Greed Novels & Stories

Step by step, their greed, selfishness, ingratitude, and betrayal drive them to the edge. Kindness was a choice, a virtue. It was not an obligation, especially not for those who don’t deserve it. I often thought that if I hadn’t had that car, that office building, those connections like Mr. Parker, maybe the person digging through trash under the bridge that night would have been me. This world is never gentle. Sometimes, it’s cruel. This was my final lesson for Winnie and Noah. However, the tuition was steep. Too steep that they would pay for it with their lives.

The same scene played out at every entrance simultaneously. Days of pent-up rage, hatred, and greed exploded all at once. ... Back at the eastern battlefield, once the celebration faded, a different, uglier mood began to take root in the crowd. Greed. Human desire is like a boulder rolling down a mountain: once it starts moving, nothing stops it. Inside a Level 4 off-road vehicle somewhere in Crucible City, Derek gripped his steering wheel so hard his nails dug into the leather cover. Staring at the field of wreckage in the distance, his heart bled, as if someone had carved out a piece of it.

“Excuse me? We have an agreed contract and if you don't fulfill that payment we will have to press charges." "I know." “You want revenge from me so why can’t you keep my hardworking employees and Dahlia out of this. They deserve the reward for their work.” “I know.” Urghhh!! "I am being serious here." "I know." Oh god did he forget other words exist in the dictionary. "You know there are other words in the oxford dictionary you can use instead of 'I know'." "I know." I slammed my foot on the marbled floor irritated. "Mr. Blackwood you are a busy man and I am also very busy so if you could pay the full amount or at least give reasons for this stupidity I could

the gray reprimanded him excessively severely, “the farmer - we - wanted to share, but the neighbor was too greedy. He wanted everything, and of course the farmer cannot give that to him because he has to survive himself. Do you actually know what greed is and what it can make of friends? ” “ But are all other peoples except us greedy? ” “ Raen, answer my question: do you know what greed is? ”Insisted the old teacher. "But ..." "There is no but here in class, you should have learned that slowly!" Warned the gray man in a slightly raised voice.

"It just inescapably happens." I silently disagreed with him. I did not believe that everyone was undeserving of death. To take the life of another prematurely was sentence enough in my mind. But I know I should have listened to Eric back then. I had not felt myself darken in the time after my father's death, but I surely had. There was a part of me rotting, sick with grief and anger and guilt. That night at Eric's place a new emotion was added to the mix: vengeance. It made a deadly poison. Grief, anger, guilt. Vengeance.

I can tell she is angry or worried about something, given how she is looking at the few children who are playing behind the store area we were currently at, I guess her anger was directed at the city. Who will blame her though? The children appearance says it all. Their thin shrivelled bodies move with such slow pace as one throws a pebble into a little hole the others must have made, the movement is almost painful. Another goes to inspect the throw, rubbing his flat chest that holds his ribs which are almost bulging out of his skin, as he moves with the same slow space as the others. As he advances, I steal my eyes away not wanting to feed my sight with the pain. "The sooner we make the tea

"A person's greed can never be satiated." Minerva looked at her in confusion. "Aunt Sabrina, what do you mean? A person's greed can never be satiated? Could it be that this fake Yvonne not only wants to hog over Marcus but also Kingston? That won't work. She is related to Kingston by blood!"

“ It’s great then. If that’s the case, then you’ll be secure about her, not leaving you again. “ The sin of gluttony playfully said with his sarcastic smile. Yes! The sin of greed has a greedy personality like his sin. He want Thea to be his completely, every edge of her. Dye’s friends spent two hours talking about an important case, and one of those was about the eleventh city of the realm. Although Dye was the one who investigated it first, but he tapped them to help in order to have an early and solid results.

Jerry said laughing "One night when I was 18 I had a fight with pops and stormed out, it was cold so I went to Jerry's, I always hung out there Jerry was a great friend, that night one thing led to another and well......., Jerry was ashamed afterwards but it's like we were glue, I couldn't stay away and Jerry couldn't say no, then grams got sick and Jerry ended it because he felt like he was disrespecting grams and pops, so I found the first mam to come along and within a few weeks I was pregnant with you, so I did the only thing I could and married the man, sweetheart I really thought you were his", "Mom I don't care that Gavin the jerk aint my dad, lets face it he was an arse but im a wol

"Calm down, will you?" "Peace, you don't understand. I'm happy that he finally wants to introduce me to the world but then, there goes his family. They are quite infamous for always maltreating the less privileged, so I am scared." "Babe keep calm, Alex loves you and that is all that matters, Peace reassured." Oops, pardon my manners. I'm Vivian Blakes. I don't know if I should say I'm a Nigerian or just claim to be an American. Either way, I'm African-American.