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<p> Memoirs of a simple farmer and father living in the DPRK. Featured in FLASH Vol. 1, Chapter 27, by hullabaloo22, https://www.booksie.com/516852-flash-vol.1. </p> Read More

Tags: rural, oppression, dictators

Poem / Poetry

May 02, 2017

Reads: 27

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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Poverty is an injustice. Read More

Tags: poverty, rural, oppression, cycles, city

The beauty of being Black ... Read More

Tags: society, freedom, injustice, oppression, blacklivesmatter

What I used to adore in feminism, I wish to revive. Read More

Tags: society, oppression, sexism, gender-equality, feminsim

Short Story / Thrillers

December 04, 2016

Reads: 282

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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Tags: oppression, dystopian-future, freedom-of-the-press

Poem / Poetry

November 04, 2016

Reads: 72

Comments: 4

Shelves: 1

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A follow up poem to 'Down The Rabbit Hole'. Hope you enjoy it!! Read More

Tags: oppression, wonderland, uprising, tyrants

Book / Horror

October 19, 2016

Reads: 170

Shelves: 1

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in the near future, an ex-pentecostal preacher becomes president of the United States.Those opposed to his fanatical beliefs are rounded up and put into "moral realignment camps." Executions are held as a daily spectacle, carried through in the most horrific ways imaginable.A small band of rebels rises up, determined to&#8230; Read More

Tags: war, apocalypse, oppression, christof-mctarnahan

Abraham, a journalist pursuing the hidden stories of the war in Syria, finds himself amidst poverty, famine, torture, and above all, death. What will Abraham uncover in the seemingly perfect city of Damascus? And most importantly, will Abraham live to tell his tales? Read More

Tags: death, war, freedom, torture, oppression

Tags: oppression, rebellion, distopia, colonialism

I was in the woes of depression and tried to turn my angst into art. Read More

Tags: depression, sad, young, oppression, oppressor

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, had exterminated 1/3 (over one million) of Cambodia's population in a reign of intense and brutal policies. Men, women, children and babies could not escape the horror that the Khmer Rouge brought when they arrived in Phnom Penh. Anyone&#8230; Read More

Tags: oppression, ek, pot, prisoners, cambodia, murders, killings, khmer_rouge, collectivisation, pol, phnom, penh, tuol, sleng, choeung

Book / Science Fiction

July 07, 2015

Reads: 270

Shelves: 1

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Everyone with blue eyes should have died. The Amendment said so. Yet Adelaide met blue-eyed Talon Dophane in her preschool class when she was four. When Talon disappeared halfway through the year, everyone assumed they knew what had happened. But they didn't. Twelve years later, Adelaide sees those blue eyes&#8230; Read More

Tags: love, death, science_fiction, young_adult, fake, government, suicide, betrayal, peace, equality, oppression, plot, anarchy, order, rebels

This is a joint publication of Berkeley ad Floricanto Presses. This book articulates a critical-progressive perspective of American education dealing with the real issues in the classroom. These are reflections of a Hispanic teacher—a Puerto Rican immigrant who experienced his family’s struggle to ensure he was well educated—based on a&#8230; Read More

Tags: teachers, education, perspective, public, oppression, class, united, states, reforming, racial, bilingual

An essay about my personal experiences with racism. The use of African American as a designator of race and not point of origin. The fact that we are essentially all Africans, having all originated from Africa. How we should abandon African American as a designation of race for Black people,&#8230; Read More

Tags: depression, childhood, god, native, american, man, freedom, relationship, youth, bomb, earth, creation, washington, equality, racism

Poem / Poetry

March 25, 2015

Reads: 138

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

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Stuff sucks. Read More

Tags: dark, poetry, freedom, oppression, hopeful, prisoner

Book / Literary Fiction

February 13, 2015

Reads: 2163

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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A novel about how Axis won World War 2. A solitary young man and the Russian woman he loves join a revolution to liberate the world from tyranny. Read More

