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Highest Ranking: #1 in Humor [FEATURED, SEPT-OCT] An idealistic poet refuses to budge from the last parcel of land a developer needs to acquire in order to build a shopping mall. (Literary satire with pop culture references and environmental themes.) synopsis: The Myth of Wile E. is a riff on the modern obsession with fame and acclaim, as well as a mediation on the artist's place in the modern world, as seen through the eyes of a naive poet who is made simultaneously pathetic and heroic by the pursuit of a singular goal. In this novel, we meet an assortment of eccentric monomaniacs, from mushroom hunters in search of a legendary truffle, to birders pursuing a possibly-extinct bird, to competitive Duck Stamp artists, to "the World's Foremost Living Statue"...and even a very stubborn spider. Meanwhile, our narrator--a terrible, yet persistent, poet--battles a ruthless land developer who's determined to acquire the poet's humble property, in an escalating battle of wills that spirals out of control when the media gets involved. With these quirky events as a backdrop, we gradually learn of the misfortunes that befell each member of the poet's family in their various misguided quests for glory. We also learn why money makes the world go flat, why talent is a white elephant, and what it means for parents to love their children "to pieces." Some of my influences are Richard Brautigan (especially), Christopher Moore, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, and George Saunders, so if you like any of them, I hope you'll enjoy this, too.

[A Psycho Thriller set in the French Revolution] Paris, 1793 It is a time when people's hearts are tainted in ghastly hues of red and black, a time when people rage and roar as the wheels of Revolution turn at a dizzying speed. Philippe Fitzgerald is thrown out of the French Army after committing a crime that everyone deems unspeakable. When he returns to Paris--his hometown-- to find even the last drops of its magnificence squeezed out by the Revolution, he struggles to make his way through the dredges of poverty. It is a time when the lowest rungs of the economic ladder bear the brunt of political tension and legislative inadequacies. It is then that he forges a deep bond of friendship with noblewoman Marie d'Aramitz, who has been ostracized by her people due to their fear of a powerful man who is hunting her down to salvage the pitiful remains of his family name. Together, in a country that smothers the fire before it is a spark, they try to set the people ablaze. [Highest Ranking: #12 in Historical Fiction] [Cover by the super talented @wifidisconnected]

Madness in the city. A man rips a red curtain from his mother's window. He walks around and proclaims the garment to be the last garment worn by Jesus.

Faye, a struggling writer on a deadline, suffers from ominous and fantastical nightmares. Bill styles himself a gentleman of leisure but scoffs under the scrutiny of his diabolic family. Separated since childhood, they live in a nameless twenty-first-century city, unaware of each other until Faye and Bill are reunited by a wicked scheme.

[COMPLETED] "And to taste death my soul awaits, the ultimate end for a twisted fate..." Ten hours into the day and ten minutes to be spared before death seizes control, the twenty-year-old killer's got ten poetic confessions to be announced as the last words of his departing soul... *featured twice on @storiesundiscovered* *featured on @wattpadpoetry*

Solace is a short story series. Each story is a new character with a new dilemma and a different solution. It's a series about sadness, loss, betrayal, pride, death, happiness, injury, faith, humanity and much more. These are stories about real issues.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last fiction competition! A prequel to Margaret Atwood's latest novel, The Heart Goes Last, and an entry in the Heart Goes Last Fiction Contest. In the days before the great economic collapse, Conor and his brother Stan share a few drinks at the local bar, PixelDust. But the differences that have shaped their past become even more clear as they face each other in a drinking showdown.

After being afflicted with depression at an early age, 17-year-old Mae finds a way to cope through diary exchanges with her best friend. Using an old leather-bound journal to jot down every instance of pressure, joy, and bitter strife, even this solace seems to be no match for constant break downs. Mae thinks no one notices when she stifles tears in the back of art class. But someone does. Maybe it's high time Mae realizes that even though crying sucks when someone else sees it, that's all the more reason they deserve to know why.

