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Conflict and Connection
INSPIRED TO WRITE. WRITE TO INSPIRE.
Narrative imagining — story — is the fundamental instrument of thought. We compose ideas that grow into one big story.
NOVEL
Mr. Browning: A Guy Had Many Names
A Most rebellious time travel story, this is the awakening journey of Justin Browning, a divorced womanizer and wayward narcissist who travels through his past.
This bizarre story of Justin and Electra, who had encountered at ER as a patient and a doctor. Since then, they started time travel together as a passenger and a pilot. Impossible but true because Electra is a person who lives in a different epoch, and she is capable of bending time. But her appearances are spontaneous, mostly making Justin feel urgent and embarrassing. Mr. Browning depicts the effects of time travel on Justin's awakening journey that takes him on an incredible course—the 114,507th reincarnation. Justin and Electra's astonishing contact captures the highlight of Justin's previous lives that tests the purpose of his current life.
Sci-fi / Paranormal / Urban Fantasy
SHORT COLLECTION
A Little Peculiar Bedtime Stories
Welcome to A Little Peculiar Bedtime Stories a collection of short stories.
This collection of short stories is about undescribable phenomena that we often believe as bizarre coincidences. Every little piece would take readers to the most realistic fantasy world before dreaming the dreams.
Including the following nine stories:
The Dream Snapshot / Hello, I Am Dr. Isis
Roro Sisters / The Cicada
The Handler of Flying Monkeys / The Ocean View Room
The Aquatic Life on the Earth / Paranoia
The Nightmare Devourer
SHORT STORY
The Nightmare Devourer
Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep―and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Really?
Jong-Min is a caregiver who took care of an old, eccentric patient. After a series of terrible dreams that started one day, he eventually finds a psychiatrist. Dr. Hwangbo, Jong-Min's old friend and psychiatrist, is obliged to prescribe sleeping pills to Jong-Min's persistent demands. However, despite taking sleeping pills, Jong-Min's ordeal continues. Then, one day, a child named Tori appears out of the blue and makes an absurd offer to eat Jong-Min's nightmare. Jong-Min accepts Tori's bizarre proposal, thinking there is no harm in doing it...
Mystery / Suspense / Thriller / Supernatural
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
Black Cape
A short story about a bird discovers his true look that makes everyone happy, but himself.
Black Cape lives on a remote island that it’s called Paradise Island. Everyone loves Black Cape because he is kind, charming, and funny. Especially, all admire his amazing dancing skills. One day, Black Cape overhears the compliments about him, and he approaches the crowds. But no one recognizes Black Cape! Black Cape has no idea why his friends don’t remember him. A parrot gives him a shiny shell after she sees that Black Cape’s sad-looking face. Short after, Black Cape finally can see the real look of himself that he has never seen before!
<Black Cape> is an episode of a series of fairy tales based on nature, <Paradise Island Friends>.
Comedy / Humor
RELATED SUBJECTS: Friends and Friendship / Animals / Self Love
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
Knock, Knock - “Who’s there?”
A story about a little girl and her grandmother’s lovely relationship with the ‘Knock Knock’ jokes.
Ara learns the ‘Knock Knock’ jokes from her uncle, and she starts playing with her grandma. Are and her grandma loves playing the jokes together every day. One day grandma doesn’t remember how to play the jokes out of the blue. Ara decides to create a new game for her grandma, and it works! Ara also finds why grandma doesn’t remember the ‘Knock Knock’ jokes. Ara truly believes that Melody (her toy sea horse) can bring her grandma’s memory back. So Ara starts taking good care of her Melody day and night.
Drama / Fantasy
RELATED SUBJECTS: Families and Relationships / Family Members
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
Mukki and Lallo
A small tale about root and mushroom's precious friendship.
Mukki lives in a very very dark forest so he only can see the black. Mukki always wonders what the rainbow looks like. One day Mukki makes a new friend! His name is Lallo, and Lallo helps Mukki to see the world through his heart, not through his eyes. Mukki finally can see the rainbow!
Drama / Fantasy
RELATED SUBJECTS: Friends and Friendship
SHORT STORY
Ocean View Room
A woman who traveled alone across the Pacific Ocean to celebrate her last 30s birthday disappeared at a mysterious hotel on a remote island.
A small island that arrives after more than 10 hours of flight. She is very disappointed at the hotel check-in that she doesn't have an ocean view room. In addition, the room number is '39'. The number she hates most. I'm starting to get interested in her finding an old hotel that doesn't even have an elevator.
I look at her things while she leaves the hotel room. I collect information about her and figure out why she found this hotel. In particular, it is her thirty-ninth birthday. I decide to do housekeeping as a small birthday present. However, she gets upset after finding a neatly tidy room when she comes back…
Mystery / Suspense / Thriller / Supernatural
SHORT STORY
Roro Sisters
A story of sisterhood ever told.
Aro and Miro, two wildly intelligent and hilarious sisters who navigate life from opposite ends of every point of view. They ignore each other and just don’t happen to like each other very much. On the surface a recounting of one family’s untold secret. Also, their survival story.
Mystery / Suspense / Thriller / Supernatural
NOVEL
The Gift Shop
What if your Genie comes out of the coffin, instead of the magic lamp?
Rusty is broke and (almost) homeless since his parents kick him out of their house. So Rusty ends up living in the hearse that his dead uncle, Charlie inherits. Rusty receives a peculiar headless doll as a gift from Julong. Ever since Rusty possesses an old Chinese doll, extremely strange things start happening around him.
Mystery / Suspense / Thriller / Supernatural
Currently in progress.