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Noel, a 28-year-old woman living alone in her late parents’ house on Ashland and 43rd, finds herself spiraling after an unexpected layoff from the bread factory where she worked for over a decade. The story opens with moments of quiet joy—Noel dancing in her tan bedroom to violin music—but quickly shifts as she loses her job, her Jeep Compass is repossessed, and her financial stability crumbles. As she navigates the harsh realities of unemployment, rising costs, and limited support from family and friends, Noel falls into a deep depression. Her grief is compounded by the weight of missed opportunities, financial regret, and the overwhelming pressure of survival in a city that keeps moving without her. Through haunting scenes of isolation, self-blame, and emotional collapse, the story paints a vivid portrait of resilience tested by circumstance. Noel’s journey is intimate, raw, and deeply human—an exploration of what it means to lose everything and still search for a reason to keep going.

Join Lisa in her journey to becoming the most powerful witch in the history of magic. A girl is born to an endangered coven of witches in Egypt, her Coven later on goes through a largs scale masaccar by the britains during the time of Colonisation.. leaving her and her sister as one of the few survivors. 17 years later, her coven had began to rebuild but all magic users were forced to go underground in hiding after an unfortunate encounter with a slave trader, she is kidnapped and sent to the west, England as a Slave. There she finds out that she couldn't do as much as she could back home, but when an encounter with a demon brings her back to power, she realises that there is more to magic than the normal eye could see. join Lisa in this gripping tale of power, loss, sorrow and fight as she nagivates the world around her.

In the fog-drowned city of Grimwald, silence is a weapon and shadows are currency. Whispers of forbidden books, masked cults, and unseen rulers bleed through the alleys. Here, survival is not a right—it is an art. Elias Veylor, a desperate man on the brink of ruin, stumbles upon the Codex Obscura, a tome said to record the names of one hundred shadows. To touch it is to hear whispers. To open it is to be marked. To bind its shadows is to rewrite one’s fate—or lose oneself to the abyss. The first shadow he binds is no mere servant but a fragment of living silence. With each new binding, Elias is forced to betray, bleed, and bargain. The city’s factions—the Silent Choir, the Guilds, the Sunlit Order, and those who walk behind masks—begin to take notice. His name is etched into the Ledger of Shadows, a secret ranking of all bearers of forbidden power. But power never comes without cost. Shadows demand betrayal. Loyalty shatters with every binding. To climb the Ledger is to invite enemies on every side, and at the end of the chain lies the final title whispered only in fear: Shadow Sovereign. Will Elias master the Codex, or will the hundred shadows consume him, until nothing remains but whispers in the fog? if you has any suggestion to share you can contact me ⬇️ Discord Link: https://discord.gg/9FRNgr8s Email:[email protected]

All Rachel ever wanted was Liam's success and happiness and because of her love for him, she had stayed in the shadows and supported him silently for years but all she got in return was hurt, betrayal, and she almost losing her life. Liam knew Rachel was in love with him and he knew about all the sacrifices that she had made for him, yet, he still hurt her and made her think falling in love is a sin and a big crime... But when someone who sincerely cares about Rachel shows up in her life, he panicks in fear as he realized that his feelings for her were always there in his heart... Just that it was well hidden, and buried deep inside his heart, so he tries to win her back. Will Rachel be able to forgive him after everything and give him a second chance? Or will she give the guy who sincerely cares about her a chance instead?. Read to find out all about in "STUCK BETWEEN RIVALS."

Sixteen-year-old Wenrel Augast lives a quiet life atop the floating terraces of Sunspire — until a mysterious shadow awakens a hidden power within him. Guided by unforgettable companions and hunted by creatures that defy imagination, Wenrel must navigate a world where every choice carries consequence, every secret hides danger, and every shadow tells a story. From colossal Titan Trees to the farthest reaches of Sunspire, Chronicles of Lumoria is an epic tale of adventure, friendship, and the courage to face the impossible. One boy’s journey will uncover truths that could reshape his world — if he survives long enough to see them.

As Earth embarks on its trial to ascend to a Tier 2 Civilization, humanity's fate hinges on the Constellations, the sole source of extraordinary skills. Power is dictated by the strength of one's Constellation contract, with higher-class skills reserved for those aligned with the stronger constellations. In this new era, System Credits reign supreme, enticing Constellations to bestow their gifts upon the highest bidders. Constantine, raised in luxury by his rice aunt, seemed destined for greatness. His aunt, assured to contract one of the Strongest Constellations, inadvertently offended the constellation, incurring the wrath of a strong constellation. Blacklisted and denied contracts, Constantine and his aunt face a steep fall. Branded as outcasts, they must brace themselves against impending attacks. Yet, in his darkest hour, Constantine stumbles upon a chat group, populated by beings of unimaginable power. These cosmic figures, with a casual flick of their wrists, bestow upon him SSS rank Skills, turning the tides of fate

