What if turning 70 meant vanishing—literally?

In a future where age is a liability, people over 70 simply… disappear. No funerals. No goodbyes. Just...

You Better Not Get Old by Yomi Akinode

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You Better Not Get Old

What if turning 70 meant vanishing—literally?

In a future where age is a liability, people over 70 simply… disappear. No funerals. No goodbyes. Just silence.

When decorated FBI Agent Berlin Yords is given a simple assignment to find people who vanish without a trace on their 70th birthday, she refuses to let the mystery die.
Her search uncovers a...

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The Mafidon Inheritance

“Some treasures are worth killing for—others, worth dying for.”

Kidnapped and released, a man discovers he’s been used as bait in the hunt for a priceless heirloom. His freedom sparks a dangerous chain of events: old friends reunite after thirty years, a reckless cousin implicates his uncle in theft, and a powerful politician hides a smuggling...

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Yharo & Odin

Los Angeles is a city of contradictions—wealth and poverty, hope and despair, brilliance and brutality. For two brothers, it’s a battlefield for survival.

One brother suffers from testicular cancer, racing against time to find a cure he can’t afford. The other, a gifted computer genius twisted by kyphosis, is trapped between his brilliance and...

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Blog

We wake up with plans to execute for the day, whether well-thought-out or jumbled.

But for authors, not after the mighty dollar... thoughts are endless, even when asleep. I dare anyone to contradict this. Okay, I joke!

Authors are dedicated thinkers who wonder about those 'fabricated' prose. And I mean fabricate in the best sense of the word. Although 'compose' would be a better word choice. I digress.

Authors see the possibility of stories everywhere and subconsciously align them systematically...

Words Words are an author's most valuable currency, traded for passion,

Words are an author's most valuable currency, traded for passion, enthusiasm, love, money, and fame. Alas, I usually eat words for breakfast only to choke on them at dinner.

Certain words have ways of humbling us, especially those whose first language is not English.

Idiom

Allegory

Metaphor

Simile

Analogy

Figurative

Literal

Blah blah blah


What's challenging is not their meaning but their appropriate application in storytelling.

I don't intend to explain these words, but to encourage your curiosity. The...

Stuff? Yeah! We are all categorized, to various degrees, as hoarders by

We are all categorized, to various degrees, as hoarders by minimalists and scanty by those on the opposite extreme.

Stay with me for a moment.

Imagine you're downtown LA in the late '60s and find yourself in an old bookstore surrounded by shelves and shelves of books with multicolored spines announcing the delights forthcoming in the titles.

You find a spot on the floor, surrounded by literary treasures, and pull out a book that catches your eye. As you start to lose yourself in its pages,...

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