The true life story of Captain America ★ I've always loved him with my whole life, so when he died, I died too despite my still breathing lungs and beating heart. When he reemerged, I was reborn knowing that I'd been given this power so that I might save him on this very occasion. They told me he wasn't worth saving, that he wasn't the man I once loved, but I knew when our eyes met that we still had far more in common than what separated us. If saving him is within reach, I refuse to live without him, and maybe that makes me a fool, but I have to stand up to the masquerade and do what's right. That's always been my way of fighting other people's wars, and it's high time I started fighting so devotedly for my own, too. PARAQUEL//PREQUEL TO BUCKY'S DIARY ★ installment 1 of 3 in the 'Diary' series ★ •Being Rewritten, currently updated through 12/23/34• Best rankings to date: #1 preserumsteve - (winter 2019, spring 2021) #1 gayfanfiction - (summer 2020) #1 thewintersoldier - (spring 2019) #1 skinnysteve - (fall & winter 2020, summer 2021) #3 stucky - (fall 2019) #8 endgame - (spring 2021) WARNINGS: listed within first chapter Please don't steal my book, I worked very hard on it! Originally published August 4, 2018. Republished March 15, 2025. Copyright © 2018 Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Copyright © Marvel (some characters and plot lines) I do not own any music mentioned throughout the work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Edited by Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Cover art by Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Some scenarios in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Untold ghost stories of HYDRA's metal fist ★ I've become a shell of the man I once was; my pride shattered, my valor a facade, my hope stolen. I no longer fear death but crave it. There are days when I'd sell my soul for the high they once offered me, and I know that makes me a terrible person, but I'm damned anyway. Sometimes I wonder if I could flourish in freedom, or if it would make me want to end my own life more than I already do. The darkness that shrouds my vision is something I'm not sure I could live without; sometimes being ruthless feels like the only way, brutal murder is a release for me, and now I crave violence. My life is a crooked fairytale, my dreams a dark abyss of restraint and manipulation, and my desires are a twisted shadow of what they used to be. It might seem like I need saving, but I'm not sorry, I'm not in control. PARAQUEL//SEQUEL TO STEVE'S DIARY ★ installment 2 of 3 in the 'Diary' series ★ •Completed• PLAYLIST: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/buckys-diary/pl.u-mJy8gdETzmAM62D WARNINGS: listed within first chapter Please don't steal my book, I worked very hard on it! Originally published August 19, 2021. Copyright © 2021 Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Copyright © Marvel (some characters and plot lines) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Edited by Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Cover art by Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Some scenarios in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental

The life and times of a natural born hero ★ I thought I knew what it meant to love someone, but every day I spent with him was another day I compared what we had to what my dads have had for over a century with one another. Since I'm not allowed to read their diaries yet, I've decided that staying single is the only way I'll learn to balance normalcy with saving the day, as much as I'm drawn to the new guy in my college classes. The only problem is that there's new foe terrorizing the city, and he's unlike anything we have ever dealt with before. It's a mystery why he's solely targeting the powered persons among us, but I intend to get to the bottom of it if it's the last thing I do. SEQUEL TO STEVE'S DIARY AND BUCKY'S DIARY ★ installment 3 of 3 in the 'Diary' series ★ •In Progress• WARNINGS: listed within first chapter Please don't steal my book, I worked very hard on it! Originally published December 27, 2023. Copyright © 2023 Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Copyright © Marvel (some characters and plot lines) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Edited by Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Cover art by Catherine, @James_BuchananBarnes Some scenarios in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.