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Five years. Five failures. One broken promise. When Hari leaves Samastipur for the jagged skyline of Mumbai, he thinks he has already lost everything. He is wrong. To survive the "city of illusions," he must lose his ego, his past, and his privacy. In the dark belly of a warehouse, amidst the smoke and the steel, he encounters the people the world forgot and the one man who leaves footprints on his heart that change the path of his life forever. A tale of sacrifice, struggle, and the search for a foothold in a world that never stops moving. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -•-•-•-•-•-•-•-• -•-•-•-• Written for ONC 2026 Prompt No. 29 :-- You'll meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some leave footprints on your heart.

ME - The Beast in Me is a psychological myth set in the suspended city of Superbia, where the Ego becomes a god, the mind a labyrinth, and identity a mask you can't take off. If you enjoy books like Percy Jackson but want a darker, more adult myth, this novel transforms classical hero trials into inner battles. Instead of Greek gods, Superbia's Pantheon rules the psyche: Narcisa Covert - the Shadow Goddess, mother of personality disorders. Overer - the Lord of Excess and Perfection. Sixteen semi-divine archetypes shape the soul's journey. The book unfolds in Thirty Acts: ten Admirations, ten Martyrs, ten Excesses - a descent into the self where the Beast is never outside you, but within. If you're searching for Percy Jackson-like mythology for adults, this novel turns divine trials into psychological truth. The Beast doesn't come from outside. It comes from you.

A band on the run. Two lost on back roads and borrowed stages, becoming legends they never asked to be. A boy survives a killing, and a knife changes everything. Nothing stays simple after that. Kid falls fast-chasing love in every woman he meets, believing each one might be the answer. But it never lasts. Two voices won't let him rest: Midnight whispers: leave. Be free. Dawn answers: stay. Be known. He wants both. He loses both. Chance only falls once-and it breaks him. So he turns to the road, the music, and the spaces between towns, trying to become something that can survive what he's become. When their paths begin to cross, love becomes heavier than desire. A force. A cost. A choice neither of them is ready to make. Because freedom and love don't come clean. And staying always asks for something in return. Kid and Chance are two sides of the same coin, navigating a Modern Western steeped in magical realism, ancestral myths, and the high‑stakes world of honky‑tonks and rock legends. ✨ Magical Realism | 🏜️ Modern Western | 🎸 Musician POV "Some men learn how to change. The rest become The Dead Cowboys."

This is the tale of how Telikos, once a bustling, beautiful city, was turned into but a small, unnaturally-shaped town whose residents, if they had not already died, were those condemned to the galleys.

Bounty hunters surveil a bold fugitive disguised as a guard escorting slaves to market. Episode 1 - The Last Coffle Reading time: 14 minutes

What comes after the main event? Neither a collapse nor a rebrand. A quiet choosing. Of a life that is yours. After years under the spotlight, Kim Seokjin leaves Seoul for London to start over quietly-far from the stage, the cameras, and the life that once defined him. In a new city, he builds a different kind of routine: working at a small Korean restaurant, getting lost in unfamiliar streets, and learning how to belong to himself again. But the past doesn't stay still. Old friendships, shared history, and the people who still know him best continue to find their way back. Background is a soft, emotional post-fame fiction about healing, distance, home, and the love that remains when everything else changes. (An ongoing novel.)

Every afternoon, at the same time, her cat slips out of the house. One day, 12 year old Keiko follows it into the woods and finds a small temple that only comes alive at night, when blue lights appear, animals gather, and the stars begin to whisper. With the help of a strange boy who watches the sky through a telescope, she learns the truth: each disappearing star carries the last words of someone who died unheard. But the boy is tired. And to listen, someone must take his place. · · ─ ·✶· ─ · · Prompts: ⚝・┆5. Every day at the exact same time your cat slips out of your home. One afternoon, curiosity gets the better of you and you follow, only to discover it's living a secret life you never imagined. ⚝・┆69. The stars are disappearing one by one, and only you can hear their whispers. ⚝・┆78. You begin to realize that nothing is quite what it seems.

You wake up in your childhood bed with a bruise on your forehead and no memory of how you got home. The friends who celebrated you the night before all have different versions of what happened. The more you search for the truth, the worse the migraines become. Your mother warned you about them. Now you have to decide which is more dangerous: losing your memory or recovering it.

