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Micah Thaxter has a problem -- one scary, inconvenient problem. His shadow wants him dead and isn’t shy about it.<br><br>On the plus side, it’s not his time to die and Scary Gary is always there to carry him back to the land of the living. Gary is far too pale, his black cloak a bit out of fashion, and his scythe quite terrifying, but he’s still one of the most beautiful men Micah has ever seen.<br><br>Micah may be stuck with a homicidal shadow, but perhaps there’s a way to keep Gary around too. His job escorting souls keeps him busy, but since Micah has already died once today, Gary’s there. So what’s the harm in offering him a cup of tea?

TITLE: Reborn in Gary: The Second Life of the King CATEGORY: Realistic Fiction / Transmigration & Reincarnation TAGS: Reincarnation, Music, System, Redemption, Historical Fiction, Emotional, Drama, Fame, Second Chance, Slice of Life, Trauma, Family, Coming of Age, Genius Protagonist, Fix-It --- SUMMARY: On a cold Tuesday morning in 2024, twenty-nine year old Marcus Webb closes his eyes for the last time after a sudden cardiac arrest in his Chicago apartment. He leaves behind nothing remarkable — a modest apartment, a streaming playlist, and a lifelong obsession with the greatest entertainer who ever lived. He never published anything. Never created anything. Never became anything. He just loved Michael Jackson deeply, completely, and quietly his entire life. He knew every lyric. Every interview. Every court document. Every betrayal. Every surgery. Every tear. He studied the man the way scholars study scripture. So when Marcus opens his eyes again and finds himself staring up at a cracked ceiling in Gary, Indiana, wrapped in a thin cotton blanket in the summer of 1958, he does not scream. He does not cry. He simply lies there in his newborn body, with his adult mind fully intact, and thinks one single thought. He knows exactly how this life ends. He knows about the poverty of Gary. The tiny two bedroom house on Jackson Street with nine children crammed inside its walls. He knows about Joe Jackson, the cold and iron-handed patriarch who will turn his sons into stars through a method that walks the narrow and brutal line between discipline and cruelty. He knows about the rehearsals that never end, the belt that comes down without warning, and the childhood that gets swallowed whole by ambition. He knows about the Motown audition and the Ed Sullivan appearances and the screaming crowds that will surround him before he is even old enough to understand what fame truly costs. He knows about Quincy Jones and the genius that will pour out of them together. He knows about Thriller and the moonwalk and the single white glove and the night on May 16, 1983 when he will slide across a stage and the world will collectively lose its breath. He knows about the vitiligo and the surgeries and the loneliness that quietly hollows a man out from the inside even as a billion people are screaming his name from the outside. He knows about 1993. He knows about Martin Bashir. He knows about Neverland and what it represented, both the beauty of it and the danger of it. He knows about Dr. Conrad Murray and the propofol and the morning of June 25, 2009 when the most famous human being on the planet died alone on a floor while the people around him scrambled to protect themselves instead of him. Marcus Webb knows all of it. And now he is Michael Jackson. Not a copy. Not a shadow. Not a character in a story. He is in the body, behind the eyes, inside the mind of the boy who will become the King of Pop. Every milestone that awaits him is one he has studied obsessively from the outside. Now he must live it from the inside. He must learn to walk in a body that is not his while carrying memories of a life that no longer exists. He must sit at a dinner table with nine siblings and a father who terrifies him and a mother who is the only soft thing in the house and pretend that he is just a little boy when in truth he is a grieving adult who knows far too much about what is coming. The system arrives on his third day of life. It does not announce itself with fanfare. It appears simply as text at the edge of his vision, clean and white and impossibly calm. LEGEND SYSTEM ACTIVATED. HOST IDENTIFIED. MISSION: PROTECT THE LEGACY. REWRITE THE ENDING. What follows is not a fantasy. It is not an escape. It is the most difficult thing Marcus Webb has ever faced, because the enemy he is fighting is not a person or a system or an industry. The enemy is the slow and invisible damage that gets done to a child when the world decides he be

