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.

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.

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.

I have been hopelessly in love with a man, since I was 13. Even through all of the shit he seems to put me through I still just can’t seem to find it in me to let go. I have tried and tried and it just…I can remember the night we met, he was a friend of my sisters and she had been trying to get us to meet because she thought we would click, first few times I had said no, until one night I was reading one of my favorite books called Heartwishes by Jude Deveraux. She asked me again, and finally I decided to give in…and just a few minutes  it’s like all of a sudden he became the most important thing, I kept asking myself why because I just fucking met this dude? But I’ve never felt a stronger connection…even though I was 13 I knew that but still I knew it would be different. Well about a week in and he ended up calling me out on my feelings, and I figured what’s the use in hiding if he can tell. He told me he felt the same way and that it was weird to him, after that he asked me to be his girlfriend, we stayed up for hours for nights, I would sneak out at night just so I could talk to him, somehow even though it was long distance, the feeling was so strong id almost forgotten sometimes. Well since then we have been on and off because he can’t commit, we ALWAYS end up back, I know by now that he does love me, weather hes too scared to commit or no matter the issue. I use my college saving to fly myself out by him to try and live and be with him, he still cheated and lied and many things he absolutely crushed me, i ended up having to leave because i just couldnt be around him anymore at that point it just broke my heart….and i still cant help but think about how i would do it over just because I finally got the chance to know what itd be like in his arms, even if it didn’t last long…since then we hadn’t talked much he had kept trying to talk to me again and i kept pushing away until now. I had a good friend pass away a few months back, and it just devastated me, she was someone i met in the hospital after my suicide attempt, we became so close we continued contact after but all the plans we made to meet up failed, i never got the chance to hangout with her i didnt even get to talk to her last…it reminded me of him and how if he passed and i didnt get the last chance to talk to him or see him or anything…i am in a relationship right now, i lately realized I accidentally made it a habbit trying to find him somewhere else…people tell me there are others out there like him, but really there isnt…there isnt anyone who can fill the spot right for our 3am talks, or the car rides where we just jam out together, the long walks together, sitting on that hill while we talked and watched the sunset together, the way we would play together…ive looked and looked, and still i am amazed at how much his touch still lingers, how is it he hurts and hurts and hurts me so badly and i still just cant help but look and think of him in awe, it doesn’t feel fair, it hurt so bad and yet it was still the hardest thing that i have ever had to walk away from. Now hes telling me that he is going to come and get me to take me away from the bad situation im in, if you cant guess my situation is with another toxic man that i thought i was in love with but turned out everything he told me was a lie so i fell in love with a lie and now im just kind of stuck its a situation not going to explain unless you guys want. I’m not entirely sure about going or not, i wouldnt be dating him this time, he said it would be a way of paying me back so i have a safe place to start a life without someone toxic hanging over my shoulder abt it, but at the sametime its fucking texas and im from Wisconsin okay, i sweat a little too easy, i have major anxiety and everything there from what i hear is supposed to be huge, also roomate situation, nervous about that, cause you know what if they hate me hah , and then leaving my mom behind when im really the only person she has to really talk to or do anything with thatll actually do what she wants to do, but then again ill get away from toxic shit for a bit, still be able to call her, still come back and visit atleast, i really dont have anything else around me and the toxic im with wont let me work. Plus call me crazy if you want but i maybe think i could possibly get my ex to realize how much he actually is in love with me

also were gonna call the ex grim, and toxic can just stay toxic cause hes toxic as fuck