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The Kingdom That Forgot The Sun

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Summary Long ago, in a land where the sky was said to bleed gold at the break of dawn, the Kingdom of Ithralis made a deal with a dying god. In return for immortality, they gave the Sun away. Now the world is forever trapped under a twilight sky. No one grows old. No one dies. No one ever truly comes alive. Centuries turn into millennia. Love decays into memory. Children never start. The stars grow weary of the sight. At the heart of the silent kingdom is King Vaelor the Undying. He was the first to be offered immortality. He was the first to realize the true cost. But the Sun was not taken from the world. It was imprisoned. And the gods do not forget. This is the tale of a kingdom that was given immortality. It was given something worse. Chapter I : When the Sun Went Silent - The Last Dawn Image -  King Vaelor overlooks Ithralis under a dying red sun as a robed woman kneels beside an hourglass and skulls in ritual. But there was a time when the dawn came like a promise. The priest...

The Best Mistake Of The Five-Year Plan

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Summary Spreadsheets and schedules are Elias Vance's speciality. He is thirty-two years old, and his life is controlled by a carefully constructed "Five-Year Plan," a forty-page document that views human existence as an optimisation problem. At the prestigious consulting firm Sterling & Rowe, every minute is a metric and every interaction is a deliberate step towards becoming a Partner. Before he literally runs into Luna Hayes, a kaleidoscopic street artist who lives in a vintage camper van and sees a blank calendar as a badge of honour, his world is monochromatic. Elias's inflexible architecture starts to fall apart when a "Glow Bomb" of organic beet juice destroys his custom suit and a string of unlikely circumstances compels them to work together on a project. This is the tale of a man who came to the realisation that sometimes the biggest risk is not taking any action at all and that the most significant things in life are the ones you can't fit ...