Old Men Kissing

Darkness. Complete utter darkness that could make even the devil shudder laid in the heart of a single man. Unable to bear this darkness, he had locked away his dark side so it could never interfere with his normal life but that did not mean that he had dropped it behind. This is the story of a man who had achieved all there was to achieve but still felt there was something lacking. He decided to do something he had never done before, he had decided to find love. Now that it was beginning to seem like he had found this feeling that had eluded him for years, he now has to tackle between maintaining what his heart desires and keeping his dark side at bay. Journey with one of the most powerful men in the urban world as he traverses the world of love, guns and everything in between.

"Every single newcomer job applicant disappeared in about a week without exception." A 25 year old part time worker, lured by the hourly wages, decides to take a job at a convenience store with a story in the middle of a notorious suicide spot... after working at night he finally realized that the shop had many mystical and difficult to explain events that made him have to unravel the mystery in the shop.

Dennis Brown never resisted any derogatory insults from everyone in his life, but he immediately left when he found out that his wife Cleo had cheated. When he left, Dennis finally knew that he was an honorable man and decided to return to his bitter old life to slap everyone who had looked down on him all this time in an elegant way.

Robert Adams, a 25-year-old divorced man with a four-year-old daughter, will have to work in Chicago with his technological advance system in order to create the largest American technology company with which to give his daughter a decent life. However, his path will not be easy since many of his inventions will touch the markets established by the huge transnational companies in the country, so it will be a fight between the old and the technological advance brought by Robert.

In the land of Yigena where two suns rise and set. Four kingdoms coexist with each other. With the Silver Bloods riding their dragons as they lead their nations, the Red Bloods struggle for power. It has been like this for centuries. From the eastern kingdom of Raxes, an outcast named Ryzen, and his twin sister, Raya, faces the daunting annual coming-of-age ceremony for all the sixteen years old in the kingdom. Being born from the cursed Red Bloods, they either become the rich red blood's slave or become the Avatar. Being the Avatar means death, for whoever crosses the wall never makes it back alive. But the gods never answer their prayers; his twin sister got selected to be an Avatar. Fear-stricken, he made a drastic choice. Now he is Raya Rozenhart, the new Avatar, chained to guard the kingdom against the terror outside the wall. Leaving his old self, he faces the unknown. But his tale has yet to start when the horrors outside the wall grow stronger each day. Sent to conquest to find the people who can only save the land, he sets off to search high and low for the seven mythical criminals.

Centuries after the old world fell, humanity survives inside massive fortress-cities ruled by the awakened. In Arkenfall, power determines status, and the weak are forgotten. Darius Veyne was born into one of the city's twelve great bloodlines. He was expected to become a powerful warrior, but everything changed when his parents were mysteriously murdered and Darius failed to awaken. Stripped of his inheritance and rejected by his family, Darius was treated as a broken heir, a disgrace unworthy of the Veyne name. Forced into the city's lowest districts, he learned to survive among criminals, scavengers, and forgotten outcasts. Then, beneath the ruins of the old world, he discovers a sealed power known as the Devouring Core an evolution ability that allows him to absorb the essence of awakened beings, analyze their abilities, and evolve beyond them. For the first time, Darius has the power to change his fate. But his parents' deaths were no accident. The truth leads directly to the powerful bloodlines ruling Arkenfall, families who have controlled the city for generations through fear, secrets, and bloodshed. They buried his past. They destroyed his family. Now the broken heir has returned. And this time, he is coming for everything they took from him.

Robbin Vance, a disgraced, jaded Frontier Guard Captain, just wants to quietly get through his exile. When a lonely, remote mining colony falls silent, he and the keen-eyed young scout Elaine see what their eyes couldn't believe, a creature filled with bodies, rooted standing where they fell; their bodies welded, flesh to flesh and bone to flesh, with a weeping, black iron that glows with a pale, alien light in their eyes. General Alistair Thorne and his legendary lost legions have reemerged after one thousand years dormant in the earth below. No longer entirely human, they have become living dead soldiers fighting a thousand year old war to reconquer a continent, to destroy their long-time enemy, an empire the current modern world has unwittingly reconstructed itself around. To do so, Robbin Vance will have to work with Juliana, a natural philosopher with all the keys to the past, to mount a desperate colonial resistance against the brutal, snow-stained winter, and against these ruthless champions when the old world wakes up and finishes its war. To win the war, the living must learn to strike and defend what belongs to them.

“Look at him. Completely useless.” Whispers spread like poison as students mocked Asta. He stood alone before the crystal ball,his palms open, waiting for his family’s legendary flame. Nothing came. “No spark. Not even rookie fire. What a joke.” Laughter rang out. “I heard he killed his mother, like, he literally ate his way out from his mothers womb like a monster!” Asta trembled. “It’s not true… I saw the man in the black cloak…” The Empress rose,her eyes cold. “You worm. No flame. No worth. Get out of my sight you disgust me.” Asta walked away through jeers, to the labor pits. An old worker whispered. “They’re blind. I see the Legendary Dragon Flame in you...sleeping deep.” Asta stared at his palm. A dark smile grew. If the old man was right… he wasn’t weak. He was the strongest. When the Dragon Flame wakes, those who laughed will kneel in ashes. Did he awaken it? Did he take revenge? Dive into the fantasy to find out.

Emerald Secondary School is famous for being the epitome of the perfect educational institution; the kind parents would kill to send their children to. But it has an ugly secret, an ancient Nigerian myth that comes to life in the dark. As the students face an old, vengeful spirit, it's up to three students and a young teacher to stop the ancient evil, Lady Koi Koi, from wreaking havoc, and even worse, from killing them all.

Elden, a young village man, discovers that he is the heir to dragon blood after a mysterious mark appears on his arm. This power draws the attention of the kingdom, the dragon hunters' order, and old enemies who seek to control him. To understand his true identity, Elden must embark on a dangerous journey, face a grand conspiracy, and fight against Malagar, a ruthless sorcerer who desires dragon blood for eternal power.