A story compilation of the love journey of an Accountant and a Graphic Designer

Bukan skenario hidup seperti ini yang aku inginkan, memerani tiga tokoh sekaligus dalam satu kali kesempatan hidup. Andai bisa aku ingin terlahir kembali menjadi aku yang hanya satu- Samudra Arga Pratama Aku lelah menjadi senja yang ditunggu dan dikagumi di penghujung waktuku-Samudra Raga Dwitama *** Takkan gugur daun yang menguning itu jika memang belum habis waktunya. Takkan turun rintik hujan itu sekalipun langit telah menggelap jika memang belum saatnya. Pun dengan jantung yang takkan berhenti berdetak jika memang Tuhan belum berkehendak.

Bagaimana jadinya kalau seorang ketua mafia yang dingin dikejar deadline oleh kedua orang tuanya? Bukan deadline membuat perusahaan keluarga itu besar. Namun ketua mafia itu sedang dikejar deadline untuk menikah. "Kamu sudah menandatangani surat perjanjian yang telah aku berikan dulu!" tegas Aryo sang papa. "Surat apa?" tanya Bayu. "Surat kesepakatan kapan kamu menikah? Tiga bulan lagi kamu harus menikah. Jika tidak Papa akan menghancurkan Stars Corps!" titah Aryo. Bayu Drajat nama pria itu. Bayu memang dikejar-kejar oleh deadline. apa yang harus dilakukannya? Apakah Bayu akan melakukan hal yang gila yaitu melakukan saran yang diberikan oleh saudara kembarnya itu? Sementara seorang gadis muda yang masih bersekolah sedang melakukan taruhan bersama sahabatnya. Namun gadis itu kalah taruhan karena tidak bisa menaklukkan ketua OSIS di sekolahnya. "Rani kamu sudah kalah dari aku. Aku sekarang sudah menembak Kak Rendy," ucap Icha dengan bangga. "Iya kamu benar. Apa yang kamu lakukan setelah ini?" tanya Rani. "Ok... aku memintamu untuk menaklukkan hati ketua mafia White Eragon," jawab Icha. "Apa!!!" pekik Rani. "Apakah kamu sudah gila menyuruhku menaklukkan hati ketua mafia? "Ya kamu benar," jawab Icha. Gara-gara taruhan itu Rani harus menaklukkan hati si Bayu yang dingin itu. Apakah Rani mampu membuat Bayu jatuh cinta? Atau sebaliknya Bayu mengajak Rani menikah walau usianya masih 15 tahun. Ikuti terus kisah Bayu dan juga Rani. Setelah membaca tinggalkan komentarnya ya... terima kasih.

"It's forbidden for me to love you, but still i do." i say as i run as fast as i could

Iqbal,anak pengusaha terkenal yang sangat populer dari kalangan pelajar SMA Harapan. Tidak, Iqbal tidak memanfaatkan ketenaran orang tuanya untuk mendapatkan semua ini, tapi dia berjuang dari awal yang ujungnya berbuah manis. Dia sangat pintar, bahkan selalu menjadi runner up sekolah sejak SMP. Sejak SMP pula Iqbal tidak menggunakan sepersen pun uang dari orang tua karena dia memutuskan untuk mencari uang sendiri. Namun hal itu tidak membuat prestasinya turun sama sekali, bahkan prestasinya semakin terlihat. Guru-guru pun merasa bahwa dia dan sahabatnya Anis tidak perlu belajar pada guru lagi. Ya, Iqbal bersahabat dengan Anis yang notabenenya selalu juara umum sekolah. Seperti halnya Iqbal, Anis juga tidak menggunakan embel-embel keluarganya yang terkenal untuk mendapatkan kepopuleran. Parasnya yang cantik juga prestasinya yang prestisius membuat namanya melambung tinggi. Ani juga melakukan hal yang sama dengan Iqbal, sejak SMP tidak menerima uang sepersen pun dari orang tuanya. Sejak mengenal Iqbal, Anis banyak belajar mengenai banyak hal, termasuk kebahagiaan. Awal kenal, Anis kaget tentang Iqbal yang berani mengakui dirinya gay, meski hanya Anis yang tahu. Tapi dari sanalah Anis belajar artinya sebuah kebahagiaan yang mungkin tak bisa dibeli dengan uang. Anis pun berusaha untuk tidak mencintai laki-laki yang sama dengan Iqbal, karena itu akan melukai sahabat tercinta yang telah mengajarkan banyak hal. Kehidupan Iqbalpun berjalan seperti biasa, namun semua berubah saat Ilham datang. Seperti apa kisahnya? Nantikan di kisah Gara-gara Ilham