Tags: love, novel, history, communism, wolf, action, america, fox, oppression, wild, lone, tyranny, matthew, nazi, speculative

Poem / Poetry

October 07, 2014

Reads: 68

Shelves: 1

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A poetic protest against all kinds of oppression and violence, especially armed violence Read More

Tags: poetry, literature, oppression

Short Story / Young Adult

September 23, 2014

Reads: 160

Shelves: 1

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The charming, touching and heart-wrenching story of Eric, an Eskimo who must come to terms with his destiny in the face of disapproving parents who cannot accept his dream of becoming an exotic dancer. Read More

Tags: destiny, dream, dance, parents, oppression, pyjamas, yoga, eric, eskimo

Poem / Poetry

September 06, 2014

Reads: 81

Shelves: 1

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A poem about failure and heartbreak. Hope you enjoy :) Read More

Tags: poetry, emotions, heartbreak, past, poems, oppression, motivation, winning, positive, uplifting, winners

"Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! That is best for you if ye but knew." Nobel Qu'an (9:41) Read More

Tags: iraq, islam, palestine, rebel, middle, east, oppression, revolution, saudi, arabia, egypt, rebellion, jihad, revolt, bahrain

A poem written by me, based on the stereo types and flaws of society. Sort of?? Read More

Tags: society, night, fear, oppression, stereotypes, comparisons, day_night

Somewhere we lost our innocence. How could we have known that our advancement would be too much? We are our own undoing. We are not children anymore.We fade before our time. There is one however; the one without the fade. You will grow through hate and love, and something beautiful&#8230; Read More

Tags: love, death, children, language, fiction, hope, life, american, faith, evil, hate, rebel, government, baby, fighting

Book / Fantasy

May 23, 2014

Reads: 133

Shelves: 1

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The age of the Magic was gone, replaced by the rise of the common people, putting Majeuris into hiding, slavery and... market. Majeuris capable of supernatural phenomenon, controlling the forces of nature, exhibiting acts no ordinary human can deed, made the most excellent of the excellent goods of the time.&#8230; Read More

Tags: magic, science, oppression, mages, civil_war, force_majeure

Poem / Memoir

May 10, 2014

Reads: 112

Shelves: 1

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Tags: feelings, misery, alone, spider, ignored, oppression, crushed

Book / Editorial and Opinion

January 10, 2014

Reads: 917

Shelves: 1

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Fences is the story of many immigrant families in the United States. It speaks of the difficulties many may come across due to the undocumented status of a family member. Being documented that person lacks the same access to rights, benefits and aid that someone who is documented would have,&#8230; Read More

Tags: family, immigration, oppression

For the youth, for society, for strength, and for freedom. Read More

Tags: strength, freedom, oppression, revolution, empowerment

Cursed from birth, Daggis travels with a caravan of misfits and outcasts, fleeing a goddess hellbent on their destruction. He does what he can to protect his family, but when the caravan is raided by the goddess's army, one man can only do so much. Read More

Tags: fantasy, dark, vampire, death, soldiers, science_fiction, fiction, god, magic, lies, vampires, history, shadow, sci-fi, blood

Bao is a Chinese farmer, alone since the death of his wife. His small farm is being expropriated by the government.. Read More

Tags: grief, suicide, political, bereavement, mourning, farm, oppression, china, farming, chinese, widower, land_expropriation, land_takings, land_rights, self_immolation

Short Story / Flash Fiction

September 05, 2013

Reads: 132

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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What started as a simple story later turned into my first novel idea. In Let's have a Revolution we get a glimpse of Mason Mercer. A patriot who isn't pleased with what his countries direction, he and his sister start a resistance group to fight the evil oppression of an&#8230; Read More

Tags: politics, oppression, revolution, poilitical

Poem / Poetry

September 01, 2013

Reads: 617

Shelves: 1

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The belief that elected officials and bureaucrats can legislate our lives out of our control is getting old. It's been awhile since I did a politically based poem. I think this applies no matter what country you live. Read More

Tags: freedom, oppression, individualism, idealism

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