This second edition includes extensive revisions. It includes a new story.Each day we find ourselves in a state of imbalance in a world of impermanence. These new traditional Buddhist-inspired stories provide various ways to right ourselves when there is no ground under us. These include:1) Gain and Loss. What would we do if we had the secret to personal happiness in our hand and then we lost it?2) The Device. Our feelings change to a mechanical contraption changes over time.3) Protest. Can excluding ourselves from and showing our displeasure with the world lead to happiness?4) Hungry Ghost. A life trapped in mental captivity makes a choice leading to freedom.5) Transient. While roaming as whim dictates, how do we find meaning to our lives?6) My dinner with Ananda. If you could meet the Buddha's attendant that attended or knew the details of all of his instruction, what would you ask? (New)7) Offering. A brief Qi Gong prayer from the Olivia Plymouth series.
This is a YA fiction with some supernatural elements to it, I will be adding new chapters to it weekly on Fridays.Zoey, aka. Evile, is an enchantress who is forced to work for Forcus, a Knight and High Priestess of Hell. Her job is to to manipulate teenage boys into giving their souls to her.Her mother is missing, her new target is being stubborn and her demon boss is threatening to send in her sister to help. Zoey struggles with her mixed emotions on all fronts as she tries to deal with each issue. She does have a pretty face, but is her soul as dark as they think it is?
You don't know who you are. You don't know where you are. All you know is that everything wants to kill you. Everything. And you aren't ready to die, yet. The village was welcoming until the lycans came. Now you have to fight tooth and nail to survive. Will the Lords help you or hunt you? You already know the answer. This is a Karl Heisenberg/male reader and Alcina Dimitrescu/male reader fanfic
The Original ParentsMalena Morningstar is the original mother that everyone admired and adored. But her heart belonged to one and only love; Jardani.Jardani Morgan is the original father that every man wanted to be because of his bravery and his power. Another witch in the village; Esther was jealous of Malena and the love she got. Esther even wanted the one thing that Malena always had.... her children.Not long after giving birth to her youngest child, Esther gathered witches and her husband; Mikael who didn't like the happy couple agreed to help take the most important thing from them.Their children.
She was avoiding her unavoidable problems and he was drinking his away but there was something pulling them towards each other. It was an understanding, a mutual knowing of sinking. There was something about being strangers that made letting go of their burdens so much easier, but the touches and kisses shared between them felt in no way foreign. Sometimes love can be found between the most unexpected people in the most unexpected places. Playlist: http://8tracks.com/natalieana/stay
𝒜 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝑜𝓃𝑒-𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈"𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓰𝓮,𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻."
Triana and Taylor are identical twins, and have been together all their lives. They're desperate to get adopted now, but not if it means they have to live separate lives. Now, they've found a young couple who want to welcome a new child into their family, but they want someone who will be a friend and a sibling to their son, Nick. It seems like a dream family life to Triana and Taylor; and the only complication is that one of them will have to pretend to be the same age as their new little brother.That can't be too hard, can it?This is my NaNoWriMo project for 2023. Started 2023-11-01, finished 2023-12-01. The last chapter is scheduled to be posted on December 12th.