best lorrie moore stories

Is obsession a disease, or the sincerest form of love? It’s a difficult question, especially when love has always been sold as the ultimate sacrifice. Clear/Ryne has her answer. The world sees her as a victim. History sees her as the perfect girlfriend. The truth sees her as a killer. Ryne Moore has a unique philosophy of love: born from the purity of an object corrupted for her pleasure. She wants to be loved the same way she loves her sweater — stained until it becomes truly hers. A love story between a yandere and a cheater. Both maintaining their masks of perfection while the air smells of burnt flesh. Ryne Moore: Yandere as a Philosophy of Love. A story of obsessive romance, infidelity, and mystery.

Prophecy: They are predestined mates. How much they don't want each other they can't stay away from each other. They are made for each other and will meet for a new change in werewolf empire. The blue moon here, plays an important part in their lives. It's said that when first blue moon had arrived in the werewolf empire the royal pack had emerged years before. When years after it had arrived, it was the indication that one of the predestined mate was born . And now these after three years it has arrived yet again to mark that his/her other half/mate/soulmate is born. Let's see how they change the future of werewolves

Blaire White just happened to do the wrong thing at the right time catching the eye of Mr. Moore and his wife. Sending her into a spiral of webs. To get past her and her brother's past she will have to be something she never expected nor did she want. Mr. Moore's personal pleasure and surrogate for money. Little did she know the whole depths of this sickening plan his and his wife had.

Gabrielle Moore has been fighting her whole life—she just didn't know it until now. The only daughter of a retired Army commander and the youngest of four brothers, Gabrielle was raised in a house where family meant learning to kill a man with your bare hands before you learned to drive. Each brother taught her something different: hand-to-hand combat, tactical shooting, reconnaissance, and the cold precision of a sniper's mindset. By eighteen, she could clear a room faster than most soldiers. But she walked away. Built a normal life. Normal friends who didn't know what she was capable of. Then she burned it all down. At twenty-five, Gabrielle quit her job, cut everyone except family out of her life, and enlisted in the U.S. Army—because she finally understood she was meant for something bigger. Basic training is a joke. Advanced training barely a warm-up. Gabrielle breezes through every challenge, catching the attention of her superiors. Then she joins BUD/S—Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. Twenty-four weeks of hell designed to strip away everyone who doesn't belong. Cold water. Long nights. Instructors who want nothing more than to watch her quit. If she resists every urge to break, she'll be one of four soldiers hand-picked for Team A.L.P.H.A.—an elite group carrying out high-risk terrorism missions. Sergeant First Class Marcus "Hatch" Hatcher doesn't believe in prodigies. A decorated operator with a reputation for breaking recruits, he's been hand-selected to identify soldiers worthy of the most elite teams. He's hard. Unreadable. Measures worth in push-ups and character in how a soldier looks him in the eye after failing. From the moment Gabrielle steps into his sight, he can't look away. He rides her harder than anyone. Sharper criticism. Never a word of praise—but his eyes follow her everywhere. The attraction is immediate, electric, and absolutely forbidden. He's her superior. Anything more would end his career and destroy hers. There's a rumor he's a diagnosed psychopath. Gabrielle does everything to stay out of his way. But the Army has other plans. BUD/S is a reckoning. Everything her brothers taught her. Every punch she ever threw. Every time she got back up. It all leads to this. But the toll is starting to feel overwhelming. Hatch is always watching. As weeks wear on and the attrition rate climbs toward eighty percent, the line between commander and something more blurs. A stolen look. A moment of weakness. A single touch that shouldn't happen—and can never happen again. Gabrielle isn't just fighting for a spot anymore. She's fighting for respect. For belonging. For the man who can never be hers but might be the only person who truly sees her. For the man she's told is incapable of anything but taking a life with impeccable skill. An action-romance about legacy, grit, and the most dangerous mission of all: letting someone close enough to matter.

The web is a “lean forward and participate” medium. Television, by contrast, is a “lean back and let it wash over me” medium.

