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[theunboundwriter]

AHH!! I'm so excited to share with you that I've published a short story collection called The Lament of the Haunted and the Divine!

In The Lament of the Haunted and the Divine, Merle Summers weaves a collection of short fiction that drifts between the spectral and the sacred. From restless spirits yearning for closure to forsaken deities weighed down by sorrow, each tale explores the fragile line between the mortal and the otherworldly. Through whispered regrets, unfulfilled desires, and eerie encounters, these stories unravel the quiet tragedies of those caught between worlds: beings who haunt and are haunted, who seek and are sought, who long for something just beyond their grasp.

It is available to read on Amazon (paperback and hardcover) and it is also available as an ebook on Kindle or Kindle Unlimited!!

[beccawise7]

I cannot love passionately in a world unable to see below the surface.

Dive into the depths with me or remain in the shallows and let me be.

~beccawise7💜🖤

[nikitaleigh]

From my book, Shattered Heart❤️‍🩹 Available on Amazon & Kobo, a free sneak peak is also available on Wattpad(@authornikitaleigh)

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[genieinthebotttle]

Under a Sleeping Sun: A Quiet Thank You❣️

Sleeping Sun ( poetry by me!) I never had an easy life,but God has always been with me,like a quiet shadow.Smiling with me in my highs,pulling me out when I was low.What more does one really ask for?Hope and trust became my core.He stayed—my anchor, my oar,my pole star,showing the waywhile I learned how to floatthrough these moving subways of life.So yes, a second book.I don’t know how it…

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[oliman]

Been waiting a while to say this, but Issue 16 of Wishbone Words is out, and it's got one of MY stories, The Last Abbot, included in it!

I'll be real, The Last Abbot touches on some political themes that are important to me. Only read on if you're comfortable with that.

If you've ever felt like things are going nowhere because we're all running through the same revolving door of people from one disappointing leadership to the next, The Last Abbot touches on that. It's a story about how, even if there were the few diamonds in the rough through a country's worst administrations, cabinets, or whatever you want to call them, that doesn't give those people the right to dictate your next four or even fifty years from the shadows or front and centre. We deserve better than the least worst.

A million thank yous to Wishbone Words! https://wishbonewords.com/magazine/issue-16

[jaycatalyst]

If I Could See Myself Through Your Eyes

By: Jay Catalyst

If I could see myself through your eyes, I’d find fewer reasons to cry. Seeing my reflection most days kills me inside— I can’t see the beautiful things you see in me.

If I held myself the way you hold me, I wouldn’t feel so empty. I’d carry the warmth and love you give so freely, without hesitation.

Even on the days I feel unworthy, you remind me where my safe haven is— inside your arms is my place. Because this… this is who you are.

You change my world in so many ways. And I hate it some days— not because of you, but because I fear how much I’ve come to need you.

I’m growing used to you being here. So what happens… when you disappear?

Will I be able to stand on my own again? Will I feel the cold where once there was warmth? How do I calm the fear that locks me in place— afraid to move forward because I don’t know what lies ahead?

The end of my beginning to happiness again.

I don’t want to chase. But I don’t want to run. I just want to stay in the place that feels like home— even if it doesn’t look like it most days.

I just want to love me the way you do. So I can finally let go… of the one who sees me beyond the mask I wear— the one who saw the truth of who I am and who I can be.

[writergallery]

Follow WriterGallery on Instagram to see more of my work or to buy my books! (Books linked in Instagram bio.) This is an excerpt from ‘Short Stay,’ a poetry collection with a mental illness and psych ward theme.

[eluari]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, dass du dein Buch verlegen konntest! Wie heißt der Titel? Ich würde gern mal reinschnuppern. Hatte damals immer mal wieder hier bei dir reingeguckt und es freut mich tierisch, dass du es geschafft hast!

Ahh ganz, ganz lieben Dank! Mein Buch heißt Melodie der Asche. Hier das Cover, Innenklappenillustrationen usw. 🥰 Hier gibt's das Buch übrigens signiert und mit gratis Charakterkarten. Alles selbst illustriert.

- And for my english speaking lovelies: This is the German version of BttS - my queer / mm high fantasy. 💕🥰 All Illustrations are painted by me (and there is lots of character art as well 🥹) I'm also including a picture of the cake, because a lovely queer reader, who’s a baker, made it himself and brought it to me at Leipzig Book Fair. He told me it was his first time ever visiting a book fair, and he came just to say thank you – because this book changed his life. 😭✨ I could barely hold back my tears. I’ll cherish that moment forever.