When a sudden storm forces five friends to seek shelter deep in the woods, they stumble upon a sprawling, decaying mansion. At first, it feels like salvation from the relentless rain—until the doors slam shut behind them and refuse to open again. Trapped within endless halls and shifting corridors, the group quickly realizes they are not alone. Shadows move where no one walks. Whispers crawl through the walls. And at night, something far worse prowls the rooms, hunting them one by one. As the mansion twists reality around them, alliances fracture, secrets surface, and survival becomes more than just finding a way out—it becomes a test of sanity, trust, and sacrifice. The deeper they explore, the clearer it becomes: this house has been waiting for them. Not everyone will escape. Some were never meant to.

Behind every haunted hallway and whispered rule, there’s a deeper story Blackstone Asylum refuses to surrender. This companion novel, BLACKSTONE ASYLUM: SIDE STORIES, brings together the hidden journals, lost memories, and confessions that never made it into the official record—a fragmented tapestry of obsession, fear, and human survival. From the chilling confessions of Marcus Thorne, the architect who designed Blackstone as both memorial and labyrinth, to the desperate first days of Nurse Reeves as she discovers the true cost of learning the rules, these stories illuminate the shadows that hover just beyond the main narrative. The walls themselves seem to breathe, rewriting blueprints and erasing the memories of anyone who comes too close to discovering Blackstone’s secrets. Each side story reveals the unseen tragedies behind the institution’s mythos: a patient who vanishes without explanation and the nurse forced to forget; an investigator whose reality is mangled by the asylum’s hunger for silence; and a soul who becomes part of the building itself, watching and welcoming new arrivals. But these tales are not self-contained. To truly grasp the darkness and meaning behind these confessions, readers must first experience the main novel: BLACKSTONE ASYLUM. Only then will you understand the threads connecting vanished children, staff complicity, and forbidden rules; only then will every motif—the lullaby, the toy house, the Mourner—reveal its true resonance. BLACKSTONE ASYLUM: SIDE STORIES is a doorway into the lost and forbidden corners of Blackstone. Step through, if you dare—but don’t say it out loud. Some rules exist for your own survival.

A Korean boy was broken by his quirk, Elysios ek Tartarou. Now living in Japan, he goes to U.A. High School. To be a hero? The quirk is loosely, very, loosely Disco Elysium skills. But, instead of being a brain-wiped drunk cop, he's a boy broken, suffering from mental disorders. There is no boy, only you. And you're not real. SOCIOPATH, NARCISSITIC, AND MORE! OPPOSITES TOO! LOVE, DRAMA, TEARS! Still the same world, just tweaked to make AFO's actions seem plausible, the world fleshed out, and a gradual burn into the quirk singularity instead of the, in current manga, very close singularity implosion. Deviations will occur, other times it may be the same. + There will be mini world 'dreams,' as side stories, horror worlds. + Long-ish Chapters (>5000 words) = slowish updates (~5 days) If I make mistake, let me know, I'll probably edit it. I'm writing this one chapter at a time. (Trying not to.) Will not abandon. Slow burn, hundred-ish or more of chapters is what I hope. Communication and Psychological are big tags. ALSO, no Pale.

Toon Horst finds himself reincarnated in the body of Zemin, a dangerous gang member in a world or drugs gangs, money and a Chinatown inspired city. Can Toon survive this world or will he meet his fate on his first attempt.

Five (5) strangers wake up in a forest. They don't know how they got there. As time passes, they realize they aren't alone...they are being watched, and their lives become an experiment. Why are they here? Will they make it out alive...or are they trapped forever?

Specialist Alex Knight thought his Guard unit’s deployment into Brooklyn was just another support mission consisting of traffic control, and presence patrols. Then the screaming started. Then the biting. Within minutes, his convoy was overrun. Alex died on the Belt Parkway, torn apart by the very civilians he was ordered to protect. And then he woke up. A week earlier. Now armed with the memory of how it all begins, Alex has seven days to prepare for the collapse of order, the spread of infection, and the moment his unit is thrown headfirst into chaos. But every choice has a cost. Stockpiling ammo and food makes him look paranoid. Warning others risks exposure. And if his unit calls, he’ll be torn between duty and survival. The countdown has already started. Citizen Soldier Reborn: Surviving Day Zero blends military realism with apocalyptic horror, following one Guardsman’s fight to protect his family, his brothers-in-arms, and himself against a city, and a world, on fire.

Everyone’s got a mark. Step out of line, and it spreads. I’ve already lost my parents to it. Now it’s creeping across me, and the city is full of lies begging to be exposed and I will expose them no matter what happens. Obedience might keep me alive — but I’ve never been obedient as a kid and I won't start now.

