Fifth Time, Final Goodbye
Tranquil Phoenix
On their third anniversary, Finley had all their friends over to celebrate. Claire walked in to find him on one knee, proposing to his childhood friend, Renee.
"What is going on?" she asked.
He shrugged like it was nothing. "It's just a game of truth or dare."
But it wasn't until he shoved her down the stairs, causing her to miscarry, that she finally woke up.
She'd given him five chances. Now? She was done.
"Finley, it's over. Let's get divorced."
When Betrayal Became the Final Goodbye
Extra Fish
A car accident left my mother-in-law bleeding and desperate for help, but her plea was heartlessly rejected by her own daughter.
Even on her deathbed, my mother-in-law's only wish was to see her one last time.
However, she was busy staying by her first love's side, euthanizing his dog.
"You better stay as far away from me as possible! My mom's perfectly fine!" she shouted before hanging up on me, only to spend the night tangled with her first love in a hotel room.
It was not until after the cremation ceremony that she returned—carrying a birthday cake.
What greeted her was not a celebration but her mother's funeral.
She cried, sobbing uncontrollably, "Mom! You haven't even celebrated my birthday yet! Don't leave me!"
I stared at her and pulled the divorce papers from my bag.
How fitting.
This time, I was leaving too.
Rest Area
Aku dengannya berbeda. Aku humoris, sedangkan dia apatis. Aku bodoh, sedangkan dia terlalu cerdas. Aku menyukainya, dan dia? Aku tidak tahu.
Sedangkan kita itu sama. Kita menyukai hal-hal yang sama. Sama-sama pernah patah, jatuh, hancur, bahkan menyerah di tengah perjalanan hidup.
Pertanyaannya, mengapa kita tak mencoba untuk saling menyembuhkan luka?
Goodbye School
"Apa yang akan kamu coba, Ra?"
Ayra memulai aksi nekatnya dengan perasaan gugup. Dia melepaskan kaitan baju sekolahnya satu-persatu di depan Rendra.
"Ayra, kamu jangan nekat!" Lelaki itu panik sendiri dan menoleh ke sana kemari, ke penjuru kelas. Takut jika tiba-tiba ada siswa lain yang masuk. "Aku tahu ini bukan dirimu, Ra!"
"Kamu suka cewek yang kayak gini 'kan, Ren?"
"Iya! Aku emang suka! Tapi bukan kamu, Ra! Bukan kamu yang harus kayak gini!"
Sebelum Ayra membuka kaitan bajunya yang ke-tiga, Rendra menutup bagian depan tubuh Ayra menggunakan jaket yang baru saja dia lepas. Kemudian merengkuh gadis itu dengan erat.
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Ayra merupakan gadis SMA semester akhir. Dia menjadi frustrasi saat tiba-tiba diputuskan oleh Rendra—kekasih yang sangat dia cintai. Alasannya adalah karena Rendra lebih menyukai gadis berpenampilan dewasa.
Ayra berusaha sekeras mungkin menjadi apa yang Rendra inginkan meskipun sebenarnya tubuhnya menolak. Rendra sendiri juga tidak menginginkan perubahan itu terjadi pada gadis tersebut.
Sementara Attar—lelaki dewasa yang satu rumah dengan Ayra karena mendadak harus bertanggung jawab dengan seluruh kehidupan Ayra pun turut mengekang perubahan gadis itu. Dia sangat menjaga Ayra hingga lebih baik Ayra dia ajak menikah saja daripada melakukan hal berbahaya di luar sana.
Akankah Ayra balikan dengan Rendra? Atau justru memilih untuk menikah dengan Attar?
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Goodbye Pacar
Aku hanya ingin bilang, “Bertahan mencintai seseorang yang tak lagi mencintai kita itu sangat menyakitkan.”
Dariku yang sedang patah hati, _Rindu. Cerita ini mengisahkan seorang gadis yang sangat-sangat mencintai kekasih hatinya bahkan rela mempertahankan hubungannya agar tidak berakhir dengan kata putus, meski sang pacar sudah tidak menganggapnya ada bahkan sudah menduakan cintanya. Seorang gadis bernama Rindu sampai rela berjuang sendirian untuk tetap bisa berada di sisi pria yang jadi cinta pertamanya yang berhasil membuatnya jatuh cinta untuk pertama kalinya. Gadis ini rela bertahan meskipun sudah tidak dinginkan lagi, sudah terabaikan, sudah tidak dicintai lagi. Namun ia tetap berjuangan keras agar hubungan percintannya tidak berakhir dengan perpisahan. Namun sayangnya perjuangannya tak terbalaskan hingga kematianlah yang menjadi akhir dari kisah cintanya.
SOUGHT-AFTER PEACE
Poor or rich, Influential or infamous, there will always be moments that has left us downcasted; moments becoming memories that has created a habitual space in our hearts.
