Enlightening Souls Novels & Stories

incinerated by the fact that the Human Soul is Free. We floated in the center of the "Sovereign Soul," our breath coming in short, ragged gasps of crystalline air. The Eleven Sovereigns were no longer resonances; they were Authors of the First Day, their emerald-crimson eyes glowing with the prehistoric certainty of a soul that had finally owned its own "Malfunction".

She was so shaken up that she felt rather nauseous. “This is your alter-self,” Emerald began to lie, “this is your inner being that is revealing herself to you. She symbolizes your purity and free spirit. She is the light within you and the soul which inhabits you. She has revealed herself to you as a sign of light and love. You need to embrace her and know that she belongs to you, deep within your soul.”

Her mother forcibly took her eyes off the necklace she was looking at with admiration. one "Hande, that's beautiful. I never thought about it from your point of view. I wondered how you felt." Hande focused her eyes on the necklace as she held her mother's hand lovingly and smiled. "Maybe I think it's strange. I don't know. I think that those lifeless works have souls. Spirit, heart, language. As for how I feel, it may sound strange to you, but I felt love. The love of the man who made this necklace and the love of the one he loved when he gifted it to his beloved is the deepest part of my heart. I felt it deep inside."

That same warmth surged again from within me, rising with every second until it spilled into his mouth as well. For a moment, the world stood still. I wondered if that warmth was the inner light they spoke of—if what was pouring from me was what they truly craved, the force that anchored them in the midst of their chaos. Was this transfer the only thing that could soothe the darkness inside them?

“C’mon, Bobby. Parents always say that. It’s just them trying to con us into wasting a whole week listening to some windbag blow a lot of hot air.” But maddeningly enough Bobby wasn’t even paying attention anymore, so intent was he on reading the book’s description. “Hmm. Listen to this. ‘We’ve all been mistaken about His true nature. He Who Has No Name truly wants to heal our broke bodies, wants to heal us inside and out, wants to make us over into His True and Unknowable Image. All it requires is letting go of who we are and the pain our infirmities cause us, the pain we so desperately seek to define ourselves by, and allowing Him the province to do His Unknowable Work in us, for his Great

Memories I thought I hid well and for good, just plaguing my thoughts. Why? That is the only question I couldn’t get the answer to after all this time. The betrayal, the dagger, and that hole in my chest… I try to even my breathing but it’s all so suffocating that I see nothing for a moment. Then slowly, my vision is clearing, and my mind lacks those memories. It’s because of Eliana. She enchanted me so anytime I think of her, that charm calms me the fuck down. I need to give her a gift card for the effort.

I am afraid of my demons wanting to sling her on my shoulders and take her back to the penthouse and show her how much I missed her but the small and sane part of me hissed at me to keep my ugly parts and demons away from her and the beautiful moments we are breathing in. Fay Moore is the only one who encourages that sane part of me to grow big and pushes away the demons lurking in front.

My voice spoke in my mother tongue while Grandmother Ayla repeated it in English for everyone to understand. It was a prayer to our gods, asking for their favor to bind us to those we wanted to share our souls with. It spoke of the role that our souls had. It was our moral compass. By sharing and exchanging our souls with another person, we were vowing to be their compass while they were ours. It was the deepest connection that anyone could ever have with another person because the purest part of us were being shared. It ended with the promise never to betray this connection. Everyone watched in awe as two white lights from us rose up, twirled around each other, and descended back into us. I

To watch as I righted the wrongs committed against me, to watch me burn that town liars and fakes to the ground. “You were human. To humans the night brought danger, it is the time us creatures roam the earth. The night has never been safe for humans, and they hate everything they fear.” He replied twisted forward and continued making his way through the trees. “Why would notice the beauty of the night. You were taught that darkness brings only fear and death, which is true but why can’t that also be beautiful.” “Fear and death, huh?” I smiled as turned the words over in my mouth. Yes, I would bring fear and death to all who’d wronged me, and it would beautiful.

He is speaking in a foreign tongue, which no one understood. Slowly dark smoke began to pool around each soul as his chanting started to suck the negative energy away from them. One of the globes began to pull the smoke inside, while the other globe began to suck the souls which are purified. Soon both globes are filled. One is with the purified souls and the other is filled with dark negative energy. The dark forest doesn't look so dark anymore.