Tragédia

Pada tahun 1998, di tengah krisis moneter yang mengguncang negeri yang sebelumnya tenteram, hidup seorang pemuda bernama Awan di Kota Bengawan. Awalnya, Awan adalah seorang pemuda yang tidak terlalu mempedulikan dunia politik yang seringkali terasa jauh dari kehidupan sehari-harinya. Ia hanya ingin hidup tenang bersama teman-temannya, menjalani hari-hari dengan canda dan tawa. Namun, nasib memutar halaman hidupnya dengan cara yang tak terduga. Suatu malam, saat berkumpul dengan teman-temannya di sekitar gedung pemerintah, langit tiba-tiba mendung dan aparat keamanan datang tanpa aba-aba. Mereka menuduh Awan sebagai otak di balik vandalisme pro demokrasi dan oposisi yang telah menghiasi dinding gedung pemerintah. Awan yang bingung berusaha menjelaskan bahwa ia tidak terlibat, tetapi aparat tak mendengarkan. Tanpa pengadilan, Awan ditahan di markas tentara yang suram. Di sana, ia bertemu para aktivis yang berjuang untuk reformasi, menceritakan pengorbanan dan perlakuan keras yang mereka alami di tangan pemerintah yang keras kepala. Setelah beberapa hari yang terasa seperti tahun di tahanan, Awan tiba-tiba dibebaskan oleh seorang penyelamat misterius. Kembali ke rumah dengan pertanyaan yang belum terjawab, Awan merasa bahwa ia harus terlibat dalam perjuangan untuk perubahan. Kisahnya yang diawali dengan ketidakpastian telah mengubah jalan hidupnya. Awan tumbuh menjadi pahlawan dalam perjuangan melawan tirani, menjadi suara bagi yang terpinggirkan, dan menjadi harapan bagi negeri yang terluka. Awan menemukan panggilannya dan menjadi pemberani dalam menghadapi tantangan yang datang.

There comes a time in some people’s lives when they feel like actors playing a role for which someone has changed the story line.Toast With Jelly is a powerful story of a woman coming to know herself through a series of tragic life events."A Wild Ride .... Pam has had a childhood that most people would't recover from. Nonetheless, she's trying to make a life for herself, with a job and a beautiful Russian lover. When she takes up the offer of high paid escort work, the life she worked to build starts falling apart. As she tumbles from one problem to the next, who will save her? Her mother, who caused all the trauma? Her sensual, hard-drinking lover, who is off the rails? Or the handsome martial arts teacher she may be falling for?

We’ve all read them right? Those sappy romance novels, the ones where some handsome stranger rescues the damsel in distress. He’s wealthy like no other and adores the ground she walks on. There’s some life altering event, a struggle of some kind but it gets resolved and they live happily ever after. As cute as they are, and as much as those kind of books can distract you from whatever is going on, that’s just not how life works. Your daily tasks are boring as hell, you have to work your ass off with very little to show for it and if life throws you a curve ball it’s usually not some handsome prince but rather more issues to take care of. Real life just isn’t a fairytale and monsters aren’t real. Not in the fairytale sense of the word anyway. Right?? Meet Tara, after being abducted as a young girl, she unintentionally finds her way back to where she was born, completely unaware of the dangers she's about to face. She knows nothing about where she came from or who she really is. As it turns out, mosters are real and fairytales do hold some truth. Follow her in her quest to learn about her history and save all shifter-kind in the proces

When their mother lost her life to cancer, Kazeem, and his siblings are left with no one to care for them in a city filled with criminals and corruption

Amira Ameena kembali dihadapkan pada situasi rumit yang selalu dihindarinya. Mamanya selalu bertindak di luar akal jika itu menyangkut tentang dirinya dan pernikahan. Beruntungnya kali ini dipertemukan dengan teman masa SMAnya yang mana telah terjadi perjodohan sejak mereka masih balita. Justin Brotolaras tidak menyangka akan melihat Amira Ameena setelah sekian tahun berlalu. Teman SMAnya itu perempuan yang sejak dulu selalu menghindari Justin entah karena apa. Sekarang, Justin harus memilih untuk bersama dengan Amira atau mamanya akan terus menerornya seumur hidupnya. Sebenarnya, Justin menyimpan rasa kepada Amira entah sejak kapan. Dan itu baru Justin rasakan setelah Amira menghindarinya.