There is a version of this story in which nothing happens. In which two teachers share a room on a school ski trip for five nights, maintain a professional distance, and say goodbye without either of them doing anything they can't take back. This is not quite that story. The Mountain is a novella about the gap between wanting something and being allowed to want it - and about what it costs to be decent when decency is the last thing you feel.

Karin counts. Steps to the door. Minutes until the bus. Nights since her mother died. It's how she keeps herself in one piece - has been since she was twelve, since the first time Hark called it love. She's seventeen now. Her father works two jobs and barely sees her. Her best friend doesn't reply to texts. She takes the late shift at the gas station and saves for university - somewhere far, anywhere far. Hark is twenty-six and isn't done with her. He left her book on the bench by the bus stop. Open. On the page she didn't read. Axi can't sit still. He's seventeen. His sister Teri raises him with bandages and silence. He gets in fights he doesn't start. He owes five hundred euros he doesn't have. He thinks in the third person when things get bad - someone is sitting on the bed, that someone is me, technically. He doesn't know what he feels, but he notices the ceiling has a crack in it now, and he didn't notice before. When Karin tries to compliment his backpack - they own the same book, the one with the silver lettering - he hears mockery and walks away. It goes worse from there. A dual-POV story about two seventeen-year-olds who can't get out of their own way long enough to be saved by each other - and a man from the past who isn't waiting forever. 📖 Light novel format - short chapters (1500-2000 words), alternating narration, slow burn, dry dark humor. ⚠️ Content Warnings: stalking and grooming (background threat from adult antagonist; the romantic leads are both 17 and the relationship contains no sexual content), physical violence, bullying, recreational drug use, references to past abuse, dissociation, parental absence, grief, strong language.

Peter runs a bookshop where the days repeat and the solitude never asks anything of him. He opens early. He sorts shelves. He goes home alone. He likes it fine. Then Sara walks back in after years away, her five-year-old daughter Mia trailing behind her with a stuffed fox and too many questions. They knew each other once. Teenagers circling the same store without ever quite colliding. Now she's tired, fierce, and carrying more than she'll admit. Mia claims a reading rug. Sara starts staying longer. And Peter realizes the emptiness he'd grown used to was never comfortable at all. But Sara fought hard to stand on her own. And the closer Peter gets, the more she fears losing the ground she built beneath her feet. Until Tomorrow Comes is a quiet, character-driven story about love that arrives gently and leaves a mark. About the difference between being alone and being lonely. About what it costs to let someone in and what it costs not to.

In a city wrapped in winter fog and quiet snowfall, Elara sits alone-elegant, introspective, and unknowingly on the edge of something she can't yet name. A moment of stillness becomes something more: a surreal encounter with a girl she thought she'd forgotten. But who is this girl really? And why has she returned now? Stillness in the Snow is a haunting exploration of identity, memory, and the quiet strength it takes to face the echoes of your own past. Through lyrical prose and cinematic imagery, Elara's journey unfolds-not in noise, but in silence. Not in motion, but in pause. This isn't a story of escape. It's a story of return. Of remembering who you were. And daring to become who you still might be. ________________________________________

'He had spent his life chasing a reflection, never noticing the life waiting for him behind his own back.' A mirror. A lighthouse. A curse whispered across generations. Silas Hale dreams of a lighthouse that calls him, and a mirror that whispers his name. Every time he follows it, misfortune follows too. The wind never quiets. The mist never lifts. And the sea ... waits for him to return. Prompt-34. "You have to sail the seven seas to find the lost treasure, but treasure means different things to different people, what treasures will you find at worlds' edge ."

LOVE in no man's Land: Volume 1 Silence was her only survival. Now, AddBox will be her weapon. Vânia has lived through a nameless hell. Trapped in a human trafficking syndicate that stripped her of her identity and dignity, she thought she was lost to the world. But amidst the horror, a miracle was born: **Vitória**. Her daughter became the spark of light that gave her the strength to do the impossible-escape. Deported back to Portugal, Vânia seeks refuge between the frozen peaks of Covilhã and the cherry orchards of Fundão. But peace is a fragile illusion. With her past hunting her down in the form of the relentless Raj and the treacherous Fatma, Vânia realizes that hiding is no longer an option. **To protect her child, she must fight back.** With the help of Rafael, a tech genius who sees the soul behind the code, AddBox is born: a digital sanctuary for anonymous reporting that promises to give a voice to the shadows. From Portugal to Brazil, the silenced are finally beginning to rise. But the truth carries a deadly price. Caught between elite secrets, unexpected betrayals, and a confession letter that could shatter everything, Vânia must decide: How far is she willing to go to secure her daughter's future and destroy, once and for all, the monsters lurking in the "No Man's Land"? sees the soul behind the code, **AddBox** is born: a digital sanctuary for anonymous reporting that promises to give a voice to the shadows. From Portugal to Brazil, the silenced are finally beginning to rise. But the truth carries a deadly price. Caught between elite secrets, unexpected betrayals, and a confession letter that could shatter everything, Vânia must decide: How far is she willing to go to secure?

