The Collection Of The Untold StoriesThe Collection Of The Untold Stories
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Short collection of stories depicting everyday life, unrequited love, grief, healing and loss. Stories, poetry, and letters.
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The Collection Of The Untold Stories
Angels Sing Thee to thy RestAngels Sing Thee to thy Rest
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Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest: A Legionnaire’s Tale follows Thomas York, an Englishman who leaves behind a life he would rather forget and enlists in the French Foreign Legion in the 1880s. From the brutal training grounds of North Africa to the long voyage east, Thomas is thrown together with men who have also chosen anonymity over the lives they once knew. Among them are Marcel, an enormous Russian with a hidden past, and Bartoli, a volatile Sardinian whose humour, temper and skill with a knife make him as dangerous to his comrades as he is to the enemy. Their destination is Tonkin. France is expanding its influence in northern Vietnam, but the campaign is far from a simple colonial conquest. Chinese forces, Black Flag fighters and local resistance confront the French as armies struggle through flooded rice fields, jungle, fortified towns and river valleys. At Sơn Tây, Bắc Ninh and across the Tonkin countryside, Thomas discovers that courage has little to do with glory and everything to do with the man standing beside you when the shooting starts. As comrades fall and the Legion strips away what remains of the man he once was, Thomas must decide whether the Legion has given him somewhere to hide—or somewhere finally to belong. A story of friendship, loss, loyalty and survival amid one of France’s forgotten colonial wars.
Broken Seas and Open HeartsBroken Seas and Open Hearts
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Vikings are thriving but something big is coming for Arika Gornsson. Happily married to Ragnar with two children and another on the way. But, war is upon the horizon. Family becomes enemies and enemies become something so much more dangerous. The gods and goddesses are watching and they seem content to put the weight of the world onto Arika. How will she survive the upcoming battles and even darker future that she can't stop herself from seeing.
Constellations of LongingConstellations of Longing
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This novelette is about two people who were childhood friends then life played it's brutal game parting them for years both longed for each other for years. When path crossed some misunderstandings and guilts are there. Let's see how they overcome the situations and get together. If you love to read sweat love stories do follow and star my coming stories. *Bold letters are words of male lead.*
The Elevation of Copper BlackcoatThe Elevation of Copper Blackcoat
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Copper can feel immorality. Literally. In a city arranged by altitude—where Crystal City floats, the Hill manages, and the Ring endures—morality is not debated. It is administered. Copper is born in the Ring and raised just high enough to be useful. His peculiar gift makes him valuable: when he touches corruption, he feels it—every lie, cruelty, and compromise rendered physical. The guilty feel it too. Reflected twice over. As Copper rises through courts, schools, and patronage, he becomes indispensable to a system that prides itself on order while quietly feeding on pain. His talent secures his ascent. His conscience makes him a liability. The Elevation of Copper Blackcoat is a Dickensian-inflected literary fantasy about law as theatre, justice as infrastructure, and the comforting lie that suffering acquires meaning if it is efficiently distributed. Wry, unsentimental, and uncomfortably funny, it asks a question no system can tolerate: What if the sin is not corruption—but design?