It's already passed 10pm when she walk along the narrow street to go home from somewhere. While she's walking on the side walk, she suddenly passed on a strange nearby abandoned building near the rainforest not too far from where she is. She stopped from walking when she notice that there was something different on the sky, she didn't know if she was just hallucinating or she just saw a light from it. But in a moment of realization, there was really a light on the sky that opened which she can't bear to stare. It's so painful in the eyes and it's really glamorous. A moment later, the light was vanished and there was a faint cry. The cry bacame louder until she notice that it was a voice of a man. A man who obviously suffering from the most painful thing. She composed herself from what she just saw earlier as she started to walk slowly to the direction where she heard the cry. Her legs brought her at the back of the abandoned building when she heard a heavy breathing behind the big tree as her heart begin to pound. "Is anybody here?" She said as she walk closer to the big tree, when she felt something who passed through her. She didn't recognize if what was it because it was too fast. When she reach the big narra tree, she took a peek on it that made her heart pound more. There was nothing behind the big tree but a blood on the ground with a soaked silky gray beautiful feathers.

L’histoire raconte l’enfance difficile de l’auteur, élevé par son grand-père dans une famille rongée par la sorcellerie. Les quatre épouses du patriarche, véritables incarnations du mal, manipulent et terrorisent leur entourage. Chacune d’elles possède une manière unique de semer la destruction. Face à ce danger constant, le grand-père tente de protéger son petit-fils en le tenant à distance. Mais la méfiance s’installe, car même les enfants deviennent des relais du mal. Survivre dans cet univers demande une vigilance de chaque instant : ne faire confiance à personne, ne rien accepter de quiconque, et surtout, apprendre à discerner les ombres qui rôdent dans l’obscurité. L’histoire explore la lutte intérieure entre peur et résilience, les épreuves d’un enfant grandissant dans un environnement hostile, et le combat incessant contre des forces invisibles qui semblent vouloir le détruire.

"You keep saying he died of black magic, but you're not telling me exactly how he died. If what you're saying is true... what happened to him??" I ask her with a raise of my brows. "The magic consumed him. He became power hungry. He started absorbing the powers from members of our coven. He wanted it all for himself. He had to be put down. He had to be stopped" She explains "Mom, what are you saying? Are you insinuating what I think you are? What do you mean he had to be put down??" The windows to her room bang open and cool breeze is rushing in, making the papers in her room fly haphazardly. "Layla, you have to calm down." She motions towards me. "So the coven killed him?? They killed my father and you didn't do anything about it????" I scream at the top of my lungs, the lights still flickering, tears pooling in my eyes and wind blowing in through the windows. "He killed two people from our coven! His eyes were completely black! The magic had completely taken over him. Your dad wasn't there anymore. So yes, we killed him to protect the rest of the coven…"

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Christian Knight was about to marry Andrea Donovan and start a fresh life. Andrea was a gorgeous and respectable woman. She liked Christian since her college days but couldn’t muster the courage to express her feelings to him, as she knew that Christian was interested in Diana Roger, the mute girl. Years later, destiny played cupid for Andrea and Christian, and their families fixed their marriage. Andrea was over the moon, and it was hard for her to believe that Christian was finally going to be her forever. *** To escape the haunting nightmares and hallucinations about one particular woman, whom he thinks he has never met before, Christian agreed to marry Andrea as she was beautiful, smart, and a generous woman, completely compatible with his status, but little did he know that meeting with a stranger at the Coffee House will change everything for him. *** What will happen when destiny plays its cards? Would Christian be able to accept that he had been married before? Will he choose his present over his past or follow his way back to his former wife? Would Mishka be willing to give another chance to Christian or she has already moved on in her life? Will their love pass the test of time and commitment to come out victorious or did their love story end long ago? Follow the other half of Christian and Mishka’s tale to witness if second chances really exist or if healing a broken heart is beyond repair. All Right Reserved © Author Anika 2022