fredrick pohl

In the wake of Gol D. Roger's execution, the world holds its breath. Pirates flood the seas. Marines tighten their grip. And in the forgotten South Blue, on an island so small it barely earns a dot on most maps, a sixteen-year-old boy with no devil fruit, no family name, and no special destiny decides to leave. His name is Kuroishi Ran. He wants one thing — absolute freedom. Not a throne. Not a title. Not the world's recognition. Just open water and no one above him. He boards a merchant ship heading east with a single bag, calloused hands, and four years of self-taught training behind him. No mentor. No crew. No plan beyond the direction. What he does have is something he can feel but cannot yet name — a heat in his chest that surfaces only when everything else runs out, when his body is past its limit and something deeper opens. The sea will teach him what it is. This is the story of a man who becomes a pirate not for treasure or glory but because the sea is the only place in the world where no one can tell him what he is. It is a story told in ports and storms and training sessions before dawn. In the people he meets and parts from and meets again years later when the sea has changed them both. In the slow, honest, brutal development of a power earned rather than granted. Ran will cross the South Blue. He will reach the Grand Line. He will build something from nothing, by will alone, and the world will eventually learn his name. But that is later. For now — he is sixteen, the ship is heading east, and the horizon keeps retreating the way horizons do. He follows it anyway.

HIDUP SEBAGAI ORANG YANG ANEH

On the return of his hometown, Valentino discovers that his hometown has changed along with the turbulent decade of the 1960's. His family stuck in the violent past of World War 2 as well as the contemporary fear of the Vietnam War loom over him and his two brothers. However, fear comes in many forms.

The day everything changed – and nothing made sense anymore

Frenia Ayu Lestari kerap dipanggil Nia oleh orang-orang. Nia sosok remaja yang pendiam,tertutup jika bukan orang yang memang dipercaya. Walapun seorang yang pendiam Nia memiliki suara yang bagus, jago gitar, bisa dance, nulis juga tapi sayang nia sedari sekolah dasar selalu jadi korban perundungan sampai tidak punya teman sama sekali. Ada sih teman tapi ya hanya sekedar teman, bukan dekat juga tidak bertahan lama setelah itu menjauh dari sosok Nia entah apa alasanya tidak mau lagi berteman dengannya. Bahkan sampai saat ini pun masih menjadi korban perundangan di sekolah. Ia punya teman dekat setelah memasuki sma namun beda kelas yang bernama Indira Prameswari dipanggil indi atau dira orangnya berbeda jauh dari nia, indi orangnya begitu aktif dalam berbagai organisasi sekolah. Akibat dari perundungan yang selalu nia terima begitu depresi hingga menyakiti dirinya sendiri, seperti menyayat kulitnya, nonton film yang berbau psikopat itu semua nia lakukan untuk melampiaskan diri. "aku capek.... Dengan ini semua, indi maafkan aku jangan benci padaku selamat tinggal indi"ucapnya

Four 15-year-olds are ripped from their families and taken to a dark- and unbearably hot- room. Every single one of these teens is terrified, and their situation continues to get worse and worse. Getting stabbed with syringes, waking up once again in the center of Henderson, Nevada with crazy abilities, meeting some weirdo who won't tell them what her power is, and rarely getting along, just to name a few. The only thing they agree on is the fact that they'd like to see their families and friends before they die. And as possible as that seemed in the first few hours of being confined in their prison, the idea is slipping further and further away. Scared, hungry, and burning up in the desert sun, will these kids be able to make it through a madman's experiment and see their loved ones again? Or will they deal with loss after crushing loss, destined to die at the age of fifteen?

this is a story about Levi Elliott the eery adventure and unexpectedly turn to meet monsters and the creator of the creature and himself

To be resurrected, Lin Zhi binds herself to a system and transmigrates into different book worlds, becoming cannon fodder destined for tragic endings. But Lin Zhi refuses to follow the script. In every world, she fights to rewrite her fate. (1) The Scheming Gold-Digging Stand-In Used by the male lead as a tool to win over the female lead, Lin Zhi refuses to be discarded. Since he wants to use her? Then she’ll make a countermove—get pregnant first, flip the board, and end up with the real overbearing CEO. (2) The First Wife Fated to Die Early in a “Cousin” Story The reborn female lead knows her older male cousin will hold immense power in the future—and that he has always loved her. This time, she vows not to let him go. Only… “Sister-in-law, why aren’t you dead yet?” Lin Zhi smiles. “Still alive. What, are you mad?” (3) The Cannon Fodder Fiancée in a Teacher-Student Romance The aloof Master falls for his young disciple, while Lin Zhi—the fiancée—becomes the villain in their love story. Lin Zhi: “Respect. Blessings. Please stay locked together forever.” Then she decisively breaks off the engagement and devotes herself to cultivation… alongside her adorable little nephew. Who needs romance when ascending is better? (4) The Substitute Bride in a Period Drama In her previous life, she stole the marriage meant for her sister out of gratitude for a life-saving favor, marrying the factory director’s son. Who would have thought he had a “white moonlight” in his heart, leading to her tragic death? Meanwhile, the “mud-legged” man she rejected rose in status, and her sister became an official’s wife. After rebirth, her sister eagerly snatches back the original marriage arrangement, convinced Lin Zhi is doomed. She waits to watch Lin Zhi suffer. Instead— Lin Zhi’s life only gets better and better.

Accidentally bound to a quick transmigration system, Ning Yue is resistant on the surface, but inwardly, she's screaming wildly: "As long as I keep completing missions, it's equivalent to gaining eternal life, I'm going to keep transmigrating forever!" In "True and Fake Rich Daughter," she is the fake rich daughter who was abandoned. She declares, "The wealthy family abandoned me, so I will create a wealthy family of my own!" In "Era's Blessed Child," she leads her entire family to build a fortune, turning the fake blessed child into a real blessed child. In "Flourishing Age of Shengshi," having transmigrated into the Empress who was turned into cannon fodder, she simply turns the ungrateful mother and son into cannon fodder instead.