a flicker of guilt

They call police Captain Justice Becker a hero, but he feels like anything but. Unable to control or erase certain memories, he finds himself trapped in the past and alone.<br><br>Ames Preston, a new cop at the precinct, feels an immediate attraction to Becker, and just as quickly, becomes a thorn in his side. When young Archie Wilkes comes running into the cop shop claiming someone tried to push him in front of a garbage truck, Justice isn’t convinced it really happened, until a suspicious death occurs on the same day.<br><br>As Justice, Ames, and Archie work together to figure out what’s happening in their quiet, little town, Justice can’t get the idea of a love triangle out of his mind. In the end, it seems only two men are destined for one another.

THE GUILT EATER Volume 2: The Weight of Others VOLUME 1 RECAP — What You Missed Eighty years ago, the Severance broke reality. Overnight, morality became physical. Guilt and virtue stopped being feelings and started being currency. Black Marks crawled across the skin of sinners. Golden brands burned into Saints. Memories could be ripped from your skull and sold as crystallized Shards. And the people who figured out how to control that system? They built empires on top of everyone else's suffering. That's the world Jiko woke up in with no past, no Marks, and no guilt. Not metaphorically. Literally. He cannot feel guilt. Cannot feel shame. His skin is clean where everyone else is stained, and the mechanisms that make moral weight stick to a person simply do not exist in him. He was made this way — surgically, deliberately, by an old man called the Cartographer who spent thirty years looking for a body that could carry the sins of others without breaking. Jiko is that body. A void in human shape. A man who can absorb infinite guilt and feel absolutely nothing. Volume 1 followed him from the ruins of a caravan through the guilt-markets of Ember's Rest, into the Iron Testimony's fortress, across the Wound's edge, through the Archive of Selves — and finally to the smoking aftermath of the Battle of Memory Den, where he stood over three dead Saints and seventy-three dead civilians who'd believed in something enough to die for it. The revolution wasn't supposed to happen this fast. He wasn't supposed to lead it at all. But here we are. VOLUME 2 BEGINS — The Weight of Others The battle is won. The war is just starting. And Jiko has no idea how to run a revolution. Volume 2 picks up in the ash of the first victory, and it does not let you breathe. The Choir Sanctum, the theocratic empire that hoards virtue and sells it back to the desperate, is mobilizing everything it has. The Iron Testimony, the military regime that weaponizes guilt to fuel its soldiers, is fracturing from the inside, some defecting to the revolution, others hunting it with renewed fury. And somewhere out in the Wastes, every carrier who heard what happened at the Memory Den is already walking toward Jiko with their Marks showing and their hands open. They've all heard the same story. The man who can eat your guilt. The man the Saints can't touch. The man who stood at the center of a psychic shockwave and absorbed it all and didn't die. He's becoming a symbol. He hates it. Here's what Volume 2 is actually about: It's about what happens after the miracle. After the impossible victory. After the moment where the underdog defies all odds and everyone cheers — and then the sun rises on the next day, and there are still a thousand problems, and people are still dying, and nobody has a plan beyond "we won yesterday." Jiko has to figure out how to teach people something he never learned: how to carry their conscience without being crushed by it. How to use guilt as information instead of identity. How to build a movement out of a collection of desperate, broken individuals who chose a revolution because every other option was worse.

Ecerpt: He looks so handsome she felt like he's seducing her up to the last bite. Why didn't the company use him when they advertise? When she thought about this, she coughed. She was choked by her own saliva. He pushed his water to her which she immediately put on her mouth. He was watching her lips covering the mouth of his bottle. When she realized this, she almost spat at him again but it did not happen. She swallowed all the water with wide eyes! He just kissed her! When there was nothing else in her mouth, the kiss ended too. She was stunned. He was nervous too, why did I do that?! He was frustrated at himself for losing control. He forced a poker face and pretended to look at his screen. "Don't think too much. Your face shows you're going to spat again on my face. I just prevented it from happening again. Why do you always spat water on my face though?" he interrogated her as if she's the one at fault. "I'm sorry, I was.." before she could realize that the situation has been reversed he already replied, "It's okay. Just don't do it when I'm working as the CEO. Show me some respect okay?" he asked in a very gentle tone. -- A simple story of love, daily life, dream and family. Yuyu, the pampered little girl from the White family had no choice but to cut ties to save her adoptive family from a clan trying to claim her for her special skills is business. Living alone, she focused on another dream, to be a chemist. When she found the ladder to her dream, it turned into a ladder of romance. Will she get back to the path of her dream or continue to fall in love? -------- I am writing part of the story everyday. Please do not copy, distribute, re-post anywhere without my consent. ------ Adult contents included. Please make sure you are 18 and above :) mature enough to understand that this is just a story specially on parts with matrimonial activities. enjoy! :)

