In the Quiet Between UsSome endings leave you heartbroken. Others leave you questioning everything you once believed about love.At twenty-three, Aysteia thought she understood what it meant to love someone. After seven years with the man she imagined spending her life with, she believed that even if life was imperfect, love would be enough to carry them through. Until one betrayal changed everything.Walking away was her choice. Living with the grief was another matter entirely.Now, with a new job, plans for a master's degree, and a future she is determined to build on her own terms, Aysteia is learning that healing doesn't mean forgetting. Sometimes, it means finding the courage to live a life you never expected to have.Razen, twenty-seven, has always been a man who knows what he wants. Ambitious, sociable, and rarely without an argument to make, he has spent years building the future he imagined with the woman he intended to marry. He believed he had found his person. He believed he knew where his life was going.Then his own world falls apart.When betrayal brings them to the same unfamiliar crossroads, two friends find themselves offering each other the understanding that few people can give. They know what it means to mourn not only a person, but also the home, promises, and future that disappeared with them.Neither has all the answers. Neither can undo what happened. And neither is looking for someone to save them.But in the quiet moments between long conversations, difficult nights, shared laughter, and the slow work of beginning again, they discover that life can still hold unexpected things.This is not a story about two broken people fixing each other. It is about two people learning to stand on their own again—and discovering what can grow when someone chooses to stay, listen, and understand.Because sometimes, the most meaningful connections begin not with a grand declaration of love, but with the simple comfort of no longer having to face the silence alone.Somewhere in the quiet between them, a new story may be waiting.

The Dark Pieces of TomorrowIf the world burns, let it burn for us.When the disasters struck, humanity believed surviving the end of the world was a victory.They were wrong.For beyond the ruins and the ashes awaited a game where the fate of Earth itself hung in the balance. A cosmic spectacle orchestrated for the amusement of Gods, underworldly beings, ancient overlords, and legendary entities who watched humanity struggle as though their lives were nothing more than entertainment.Here, to live is to win. To kill is to survive.And among the countless souls thrown into this merciless game stand two people who bow to no one, kneel before no Gods, and strive for nothing beyond their own desires.Each other.Merciless to the world, yet tender only in the presence of one another, they carve their way through every trial without begging for divine favor or submitting to anyone's will. Those who dare stand in their way will learn that cruelty has many faces, and love can be just as terrifying as hatred.Come hell, high water, or the curse of the heavens, no force will tear them apart.They are willing to become the world's greatest enemies, to defy the heavens and turn the game itself upside down, if that is what it takes to live on their own terms.They were never heroes. Never saints. And certainly never anyone's chosen ones.They are simply two people who intend to live—not merely survive, but live to the fullest, with no Gods to worship, no masters to obey, and no world allowed to stand between them.If the universe demands their submission, then let the universe learn what it means to be their enemy.