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Abused. Sad. Suicidal. Protector. Those four words best describe Artimeys Corvone. His stepfather abuses him and his mother thinks it's his fault he's like that. But when that monster violates his baby sister, Artimeys snaps. Suicidal, he gets sent to Sunny Days, and, to add to the experience, he lost… Read More

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September 13, 2020

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Even in the darkest days can be found courage, love and the answers to our dreams. The coronavirus virus pandemic has shut down the world, tearing lives asunder. Huddled indoors, fearful, we watch and wonder when, if ever, our lives will ever be the same again. Against this unheralded background,… Read More

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September 10, 2020

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A short Filipino novel about dreams, friendship, competition and fate. Originally titled, "Kung Muling Magtagpo." Read More

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Agawid Kayon Apo

Chapter 5

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September 10, 2020

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In the end, we’ll all go back to the fact that while we have the choice to change our fate, most things in life can only be accepted as they are. Our life is a joke about our journey finding the truth about its abundance of surprises, that’s totally unfair… Read More

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September 10, 2020

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Born to a drug addict prostitute Stacie Wilson seems headed down the same path, but she wants to change and make a better life for herself. Read More

#prostitution, #psychologist, #drug-use

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September 04, 2020

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Eileen McHugh - una vida rehecha - es una novela sobre un escultor cuya vida creativa terminó en los años 70. No dejó ningún trabajo, pero ahora un archivo de sus notas y bocetos ha llegado a manos de Mary Reynolds, que está decidida a resucitar la vida del artista… Read More

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August 28, 2020

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This is the story of Peter Rhodes who believes we are prevented from truly expressing ourselves by social constraints and the belief that only perfection will do. But he discovers that altruistic motives carry a price when he is forced to negotiate conflicting views of moral integrity, the love of… Read More

#mythology, #art, #allegory, #expressionism, #oxford

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August 24, 2020

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Set in a situation of severe drought in the year Two Thousand and Forty Four. The overpopulated city is in a state of near-anarchy with its inhabitants fighting and killing each other over food and water. After several terrifying ordeals, including the attempted rape of his wife and daughter, Peter… Read More

#romance, #horses, #survival, #caving

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August 17, 2020

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Cherish Zarya Lloyd, 24, has always let her heart talk for her. She falls hard for the first guy who shows interest in her. One abusive relationship after another broke Cherish. She eventually gives up on love. She builds a wall around herself to protect her heart. Cadence Zion Lanceur,… Read More

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August 08, 2020

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A story about an outlaw wrestling promotion in arkansas. Read More

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Paparazzi

Chapter 8

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September 21, 2020

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Natalya Denisova Pendergast always knew she was destined for the stage - she just wound up on a different stage than she expected. Instead of becoming a dancer, Nat has found fame as Spectrum - a dreampop singer known for her witchy looks, powerful belting voice, and electric blue hair.… Read More

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#africa, #child-labor, #teenage-pregnancy, #gold-mine

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July 26, 2020

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When his tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend ends, Monty Washington tells her he’ll kill himself if she leaves him. To his surprise, his admission gets him placed on a psychiatric hold. Upon release, he finds himself attending court-mandated therapy. Though he strives to conquer his emotional instability, his progress is… Read More

#novel, #mental-health, #literary-fiction, #contemporary-fiction, #toxic-relationships

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August 31, 2020

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Nineteen years, that sky had been above him. Nineteen years he caught glimpses that he tried to hold onto in labs and bunkers and the backs of trucks. Nineteen years he could only guess what the rest of the world was like with the pieces they couldn’t keep him away… Read More

#romance, #violence, #trauma, #lgbtq, #sci-fi-elements

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July 20, 2020

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July 30, 2020

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Chapters 1-3 of my first attempt at a novel. It is the story of two African children slaving in a gold mining camp. Looking for feedback, and maybe suggestions about where you would take the story next. Read More

#child-labor, #teenage-pregnancy, #gold-mine

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Grey Justice

Chapter 10

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July 15, 2020

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In the village of Lambsworth some of the older male inhabitants are becoming disgruntled with the way modern society is gradually eroding basic law and order. In desperation the fittest among them form a self-appointed vigilante group which does not always bring the desired results as they dig themselves even… Read More

#humour, #religion, #anger, #rough-justice

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Crystallised Thought Seshendra is not an individual but a movement. Excerpts from his letters entitled ‘In Defence of People & Poetry ‘carry his incisive views on the contemporary Indian scene of thought. The reader will find in these pages the multidimensional vision of the poet who has made a colossal… Read More

#son, #letters, #english, #seshendra, #saatyaki

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August 15, 2020

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Eileen McHugh - a life remade - is a novel about a sculptor whose creative life ended in the 1970s. She left no work, but now an archive of her notes and sketches has come into the possession of Mary Reynolds, who is determined to resurrect the artist's life and… Read More

