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The Támura FlowerA Literary Fiction NovelWhen Amira, an ambitious botany student and aspiring author, takes a job assisting the early-retired author Támura in his overgrown garden, she expects nothing more than mentorship and a quiet year. But beneath the spearmint and tomato vines, she unearths something far more dangerous: a forgotten manuscript containing a dialogue between a nameless man and a god, ending in a chilling wager: Guess what lingers beneath the mask, or die.As Támura's sickness worsens and his evasions grow sharper, Amira becomes obsessed with deciphering the story's true meaning. Is it fiction, confession, or something in between? The deeper she digs, the clearer the parallels become, between the god who remembers the cosmos but not himself, the man who hides darkness behind a smile and the writer who shaped entire worlds, yet seems to believe he's hollow.Three guesses.One secret.And a love that demands surrender.----------------------------------------------------------------1 or 2 updates every week----------------------------------------------------------------All rights reserved. No part of this story may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, or events is entirely coincidental…

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In an empire built on the backs of magicians, where the arcane has long been the weapon of kings, war is coming, and this time, magic may not be enough. Lonk is a dockside thief with a gift: the ability to move objects with a thought. It's a small magic, a commoner's trick, good for stealing apples and slipping through cracks. But when the Empire declares war against the rising eastern nations, nations armed not with spells, but with guns, Lonk is ripped from his life and conscripted into a brutal training program for young mages. The Empire is desperate. The easterners have firearms by the thousands, weapons that require no magic, no training, just a finger on the trigger. The old order is crumbling, and the Empire will throw everything into the breach to survive... Even untested boys.But Lonk is no soldier. He's a boy who has spent his life slipping through the cracks, and the more he sees of this war, the nobles who command without care, the commoners sent to die for causes not their own, the more he questions the very foundations of the Empire he's meant to defend. As the fighting escalates, Lonk will be forced to choose: obey the powers that have always controlled him, or seize his own destiny, and in doing so, ignite a fire that could burn down empires. A tale of war, rebellion, and the cost of freedom.----------------------------------------------------------------2 or 3 updates every week----------------------------------------------------------------All rights reserved. No part of this story may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, or events is entirely coincidental.…