Syria Stories

**THE BROKEN BENEFACTOR** War doesn't end when the plane lands. Lance Corporal **Ethan Raye** comes home from Syria alive-but barely. Once a proud Marine with a future, a fiancée, and a body he could trust, Ethan is now trapped inside pain, nightmares, rage, and a disability he never asked for. The battlefield took pieces of him. The silence at home threatens to take the rest. His fiancée, **Charlotte**, promised to stand beside him. But love looks different when the man who returns is no longer the man who left. Then comes **Valerie**. After a chain of family tragedies destroys the life she was trying to build, Valerie is forced to drop out of college and return home to save the family house and the land her parents sacrificed everything for. Taking a job as a healthcare worker is supposed to be survival. A paycheck. A way to keep her family from losing the last thing they have left. She never expects Ethan Raye. He is wounded, angry, guarded, and drowning in secrets. She is exhausted, determined, and carrying burdens no one sees. Every day she cares for him, Valerie learns that some pain does not bleed where people can see it-and some men are not broken because they are weak, but because they have been strong for too long. But Ethan's past is not finished with him. Secrets buried before the war begin rising. Charlotte's love may not be as steady as it seems. Valerie's heart becomes the one place Ethan starts to feel human again. And when suffering, loyalty, guilt, and desire collide, one question becomes impossible to ignore: Can a woman fighting to save her own home help a wounded soldier find his way back to his? **He lost himself for his country. She helped him find his way back home.** A gripping **military romance**, **wounded hero romance**, **caregiver romance**, and emotional **interracial romantic suspense** about sacrifice, survival, forbidden feelings, family secrets, and the kind of love that finds you when life has already torn you apart

Zenobia is not the queen the history books promised. She is a widow in hardened leather, a huntress who sharpens her iron with the same ruthless precision she uses to command an empire. When the world burns and the Roman eagles circle, she is the only thing standing between her people and the dust. From the sandstone ridges of Palmyra to the marble halls of Rome, this is the story of a woman who wore a crown of thorns and a chain of gold-and dared the world to break her. She didn't just challenge an empire. She made it bleed.

Just a girl, her thoughts, and her notes app, full of all the things she cannot say to anyone.

After suffering a traumatic loss and a failed suicide, Jake, a high school loner, follows a mysterious lead from an apparition which seemingly originates from his own imagination. Searching for meaning in her life, through the death she feels internally, Samara, an eccentric individual, struggles to come to terms with her unusual traits in a small secluded village.

The thirty- two year old Mexican- American, a member of the U.S. Army Brandon Meyer Rodriquez with a troubled soul living in the memories of Iraq war has found tranquility in the company of a seventeen year old lass.

The age of empires has ended. The Great War erupts across the known world, pitting empires against nations. The Middle Eastern desert becomes a battlefield, as the Ottoman Empire battle against the pressing British Forces. A reporter, a spy, an archaeologist, are all proper descriptions of Marion by the age of 18. He ran away from home after his mother passed away, seeking to walk in the footsteps of Sir Richard Francis Burton, and he did, both literally and figuratively. Traveling with the Imperial Camel Corp deep into enemy territory he discovers a history and a secret dating back centuries. The myths of Saladin, Sinan, Assassins, Templars hide a truth of an ancient war. Marion does not know who to trust when a mysterious new enemy seek an artifact, which may hold a secret that could tip the balance of power.

A Syrian girl Kharisha who lived in Raqqa. Witness her bravery and strength bringing Syria to peace.

Poems about being alone and lost and still loving it, about the city that engulfs us in its sounds. Basically, articles and poems about wars, or just plainly, nature and the several ways it inspires me and the melancholic gleam in each of its aspects!

The Other Bed is a dark short story exploring war's aftermath, isolation, and psychological collapse. A soul spirals into madness inside a crumbling apartment-where corpses linger and shadows whisper. A haunting blend of horror, symbolism, and human decay. written by esber bitar

A collection of short poems- A self reflected outlook on humanity.

This story WILL shock and open your eyes, about ferocious criminal government that is laughing at our humanity. Wake up, turn off that television and stop watching fox news. You're whole life may be a life, because what you're about to read is the truth and only the truth that is hiding out there, and that is censored from you're newspapers, or even radios. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ''...you have to stop running and turn around to face whoever wants you dead...'' Look, I didn't want to be an assassin, or a dissenter. If you're reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: log off wattpad right now. Believe what-ever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. Being a dissenter is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways, If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened. But if you recognize yourself in these pages-if you feel something stirring inside-stop reading immediately. You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a mat-ter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you. Don't say I didn't warn you p.s ahem yes the intro is like percy Jackson because man face it percy Jackson's intro was the best and why not =9

Fighting battles against life, Ahmad was able to build himself strong enough to get himself out of the psychological prison he captured himself into as growing up in a city where the sound of another bomb blast didn't surprise anyone. The fear of death had vanished from the hearts of the people as they witnessed something more horrific something unexplainable. Ahmad's faded faith in love and affection had came back to life after moving back to his mother's homeland, Lahore after the death of his uncle. Meeting Aisha in Lahore was one of the incidents which helped Ahmed wash away the memories of the dark times and live a life which is a right of every human being.

People can sometimes lose a loved one, but it all costs from sacrifice and suffering. When it comes to having a relationship, it can be pretty dang amazing. People do not understand how deeply a strong connection can be. It all goes to a story of a brave dog(Adnan), and a kindly survivalist child(Sayid).

A very short story about one damask rose from Syria.

David Walsh finds him self in the middle of the Syrian Civil War, working for Kurdistani Rebels. Little did he know he was going somewhere else.

From the onset of the Syrian Civil War, Elia and her little brother, Ipe, were torn apart and taken into slavery. Upon being freed by the AWOL Russian soldier, Andrei, she is mentored by the assassin to help free other children in the same condition as hers, and in doing so, they form a small band of child rebels. The young militia soon get caught up in Andrei's goal to take down Lermat, the Human-Trafficking organisation responsible for their suffering. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned, and with their mission failing, Ipe still in slavery and Lermat growing in power; the children disband and return to their families. In order to please her mother, Elia enrols in a youth organisation in Italy and tries her hand in the film-making industry. However, in the background, she is busy learning all she needs to know to make herself a shadowy and formidable force in order to take down Lermat once and for all; and eventually, reunite with Ipe. The planets will provide guidance and influence, yet Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld, is keen to mould Elia into something less human - something quite... monstrous. This is the rise of Rahu.