penance stare

Ashley Zimmer is the third-generation owner of A to Z Music, a brick and mortar store severely impacted by the dot-com boom. Refusing to call it quits, she see salvation in Pepper Alverez, the lonely woman who plays beautiful, haunting music every weekend without fail at a public piano in a neighborhood park. Everything would be alright if she could only get the crowds that gather at the park, into her store.<br><br>But the agreement to play in Ashley’s store during the winter months does not come without baggage. Pepper’s sad, minor key blues riffs and improvisations come from a long list of what she sees as her past sins. Playing the piano is the only way she knows to express those feelings and begin her atonement. It is her penance.<br><br>As Ashley begins to understand Pepper, she’s faced with a choice. Does she view their friendship as a temporary business agreement, giving Pepper a place to play while getting the store back on its feet, or is it something more. And when Pepper makes things less than easy, how far is Ashley willing to go? Will she take the risk, turning a tenuous friendship into something more?

The year is 2052 and the world has changed. Heroes have risen from the ashes of an Earth ravaged by war and now, humanity is thriving due to the presence of dungeons and magical abilities. The Guild controls every aspect of superhuman lives. The strong are revered and the weak are shunned. Among the many hopefuls is a woman doomed to die despite being a once-in a-millennium genius! "Why were you ever born into this world? Why can't you just die in a ditch somewhere?" "You should know your place. Live while keeping your head down and I might just let you survive." Read PENANCE: The Prologue here -> https://bit.ly/PENANCEPrologue

Heather is a school going girl falls in love with a boy named jonah from another school they both meet daily in the bus stop they share daily. it is a first love for both of them and intend to be their last

Dark times call for dark choices. My Choices. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, mine wasn't. However, Alex never made it to hell. Follow the story of a broken man as he pays the price for his sins in a new world. I do not own this cover.

Detective and head of chief police Carl is faced with another case, another murder case at this point nothing shakes her until her and her team handles the 'pretty blond case',the brutal murder of 'Jennifer Andersons' the case is not all that it seems as Carl and her team dig much deeper they find themselves shaken for the first time.. Jennifer's friends fall deep into the suspicious list, the girls are kept in a house and a questioned through a game call 'stare at the liar' to say their stay in the house was pure horror.. revealing untold secrets, long-held grudges, hatred, jealousy, broken friendships was an understatement

Her life flashed before her eyes to the happiest years of her life. They had a horrible childhood that would have broken even the strongest people but they survived. They grew up in a world plagued by war, famine, and greed and they chose two destines that pit them against each other. Both decisions came at the cost of the most precious thing to them both but they knew each other so well that both knew that neither would stop until they had succeeded. The woman caressed the man's face with her bloodied hand. "Was this really the right choice?"

The people living in this world have no idea of what might in a few years, months, weeks, days or even in the next second. In a few years the sun will deplete and there are more than enough chances of overpopulation... In a few months there might no water and clean air to help us survive... In a few weeks the Earth might be too hot due to global warming... In a few days there might be a sudden AI attack... In a few hours there might be a nuclear missile accidental launch... In a few minutes there might be an Alien invasion... In a few seconds a new virus or a disease might emerge to kill all life.. There are some even scarier things like an asteroid collision, a zombie apocalypse, etc. To think about it the humanity is on the verge of extinction every single point of time. But how will the humans survive and stay alive in the end is a bigger question? I just happen to have a nightmare about something far more dangerous than these. So, I decided to turn it into a story in order to give it an ending... A acid created by humans which turned a girl into a killing machine. The extreme pressure and emotions in her will play this game! How will the story end? Well that is something that only time will tell. Read the Story to find out... ___________ This story is completely fiction based and a figment of the Author's imagination. This story is not against an character or a place choosen for real time. __________

Arthur Glass buried the legendary assassin known as the Penance. He should have dug a deeper grave. For six months, his bar has been a perfect sanctuary. But when a single, careless act of mercy reveals his location, his quiet life shatters. Now, a ruthless new kingpin has him in his sights, and he doesn't want Arthur Glass, he wants the Penance on his leash. To protect the innocent life he's built, Arthur is forced to make a deal with the devil. He must once again become the living weapon he swore to leave behind, working as an indentured blade to dismantle the very regime that hunts him. But the most dangerous mission isn't stealing back his freedom; it's stopping the Penance from consuming Arthur Glass for good.

Through science a mistake was made. The mistake resulted in a mutation never before seen. In a boy locked away before the end as he was deemed too threatening. !Warning! Dark/messed up themes present. Not for the faint hearted. Thanks for reading.

He watches her like she’s the answer to a question only he knows. When Lana Hart lands a job under the cold, enigmatic CEO Kieran Valen, she doesn’t expect her world to slowly unravel. He’s intense, obsessive, and dangerously protective — and Lana finds herself drawn into his dark orbit, unable to escape the way he looks at her like she already belongs to him. But just as she begins to question her feelings, something sinister stirs in the shadows. A string of murders grips the city — and one forgotten phone case, a chilling memory, and a hauntingly familiar gaze begin to stitch together a truth Lana isn’t ready for. One man hides secrets behind sharp suits and soft stares. The other… hides behind a smile that could kill. In a game of possession, obsession, and twisted pasts, Lana must figure out who to trust — before she becomes the next beautiful thing to be broken.