#art, #london, #student, #hippie, #sculpture

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August 15, 2020

Reads: 139

Eileen McHugh - a life remade - is a novel about a sculptor whose creative life ended in the 1970s. She left no work, but now an archive of her notes and sketches has come into the possession of Mary Reynolds, who is determined to resurrect the artist's life and… Read More

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July 10, 2020

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Seattle, 1973 In the city of Seattle, Washington, Karen Dempsey, a fifteen year old teenager, arrives at the Delta Phi Delta sorority house, eager to join the sorority. As she does so, she makes friends, and enemies, while she meets Jason Anderson, a fraternity house member who sweeps her off… Read More

#romance, #literary, #girls, #dorm, #1970s

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Unsinkable: Short Stories from Taiwanese Writers Serenity International Publishing House $14.99 SKU:9789869639330 Author:Walis NokanAuthor:Gan Yao-MingAuthor:Lin Chun-YingAuthor:Luo Yi-Chun Format:Paperback Page Count:144 Trim Size:4.25” x 6” Publication Date:06/08/2020 https://itascabooks.com/unsinkable-short-stories-from-taiwanese-writers/ Read More

#taiwan, #walis-nokan, #gan-yao-ming, #lin-chun-ying, #luo-yi-chun

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June 19, 2020

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New York, 1957. A look at America in the 1950's, when President Dwight Eisenhower was in charge of The White House, when the Manning family struggles to survive in the decade after the end of World War II. The new novel by Rob73. Read More

#drama, #work, #america, #young-adult

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Promises

Chapter 1

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July 15, 2020

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The story of a woman who faces heart breaking challenge's in love and life. Read to find out the rest Read More

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Rebecca's Dream

Chapter 22

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September 08, 2020

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#love, #nature, #beauty, #desire, #dream

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Follow Henry though his life of Debauchery, learning along the way why he is the way he is. Read More

#romance, #novel, #drama, #unfinished, #drug-use

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April 30, 2020

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This is projected as a novella. Its genesis was a fascination with the idea of societies throughout human history and prehistory whose environments and cultures remained fundamentally unchanged for centuries (or even millennia). What does that do to one’s notion of time? The setting is imaginatively consistent with the northern… Read More

#neolithic-mesolithic

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April 28, 2020

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La Profumeuse By Mohamed Failali ISBN : 978-9920-39-199-3 2020 I was going to print this book. Because of the sanitary confinement, I published it as an e-book. Everyone has a book within. I invite you to write your book and publish it for free on the internet. Your knowledge might… Read More

#fiction, #story, #literature

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April 28, 2020

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This is the first finished draft of the prologue of a story that I am developing. Read More

#zombies, #apocalpyse, #post-apocaplyptic

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Two marvelous short stories by Walis Nokan and Gan Yao-Ming Cover image by Chung Ya-Yun Read More

#memory, #walis-nokan, #gan-yao-ming

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The Branding

Chapter 1

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April 23, 2020

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#african, #royalty, #royals, #storytime

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April 20, 2020

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It's early 2010 and Paul, a victim of the 2008 recession, is several months laid-off from his job at a title insurance company. He is 34 years old and on unemployment compensation, trying to figure out his next move in a post-recession world that benefits the very few. *Compensation is… Read More

#novella, #literary-fiction

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Escape

Chapter 6

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April 19, 2020

Reads: 161

Tired of her job, her boyfriend and life in general, Jana seeks to leave her hometown of Prague and live in the US. When she is accepted into a semester program at a university in upstate New York, she quickly learns that life in the "Land of the Free" isn't… Read More

#novella, #literary-fiction

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Stranded

Chapter 10

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April 19, 2020

Reads: 165

Former university lecturer David Kroft has seen better days. Mr. Kroft, an American ex-pat living in London for the last two decades, finds himself stranded at Gatwick Int’l Airport with his estranged wife Clara. While patronizing the concourse pub he meets a young woman from the Czech Republic named Jana… Read More

#novella, #literary-fiction

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June 05, 2020

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No lives are ordinary. look through the commonplace and what is left is beauty. Everybody has a drive to become who they were born to be, most arrive at something else, some explode into space. Read More
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April 12, 2020

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Cursed with dark energy, Mistai, a twelve-year-old boy from a magic land, starts his adventure to bring his father back from Dark King’s dungeon. To bring his family back together, he has to travel to the nine magic realms and bring the original stones together. His path is laden with… Read More

#magic, #realms, #mistai, #gem-stones

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Story inspired with story "It will never be better" Not positive at all, but oh well, that's how I write :| Read More

#school, #suicide, #parents, #mentalhealth

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April 05, 2020

Reads: 353

Duncan King swore that he would never return to his hometown in Australia. Yet somehow nine years later he ends up back in Sydney, only to make some painful discoveries about his mother that leave him with more questions than answers. His detective friend and mentor, Sukarno, who hails from… Read More

#fiction, #romance, #adventure, #travel, #new

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