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The Shape of Home

"The Shape of Home" is a deeply intimate journey centered on Corrine. A young girl whose early years are steeped in the warmth and simplicity of familial love, yet inevitably shadowed by the harsh truths of the world around her. The tranquility of Corrine’s childhood begins to shift, shattering announcement fractures the household. This moment marks the slow waning of childhood innocence and the dawning realization that home is not always a haven free from pain. The challenges Corrine faces extend far beyond the disruption of her parents’ marriage. The story courageously explores the dark and insidious threat of child grooming, a silent danger lurking at the edges of her young life. This thread of vulnerability is rendered with subtlety and emotional truth. Highlighting Corrine’s precarious position as she grapples with fear, loyalty, and the urgent need for protection. Alongside this personal threat is the oppressive weight of cultural expectations. In a world where broken families are stigmatized as "fallen," Corrine and those around her bear the harsh judgment of a society that sees fractured homes not just as personal tragedy but as moral failure. This unforgiving tradition imposes a heavy burden, isolating Corrine and compounding the scars left by family upheaval. The story’s lens also captures the adult realm, particularly through Corrine's experience in her early adulthood of the ruthless and often unforgiving landscape of office politics. Her struggles with workplace betrayals and power plays reveal another layer of tension that exacerbates family strains. This parallel narrative underscores the way external pressures can infiltrate and unravel domestic life, reminding us that the battles fought in professional arenas often echo loudly at home. Throughout these trials, the novel lays bare the raw realities of identity, belonging, and resilience. Corrine’s journey is not only about enduring hardship but also about the small, hard-won victories that slowly reshape her understanding of what home truly means. It is a place shaped by love and loss, endurance and hope. "The Shape of Home" paints a nuanced and human portrait of coming of age amid fractured relationships and cultural constraints, confronting difficult truths while searching for light in the shadows.
chomzky · 510 Views

A War for a Place to call Home: First blood

Sarus Fortress is a titanic bastion of stone, steel, and sorrow—an ever-expanding bulwark built by the Bullard Empire to encircle the accursed island at the world's end. Beneath that island’s ashen skies lie the shattered hearts and skulls of three dead gods, whose corpses still fester with divine malice. From them crawl endless horrors—monstrosities birthed from madness and spite—that claw relentlessly at the walls of reality, seeking to unmake all mortal life. To sustain the fortress and fund the eternal war, the empire long ago enacted the Tithe: a grim tradition that claims lives in lieu of taxes, conscripting men, women, and children alike into the grinding teeth of its war machine. Here, survival depends not only on strength, but on adaptation. Soldiers wield heirlooms that are passed through blood , channel blessings from careless gods, command alien spirits, and harness Mori—the lingering essence of the dead. Through the Bonding ritual that is performed by the followers of the great unison the graft the flesh of the enemy onto their own in desperate bids for power is common place . And yet, despite all this, the dead gods’ corruption spreads. This is the tale of five conscripts claimed by the Tithe—five souls bound not by blood or banner, but by the absence of home. A salt miner who murdered his kin to claim their mori-born magic. A disgraced noblewoman clawing her way back from exile with charm, spite, and ambition. A glass-winged pixie the size of a thimble, who named herself after her favorite animal and chose to follow humans out of love. A disillusioned blessed Apothecary who seeks a purpose as he lost his. A Veteran soldier born into the Fortress who has undergone the Bonding more times than she can remember, all to live up to the memories of her parents. Together, they are thrown into the gullet of war not as saviors, but as offerings. Whether they will survive—or change the shape of the world in their struggle—is a story still unfolding beneath the an unending sky.
Duckspuck · 4K Views
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