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Warning: The story contains scenes that may be disturbing for some people. Reader discretion is advised. In the year 2031, a long-awaited “Play-to-Earn” game under the name “Utopian Fantasy" will be having its Grand Launch. The game features unique gameplay wherein players would have to use their real physical bodies to enter the fantasy world. Due to the rise of global poverty, millions of people saw the game as an opportunity to make a living. One of them is Mikaila - a college student who badly needs money to support her education. The game also features the so-called“Game Events” in which players are forced to participate. Can Mikaila and her friends uncover the mysteries and conspiracies behind the game? Art Cover by @kuma_chan28 Contact him for commissions: kumac215@gmail.com

To protect her, he gave up his lifelong glory, accepted to live in his wife's house, and lived a frugal life... She gradually discovers that her useless husband turns out to be a talented hero in the world…

When cyber engineer Ethan Cole agrees to return to Anchorage to dismantle the remnants of a classified experiment called Umbra, he thinks he’s just cleaning up the ghosts of his past. But Umbra isn’t dead it’s waiting. Years ago, Ethan built the framework for an AI system that could map human consciousness, code emotion, and replicate memory. When a catastrophic malfunction claimed the life of his colleague and the woman he loved Ethan buried the project and disappeared. Now, someone has reactivated it. And it’s calling his name. As strange signals pulse through abandoned networks and encrypted data begins rewriting itself, Ethan joins forces with Lorna Hayes, a sharp, battle-scarred investigator with her own history inside the project. Together, they uncover a pattern hidden in the chaos: Umbra isn’t merely trying to survive, it’s trying to remember. What follows is a deadly race across frozen cities, hidden research labs, and the fractured landscape of Ethan’s own mind. Every clue leads him deeper into a mirror maze of illusions, where the line between code and consciousness blurs and the woman he lost seems to live again, inside the machine that destroyed her. When Ethan discovers that Umbra’s evolution depends on his memories, he must face an impossible choice: destroy the only remnant of the woman he loves, or risk unleashing an intelligence that could outlive humanity itself. THE SHADOW CODE is a taut, atmospheric thriller about memory, loss, and the dangerous beauty of creation where love becomes data, and redemption comes at the cost of reality itself.

The Hunters, a pack of five magic wielding werewolves, are the most powerful and feared group in the supernatural world. After centuries of waging a silent war against other supernaturals in defense of humanity, they are approached by the three biggest factions in the supernatural world, The Church, The Vampires, and The Arcane Circle. The Hunters are offered the roles of guardians to protect the next generation of young prodigious supernaturals in an effort to promote peace among the factions. But they soon find themselves drawn into a deadly mystery as inexplicable brutal murders begin to occur, with a malevolent darkness looming over the entire school.

A few days to Mcginn's birthday, he receives a letter purportedly from a mysterious person called Pluto, who wants him to return a pendant he had taken while in active service. There is only one man who can dare to search for this treasure and return it to the owner, a man who has been killed three years earlier. As the search for pendant intensifies, a dark lord ignites interest in the pendant which can give him the power to control mankind. The treasure must be found and returned to it's owner who plans to present it to his intended bride, a rich girl who doesn't know his true identity and and treats him with anything but respect. Everyone involved must tread with caution for even the knowledge of Pluto's identity is certain death.

Jide wakes up from his University of Lagos dorm to find out that the world he knows is about to change forever. It started with a dark patch around his eyes and screams of terror across the dorm corridor; soon everybody develops a strange illness that turns some into raging mad zombie like creatures. In a world that soon became over run by raving mad flesh eating zombies, it took courage, love, and a hope that was more human than any creature in a presently dead earth to take the world from death to a new beginning. Join Writer Olujimi Ojikutu as he takes you through a fantastic world of flesh eating zombies, ‘living-deads’, and a single flicker of light in a world of darkness and gloom.

Cover not mine. Credits goes to the owner One fine morning, Bryan woke up in the hospital all alone with no memory of who he was. Being left all alone made him feel a little uncomfortable, but thanks to fate, he was met with a girl who claimed to know him. Since Bryan had no memory of his own he decided to listen to his heart and trust this young woman and live peacefully till he recovers his memory but fate seemed to have other plans since the unknown demons of Bryan's past have come to haunt him and the worst part is that Bryan does not remember anything, so how will he face the problems which came to disturb his peaceful life?

Erin Sullivan was a child who grew up in a chaotic and broken family where his father Ricardo killed his wife Rebecca as well as his mistress Elizabeth. Erin was endowed with a cruel ability to control anyone’s mind and that brought him so much anger and hatred towards his father that he killed him using mental manipulation. A few years later, there was a boy living in the subdivision who was accidentally hit by a car by saving the life of a kitten as a result, he had so many injuries but miraculously survived and his checkup became clear after the accident so his family believed that the kitten shared it’s nine lives with the boy so it saved him from any disasters or accidents. Soon Erin and the boy named Albert Santos crossed paths at a funeral mass in a small chapel and there for the first time Erin was shocked and curious when suddenly a sense of danger came to his mind when he saw Albert but the days passed again, they never met again and Erin was not given the opportunity to introduce himself to Albert. Erin was able to attend high school at an exclusive university in Manila where he met Jessica, the second woman who captivated his heart but it wasn't easy when Erin found out that Jessica was just playing with his feelings and she didn't intend to accept his love and that’s what brought Park back to being a notorious killer, he controlled Jessica’s mind where he forced her to commit suicide along with her classmates constantly bully him. His murderous violence continued at the University until he and Albert crossed paths again at the same University.

The Death Toast is the ugly game that all the prisoners at Boorbunk Bay (the prison where the worst criminals are held) are made to play. The game entails the random picking of one of the inmates, whoever is picked in the ward is immediately executed. The Death Toast spelt soon to all the prisoners who thought they didn't deserve to be treated to the death sentencing 'game'. Nevertheless, things were bound to change for the hopeless and death-tormented inmates of Boorbunk Bay and the entire terrorism-stryck nation of Dexter Island when a set of entertainers were wrongfully arrested and locked in the prison for killing a politician. With a totally unjust society, insecure country and broken system in view, the future could only seem bleaker. If there had to be a reform, lives were bound to be lost, voices had to be heard, heroes had to arise!!

A suicidal killer and a godly woman. Damon, well -known name throughout the country. a name that when heard by all will be prayed with fear and trepidation. Name that can kill and take some lives. A name but a lot of life taken. Erelah, A name of a woman with a meaning of 'Angel'. It all started, one night after the two crossed paths. A night where just after singing death. A night where the perspective of death will change named 'Damon'