Kehidupan Iqbal yang baik-baik saja, harus berubah drastis setelah kedatangan sepupunya Ilham. Meski anak orang kaya, Iqbal tidak begitu tertarik dengan keglamouran. Dia terus berusaha hidup seperti apa yang sudah baby sister ajarkan. Hidup dengan perjuangan sehingga ketika datang masalah dia sudah siap.

“Lelaki itu yang ada di mimpiku semalam, tetapi sikapnya berbeda jauh dengannya. Apa maksud semua ini, mengapa bisa terjadi?” Feni Alona baru saja membicarakan Egy Reimbaka, seorang senior supervisor yang sangat dingin dan arogan. Dia tidak menyangka bisa bertemu di dunia nyata dengan laki-laki yang ada dimimpinya. Hal buruk terjadi begitu cepat padanya. Egy selalu bersikap berbeda saat berhadapan dengan Feni dan karyawan lainnya. Lelaki itu bisa melonggarkan peraturan kepada yang lain, tetapi tidak pada Feni. Sementara itu, Leo Putrawan karyawan pindahan dari divisi yang berbeda lebih menghargai dan bersikap lebih baik pada Feni. Feni yang semula bersikap baik dan menghormati atasannya itu, lama-lama mulai terusik karena Egy sering kali bertindak diluar batas kesabarannya. Namun, ketika Feni mulai tidak peduli dan melawan, Egy malah mengubah sikapnya menjadi lebih baik. Sebenarnya apa yang terjadi pada mereka? Bagaimana nasib Feni selanjutnya?

Stella Sterling, born into wealth, had always followed the rules. Jaded by the hypocrisy of high society, she suddenly had a whim one day to have an ordinary romance. Thus, a fabricated rumor that Stella Sterling had spent a fortune to hire a Matchmaker from a dating site to find her a partner quickly spread through her circles. Those on good terms with her teased and watched the fun. Those on bad terms with her waited to see her become a joke. Later, an employee from the dating website revealed, "The company was acquired with an investment from a Vicenzan tycoon, and the profile of a certain female member with the surname Sterling was hidden overnight." The public speculated wildly about the identities of the Vicenzan tycoon and the female member with the surname Sterling. - Later on, a candid street photo that was accidentally captured went viral. In the dense night of The Spire on Vesper Island— Beside a Benz, a handsome, composed, and dignified man lifted a striking beauty in a red dress with one arm, pressing her against the car door and lowering his head for a deep kiss. In the faint light and shadow, the woman's flowing hair was swept by the wind, wrapping around the man's finger, which wore a pinky ring. Like a footnote to a romance, and even more like a vintage film frame etched into the axis of time. Someone immediately dug up the man's identity based on clues from the photo. The eldest son of Vicenza's Rhodes Family—low-profile and inscrutable, cold and untamable, and also the powerful contemporary authority of The Vesper Circle. And the alluring, glamorous belle by his side was none other than Stella Sterling. When the street photo spread to the mainland, everyone excitedly exclaimed: "The case is solved, the case is solved—"