My world has been twisted into a lurid reality. Death is on the cards, crawling closer. Howling winds whistle harshly. The sun has faded into a pale shade of grey, no longer the brilliant orb that should chase off obscurities. It has faded out, leaving me to rot amidst predators, human predators. It has left me to perish among them....
GENOCIDE.
The moment when my world came crumbling down... that wretched moment I was pitched into the void of nothingness.
Ethnic cleansing.
I'm Amara the protagonist of the story, I hail from a Tamil family in SriLanka, my life has been taking a few unexpected and interesting twists.
It has left me to collapse into this puddle of darkness.....
Will I recover?
Or will the darkness engulf me into its never ending alley and force me to succumb to its orders?
This isn't a simple chronicle, but a journey to the domicile of freedom we've been waiting for decades.
A journey to be freed from the clutches of cruelty.
Will the journey end in harmony or will it shatter into a thousand pieces of dormant hope?
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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