A stolen treasure. The rebirth of destiny. A curse lasting centuries. The groom guards his bride’s last belonging— and every hand that touches her band ends in suffering. A love cursed by time. Every touch seals a fate. Every death guards a vow. Will their love ever be united again?

He died. He awoke. And then time itself hurled him forward, reborn as Luna. Thus begins a second life not of freedom, but of binding. Luna is tethered to a system older than gods, forced to move within the unyielding grammar of existence. Collars punish defiance, chains hum with law, yet none of it strips her will. Instead, it reshapes her into paradox: prisoner and sovereign, vessel and wielder, companion to something vast and unseen. The scholars once spoke of a checkmate, the scholar’s mate. But in Luna the metaphor collapses. She is not a piece on the board but bound to the board itself, mate to the container of learning, shaping and being shaped by a concept beyond comprehension. Empires have risen and vanished in the centuries stolen from her. The person she once was lingers only as a shadow, while Luna grows into something else entirely — not merely a soul reborn, but a clause in the hidden syntax of reality, a law given flesh. Her tale is not of victories but of unraveling: identity dissolving into archetype, freedom blurring with fate, and the unsettling truth that even the so-called authors of her story may be prisoners of the same relentless grammar that governs her. --- Beings beyond tales, above authors of stories and lore — concepts and rules that even writers must acknowledge and obey in the fabrication of their own reality. And beyond even that — beyond story, beyond book, beyond library — they watch. Not gods. Not readers. Not authors of any story told or known. But the unborn ones, the very concepts upon which all things rest, gazing coldly into the weave of existence itself.

A story about a person created as a weapon — and his journey to become human. In a world that rejects him as either hero or villain, he walks the thin line between good and evil, searching not for power, but for purpose. Each step he takes is a question: can meaning exist in a life designed to destroy?

Rain-slick alleys. Neon reflections bouncing off puddles like broken promises. The city never sleeps not because it wants to, but because it doesn’t dare. Most people walk these streets on autopilot. Not me. For me, every corner hums with life, every shadow whispers something I probably shouldn’t hear. Misfortune seems to follow me, like a loyal dog with terrible timing. It started with a disappearance. A man, a shadow, gone before I could blink. And then… someone was watching. Always watching. Curiosity tugged at me like a leash I couldn’t escape. What seemed like a coincidence twisted into something darker, something stitched into the veins of this city. The deeper I followed, the more tangled it all became. Lies. Secrets. Shadows that move when you’re not looking. Every step forward made survival a gamble: know when to pull, know when to cut loose. This is a city that punishes the curious. And I… I was far too curious.

Her Ladyship Anastasia Roseline Sinclair of Florence believed she had everything: a noble title, a promising future, and the love of Aaron Dinkley—the charming son of Duke Andrew Dinkley of Fortshire, one of Flambodia’s most powerful fiefs. Childhood sweethearts, Anastasia and Aaron were raised to believe they were destined for each other. But destiny is a cruel mistress. On the eve of her succession to Duchess of Florence, Anastasia is betrayed—by Aaron, the man she loved, her stepsister, and her own family. Stripped of her title, murdered in cold blood, and discarded like refuse in the wastelands, she is left to die. Yet death does not claim her. At the brink of death, Anastasia is reborn—not as a phoenix, but as a vulture. A vulture ready to devour the flesh and bones of her enemies. Cold and ravenous for retribution. She will reclaim her crown, her dignity, and her name. And she will make them all bleed. Because revenge is a meal best served cold. ......... Crown Prince Daniel Maxwell Devonte of Flambodia is feared across kingdoms. Ruthless in battle, merciless in court, he is known as the Dragon—a warrior whose enemies tremble at the mere mention of his name. His fame attracted him more enemies than friends including his own family. His own father King Reginald the Fifth, hated him but mostly feared him because of his power. Rumours swirled in the wind that his mother the former Queen cheated on the King and that he was not his son. However, rumours based on assumptions could not be regarded as evidence. Although it did not stop the current Queen and her minion children to peck around them and use them to their advantage in order to taint his already spoiled reputation. Daniel wears revenge like armor, his fury buried beneath layers of strategy and silence. He trusts no one. Loves no one. Until he meets her. The fiery red-haired stranger with eyes like embers and a soul forged in betrayal. Anastasia. Together, they are chaos incarnate. Two broken souls bound by vengeance, drawn together by bloodshed and ambition. Their enemies will fall. Their kingdoms will burn. And the world will learn what happens when you cross a Duchess and a Dragon.

The present is broken. The past is infected. The future has already collapsed. Across twenty timelines, the root must be undone. No chosen one. No prophecy. Only erasure. INEFFABLE is a mythic, adventurous fantasy of blood and time, where redemption can lie beyond reach—for those who seek meaning within madness.