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where time lingers

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Reads 117
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Parts 19
Time 2h 30m

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Zora Rae Turner was full of life - curious, bold, and dreaming of a world beyond the dusty roads of her small Southern town. But now she drifts through a quiet version of home, caught in the soft blur between memory and something else entirely. Days repeat with a strange familiarity. Her mama hums in the kitchen. Her best friend Avery visits like always. Her boyfriend Colt still promises a future. But something is wrong.

As Zora pieces together fragments of her world - voices that don't reach her, reflections that don't always look back - a haunting truth begins to stir beneath the surface. What happened that night by the willow tree? Why does everything feel like it's already been lived?

Told through a slow unravel of poetic recollection, Where Time Lingers is a Southern Gothic ghost story about love that lingers, violence masked as devotion, and the fight to be seen even after you've been forgotten.

This is Zora Rae's story. And she's not done telling it.All Rights Reserved

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Once Upon A Blue Moon by AiderKwin

Formerly Known As 'The Ghost In My Attic' {Contains Mature Content} The cold Brooke Hills breeze takes over the night. Blowing mercilessly as it cools off some of the pain on my face... I watch the trees dance in the wind and the moon plays hide and seek with people like me who are still looking at it. Hiding behind the tree branches and leaves. I always feel serene and at peace when looking at the moon but tonight..... Looking at it just purely outlines the difference between who I used to be and what I currently am. Like soothing kisses, the rain droplets rest on my skin. Not long; the rain begins to pour. The pregnant clouds decided the time to deliver their bottled-up tears was when my heart had no strength left to cry anymore... I feel the rain flow over my body and I wish it could flow through me... Flow-through me and wash off the dirt and memories of this horrid night. My legs hardly leave the floor as I walk ghostly towards home. What used to be my safe heaven..... ¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢°¢° After years of being insulted and hurt by the whole town, the final line is crossed when the mayor's son takes away the one thing she valued most. (Her virginity). Soon after she meets a ghost, the mayor's son is found dead and a lot of dirty secrets begin to surface. Is Laina the culprit or is she just a victim of circumstance?. Well, you can only find out by clicking READ... 💖✌. Highest Rating; #1 Assault😘 My name is Aider Kwin on any social media platform. If u see my book on another app by a different name, pls let me know😩😩🙌🙏 Writing ain't easy so stealing ain't nice💯💯

Zora: The Leviathan's Eye by Gelfling1

"There's no room in the world for trust, hope, or the wealthy's compensating fashion sense. Now pass the Rum." - Zora Zora's been from Constantinople to Timbuktu. She's gambled with religious figures and stolen a Belgian princess's Tiara because she was bored, and all before she was 15. But one night, while touring the streets on an inebriated impulse celebrating her 17th birthday, her life is upturned like a ship caught in a tropical hurricane. Zora overhears an unlikely pair whispering about a secret map and a rumor. A rumor of treasure and magic. Uncharacteristically, Zora decides to act on impulse and steal the map and follow the rumor. But stealing the map was only the beginning of everything going wrong. Zora quickly becomes hunted by a secret society and their master assassin; the Reaper. She begins to have terrible nightmares of speaking shadows and creatures of myth. And she kidnaps a young man named Tryston, who can't remember that he can summon magic and can't forget his strong attraction to Zora. Then there's the night when Tryston prophesies about her being the key to the world's irreversible destruction. But she'll just have to burn that bridge when she gets to it.

Saving Marley by xFakingaSmilex

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Shattered Pieces by JoElizabeth1985

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Statera - The Balanced One by MaddyOliverAuthor

Zora, a normal girl of 16 from an extraordinary family, suspects she may never receive the Calling Powers into the birthright of her heritage. With the window for the Calling having passed four years earlier, Zora neglects to learn the history behind her family's origins or purpose. However, upon the unprovoked slaughter of her parents, Zora discovers that some creatures are more powerful than her family and others like them. Just months after the murder, an unexpected event sets Zora's long overdue Calling into motion. Struggling to master her called abilities and navigate the waters of first love, Zora uncovers the real reason behind her parents' deaths and the secrets that lace through the town of Tandem. Now visible to the creatures outside nature's bounds, the newly empowered teen narrowly survives multiple attempts on her life. An invincible evil lies in wait to take retribution for a century-old betrayal and believes Zora's death and the absorption of her mystical energy is the key to exacting that revenge.

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SPECTRAL. by Tova-Philip

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