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Six women who had each survived the worst night of their lives, sitting in a circle of plastic chairs on a carved stone floor, under vaulted arches sweating with damp, drinking tea and watery coffee from a church-hall urn. Somebody had hung fairy lights along the old stone shelves where the Arnold family had once…
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Nadi Petrova, a novelist living in Bali, began writing at 45 after managing a family business for twenty years. Her novels focus on themes of love, family, and the absurdities of life. She emphasizes the importance of honesty in writing and finds fulfillment in connecting with readers through relatable stories.
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Find the ending embedded on the cover of The Termination Protocols to win a prize!
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My name is Nene. My ID card says Nai, the Thai word for Mister, followed by a long boy’s name my father chose from a monk’s list. I will not write it here, and no Thai law will let me change it.
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People paced about, and it wasn’t long before police and medical staff were on the scene. People poured out of the hospital’s main entrance and surrounded us. It wasn’t long before I found myself on a trolley being moved through the hospital. An oxygen mask went over my face, and I found myself taking deep…
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Betty Hernandez hated airports. The smell of recycled air, the endless lines, the nervous silence hanging over families pretending everything was normal—it all reminded her of the day they fled Mexico after her father’s murder trial exploded across the news. Now, months later, she stood outside West Acre High School staring at a completely different…
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The Hunters were not police. That was the first thing Patricia learned. They operated privately. No uniforms. No public records. Their existence lived mostly in rumors among London’s forgotten youth. According to Solomon, the Hunters specialized in removing “social anomalies.” Runaway networks. Underground communities. Groups capable of destabilizing systems. “They believe uncontrolled communities become threats,”…
