Roaring Through Life
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  • Reads 210
  • Votes 13
  • Parts 6
  • Time 1h 11m
Ongoing, First published Jun 19, 2013
"Life's journey can take a sharp turn and send you down a path that was not on your planned course. In the beginning you might be scared and afraid but in the end you know it was the right path for you. It was your destiny."  He says while looking down at his gold pocket watch. 

"Is that what happened to you? The whole path thing," I ask him while looking at his down turned face. 

"You could say that," He looks back up with a smirk, "Now where is that coffee."  

Fancy dinner parties, a higher education, expensive clothes, and a chauffeur. Mina Johnson has lived a privileged but, sheltered life. Living in the wealthier part of New York City and always surrounded by other wealthy families, who wouldn't be! Mina, though,  is sick and tired of this lifestyle and dreams of wild adventures in faraway lands. That is all about to change with the return of her Uncle Horatio, the black sheep of the family as her grandmother likes to label him as. This wild, adventurous, and mysterious man, who Mina has always looked up to, is finally home and is conjuring up another wild scheme and adventure but, this time Mina is offered a chance to go along with him. Little did she know that an innocent journey to Paris with her Uncle would end up into the most extraordinary experience of her life.

Throw in a little romance and witnessing a life beyond parties and fancy dinners, who knows what a young perfectly privileged girl living in the roaring year of 1922 is going to expect! 

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SERAPHIC BLISS

45 parts Complete Mature

You used to love the fairytales , but it was the cold you were afraid of. Sharp cold shivers as you uncovered the cold body of little red riding hood's granny , sweeter trembles when the snow white awoke from the prince's kiss over her own pale and cold corpse . But by the high school prettier princesses walked among you .You saw the gulf between you and those perfect girls , and vowed to stop believing in the fairytales. But the stories were in you as deep as poison of the strongest kind. If prince charming was real , he would save you , but when you needed to be saved from the unfairness of the world would he come? Would he kiss the poison away ? would he save you from the high castle and your evil step mother ? Oh Rapunzel , if only he wasn't tangled in another mistress's limbs. There he was, you knight in shining armor. He saw YOU. And somewhere deep inside you, you knew it was too good to be true. But you let yourself swept after being let down your whole life , because he was the only strong enough to lift you. So now if you can live like this, say you love him, say thank you. Say, yes honey and get down on your knees and present your body for fucking. 'Kneel , darling. You were meant to be a damsel' they say What if you loved the feeling of Prince Charming's guts gushing blood on your hands? What if you finally had enough ? What if you found the light on the wrong side ? Yes, you were the damsel.....one meant to cause chaos and damage Welcome to the dark side of the fairytales (The sequel to nefarious bliss)