Turning into a bear had never been on Marcus Bay's bucket list. And when a series of (rather unusual) events leave him trapped in the body of a teddy bear, he has no option but to give his everything in order to turn back human. Add a little pinch of family drama, a dollop of humor and we have the perfect recipe for disaster. One thing is for certain, it is going to be one hairy adventure. ---

It's 1987 and gangs have invaded the small town of Hattiesburg Mississippi. Della a High school girl, is torn between being angry that the boys are painting gang symbols on her her mother's fence, and being infatuated with one of the boys to the point of falling in love with him. The boy Cheeseburger barely notices her, and yet Della invents this imaginary life with the boy. Find out how it ends in this complex deep story.

At the center: there's Rumi, a young boy who grows up in a normal family- yet flinchingly is devoured by the absence of his parents' relationship. Over the years of a silent and lonely family life, he is left inherited with a stack of letters that belong to a stranger, an old and finished father, and his mother's inescapable emotions and memories- altogether that cast a longing shadow on the young man's life. The narrative weaves a tale of love and the lack of it, loss and it's unsatisfied reality, the past and it's steadfast grip on the present. But mostly, it speaks about how the sufferings of others around can spin together a child's adult life. Piercingly intimate, "The Inherited Custody" is a work of complex emotions and relationships, and at the heart of it- a family saga. ----- #1 on #LiteraryFiction (6th December, 2020) #1 on #Chapbook (6th December, 2020 For One Week) (19th July 2021 For One Week) -- The cover image does not belong to me. Rights belong to the rightful owner.

In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar coffee shop order. The novel examines the human condition, perception, socio-political systems, capitalism and consumer culture, incorporating paranoiac conspiracy theories, surreal cosmic visions, circular symbolism and shifting parallel worlds, with profound discussions of coffee, art, literature and music. [Dystopia, Magical Realism, Philosophy, Literary] #1 Sci-Fi, Spiritual; #Wattys2014 Award Winner; Featured on Wattpad, IndieReader, @DIGonUSA "Struck me to the very core of my being." "Very interesting concept of reality... Thought provoking.." "I have been turned to a whole new way of thinking because of you." "Like a seven course meal full of spice and illumination... One does not listen to a classical piece to get to its ending. No. It is the ride, the moment by moment...a genuine Masamune among stories." "It was both personable and philosophical. A rare breed of good story and thought provoking ideas... A virtual standing ovation would not be enough to encapsulate the absolute awe I have of you." "It's not a regular thing to find a piece of work that oozes sophistication and embodies literature and art." "The world Takatsu has created opens to the deeper awareness of another, the draw of another." - Mary L Tabor, Wattpad author, essayist, professor "Offers acute, almost painful observations of the minutiae of life, if life took place in a Murakami snow-globe." - IndieReader Insiders "Vapoury style that seems to hover off world at times...haunting and strange (which is good)...You're on to something different, striking." - B.W. Powe, York University English Professor, award-winning author, poet, philosopher http://EspressoLove.tk

Daniel Callahan once called the small brick home on Honeysuckle Lane his, until he died. He has had to share his home with countless others since his death. Daniel has found ways to encourage the past renters to leave, but when the Wakelin family moves in he only wants them to stay. --- Was featured on the @Ghost Reading List 📚 Die Young, Stay Pretty 💕 Highest Ranking--#75 on Ghost Hot List (05.19.18) --- *ON HOLD* Thank you so much for your time and reads. xo, Leanne ** cover created by @quietlyflourishing **

1. When You Hear Echoes From The East A story of a young probinsyano girl in the middle of World War II 2. Miss Indigo A story of lost time between two sisters 3. I Promise You The journey continues between Lira and Arny who bonds over a tragic folkstory

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A dark craze has gripped the streets and suburbs of South Wales. It's unlikely leader - a modest, middle-aged accountant - explains the thinking behind the mayhem which his new past-time has unleashed ... to a lifelong detective who thought he'd heard it all before!

What happens when you can't stop the voices in your head? Louisa Simmons is just another girl, invisible to the world, lost in the abyss of her thoughts, desperate for an escape. But can you really run away from yourself? Sam Mitchell is just another guy, on the verge of giving up, plagued by his past, unable to forgive himself for his mistakes. But can you really run away from the truth? Two broken people from two different worlds. Both alive but barely breathing. So what happens when two broken people collide? Will they learn to overcome the things that tie them down? Or will they lose sight of themselves in the process? (Cover by @lucferr)