Alienation Stories

Unreality is a mysterious phenomenon that appears to take place when mentally unstable individuals project the contents of their subconscious onto reality, distorting the very fabric of space and transforming the surrounding environment into a perilous mindscape which reflects their innermost thoughts and feelings. An organization was created to deal with such incidents, and Virgil is one of its agents. He keeps a carefully cultivated solitary lifestyle, but his self-inflicted isolation is challenged when he meets Ariadne, a girl coping with sorrow and grief after the loss of her twin brother. The two begin to form a bond, but as Virgil comes across more and more cases of unreality, his own psyche starts to unravel, forcing him to confront his own mental scars and deep-seated feelings of alienation.

To everyone else, he is the perfect student: polite, intelligent, and on the fast track to a future he's supposed to want. But this is just a role he plays. A mask to hide the truth. At 21, he moves to the historic university city of Pécs to start his life, but he's already a ghost. He is a detached spectator in his own story, watching himself perform the part of 'The Son' and 'The Student' with a cold, clinical precision. Haunted by the shadows of a father who left and a mother he can't help but hurt, his new life is not one of freedom. It's a life of financial spreadsheets, missed parties, and the crushing weight of a poverty that isolates him from a world he can't afford to join. The city's ancient streets and bustling lecture halls are just a backdrop. His real world is the four walls of his sterile dorm room, the bitter static of phone calls home, and the pages of a black notebook-the only place he is honest. He watches, he records, and he asks himself one question: How long can you perform a life before you are completely disqualified from living one?

"Wish you were different from me so that 'we' could be a success"... Pranita, a 16 year old in her 11th grade, meets the transfer student Esther, a shy introverted girl to be her new classmate. They both were never meant to share the same roof as that was their fate written prior, but still tragically fall for each other. Would both the girls have a successful love story in a country filled with homophobia and racism with unsupportive parents?...

A self-help/guide book, designed to be similar to "The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*CK". Awareness & notion with both mental and physical phenomenons. A Yes Theory Activist. "Inaction breeds doubt and fear." CP: Callum Skelton via Unsplash

Start this series with MAJORITY by Abby Goldsmith AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority ✴✴✴✴✴ Ariock used to be an enslaved gladiator who ripped apart aliens for silent voyeurs. Thomas used to be a meek, underprivileged orphan in a group home for disabled children. Now they rule planets. Now they are the most powerful individuals in the known universe. Thomas, Ariock, and their allies have defeated Torth armadas and respectable Torth commanders, yet they still have ninety million planets left to conquer. The terrible Torth Empire isn't dead yet... ✴ Final book of a completed epic series. ✴ DO NOT READ if you have not read the previous books. ✴ Available on patreon.com/abbygoldsmith ✴ To be published by Podium in 2025. Can the heroes defeat a desperate Torth Majority in thrall to the sadistic mastermind known as the Death Architect? Empire Ender - Copyright © 2022 Abby Goldsmith. All Rights Reserved.

These are poems that I originally wrote several years ago as a teenager. It reflects a love of all things dark. I have edited & revised them for publication. This is 26 poems from a larger collection (72 poems) I've published to share with anyone that (hopefully) likes them. The complete collection is available for purchase on amazon.com and barnesandnobles.com If you like it, feel free to check out my website for further info on this work as well as any of my other pieces.

When the intricate web of their small community becomes shaken up, the stars of this story learn the hard way that the source of their greatest joys also end up becoming the cause of their innumerable sadness. #under editing#

This was originally going to be the sequel to A Daughter of Gotham where Nadia was the Riddler. Instead of riddles, she would leave poems at the scene of her crimes, with clues to her identity. She would never be caught, but Bruce would know. I decided not to write the story, but here are the poems.

