There is a shelf hidden in the corner of memory, wedged between what we believe and what we forget. Its books are strange—unlabeled, dust-covered, whispering. Some contain dreams. Others, nightmares. All of them ask: What if? The Forbidden Shelf: Fantasies, Fractures, and Fears is a collection of i

She was born in silence. Raised in shadows. And taught to survive, not to dream. Devkriti was never the loud one. Not the talented one. Not the girl who stood out. She was just the daughter of a woman with a past no one forgave, living in a world that never gave. Raised in a brothel by women who k

On a continent blooming with war, Judeth Gray finds herself torn from the world she knew and had grown familiar with, and flung into the path of the gaze of that one force no one can escape. Fate took her lover, her home, and her plans for her life and landed her on an island far away from the trou

Someone told me that the most precious thing I had was my heart and not to let anyone darken it but the feeling I felt right now... "Why would you do that to me?" I whispered trying to hold back tears as he pulled me closer holding my face as his eyes stare back down into mine. An angry intense blu