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Life is collectively referred to as a dark fantasy, although many of us attempt incorporating ideas in our head, searching for ways to escape reality. I for one believe anything that can befriend you, can kill.

Every creature has a dark side but mine doesn't have my best interests at heart, I mumble short prayers, locking all the doors and windows shut.

Every step I took upstairs, made the wooden stairs creek, I keep having this feeling am been followed but every time I look back, am left with goosebumps and my head increasing in size.

I swallowed an imaginary saliva down my throat and continue walking up slowly otherwise I will freak out and run upstairs, that will mess up my night.

If you know anything about darkness, you'll know it leaves no room for the weakest heart. This foreign presence happens whenever am home alone, I made a research on the life beyond and discovered that the level of one's fear determines how far we're willing to let the darkness in.

I gently crawl under the duvet and sleep on my right side facing the door, my heartbeat was accelerating, you could hear every beat of it. 2,3,4 minutes later, the gruesome feeling was gone and I accidentally took a nap that lasted for two minutes until my ears picked a creaking footstep 👣 approaching in the direction of my room, dragging a metal object on the wall,  I froze on the bed.

I searched for my phone under the duvet and my eyes found it far on the table which was close to the door, this wasn't a normal circumstance so,  my mind is blank.

"Do you wanna play", the voice said, sounding distant but very  near. That was when I remembered all the short phrases used in horror movies, I stupidly find myself screaming them one by one.

Is anyone out there?

"Who the hell are you?"

Show yourself coward.

"What do you want from me?"

The noise died down and just when I thought it's over, the door to my room was kicked open with full force.

Hodinsae, a nation prejudiced in vain.

Doing it’s all to get rid of people it saw as ‘unclean’, and putting itself against the innocent simply for power and what seems to be the fun of it.

A family reduced to three by the doing of Hosinsae is sent to ‘Camp’, as Loycelynne calls it, to ‘waste their lives away in their uselessness’.

But the circumstances would not comply with such.

Executions began in early september, signaling the beginning of Hodinsae’s genocide rampage. This family must wade through this, and survival is not a guarantee.

With one left behind, will life prove kind? Or will it take away theirs? Who knows.

Loycelynne will stand surrounded, whether she likes it or not. By who though, only time will tell.

Published by Emblem Publishing

(Any connotation to other religions is simply for the sake of the story, not an attempt to mock anyone or anything.)

Happy days with Jeremy haunted Jessica's memory as she considered her life without him. The song Auld Lang Syne meant a lot to them in happier days. But the loss of her husband during the war affected her deeply. It was a struggle to live without him. Unable to bare it any longer, Jessica cannot endure. The song returned to her on New Year's Eve, bringing to life her frustrations and her inability to endure.

He will give me what I want most in the world, but in return, he will kill me.

*******

Alpha Damon was the hottest, strongest, most infamous Alpha in the entire state of Maine, but he also had a weakness.

And only I knew it.

At just six years old, I made a blood pact with Damon. I was sad and upset after my father's recent passing, and in order to make me feel better, seven-year-old Damon made a blood pact with me; he promised me that he would protect me from harm, until we found my father's killer.

But that was before he found out what I was.

It has been years... years of us apart. Not until my fateful day came, and when my life was in danger, he finally showed himself.

That was when my life took a turn, I found out what he really wanted.

And this is where the hunt began.

***** this is part of The Crush Saga but is a side novel, this can be read whenever with or without reading The Crush Saga, although Damon and Winter's story is continued in The Crush Saga****

Enkirion, a being whose past is shrouded in as much mystery to him as it is to others is on yet another quest, this one is to find a still intact copy of the Akayo, a seemingly innocuous book of no great import, this novel was used as a key to solve the final riddle to find something of incredible value, something Enkirion has been chasing for thousands of years. He is painfully close now to the resolution of his ultimate quest, yet despite the seemingly innocuousness of this book, his traversment of the galaxy has left him empty handed, yet, there is a final place he has not yet searched for it, an ancient place lost when the Banishment Protocol was enacted and it was cast into the void.

Now traversing this world once more Enkirion soon realizes that while this world is a tomb, it isn't an empty one and the evil that slew the denizens of this place still sleeps here. Can he navigate this place long enough to acquire the Akayo and escape alive with his new companions? Or will death finally claim him when he is so close to his goal?

Some thoughts.

Some thoughts.

A dream I had.

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The Climb tells the gripping tale of 17 year old Stevo Vermaak, a passionate and determined young climber who sets off to conquer Mount Everest. His journey to the summit is filled with challenges, but the remains focused on his goal.

Sometimes I get lost all in your eyes

Wisdom and truth keep showing me what’s right

Jesus Christ, please guide us through bad Times

May Allah bless us with his Sunshine

Lord Buddha, please show us what’s right

May all of us find peace in this lifetime

Written By Banusha Yasminda.