24 year old Linda Solanke, daughter to political juggernaut and a career-crazy lady battles with her past which has become a strong contender as she thoroughly thrive to attain success in spite of nightmares, regrets from her past and confrontations from those she perceive as malicious. What do the world expect from a 24 year old lady? Success? Is marriage a necessity?
When the troubled Linda meets the striving young man, Bode Thomas after giving up on love, we wonder if she will assure herself that life is not really as cruel as she had thought but can Bode's fiery nature make her tick? Will Linda look past her fears and doubts by finally pleasing the world by agreeing to the basis that she really need a man afterwards? Won't her past haunt her once more when things get better and the unexpected happens? When trouble set in once more, what should be done?
Read and discover in "Sought-After Peace" a new thrilling novel!
HIS LOST PEACE
Priya Amour
It was stupid…stupid for him to think that money gives everything which was absolutely true. But, then will it give him love?Girls and Love were something far corner in his world and he had no time for them at all. His ego was something he kept in his heart and brain. But, when a girl entered his life with a slap, he only wanted to prove his egoistic side. He did everything to prove that to her. But, he miserably failed to know that she was precious.On the other hand, when she thought she had lost everything, he entered. But she failed to realize that it was his gameplay and would only lead to heartbreak and it did. After years of the tragedy he created, when she thought she was planning something in her life…he entered again.This time not to prove anything but to show her what her presence was meant to be for him and in what she was successful years ago. He knew he lost her but with a little faith, he was going to strive hard to go behind her and make her his again…only his.Would she be able to forgive him and would he himself be able to forgive him?His Lost Peace is created by Priya Amour, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.
Last Goodbye in Pieces
Chase Jones
My boyfriend is a forensic artist.
He was forced to make a harrowing decision to save his first love. At the killer's demand, he created a portrait from a photo—he never realized that the young girl in the photo was me in my childhood.
Two weeks later, the police investigate a grisly bomb explosion and dismemberment case. The victim's identity was unrecognizable, and the investigation dragged on for days as the authorities desperately searched the blast site, looking for my remains.
After three days and nights, they finally recovered enough of my remains to reconstruct my face.
When my boyfriend unknowingly brought the shattered fragments back to life with his art, he was confronted with a horrifying truth—one that drove him to the edge of madness.
Breaking The Peace
Astrid has always tried to maintain the peace between humans and specials, but when the military comes looking for her killing any in their way, Astrid decides peace isn't worth the price anymore. She's ready for war, but can she handle the consequences when she's separated from the love of her life?
Goodbye, Mom
Mr. Egg Tart
My mother is hospitalized due to a terminal illness. She's in urgent need of a kidney transplant to save her life. I'm the only one who can perform the surgery, but I give the kidney to a stranger.
My father and husband get on their knees before me on the day of the surgery. They beg me to save my mother. However, I shrug and say, "I can't do anything about this. A life is a life, regardless of who the person is. This is what she gets for coming late—death is waiting for her."
Bitter Goodbye
Some people come into our lives some will stay and some will leave. Any of that two I believed that we don't meet people accidentally. We meet them with purpose, to teach us something or to simply add value to our life. Sedriano the man who came into my life, the man who made my world upside down. The man who values loves and gives me pain. The man who gives me butterfly kisses on my stomach. We were too young when we fell in love but I was so sure that it will last. With the promise, we made together with his bitter goodbye. This is our story.
On going
Forsaken in Her Final Hour
Nancy Hart
When my mother-in-law has a heart attack, my husband, who's a heart surgeon, is busy preparing food for his first love's cat. I call him and urge him to return to save my mother-in-law.
He says icily, "What is wrong with you, Esther? How dare you curse my mother just to make me head home!"
After that, he hangs up. My mother-in-law dies in surgery, yet he's busy watching a concert with his first love.
When he returns the following day to see me holding an urn, he's so angry that he throws the bag he's holding at me.
"Look at how Lexie was considerate enough to buy clothes for my mother. All you know how to do is get Mom to pull these dumb acts with you!"
I sneer. His mother is already dead—what use are those clothes?
No Peace in Life or Death
Lucie Joy
The day before Chris Carter and I were supposed to get engaged, my parents sent me to prison.
Three years later, when I was finally released, Chris was the only one who came to pick me up.
I knew he despised me. I trembled, keeping my head down, hoping to slip away unnoticed.
But he blocked my path, frowning. “Emily York? You stink.”
He pinched his nose and told me to get in the car.
I fell to my knees, desperately begging him not to take me home. If he did, I would die.
He looked at me with chilling indifference and said, “Then go ahead and die.”
I agreed.
But later, he cried and begged me to stay alive.
Let Me Embrace Beauties In Peace
Shi Tian's soul traveled to the fantasy world and occupied the body of a young body. A world filled of monsters, demons and super strong human, the danger was lurking everywhere.
He awakened the sign-in system, and signed in every day and get rewards. He thought he would become an invincible master relying on system while enjoying his easy life, but fate didn't allow it, one after another problems started to appear disturbing his leisure life.
