Rags-To-Riches Stories

A Rivers Region Story
Farmers lives are ruled by the land they work and nature's cycles. James is the son of a farmer who's orphaned by a bushfire. He continues to live with his father's old boss, but knows he has to make his own way in life after school. Life has it's ups and downs, and many challenges for James. He leaves the farm for the Australian Army, but ends up back as a farm worker due to combat wounds. Join James as he meets many challenges and changes in his life.

16 y/o Hal Smith is a quiet, unassuming Australian teen boy with a bad knee and no dreams. Taught to help people, he does; without thinking before acting. In Year Ten in a new city and school, it's a year of living in interesting times as he's in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the right thing. He'd once dreamt of being a world athlete and had the skills to make them true, but lost them helping a stranger; and delivered a Star Performance greater than most athletes can ever do.

WWBCE follows a fourteen‑year‑old kid who stumbles into the wild world of invention, hustling, and accidental entrepreneurship. Blending coming‑of‑age misadventures, off‑beat humor, and a rags‑to‑riches arc, the story traces how a curious teenager with more imagination than resources manages to build a future one bizarre idea at a time. It’s part nostalgia trip, part tall tale, and part tribute to every kid who ever believed they could change the world with duct tape, and determination.

Once in bit you may find it, it, that piece of Heaven on Earth. The neat trick is to be able to recognize it, grab-on and hold on tight and never, ever let it go.

An Australian schoolboy discovers he can move small objects with his mind. His family moves to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA and he uses his special skill to 'win' money at casinos. His exceptional skills at winning bring him some unwanted attention from some people, including the Department of Homeland Security. He objects to their actions and soon a state of war exists between his family and the DHS (and the people behind them). The odds are heavily in favour of one side - but which side?

A Rivers Region Story
A two hundred year old Australian building is destroyed by fire when a jet taking off from the local airport is shot down. This is how the owner turns a fire gutted building of five sandstone walls back into the elegant building it once was, despite not having much cash to do it with and having to fight the state bureaucrats. It also talks about his important personal and family events during the reconstruction. The fire is very much a life changing event for the owner and his family.

David Chen is just an ordinary guy from a simple family, living a normal life. But one night changes everything. While walking his girlfriend home, David gets into a fight with Jordan Xiao, a spoiled rich kid who tries to harm his girlfriend. David fights back to protect her—but it costs him dearly. David is sent to prison for three years. His family suffers greatly while he’s gone, losing money, work, and even their health. But prison is also where David’s real story begins.

After his wife divorced him for being poor and beneath her status, he became the subject of public ridicule. Rumors spread that he had been unfaithful, claiming he was involved with other women—but none of it was true. Left completely alone, his only remaining possession is a diamond pendant, the last gift from his late mother. Yet behind his quiet suffering lies a mysterious man—an unparalleled medical genius, a master martial artist, and someone with a hidden past no one dares to uncover.

A young man named Lu Ming lives a solitary, impoverished life following the death of his mother, whose health failed after his father, Lu Yaohua, abandoned them to marry the wealthy socialite Tang Wenyi. Lu Yaohua, Tang Wenyi, and their spoiled son Lu Ze reappear only to demand that Lu Ming donate a kidney to save Lu Ze, who is dying of uremia. Their cruel and condescending approach ignites Lu Ming's long-suppressed rage. Just as he is confronted, Lu Ming activates a Superior Selection System..

Jerry Miller was betrayed and murdered by the very family he trusted in his previous life. But fate gives him a second chance. He opens his eyes to the very day his four sisters, his adopted brother, and even his beloved girlfriend, Lele Sen, falsely accuse him of sexual assault. Their plan is ruthless — destroy his reputation, force him into submission, and seize control of his billions in assets. But this time… Jerry is not the same man.