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Month: August 2025

New Short Story: “The New Bloods”

Posted on August 27, 2025August 27, 2025 by Ouanessa

In a world where your blood is cursed and your fate tainted, Bermuda, Woody, Adriel, and Sari counter the blight and fight against those that threaten their freedom.

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New Short Story: “Splitting Shadows”

Posted on August 23, 2025August 23, 2025 by Ouanessa

I have created a brand new original story that dives deep into the enigma of being a liar and the turmoils that come with a person succumbing to their emotions instead of doing the right thing and being good. A convict travels back in time when witnessing a tragedy, only to bring destruction and death.

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Posted on August 21, 2025August 21, 2025 by Ouanessa

What Inspired “Decoy?” There are a multitude of little intricate things that inspired Decoy. Let’s start with the title, I got it from a wine brand. The name stuck out to me at work when I was in the aisle and it just fit perfectly with the theme of this story because it talks about…

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New Short Story: “Decoy” 

Posted on August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 by Ouanessa

Decoy reveals that underneath elegance, deceit reclines, a short tale that untangles the cost of surrender and the torturous pursuit of self-pride. 

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New Short Story: “Exotic Life” 

Posted on August 15, 2025August 15, 2025 by Ouanessa

An unearthly expressive short story of expectations, longing, duress, revolting mutiny, and the struggle of choosing yourself, written with elements of dark lyrical prose reveals the unsettling ways we trap the people we love. 

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New Short Story: “The Plunge” – A Stirring Tale of Passion, Suffering, and Relinquishing Your Desires 

Posted on August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 by Ouanessa

In “The Plunge” devotion and intimacy are at a striking clash as they become the result of peril to the heart in a clutching short story about the yearning for freedom, the pain of sacrifice, and the jagged edges of heartache on the cusps of a forbidden love. 

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Strapped: A Story of Inner Turmoil, The Demons In Our Head That Cause Us Pain, and the Edge of Our Limits

Posted on August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 by Ouanessa

Sometimes when we’re in agony, it’s not easily perceptible, it slithers in between our skulls. This short story is about what it feels like when the body and mind fracture and your soul is the last thing to be cut. When your demons don’t just patronize you, they invade, curled up in the crevices of…

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