Every life he saved, he stole years from. He didn't know until his sister died. Aarav was eleven when he healed his sister of leukemia. For the next nineteen years he healed everyone who came to his door - and felt stronger for it. The town called him an angel. Then his sister's heart stopped on a Tuesday morning, with no cause the doctors could find. And the nightmares began. One by one, the dead returned in his dreams. Their hands outstretched. Asking for something he could not hear. He would live for six hundred years. He would love four people, bury all of them, try and fail to die, and search across generations for someone he could trust to inherit what he carried. This is his story. From nobody to hero to stranger. From a boy who healed a sparrow to a man with nowhere left to go and forever to get there.

Title: Thinking Out Loud (Inspired by Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran) --- Novel Description Some love stories begin with a spark. Others begin with a song. *Thinking Out Loud* follows the journey of **Adrian Reyes** and **Elena Cruz**, two souls brought together by music, late-night conversations, and the kind of connection that feels effortless-until life begins to pull them in different directions. What starts as a quiet, beautiful love in their youth slowly unravels under the weight of ambition, fear, and unspoken words. Years pass. Paths change. Hearts try to forget. But some love never truly leaves. As Adrian and Elena build separate lives, they discover that time doesn't erase what was real-it only reshapes it. When fate brings them face to face again, they must confront the memories they buried, the mistakes they made, and the question they never truly answered: *Can love survive not just distance... but time itself?* Spanning decades, *Thinking Out Loud* is a deeply emotional story about growing up, breaking apart, and finding your way back-not to who you were, but to who you've become. From the intensity of first love to the quiet strength of lasting commitment, this novel captures what it truly means to love someone-not just in the moment, but for a lifetime. Because in the end, love isn't about never changing. It's about choosing each other-again and again-even when everything else does.

မိုးပျံပူဖောင်းတွေ ဦးတည်ရာမဲ့ လွင့်ကြတယ် ဆိုတာ ဟိုက်ဒရိုဂျင်က လေထက် ပေါ့လို့ မဟုတ်ဘဲ သူတို့ကို ဆွဲကိုင်ပေးထားမယ့် 'လူ' မရှိလို့ပါ။ ဒီလိုဆို သွင်ကရော ကျွန်တော့်ကို အခိုက်အတန့်အားဖြင့် ဦးတည်ရာတစ်ခုရအောင် ဆွဲကိုင်ပေးတဲ့ လူတစ်ယောက် ဖြစ်ခဲ့တာလား။

SET IN NEAR-FUTURE SEOUL NEW EPS TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Launching the first day of spring - March 20 When Korea's most trusted "everything app" weaponizes her private medical data, artist Maya Kim is thrust into a system designed to predict-and control-her life. To fight back, she must expose a chilling network of government-backed surveillance before it strips her of her autonomy, her art, and her right to choose. The Algorithm of Spring is a near-future techno-thriller set in Seoul, blending high-stakes conspiracy with the emotional intensity of a K-drama.

I Encountered Hui-Jeong Hui-Jeong had never planned to live with anyone again. After years of carefully controlling his life-his space, his routines, his boundaries-sharing an apartment with a stranger was the last thing he wanted. But one reckless night and a drunken promise later, he wakes up in a quiet apartment... with a new roommate he barely remembers inviting. Jeo is calm where Hui is rigid. One cooks too intensely. One eats too slowly. One leaves messes everywhere. One quietly cleans them up. At first, they are just two strangers sharing an apartment. Over time, small conversations start to happen-about things that weren't said the night they met. © 2026. All rights reserved.

The world is restless. The ground is shaking. Beneath it all, something ancient is watching... waiting.