating a fatal flaw. a young engineer discovers the flaw but is silenced by authorities who see any proposed change as an attack on perfection. recognizing that the system lacks a mechanism for its own correction, she takes radical, unauthorized action to strategically fracture and repair the foundation. she is put on trial but argues that her act was not sabotage but the necessary "antidote" the system itself lacked. the parable concludes with her being given the legitimized role to continuously find and fix hidden flaws, ensuring the system's longevity through sanctioned adaptation rather than rigid perfection.
  • Hubris by Eliadoradragon
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    Il y a très longtemps, dans un autre continent que Pyrrhia, 5 dragons rassemblèrent leurs semblables et créèrent 5 clans. Ils perduraient pendant des décennies, dans une paix presque parfaite jusqu'à ce que... Wínd. Une dragonne au cœur corrompu monte sur le trône. Aveuglée par sa magie et sa soif de pouvoir. Mais es-ce que la ténébreuse reine déchue, coeur de tant d'épouvante, ne serait-elle pas dans le fond, pas plus sombre que n'importe quel dragon ?
  • Delphi by Trish_DW
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    {PUBLISHED} Eighty-eight years has passed since the war with Kronos ended and humanity was freed from enslavement. The world is rebuilt and peace has become an achievable glory. Yet, when there's a calm, a storm is always following behind. Saffron's story only began with Kronos, but as Styx rises from her deadly river, the story is far from complete. More death, betrayal, and heartbreak follows in the third installment of the Ichor series. The worst war comes in the form of a new prophecy, a plethora of traitors, and a hateful goddess who inches towards an eternal crown. Welcome to Delphi.
  • Goth Girls should date Pink Bunnies. by KingFranPetty
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    I got bored so here's more Gentle Bones and Doctor Hare.
  • Hindsight by ReinaHarrietWatt
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    Trick or treat, don't steal
  • 1944 BORN IN WAR by Jeanpragot
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    Memories of wars and their sequels are often written by grizzled veterans or pontifying eggheads. This one is a rant, born in experiences of childhood carried into old age. Enjoy the ride and the view, always better from afar.
  • Sufficient You In Shadowed Thoughts  by MaHaMo_MC1
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    Fleeing from the pain of heartbreak so misdeeds and red-flags you'd gladly ignore. But that silence and heartache, thoughts of unfathomable bleed
  • Humanity's Hubris (hiatus for now) by ChrisWolfblood
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    Seva died to stop the Decay. Mystery lived in a world with legends on the Decay. Akito knew barely anything about the Decay. But what if it stirred again? What if it was never truly gone, something born from it? With some unexpected consequences that not even the gods saw coming. -------------------------------------------------- Books in this series: Cryptic 1st book - Elementals - Completed 1st book other pov - Eyes Of Void - Completed 2nd book - Dragon's Legacy - Completed 2.5th book (same world, other place/characters) - Silent Flight - Completed 3rd book - The Shadow Knight - Completed 3.5th book (takes place between 'shadow knight' and 'spark from before') - Humanity's Hubris - Hiatus/being written 4th book (written after the 5th but fits here in the timeline for 4th) - "Just a crow" - Hiatus/being written 5th book - A Spark From Before - Completed 6th book - ??? - Draft -------------------------------------- I HAVE NO MONEY!!! Stop offering me to draw me comics of my stuff, I cannot pay you... Tell me if it is free fanart because you want to draw my stuff and be included, if not that and money mentioned, I WILL mute you bc I ain't paying.
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  • the forest spirit and the idiot by Animebnhafan
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    there is something in those woods
  • HUBRIS by nwayooaung
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    ဇာတ်လမ်းအစ ဇာတ်လမ်းအဆုံး သေသပ်လှပစွာ ဖြင့် ခံစားရေးသား မျှဝေပါသည်။
  • Ego And Ignorance by derekofbaltimore
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    Human Uniqueness, ingenuity and creativity has resulted in continuing social progress, technological innovation and scientific achievement. In all of which we should have pride. But does that pride also result in overinflated self-importance? When a ship of alien origin is spotted travelling toward Earth, will that self-importance prevent us from recognizing the true reason they are here?
  • Hearts of Scars by Perseus99
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    [A Year After the Giant War]~ Gaea had won the war, Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter have been destroyed, and Chiron and Lupa are no where to be seen. The gods have locked themselves up in Olympus and haven't been heard by their children in many months. The survivors of Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter have created a series of resistances through out the states to keep Gaea's forces at bay from the mortal world, the last thing they wanted was the mortals to because aware of what's happening and go into a panic there for getting into harm's way. In every state there is one Greek and Roman resistance. In the home state for the Greek demigods, New York, is where the chief resistance is located. Anaklusmos, named after Percy's sword, remains close to where Camp Half-Blood once stood, this resistance is made up of all the camp's Head counselors and there second in command what was in Camp Half-Blood. Percy and Annabeth are the leaders of Anaklusmos as well as all the Greek resistances across the states. To win back the war Annabeth has devised a plan, a clever plan, but a risky plan. The plan is a fail safe, a back up plan, and it's about to be unleashed. [The Lightning Thief]~ Percy Jackson the son of Poseidon has just been claimed. The trio hasn't embarked on the quest to find the Master Bolt and no one knows Luke is a traitor. Little does the camp know that they are the fail safe, the back up plan that Annabeth has devised. (ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
  • The Ninth Configuration by MaryamJahan3
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    "In seeking life, I created Death."Driven by a childhood vision and a fierce hatred for his surgeon father's limitations , the brilliant but arrogant Victor Frankenstein unlocks the forbidden mysteries of human anatomy . Funded by a ruthless arms merchant with a dark secret of his own , Victor isolates himself in a gothic water tower to map the "Ninth Configuration"-a hidden, ethereal network surrounding the heart capable of storing eternal energy . Pieced together from the discarded remains of a bloody, frozen battlefield , a towering, oyster-grey creature is born anew . But Victor quickly realizes that control over life and death is an agonizing illusion. When his god-defying creation escapes into the winter wilderness, a tragic cycle of love, jealousy, and violent reckoning is set in motion . Stretching from the candlelit rooms of a cursed estate to the end of the earth at the frozen limits of the North Pole , this is a dark, poetic reimagining of a classic myth-the story of a creator and his mirror image, both trapped in a merciless, beautiful world where nothing ever truly goes away .