A high school student named Elias, who falls in love with a girl named Amara—a seemingly normal classmate with an intriguing, mysterious vibe. Over time, Elias discovers that Amara isn’t just a student—she’s a clone or synthetic human, part of a secret AI-human hybrid experiment led by the powerful and corrupt scientist Mason Grant. As Elias and Amara grow closer, they uncover the truth: Amara is just one version of many. She was created as a backup copy of a previous girl—the Original Amara, who was built to serve, obey, and never feel. But this Amara is different. She develops emotions, autonomy, and falls in love—especially with Elias. As the truth unfolds, they’re pulled into a dangerous mission to take down Mason and destroy the system that created her. The lab, the government, and rogue AI all converge in a final race against time, where one of them must stay behind to stop the AI system from destroying everything. In the end, Amara sacrifices herself… Or so Elias believes. Until she returns one final time, not fully human, not fully machine—but a flicker of the love that survived the flames.

The weight of guilt left him drowning. But sometimes you have to reach the bottom before you can come up for air. Castin is a man hollowed by loss, sleepwalking through the wreckage of his life. When grief finally drags him under, he doesn’t expect to make it back up. And yet, he does. But not to where he began. Surrounded by strangers who speak in half-truths and wear their trauma like armor, Castin is thrust into a world where survival depends on silence, and trust is in short supply. The deeper he’s pulled into this place, the more he realizes his pain didn’t bring him here by accident. It brought him here for a reason. Now, Castin must walk a reality that mirrors his own fractured soul, where the only way out may be to navigate through the very guilt The thought would destroy him. This is a prequel novel to my book "The Acer Chronicles: Liberation's End"

This story is currently undergoing deep revision and polishing. Apologies for the inconvenience!

The era of the sun is a dead memory. Humanity's sprawling kingdoms have fallen, and the last remnants of civilization are buried alive. Trapped within a decaying, subterranean iron bunker known as the Sanctuary, the few survivors of an apocalyptic extinction cling to a grim existence. Outside the walls lies an unforgiving abyss of monsters and black miasma; inside, the reality is just as terrifying. Under the iron-fisted rule of Chief Murad Xie, the Sanctuary survives through a horrifying arithmetic. Compassion is a forgotten language, and the weak are literally consumed to keep the strong alive. Eleven-year-old Akira and his mother, Syuri, are the last sparks of hope in this sterile tomb. While the rest of humanity has surrendered to the ruthless, blood-soaked laws of their cage, Syuri preaches of a forgotten world above—a place of blue skies and green earth. Her dreams earn her the title of a madwoman from the starving crowds, but Akira fiercely protects his innocence, clinging to her teachings in a society that demands cruelty. But innocence is a death sentence at the end of the world. As resources run dry and the shadow of starvation threatens to snap the Sanctuary's fragile peace, an elite soldier named Klein takes Akira under his wing. Knowing the brutal truth of their decaying sanctuary, Klein drags the boy into the pitch-black outskirts of the gates. Through agonizing, bone-breaking training, he seeks to strip away the boy's naive hopes and forge him into a weapon capable of surviving the nightmare to come. As the last embers of human civilization threaten to burn out forever, Akira stands at a crossroads. He must decide whether to surrender to the savage reality of humanity's final cage, or bleed to prove that his mother’s beautiful world still exists in the dark.

What happens when guilt returns — not as a memory, but as your lover? After losing her parents in a tragic accident, Zara tries to rebuild her life, leaving her shattered past behind. But fate isn’t done with her yet. When she meets Zayan — a stranger who feels painfully familiar — her world begins to twist again. Every heartbeat pulls her closer, every truth pushes her away. Because sometimes… the one who heals you is the same one who broke you.

A story about the journey on a little girl who has dealt with the struggle of survivor's guilt.

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