​"In an era where everything was bound by chains, and every inch of the earth had its master and its absolute truth, one forgotten place remained... a land cursed with freedom, defying both law and ritual. But the greed of kings knows no bounds; a thread of blood now weaves through the four realms, driven by the desire to break that land's pride and enforce absolute dominion. Thus begins the greatest chronicle in history—a conflict that will leave nothing behind but ashes, and a single question echoing across the dark horizon: Who will tighten their grip over the four lands, and who will be swallowed by the roaring abyss of ambition?"

Lord, tidak, Lort ... dia adalah seorang pengurung diri yang menyukai video game seperti kebanyakan remaja lainnya. Pada saat ia hendak mencoba untuk mengubah kehidupannya dengan memberanikan diri untuk pergi ke sekolah karena masalah absen yang terlampau banyak, tiba-tiba saja ... kehidupannya berubah dengan sangat drastis... Ia terjatuh ... dan menemukan bahwa dirinya telah dipanggil ke dunia lain. Dan yang berada tepat di hadapannya saat itu adalah seseorang bernama Rord Roardia, gadis pendek dengan tanduk pada masing-masing sisi kepalanya yang mengaku sebagai putri dari raja iblis. Lort yang merasa tidak adil karena telah dipanggil secara sepihak akhirnya mengutarakan perasaannya pada yang memanggilnya, yaitu sang raja iblis itu sendiri. Raja iblis pun mengutuskan Rord, putrinya untuk ikut bersama dalam petualangannya. Petualangan yang bertujuan untuk mengalahkan raja iblis bersama dengan putri dari raja iblis itu sendiri?!

In her previous life, she took the wrong "white lotus" script, causing her to die a miserable death. Heaven has let her live again, so she shouldn't have to suffer the hardships of her past life once more! Feng Moxi sheds her weakness from her previous life. Making a new choice, she must fight! There are monsters! Kill them! There are scumbags! Eliminate them! With her meager strength, she picks up a Heavy Sword and forges a difficult path forward. Unexpectedly, that arrogant and reckless person who caused her no small amount of trouble along the way eventually becomes a comrade-in-arms to whom she can entrust her back, a companion for life. The sky fills with darkness, the Demon People emerge! The Heavenly Dao returns. One day, Feng Moxi is leisurely roasting beast meat by the river. Chaoyang, having just finished fighting a demon beast, sees the crumbs on her lips and immediately leans in. "Want some?" Chaoyang dazedly nodded his head. Suddenly, a piece of burnt beast meat is stuffed into his mouth. Chaoyang pulls Feng Moxi into his embrace, gently brushes the corner of her lips with his hand, and says, "You're mine!" Apocalypse + Cultivation + Doting Boyfriend

[Irresistible MC + Farming & Entrepreneurship + Strong Female Lead + Cute Baby + Love Rivalry + Farming System + Male Competition] Deng Yuyuan wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel about a "pampered group darling" — as the biological mother of the vicious female villain. The female villain has a biased grandmother, a mooching uncle and his family, a blindly filial father, and a spineless mother. She was a small-time thief as a child. As an adult, she committed every kind of evil — constantly framing the female lead — and ultimately met a miserable end. The female lead is the only daughter in another family, doted on by her older brothers. The villain targeted her out of pure jealousy. And now, Deng Yuyuan has become that villain's cowardly mother — and the villain herself is currently just an ugly, wrinkly-faced infant. The blindly filial father loves his wife, but gives all the good things to his own mother. He says to his starving wife and daughter: "Xiao Yuan, come drink some water. I specially heated it for you." Deng Yuyuan looks at her own bony frame and her tiny child — and decides to get a divorce. Goodbye, useless husband. She's going to raise this little cub with an abundance of money and love. No way she'll go astray this time. Lost one husband, gained a crowd of suitors. A beautiful sent-down youth coveted by many — she knows some self-defense and burns the midnight oil studying. With the reinstatement of the college entrance exams, she takes her child toward a much wider world. Riding the wave of the times, Deng Yuyuan works her way up to become a gaming tycoon and a cutting-edge scientist... Except — why are so many men fighting to be her cub's stepfather?