He watches people. Their smiles. Their kindness. Their honesty. He believes silence keeps him untouched-until someone looks back. Someone sees through the mask he never thought he wore, forcing him to question what remains when you observe life instead of living it. A psychological coming-of-age story about identity, quiet alienation, and the danger of being invisible for too long. Some masks hide you. Others erase you. A slow-burn psychological story intended for mature young adult readers. This is a slow, introspective story. It focuses on psychology, silence, and subtle moments rather than action. If you enjoy stories that make you uncomfortable in a quiet way-this is for you. #1 in silence #1 in perception

What does it mean to feel like a stranger in your own life? To carry a quiet ache that weighs heavier than your own bones? To watch days blur into numbness, waiting for a sky that never seems to answer? This is the raw, unspoken space where disconnection settles deep-where existence feels borrowed, and every breath is just... surviving. But what happens when that ache becomes a whisper? When the walls of the familiar start to crack? This is the trembling edge where courage takes root-where the fear of staying becomes louder than the fear of falling. Where the choice to feel-to run, to laugh, to savor light and shadow-becomes an act of quiet rebellion. This is a journey through two landscapes: One of profound alienation. One of radical belonging. For anyone who's ever felt invisible-and dared to claim their place in the sun anyway.

The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [letʁɑ̃ʒe], lit. 'The Foreigner'), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels to be published, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and after the killing.Camus completed the initial manuscript by May 1941, with revisions suggested by André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Raymond Queneau that were adopted in the final version. The original French-language first edition of the novella was published on 19 May 1942, by Gallimard, under its original title; it appeared in bookstores from that June but was restricted to an initial 4,400 copies, so few that it could not be a bestseller. Even though it was published during the Nazi occupation of France, it went on sale without censorship or omission by the Propaganda-Staffel. Considered a classic of 20th-century literature, The Stranger has received critical acclaim for Camus's philosophical outlook, absurdism, syntactic structure, and existentialism (despite Camus's rejection of the label), particularly within its final chapter. Le Monde ranked The Stranger as number one on its 100 Books of the 20th Century. In Le Temps it was voted the third best book written in French in the 20th and 21st century by a jury of 50 literary connoisseurs. The novella has twice been adapted for film: Lo Straniero (1967) and Yazgı (2001), has seen numerous references and homages in television and music (notably "Killing an Arab" by The Cure), and was retold from the perspective of the unnamed Arab man's brother in Kamel Daoud's 2013 novel The Meursault Investigation. FULL VERSION

In a small town on the coast of Rhode Island, a mysterious new form of life appears between the rocks of Stemton. Stevie soon discovers this new life form on a morning frustration walk, and soon discovers how the fate of the world is to come. This story is a work in progress, there will be new chapters published weekly. :)

what i have done to deserve this

Gabriele ha un potere speciale ed è quello di vivere attraverso gli altri. Ciò che vedono gli altri lo vede anche lui e ciò che risentono gli altri lo risente anche lui. Conosce la vita di un mucchio di gente, quindi, ma ciò non viene senza sacrificare qualcosa e nel caso di Gabriele a fare da agnello sacrificale è la sua di vita. A 35 anni Gabriele si ritrova però privato di questa capacità ed è perciò costretto a vivere nel proprio corpo. Giostrarsi in un'esistenza completamente vuotata di rapporti e senza risultati degni di nota non è però così semplice. Tra suo fratello che lo odia, sua madre che lo vede come un fallimento personale, Anna che vive a centinaia di chilometri di distanza e Giulia che non l'ha mai veramente provato a capire, sua nipote Francesca è l'unica a stargli accanto. In questo clima Gabriele si racconta e attraverso sé stesso rivela le difficoltà che le relazioni presentano e la paura onnipresente della solitudine e della propria incomunicabilità. Il tutto senza mai smettere di provare a costruirsi in quanto persona e a ritrovare quel rapporto all'altro che fino ad allora aveva rifiutato.

A short story about a boy who discovers an interesting ability.

John Autumn suffers from depression due to his alienation from people and lack of meaningful bonds. As his summer nears its end he recollects his superficial relationships and what a meaningful relationship means to life

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