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English isn't my native language, there's bound to be some errors here and there.
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The Realm of Peace
A sixteen-year-old girl named Riley goes on an unexpected journey to discover herself and the secrets that lie within her family. Join and discover her journey with her.
Her Final Bullet
Alora Steppingstone spent her teenage life practicing in shooting range, boxing ring and running field. She moved to New York and trained by her uncle to be a great mafia herself to avenge once she gets back in the Philippines at 18 years old.
Since her parents died in front of her, all she wants to do is to kill the family Spencer who lead the biggest assassin organization and the culprit of her family's murder case. She promise to herself that she will kill Mr. Robert Spencer including his family but when she met Calter Vin, everything has change.
When Alora strives to unfold the truth about her family's death and set aside her romantic feelings, at the end of the story, the question is to whom will she shoot her final bullet.
On going
Back in Time for Goodbye
Snail
After Raven Fuentes's Childhood sweethearts Lyra Ross is taken by rogue wolves, Raven Fuentes hates me with everything he has.
He'd rather spend his nights patrolling in the cold and drinking himself numb than face me, his mate.
I care for him, try to please him, do everything I can… but all I get in return is his icy rejection.
"The one you wronged is Lyra. If anyone should've been taken, it should've been you—not her."
His words crush me. My heart breaks completely.
And yet, when I'm attacked by a pack of rogues, it's Raven who throws himself into the fray to save me. He dies under their savage claws.
Even in his final moments, he won't look at me. "If I had a choice, I'd never want to be tied to you again."
At the funeral, Raven's mother faints on the stone platform holding his body, sobbing uncontrollably. "I should've never forced him into a mate bond with you. I would've rather he ended up with Lyra!"
His father strokes his face one last time, his voice shaking with rage and grief. "He saved your life three times! This time, it cost him his own. You owe him three lives, and not even death can repay that debt!"
Raven was the captain of the protection force. He spent his life shielding others.
Everyone calls him a hero. The only tragedy, they say, is that he married me. And honestly, I agree.
They forbid me from attending his funeral. They won't even let me say goodbye.
Not long after, I hear the Silvermoon Pack has developed a time-travel device. Without hesitation, I pay the price so that I can go back in time.
This time, I'll do what everyone wishes I had done. I'll cut all ties with Raven and stay far away from everyone.
The Final Cut
Crystal Lake Publishing
In an East London lock up, two film makers, Jimmy and Sam, are duct taped to chairs and forced to watch a snuff film by Ashkan, a loan shark to whom they owe a lot of money. If they don’t pay up, they’ll be starring in the next one. Before the film reaches its end, Ashkan and all his men are slaughtered by unknown assailants. Only Jimmy and Sam survive the massacre, leaving them with the sole copy of the snuff film.
The film makers decide to build their next movie around the brutal film. While auditioning actors, they stumble upon Melissa, an enigmatic actress who seems perfect for the leading role, not least because she’s the spitting image of the snuff film’s main victim. Neither the film, nor Melissa, are entirely what they seem however. Jimmy and Sam find themselves pulled into a paranormal mystery that leads them through the shadowy streets of the city beneath the city and sees them re-enacting an ancient Mesopotamian myth cycle. As they play out the roles of long forgotten gods and goddesses, they’re drawn into the subtle web of a deadly heresy that stretches from the beginnings of civilization to the end of the world as we know it.
©️ Crystal Lake Publishing
Her Final Vow
Holly
I died on the day I was supposed to marry Ryan Wolfe.
When I didn’t show up on time, he angrily married his childhood sweetheart, Lorelei Floyd, instead, and publicly announced, “Alexis Harding cheated before our wedding and called it off herself!”
The rumors crushed my mother, and she died from a heart attack right then and there.
But Ryan seemed to have forgotten that he, in a fit of rage to defend Lorelei, slashed my arm and locked me in a basement for ten whole days.
I begged him and pleaded for mercy, but all I got was his cold reply. “You’ll stay here for a while, so you can fully understand the pain you caused Lorelei. And maybe, just maybe, it’ll rid you of your wicked thoughts.”
When he found my corpse, ravaged by maggots, he lost his mind.
Where is the peace?
Sennanguyen
Happiness is a luxury, why didn't God let me receive it, or because my fate was so unlucky that I didn't receive love and protection in the first place?
So maybe I have never found my happiness and home so that I can understand how sacred that feeling is, so I appreciate it so much.
"Hurry up and go, live like a normal person, have a normal life. Be like everyone else, laugh when you're happy, cry when you're sad. Feel those emotions."
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"Chen, hold my hand, are we a family now?"
"It's okay, Clause Chen, I promise to never deceive or harm you. Come back here, from now on this will be my home, your family."
The child still stood there silently looking at the outstretched arms in front of him, neither saying anything nor taking it.
What are emotions?
What is love?
Rain has fallen! Perhaps God is crying for that child or is he crying for the child's journey ahead with no hope left?