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The moments pass us by; time flows without restrain, never waiting for us. Before we know, moments in our life fly by. But we always have those moments locked in our minds, moments that we learn to forget, cherish, love, hate and grasp tightly on. Sometimes they remain in our minds like a photo album of the moments that we look back to remember what a life we have. But just how many of these moments, so filled with emotions that change us?Or define who we are? This is a story collection with my own thoughts about the various moments in our lives, the various emotions we feel when we are faced with a situation we must deal with. This is a story collection that I hope to convey the various human experiences that would describe who we really are. Cover by @avadelThe rest of the graphics are by meNote: I'll add the stories as I edit some existing ones and write the new ones.1st place winner in Astral Awards 2019 for short story3rd place winner in Golden Arrow Awards 2019 for short story1st place winner in The Easter Awards…

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Emily Hasten has a glittering career as a journalist. Being hailed as hardworking, honest and disciplined, nobody except people close to her can see the underlying crippling perfectionism she can't quite let go of. Still, nobody sees the extent her perfectionism has damaged Emily. Having attempted suicide twice, Emily might not be able to survive the third attempt. But when her close friend Charlotte killed herself and sent Emily her incomplete story "The Ending of Vena" as well as her diary entries, Emily is forced to face the reality of what it means for somebody to kill themselves. From there, she might end up questioning something that she has always been afraid to question.What is the meaning of life? A story about regrets, about intimacy but also about what it means to live, even if you don't want to anymore.------WARNING: shitty draft ever! I'm just writing out of my mind at this point, so you probably don't want to read this first. (If I have it edited, I'll say it!) It's winging period of time! 🤣…

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There are many ways to die when you're still breathing.Started on 3rd August 2019…

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"At first, it was love I wanted. In the end, I wanted myself back." Can you construct an identity out of lies?Something big happened in Olivia's life. Something big and unspoken that ripped and changed everything in her life. Struck with an unbearable truth, Olivia becomes a liar. It's her way of coping, her way of getting what she wants when she could not-imaginary worlds in her wide mind are just a form of it. But as coping mechanisms goes, lies only bring Olivia as far as it does. Driven to a point of no return, Olivia plans her own death as an accident, a last ditch plan to escape her own life that's a cage-and not cause the feelings of guilt in her friend, Richard for her death. But before her plan came aboard, she was brought to a therapist, Diana Jones. It seems like nothing would change, except this time, Diana gives her a pen and a journal and tells her to be honest, to write everything that she can't say to anybody-even to her, a professional clinician. Olivia chooses to do it for one reason: she has nothing left to lose and if she wants to, she can burn them so that nobody sees them before she leaves the world. What she never realizes that the first step to healing is to be honest. Delving into a mind that blurs the line between truths and lies, the line between reality and fantasy, this is a story about a woman who kept silent about her losses and end up losing more than she ever wanted.This is the story about silence and how it kills someone gradually till they are left with nothing, but remains of who they are. -------------------------This is book two, but ultimately, all books can be read as a standalone. Mature Content. Don't say I did not warn you.Cover by @CannibalisticNecroFirst draft, so bare with me about the mistakes. 😅…

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I don't have enough brain power to produce ideas so I need prompt like a car need petrol to move. What are you waiting for?! Read on!…

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The wide seas that's my life is recorded with these traces of inks; every emotion, every experience, every thought that mapped my life. They were once the words that I could never utter but now become the words that shaped my life. This is the ongoing map I draw about my life: every bitter and illuminating moments. Started on 3rd January 2019Awards:1st place in January Monthly Awards for Poetry category2nd place in Astral Awards for Poetry category*featured on "potpourri" reading list of coffee community profile.*…