A world where shadows whisper secrets, a young woman in her twenties finds herself haunted by a past that has stripped her of everything she once held dear. Strong yet deeply traumatized, she navigates life with a heart heavy from loss. Each day is a battle against the memories that threaten to consume her, yet amid the darkness, one question drives her forward: what is it that compels her to truly live rather than merely survive?

Following the betrayal of her uncle Amunak, Alea, Sorian, and Cillian find themselves in the depths of a winding slot canyon as a gargantuan thunderstorm approaches. The walls press in on both sides, and they will have to find a way out of their shackles and  through the labyrinthine tunnel network before the rushing waters sweep them into the deep earth.

This is a short piece of a scene that takes place in the middle of my planned novel. As such, I don't expect you to know the characters or events that led up to this, nor do I explain them. But it is easy to follow just the scene.

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A story about a mysterious serial killer who kills women and young ladies... Suzan a young aged detective finding to solve this issue with many troubles and mystery

If the love of your life was hanging off of a cliff, what would you do?

Set in medieval Germany, a young woman is attacked and forced to seek refuge in a small village in the deep, Dark Forest. But the more she sees of the village, and the more she speaks with its inhabitants, the more she realizes that something is terribly wrong; strange technology, cryptic warnings, and what is that strange humming noise? If she doesn't escape soon, she may never make it out the same person, or alive at all.

Passengers on a plane have the surprise of their lives when they enter the lavatory. There, they encounter an entity who offers them a contract to prolong their lives. A story of good vs evil with a major twist. Don't miss it!

Jesus!

It stood 10 ft tall, it's not a man, my God it's a Sasquatch...

A big hairy Bigfoot!

My knees buckled causing me to fall again, I think I must have scream because a startled look flashed across his face..

As I ran past my wife, I looked backwards to see if it was chasing me, but only rustling and heavy thumps in the thick bush was heard...

He lunged at Omar, and tried to kill him. But Omar was not a fool, nor a corpse. He was a sorcerer, and a warrior. He had sensed Zhang's treachery, and prepared for his attack.

He dodged Zhang's dagger, and countered with a wicked blast of magic. This struck Zhang in the chest, and  sent him flying across the room. Omar said,

"You are the fool, Zhang."

A fool to betray me, and a fool to underestimate me. You have failed, Zhang. By the gods you have failed your master, and your own pitiful self.

"And now, you will pay!"

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What do you think about our minds, Do you ever see it, I mean in a dream or in real life.

Do you ever feel it ?.

Really what do you think about mind. Where’s it at ?. Do you think about that recently ?. Is it in our body or in our head.

Do you know exactly position where is it at ?. I think you don’t know that right. Yes, same here, I don’t know either.

But I think our minds connected with everything .

Everything connects to the everything.

Don’t you feel that way ?. Universe connects with us ( with everything ).

Mind, it’s in us. (Universe).

Just look at your environment, your life you know it’s creates because of you.

Your thoughts create your life, your future, your present situation. Our thoughts , ideas , feelings explodes to the air (outside).

Therefore we give a action and there have reaction for that. For example if we thought about good things it’s happens.

But you have to believe it harder. Other things same that too. It’s like you give a action, you think about good things and for that your thoughts explodes to the air (to the nature ) and give a reaction for that.

You understand , it’s simple theory.

If you do something (action ) there have a reaction for that.

We can called It short “Mind Action”.

That’s my idea about it and There’s a another thing I want to tell you.

It’s all about mind too. But this time it’s very different from first thing. I think space have equal sings to Mind.

Yes that’s right , right to me it’s like it’s just like mind is same as universe(space).

There have connection to each other.

Black hole is like our dark side

If you go there, there’s no coming back

Or

Mind is just empty space?

I think mind attract everything we want

It’s like. What do you think ?

In the midst of a traumatic experience, the bad boy of the game turned good, especially when he is diagnosed with a terminating illness. Travis; has a bucket list and Allie will stop at nothing to help him achieve it.