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NOTHING SIGNIFICANT (English Translation): Short Stories by Roumen Tchernev

They’re demolishing our house. They marked it as part of the city plan to build apartment buildings in the neighborhood, or, to be precise, a substation for a future apartment building. A brigade of agile, low-paid construction workers nimbly crawled on the roof, sliding the shingles down a wooden trough to the ground. I stand aside and watch. My feelings are asleep. I have no memory of the roof. Only my reasoning reminds me that the roof symbolizes a safe and secure home.

That is all. I am aware of what is coming…….”Hey, get out of there quickly!” A construction worker, seemingly the foreman of the destroyers, rapidly approached me. The bulldozer quieted its rumble, and the workers surrounded me.
“You have no business being here, my friend. What is this purse? You can’t take anything from this site.”

“This used to be our house,” I replied. “I bought this purse.”

“Sure, sure, it is worthless from what I can tell, but we still have to open it up to see what’s inside.”

………..He begins to pull out my school report cards one by one: honor roll awards, a sash folded in half reading Honor Student, those same report cards, awards, and sashes that belonged to my brother, his poems, our letters from the military, university, travels, and navy tours, all starting with “My dearest mom and dad,” as well as pictures from our weddings and photos of the grandkids…

“There is nothing significant in here,” says the construction worker. “You can keep it.”

I stuff all that “nothing significant” back into the purse and walk away…….Memories flood my mind, and everything around me fades away. …..Then she kissed us both and tucked the purse away. We never saw it again.

“Nothing significant,” said the foreman of the destroyers.

Download Nothing Significant by Roumen Tchernev while it’s free on Amazon April 2 – 5.

The Binding Song (Shadows of Unity Book 1) by Mira Dunne

Sable Corven hears everything. Every lie. Every secret. Every heartbeat through a wall. Classified as Minor Talent in a kingdom that ranks its mages like weapons, she has spent years being underestimated.

When she is paired with Commander Taran Valrath, a man whose gift is fire and whose presence disrupts every frequency she controls, she uncovers a conspiracy that spans all four kingdoms.

Built on a ritual that binds the soul and buries the will. Her magic is her weapon. Her voice is her weapon. The man she is falling for may be the most dangerous weapon of all.

A dark romantasy for readers who like their love interests morally complicated and their magic systems with teeth.

Download The Binding Song (Shadows of Unity Book 1) by Mira Dunne while it’s free on Amazon April 1 – 5.

Emerging From the Dark: Stroke…The Untold Stories by Terence Ang

Emerging From the Dark: Stroke…The Untold Stories is a heartfelt reflection on life after stroke.

Through real stories, honest emotions, and visual expression, it shines a light on struggle, resilience, and hope.

This is a book about being seen, being heard, and finding strength in the dark.

Download Emerging From the Dark by Terence Ang while it’s free on Amazon April 1 – 5.

Journey Into Forever by Joe Mikolay

How far would you journey to rebuild your life after losing everything?

Would you journey across the stars?

Would you journey through time?

One man’s journey will not only take him across the universe to a new world, but also across time, itself.

Journey Into Forever is an unforgettable tale of love, loss, grief, and hope for a better tomorrow.

Download Journey Into Forever by Joe Mikolay while it’s free on Amazon March 27 – 31.

Goodbye and Thank You A Pet Loss Book for Adults: Help to Deal with Heartbreak and Grief in Healthy Ways (Pet Loss Grief) by Simone Rutter

From the introduction:
My very earliest memory is an isolated, vague impression of sitting on a small concrete step against a red brick wall and patting an obliging black cat. I mentioned this to my mother many years later during a discussion of the pets we’d had in our family, as she’d just insisted that she was never partial to cats.

“Oh,” she’d replied, “that wasn’t our cat, it was one of the neighbors’. That black cat was always coming around and sitting in the sun on our porch.” Then she looked at me more narrowly. “But you were only two when we moved from that rented red brick unit into our own house. How can you remember that cat?”

Such is the profound effect of the animals that we allow into our lives; into our personal space, into our emotions and, yes, even into our very earliest memories. These are our pets, and most households in the West include furry four-footed members. Children, unless they have been conditioned by an earlier negative experience, or by overwary parental warnings, are naturally attracted by and respond to the overtures of a friendly dog or cat, and are happy to lavish their affection on them by the hour. I’m sure that was me as a two-year-old.

The irony is that while it’s conclusive that pet ownership normally bolsters the mental health and resilience of all ages, providing enormous character benefits such as compassion and responsibility, the inevitable or tragic death of a much-loved pet companion can, for some folk, bring a degree of grief that causes a journey of mental struggle.

This book is designed to give you some of the answers you need, some comfort and some tools to get through the first dark days of saying ‘Goodbye’. As you read, it will come alongside and walk with you, or help you walk with someone you know, who is going through this unique type of pain. And when you reach the end of this book, it is our prayer that you will be able to add a heartfelt whisper to your departed pet – ‘and thank you’.

Download Goodbye and Thank You A Pet Loss Book for Adults by Simone Rutter while it’s free on Amazon March 25 – 29.