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The Love That Has No Name – Chapter Four – The Touch That Burns

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / May 12, 2025 / creative writing, dark romance, Novel

Reading Time: 12 minutesThe memory of it clung to her like the fog outside—heavy, damp, impossible to shake. Her body ached not with pain but with absence. The places he had touched in her dreams felt hollow now, abandoned. Beneath her collarbone, the faint spiral mark pulsed with a warmth that felt like a heartbeat not her own.

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The Love That Has No Name – Chapter Three – The Chapel Beneath

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / May 10, 2025 / creative writing, dark romance, mythic romance, Novel, Romance

Reading Time: 13 minutesThe dreams started again that night. They weren’t sweet dreams like the ones Rowan used to have as a child. These were deep and vast, like looking up at a night sky that went on forever, except this sky was inside her head. Every night they came, thick and slow, filled with a feeling as old as time itself.

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The Chairman as Mirror: What His Rule Reveals About American Society
Reading Time: 48 minutesThe rise and entrenchment of the Chairman as ruler of the Black Circle isn't merely the tale of a singular despot, but a scathing indictment of the society that enabled his ascent and sustains his regime.
Chapter 3: Echoes in the Data Stream
Reading Time: 18 minutesJade Zero dives into a haunted data-cache hidden within the mind of a murdered friend—and uncovers a secret that could collapse Neo-Eden’s artificial world. As the cult-like Machinaeus close in on the station’s most dangerous relic, Jade must outpace drones, decode forgotten glyphs, and face the terrifying truth behind her city’s false sky.
The Rot Within the Crown: The Dying God
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe first, fundamental truth was that Power was not a means; it was an end. Yet, the very vessel of that absolute, unyielding power was failing. The Chairman, once the monolithic architect of their existence, was succumbing to the most insidious of betrayals: internal decay.
Chapter: The Decorative Asset
Reading Time: 17 minutesThe woman who eventually materialized on the platform was less a presence and more a carefully sculpted void, draped in silk. Cora had seen the official photographs: the engineered smile, the ceremonial poses. but the lived encounter was different. The First Lady stood precisely one pace behind the Chairman, swathed in a crimson veil embroidered with the Black Circle's seal.
The Love That Has No Name – Chapter Four – The Touch That Burns
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe memory of it clung to her like the fog outside—heavy, damp, impossible to shake. Her body ached not with pain but with absence. The places he had touched in her dreams felt hollow now, abandoned. Beneath her collarbone, the faint spiral mark pulsed with a warmth that felt like a heartbeat not her own.