Interdependence Stories

The Many Colors of Cherry is a heartbreaking, heartfelt, deeply empathic and emotionally evocative documentary that follows the life of a girl named Cherry who was born in a world that seemed unbearably loud and had a mind that was too bright for her age. From the traumatic and heartbreaking loneliness of being bullied in preschool and the chaotic madcap adventures of high school, Cherry's life was for a very long time she determined by the malice of adults and the "explosive" nature of her unrecognized Bipolar 1 Disorder that she suffered in silence. After a public breakdown that leads to the destruction of her world, Cherry is forced to go through the painful journey of diagnosis, medication, and finding herself in the "grey" of recovery. But when a lot of people saw a "broken" girl, Cherry saw a work of art. By the power of art to heal and the confident support of a person called Leo, she comes to realize that her value is not in being "cured" but in finding her middle ground. This is the story of a "Cherry Bomb" who became a muralist, the story of a victim of the shadows who turned into a light, thus demonstrating that even the most turbulent skies can lead to a lovely, stable sunset.

Summary: An old man staring at a modern urban division wall remembers his vibrant, multi-ethnic childhood street. He recalls unity not as political agreement, but as lived interdependence and shared survival during a neighborhood blackout, contrasting it with the isolated, fearful present. He finds a symbol of that lost unity in a faded paint mark on the old pavement.

Ashley Everson had cheated death, but not on his own. After a miraculous recovery, he discovers he's not alone in his body anymore. Something lurks, whispering in his ear a language he can't understand, inviting a chasm of reality he didn't even know existed, inverting his life as he knows it. Is it responsible for his survival? Or is it just using him to hide from something much worse? What does the entity even want? What does it mean to his own mortality? Where did the entity even come from? Ash decides to find out before something much worse hunts down whatever is hiding inside of him. **Awarded 1st place in the Paranormal category for the Cleaved Awards 2019.** **Highest Ranked. Number 3 in Mystery. Number 2 in Thriller.** #bookiestars #EliteAwards2019 #diademawards #tea2020

A legally approved family without men. That's what the Livingstones are. Seven diverse ladies from every corner of the world join together into a family called the Livingstones: Faith, Lenna, Prudence, Candace, Esta, Tara and Deborah. Nevertheless, Audrey, an orphan teenager, escapes with her boyfriend, Cameron, far away from Ohio and hides within the Livingstones's household- She only has one chance of redemption and one shot of being an actual part of an actual family.

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