A Barkeeps Guide To swallowing Hexes

Loch just wants to serve watered down ale to doomed men and ignore the mud. Unfortunately, his frail body violently absorbs raw magic and the skills of the dead. When a disgraced commander catches him swallowing a lethal hex with a wet bar towel, his quiet life in the trenches is officially over. To survive a pointless war and a looming apocalypse, this sickly publican must weaponize the stolen power of a thousand dead aristocrats.

STILL RESUSCITATING

A Poetry collection for those who demand pain to be felt. Still Resuscitating explores the intersections of emotion, personal resilience, heart ache, raw reflection of loss. Armed with visceral imagery and rhythmic precision, the poetry delves into the quiet weight of struggle and the sharp truth of life, love and death. Aria June Welcomes you to her journey of life on this mortal plane, her experiences, her heartbeat, her words of pain. And as we all know, "Pain demands to be felt!"

Echoes of the Broken string

Sixteen years ago, a scandal involving K-pop superstar Cha Ha-eun destroyed Han Ji-woo's family. Now her estranged father is dying—and the diary he leaves behind reveals that everything Ji-woo believed about the affair may have been wrong.”

The Unsung

In a dying world where power is a shard of a broken song and the unbound are fed to the Rifts as living bait, the one man whose soul can hold no power at all binds the silence that ancient lifeforms were mutilated to seal, and learns he can take the dead's power for his own.

My Heart Will Go On

#Completed# "Can love outlast lives?"

MISTARA

A collection of poetry by a truthseeker, journeying through the realm of the forbidden in search of the truth. But what is truth but only beliefs from each soul’s perspective? And what is living for if by living in truth would be like painting the mark upon the self for others to execute? Death would be a better dream. Welcome to Mistara. ✉️ cover template by Idea Trader - Canva

Poetry of feelings

Poetry and short stories for everyone who's got unidentified feelings :)

The New Crown: BLACKWATER

𝑺𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑬𝑺 At Windsor Academy, brilliance is currency, legacy is law, and every crown comes sharpened. When two powerful young men collide beneath the weight of expectation, the island’s oldest systems begin revealing what they were built to protect. 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑪𝑹𝑶𝑾𝑵: 𝑬𝑷𝑰𝑺𝑶𝑫𝑬 𝑶𝑵𝑬 Move-in weekend brings fresh faces, old power, and the first fracture in Windsor’s carefully managed image. By sunrise, everyone is watching the wrong thing.

The Advent of The Soul Tree

What if you died a nobody and woke up as a tree? Dendron never amounted to much in his old life. He quit jobs, avoided conflict, and spent his days doing the bare minimum. When a truck ends his unremarkable existence, he expects oblivion. Instead, he wakes up as a tree—rooted, immobile, and monumentally alone. A LitRPG cultivation fantasy about growth, loneliness, and the quiet horror of becoming something you never planned to be.

I Plead the 5th

This novel has a lot of twist and turns.

i wanna die, sometimes

I Wanna Die, Sometimes is a deeply personal account of depression, trauma, suicidal ideation, and the fragile hope that survives beneath them. Lee Veyne takes readers through the depths of despair and the difficult, imperfect road toward healing. It is not a story that romanticizes pain, but one that asks us to look into darkness—and remember that even the smallest reason to stay can become a reason to live on.

The Book of Thoth - The Woman in the Tomb

A forbidden book. A prince who refuses to leave it buried. A manuscript that may still be alive. When Setne Khaemwaset enters a tomb beneath Saqqara seeking the legendary Book of Thoth, the dead warn him of its price. Centuries later, copyist Merit discovers the ancient tale is not merely recording the paste, it is still acting on those who read it. A dark historical-supernatural novel inspired by the ancient Egyptian tale of Setne I.

THE HOLLOW CROWN

London is drowning in fog, and someone is leaving the dead on thrones. Each body is stripped of its face, wearing a porcelain mask with a painted smile and a wire crown. Investigator Edmund Whitmore takes the case with his sister Violet, who harbors a six-year secret. But this isn't simple murder—it’s a message. Someone is exposing secrets London preferred to forget, with a twisted idea of justice and a mask for every lie.

