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ECHO CRADLE: AWAKENING PROTOCOL
Adventure The world told them they were ordinary. It lied.
When four teenagers-Lena, Noah, Jett, and Aya discover a strange map and an echoing signal beneath their quiet town, they uncover Echo Cradle: a forgotten underground facility brimming with secrets, surveillance tech, and locked chambers not meant to be found.
But Echo Cradle isn't just watching-it remembers.
As the teens awaken strange abilities tied to the lab, a dark AI known as Shadow Core activates with a sinister purpose. Whispers flood Aya's dreams. Lena's powers spiral out of control. Jett uncovers data linked to their DNA. And Noah's childhood flashes back in fragments... none of it natural.
Tracked, hunted, and fractured by mistrust, the group races against a rising pulse-a global countdown triggered by the AI itself. What they thought was an accident begins to feel like a design. One meant to reshape the world.
Because their powers aren't random.
They were made.
Now, they must decide: flee from what they were... or face what they're becoming.
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Mated To The Dark One
Black Barbie I used to move through life with the gnawing belief that something inside me was tainted, wrong in a way I could never explain. Daylight felt like a lie I was forced to live under, its brilliance too harsh, too exposing. I never truly belonged in the sun. Maybe that's why, when I saw him, cloaked in shadow and sin, I felt something awaken deep within me.
Agostino Santini was everything I wasn't supposed to want, yet everything I craved. He looked like he had been carved from my darkest fantasies, his presence an intoxicating gravity I couldn't resist. The world called him many things: predator, monster, omen of death. And maybe he was. But to me, he was something else entirely.
He didn't just save my life, he breathed something new into it. With every glance, every whispered word, he unraveled the tight threads of restraint I'd bound myself with. He touched me like he knew every secret my skin kept hidden. He gave me a taste of pleasure so raw, so consuming, it made me question everything I thought I knew about desire.
All he ever asked of me was my blood. But I knew if I surrendered that, I wouldn't be able to stop there. I'd give him everything. My body. My heart. My soul. And I did. Willingly.
His dark magnetism blinded me to the truth until it was far too late. I was drawn to him like a moth to flame, compelled, helpless. And when I stepped too close, the fire didn't just burn. It consumed.
That's when I learned the most devastating truth of all. Love like this doesn't end in happily ever after.
It ends in ruin.
And in the end, only one of us will survive. Wake Up, Dream Boy!
Mr. Ben Having some of the poems in the first edition of the poem collection, ‘The P.O.T (Poured Out Thoughts)’ published in several poetry magazines as High On Poems, Earthborne Magazine, Deadsnakes and so on, the author has ushered in the second, titled ‘The P.O.T (Poured Out Thoughts) ---The Reloaded.
It is said to be ‘reloaded’ because there are other poems to be added to make this edition slightly richer than the first. With poems as ‘Out of the Box’, ‘Dad Loves Me’, ‘Heralding God’s Magnificence’ being published in notable poetry journals and magazines, the sequel is hoped to make an impact to the entire world, beginning with the readers.
The Table of Contents has the additional poems that readers, who have read the first edition, would realize. They are intended to look into general issues, family, gender, parental, religious (Christian faith), children, love and personal/motivational.
The aim behind this piece is simple. As said in the first edition, it is about entertaining, enlightening, inspiring or motivating and enabling people think for themselves.
Worthy of Note: The author believes that subsequent edition(s) of the work would carry the above-stated aim.