loss
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the darkest of times, the darkest of thoughts by Megan Diedericks
loss, heartbreak and grief – these are storms that are all universally weathered; yet they make us feel so alone. these are my storms, neatly packaged for you to read and fill the loneliness.
Life’s Not Over Yet by Vidisha Chandna Dua
Life can be magical as well as painful. At any moment your entire life can change for better or for worse. The best way to enjoy the magic or survive the pain is to surround yourselves with the people who love you.
Trisha was at the point in her life where everything was coming into place as she had planned and then a personal tragedy ruins everything.
What is she going to do now?
Give up on her dreams and resign herself to her fate or take one day at a time and start rebuilding her life again. Wergild: A Heartwarming Tale of Coldblooded Vengeance by Boris L. Slocum
Tormented, robbed, and murdered by their Gheet neighbors, the Surrey folk of the County of Blenheim are a battered and cowed people in their own land. It’s what happens when you lose a war. Deirdre is just a Surrey farm-girl, but when the Gheet murder those she holds most dear, she refuses to sit around and wait for her own slaughter. She wants justice, she wants vengeance, she wants blood, and she’s willing to do anything to get it, even if that means selling her soul to the fiend, a dark and malevolent creature that lurks in the far-off barrow in the blackest woods of the forest. One way or the other, she’ll have her vengeance.
Dead Girls Don’t Dance by H.G. Lynch
Being dead is no party…
Gabriella remembers only parts of dying. She knows when she wakes up in a casket that she didn’t survive the crash.
But being dead doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy the afterlife.
Antonio is mysterious, lonely, and charming. Fortunately, he’s dead too.
With only two days before the end of the Day of the Dead festival, they have to figure out how to catch a murderer, avoid the Grim Reaper, and get their Spirits to the Other Side before the Gate between the living world and the realm of the dead closes for another year. Slaves to Desire by Eli Gilic
Slaves to Desire is a collection of short stories, the genre is technically romance/erotica since there is some sex going on, but I wouldn’t narrow it to that and I wouldn’t even call it erotica. If you are thinking 50 Shades and similar books, this is something completely different. I would say the sex in my stories is only an instrument to make serious issues more approachable. That is why Anna Karenina muses about the meaning of life only when she finds herself in hell; Hamlet and Ophelia escape Shakespeare’s scroll to find out is free will an illusion; Rasputin is very disappointed during one of his wild orgies; Baudelaire’s muse, Jeanne Duval, let’s us know how a kept woman feels; Van Gogh is torn between the desire for freedom and sadness due to loneliness; Dostoevsky and Polina Suslova show how a relationship between two headstrong partners looks like; George Sand reveals the problems a woman encounters when the love of her life is ill… Some stories are pretty explicit since their characters demanded that style. The most explicit one, about Rasputin, is actually about our modern fast society without romantic challenges, which leads to boredom and perversion. The others are poetic. And I tried to portray the background of all historical figures as accurately as possible.
Swinging Sanity by N.F.Mirza
When the author was struggling with loss, illness, oppression and a perpetual cycle of anxiety attacks and phases of depression, she spent day and night stabbing keys.
And out poured poetry.
When the abyss spat her out she strung together those mutilated verses and compiled this book for the world to read what it feels like when you are swinging between sanity and insanity.
Emmeline: A Short Story by Cat Kydd
Emmeline finds herself in a strange predicament. First, she’s locked in a room with no exit. Second, she’s not alone. Trapped with a mysterious being in an unfamiliar area, Emmeline must find the exit to this prison, no matter what the cost. Who is this unfamiliar person? Why is she stuck here? Will she escape? The disclosure of her hidden, repressed memories will reveal the answers.
Novel Women by Between Friends Book Club
When middle age hits – it hits hard. Marriages fall apart, children leave for college, and jobs disappear. The six women of NOVEL WOMEN stand at this crossroad in their lives when their beloved book club goes on hiatus for the summer.
Through their summer of confusion and rediscovery, heartache and loss, these NOVEL WOMEN manage to grow closer by the ever-enduring power of love and friendship. And along the way they have the best sex of their lives.
The Broken Kaleidoscope Series with Starry Night and The Dance of Life: Glimpses into the darker side of humanity (Book 1) by S Ramesh
This is book one in the Broken Kaleidoscope Series, a collection of short stories and novellas. It is an exploration of the darkness that pervades humanity, and its many shades.
From the ugly to the uncomfortable, the hidden to the forbidden, the misunderstood to the unspoken, the stories take you on a journey that is both hauntingly bitter-sweet and tragically hopeful.
Book One contains:
# 1 Starry Night
A short story in three acts chronicling a young couple’s debilitating battle with depression.# 2 The Dance of Life
A short story about childhood sweethearts and their enduring bond. Dolphins for Sale by Jill Boon
Pamela has been a good wife, devoted and willing to make her marriage work. Then her husband, Glen, is killed in a road accident and her world changes forever. A flirtation with her boss, Jeff, introduces her to passion and a chance meeting with a total stranger awakens her hidden feelings. Can she break off this affair with Jeff and concentrate on her mother who has been diagnosed with stage four cancer?
Coming from burying her mother, Jeff fires her. Sweet revenge?
Her life goes from bad to worse. Her son Shaun is injured at school. As she nurses her son, Pamela goes through her late husband, Glen’s old things and discovers he had a secret life
Was Glen killed?
Her son shows her an advert saying: DOLPHINS FOR SALE. Pamela travels to The Isle of Man intending to buy the dolphins. But fate had a surprise waiting for her. There, she discovers a world of death-defying bikers, octane junkies.
Will Pamela find happiness here or discover this world too hot to handle?