My Fate Written For You (complete)

Would you take chance if you knew that you might lose a person for forever yet you make a place for them in your heart? Two souls, confined in one place where people come to get cured from they're physical misery. One's heart so fragile that it barely holding her. One's heart so betrayed that she can't take it anymore. Yet both are made for each other amidst their own curse.

The Garden of Graves: A Luna Starfall Novel

She gave everything to save her father. The Empire gave her something worse in return. Now Luna walks in halls where blood is currency and mercy is weakness. The powerful have spent centuries learning how to break what they cannot own — and she is very, very broken. But she remembers the girl who prayed. The girl who trusted. The girl they took first. The Empire built a saint. What woke up was something else entirely.

The Other Petra

Petra Brooke died at thirty-four with a bullet in her chest and a secret she never got to uncover. Then she wakes up eighteen again, three days into her senior year. This time, she'll protect her mother, uncover the conspiracy surrounding her family, and find the person who killed her. There's just one problem: she is falling for the man she married in her first life, and she still doesn't know if he was involved in her murder.

Hell is Arcane

"Do not be deceived!! There is no glory in this path you choose. No songs will be sung for you, no ballads or laurels with your name. But remember this." “When the demons charge at you. When you walk through the valley of death. When the devil stands guard against you.” “Remember you do not fight for yourself alone! You fight for all of us! You fight for the Citadel!” A thousand men struck their chest in unison as their voice shook the halls. “We die for the citadel!!”

Come Get Me.

Maya thought she was marrying the love of her life… until she caught him with her best friend on their wedding day. Heartbroken, she texts the one person she never expected to need again — her childhood friend. She has no idea he’s now a mafia Don who’s been watching her for fifteen years. And he’s done waiting.

Shadowbound Hearts🖤✨❤️‍🔥

Every Lifetime, he finds her. Every Lifetime, She Forgets Him. Feared as the Devil by the world, hehas waited through centuries, protecting the one soul he could never stop loving. Bound by an ancient promise and a curse neither of them understands,he watches from the shadows while she livesa life with no memory of him But this lifetime is different The rain has begun to remember his name. And so has she.

Reborn in Another World

Dark

Let’s Play

The phones never stopped ringing — not for calls, not anymore. When the lockdown hit, an unknown presence began hunting anyone without a device. Now the only way to survive is to play: codes, puzzles, riddles, and choices that can’t be undone. You’ve been selected. The Corrupts are waiting. Let’s play.

Restringing the Heart

Jaxon Henderson was once a well-knowned guitarist in a band called The Runaways. Eliana Cruz is known as the nightingale of the West End Theatres. What happens when they both run away from the spotlight?

The Last Age Of Magic

For ages, Earth knew four great eras of magic, when gods, demons, and mythical beings walked among humanity. At the dawn of the Fourth Era, a demon made magic vanish. Humanity called it myth—until the ancient barrier broke. Mana returned, awakening extraordinary powers. As humans clash with Siddhas, the Heavenly Queens choose one man to become King of Earth and restore balance before magic destroys the world. https://www.royalroad.com/profile/1062929/fictions

Whats left of me

Liz thought she had it all figured out-her business, her friendships, her future. What she didn't realize was that she was slowly losing herself in a relationship that didn't love her back.

The Chaos Theorem

"The most dangerous place a man can live is inside his own assumptions."

Speedrunning the apocalypse

Tristan Asher died after five years of surviving the apocalypse, betrayed by the man he trusted most. Regressed fourteen hours before the end of the world, he plans to speedrun the apocalypse using five years of future knowledge—until the timeline changes and Kira Knight, a woman with a Forbidden Tier class, discovers his secret. Now Tristan must rewrite the future without losing the people he once failed to save.

T.E.A

After returning home for a family funeral, Romilly receives a mysterious message from a six-year-dead group chat—and realizes Silas’s death may be hiding a secret her family desperately wants buried.

We Go Way Back

Amelia has never been the same since her father passed away. Hoping for a fresh start, her and her mother leave everything behind and move away. Years later, Amelia returns to her small hometown in Iowa for her high school reunion. But the biggest surprise may come when she sees Chris, her long lost crush…and her exes. Going back might reopen old wounds, but it may also give her the chance to rediscover herself and even find the love she thought was impossible.

Paper Seasons

For a year, she writes letters to the man she loves, filling the pages with memories, hopes and secrets. Now Complete

THE AFTERMATH PROTOCOL

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