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1) I Once Was
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Two groups of people, maligned and sometimes despised. Two groups of people that live and exist amongst us in the cities we have created to feed our enterprise. We try our best not to see them for they remind us of our failures and mistakes; the thin line that divides us from their fate. To see them is to remember that they too have feelings, just as we do. They have stories to tell, just as we do. Out of one such story, we find a boy - a boy born...
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Born privileged in Afghani society, a young man retains his innocence despite the expectations to pursue a tainted ambition. He drifts through life in the challenging streets of Kabul until an accidental encounter with his family's enigmatic patron and the daughter, who becomes his wife. Love blossoms from the start. Oblivious to endemic corruption, Abdul enjoys his bride and the illicit Spanish music and dance she introduced. The fickle winds of...
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Born in poverty between the two world wars, a young village boy soon loses his father at the tender age of four. With hardly any means to feed her seven children, his mother takes a risk and relocates her entire family to the uncertainty of the city of Genoa. This boy grows into a man, piling the responsibilities that his father would have carried onto his young shoulders. This mind-set to stand in his father's stead affects him strongly throughout...
4) Penance
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The world is changing. Faster than anyone could have possibly imagined. One man and his family, living in the rural countryside are caught up in the cataclysmic events. Without many choices available to them, they flee in the hope of finding help and safety in the cities beyond the mountains. Their journey there is arduous and filled with frightening and life-threatening dangers. On the way, a child is born who will become the last hope of all humankind....
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Set in the late 1970's England this story follows a disillusioned, educated and introspective young man of mixed heritage as he strives to find acceptance and meaning in his life. He submerges himself into the affairs of a marginalized people who are engaged in a daily struggle to cope with the crime-ridden sub-society in which they are trapped; victims and prey alike. He is befriended and tolerated by most, especially by Errol and Golem, even though...
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Two warriors, masters of conflict, one disciplined, stoical and focussed, the other, wild of nature, savage of disposition. Both fashioned as mankind's saviours; a powerful, jealous Krarl rejected by all, a noble Morgan responsible for future peace, still uncertain of his direction.Morgan, a supreme Battle Lord with mysterious powers, hides himself as an adviser to parochial kings. Exposed by fate, war finds him in the form of an ambitious general...
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Dominique dreams of joining the Rangers and leaving behind her homestead's claustrophobia and boredom. Every fledgling must fly the nest to become something more. Sadly, the world has only harsh lessons to teach. Had she known how desolate and soul-destroying conditions outside her community were, maybe she would have chosen to stay under the care of her relatives. But the young are forever restless, so when the Rangers finally arrive ahead of an...
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Forcefully dragged from the obscure wilderness where he was existing in isolation, hiding from the guilt of his past violent, vindictive actions, an unusual and gifted young man is plunged into the sophisticated schemes of an ambitious, powerful and unscrupulous ruler. He experiences love for the first time, heart-wrenching loss, betrayal, and the total rejection of mankind. He calls out for his talented, mystic brother, whom he knows will come without...
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Disillusioned after yet another failed attempt to establish a benign kingdom with enlightened leaders, Morgan, once Kingmaker, flees his hunters and seeks escape in his distant past. On his journey, he confronts the ruins of his life. It takes the form of broken and conquered nations. As he passes through, he battles the resurgence of the darker side of his nature. On his trail, as usual, is his savage twin, but this time his objective is different,...