Historias de Penance

Abhijit's unwavering devotion becomes Vansh's only shield when he is broken, abandoned, and shunned by the world. Years later, standing at the threshold of a new life, Vansh is forced to choose between his future and the brother who once held him through hell. He chooses wrong. Now, burdened by guilt and regret, Vansh must face the question that will define him forever-can repentance mend what betrayal shattered, or has he lost the devotion of the one person who loved him without condition? Once, Abhijit stood at the edge of an impossible choice-his own life, or his brother's. He did not hesitate. He chose love. He chose sacrifice. He chose to stay. Years later, that same brother becomes the hand that wounds him. Betrayal cuts deeper than any hardship he once endured. Now the question is no longer about sacrifice, but about mercy. Can a heart that gave everything learn to forgive what shattered it? And if forgiveness comes... will the fracture ever truly heal?

My Last Rites My Brother Performed My Last Rites While I Was Still Alive. At fifteen, I was called a monster for a crime I never committed. My family performed my last rites and declared me dead while I was still alive. I begged them to stop. No one listened. I begged them to believe me. No one did. At sixteen, I watched the same ritual with numb detachment. At seventeen, I stopped caring. At eighteen, I watched it with amusement. Because I knew... It would be the last of my last rites I would ever witness. I laughed. Because I knew the next funeral would be real.

Plot: Jaune Arc had been transported to the DC world, he became a member of the Justice League found love with Wonder Woman,Until the desolation of Metropolis caused things to change among the world of heroes and villians Especially Jaune's life Jaune x Harem

Free will is a gift to the masses, but what of the damned? Do all demons lack remorse? And what if one didn't?

A short story written for a fiction class that I would like to share with others. Dislike it, appreciate it, it is here to be read. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

When you feel drowned and agonized in the lake of pain then emotions raise in the form of verse and poetry

When a cryptic manuscript surfaces among the belongings of the reclusive Arthur Lewis, it sets in motion a descent into obsession for the man who attempts to decode it. Penned in a forgotten cipher and believed to be the final testimony of a shipwreck survivor named Althea, the text speaks of strange music, silent natives, and a haunting apology that refuses to be silenced.

Patricia Breslin was a gun weidling choas making outlaw back in the 1860's but everything changed when her lover Caroline was murdered. She sought revenged and vengance and she got just that. After killing her beloved Carline's murders word gets around in the old town she found them in and gets hung. Knowing she would be condemned for all she has done in her life she offers up penance to the angel Gabriel....her assignment...to help people unknowingly accept their deaths for 250 years. After awhile it was business as usual until she meets her new assignment Savannah . Savannah is a tough rocker chick that lives each day like it is her last she got her 3 job her killer bike and her freedom, but deep inside something and someone holds her back and haunts her. Her past had been anything but free coming from an extremely relligous hypocritical and abusive family her life was always a battle. She was forced to hide who she has always been until it was a natural thing do, but that begins to change when a woman named Patricia steps into her life. Will Patrica keep her heart locked and finish her assignment as planned or will Savannah open her heart and make her feel alive again and will Savannah finally accept who she is and be truly free or will she hide in the shadows for ever or will death reach her before she gets the chance?

Salem and Ozma thought their story would end with victory or defeat. They were wrong. Both ancient souls descend into darkness-bound by curses, But they don't face the Brother Gods who cursed them and abandoned Remnant. Instead They face something dark, something forced to serve justice when the Brothers would not. "The walls here are thick, Your screams will not reach the Brothers, And now you will answer for every single sin."

Ever feel like you've wandered away from all that is real? Ever wonder how to return? Join me on this journey down the edge....and prayers for recovery. Perhaps together we may discover the path that leads us back to Christ, and maintains (or returns) our sanity.

Hafsat is a wholly original woman. A 26-year-old single mother, charmer, and politician with dainty and deathly expertise in manipulating people and events. Single-minded in the pursuit of her desires, nothing and no one can stop her ambitions. She meets and marries a man she barely knows which leads her to war-torn Libya where she has to find a way to survive. All her plans were well underway until she finds out that her husband isn't who he said he was. In the quest for escape, she has to face her inner demons or give up a promising future she sees for herself including seeing her daughter again.

For thousands of years, Calypso has been trapped on an island- Ogygia- that many people would call a paradise. But for Calypso, it's a torturous prison. As penance for siding with her father, the Titan Atlas, in the battle between the Titans and the Olympians, Calypso has been trapped on Ogygia with no way of leaving. Until now. After a raft magically washes up on the beach shores, what else is Calypso expected to do aside from get on and let it take her away from her home. But little does she know that this single decision will place her in the middle of the cross hairs for another all out war, and neither side looks all that inviting. **cover photo created using two photos property of google.

Cover art provided by @alice_darkside ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cold. Calculated. Unstable. Psychotic. Words to describe our brutally efficient anti-hero are indeed numerous, although nobody, not one person on the face of this green earth would even think of adding "murderer" to his repertoire. Oh well. Times change, I suppose.

What becomes of us when we take what we hold dear for granted? What is the price? *************************************** Welcome to my short story submission for the #Panic Writing Contest held by @AmazonPrimeVideo #panic

The Flood does not negotiate. It does not repent. It only consumes. Or so the Forerunners thought. Deep within the pulsing, bioluminescent corridors of the Hive, the Gravemind-the collective consciousness of trillions of stolen souls-finds an object that defies his divinity. Bound in green leather and gold filigree, the Book speaks of a Balance that the stars themselves cannot pay. For the first time in an eternity, the hunger stops. The silence begins. "We were the blind. We were the shadows who claimed to have swallowed the sun, only to find the Light was never ours to take." In this reimagining of the Halo mythos, the greatest threat to existence faces the only power it cannot conquer: the weight of its own conscience.

There was a man named John Barker. There were things that he tried to forget through all his life. There was one thing that he managed to forget successfuly. Unfortunately that town reminded him of everything. That cursed town... Silent Hill.

The alternate ending...