When her therapy app accidentally sends Riley's private confessions to a random British expat - and his to her - what began as a glitch quickly evolves into the kind of intimacy that can only exist between strangers. A slow-burn contemporary romance. * * * When a company health initiative forces Riley Markle to download a trendy mental health app, she fills out the onboarding survey without much thought, expecting to get paired with a virtual gym buddy who'll send thumbs-up emojis twice a week. Instead, she gets paired with Joe, a lonely British expat whose wellness concern of Compulsive Behaviors is flagged by the AI system as a perfect match for Riley. Riley resolves to complete her month of check-ins and be done with it - until a glitch in the app sends both her and Joe's embarrassing therapy videos to each other instead of their therapist. Soon, Riley and Joe are talking late into the night, exchanging thirst-trap videos of their weekend routines by day, and thinking about each other constantly. Both are smitten, both are broken, and neither of them knows how to do this without destroying each other. The plan: Limit all communication to the app until after Day 30, then see where things go. But plans change. * * * 🏆 High Rankings: #1 in LITERARY #1 in QUICKREAD #1 in NEWENGLAND #1 in SHORTCHAPTERS (out of 38,000 stories) #3 in EPISTOLARY #87 in ROMCOM (out of 35,000 stories) #147 in ROMANTIC (out of 86,000 stories) Updated November 2025

Caelan is dangerous in ways that aren't loud. He keeps himself contained because he believes it's the only way anyone stays safe. Riven becomes the witness to that control-and to what happens when it falters. This is a slow, intimate story about restraint, fracture, and the cost of staying after something breaks. *I post two chapters every Thursday. Might be at different times, but Thursday will always happen.* TRIGGER WARNINGS: trauma • panic attacks • dissociation • violence (non-graphic) • emotional distress • PTSD • past child soldier experiences Author note: This story engages with trauma and its aftermath in a serious, intentional way. I've done my best to portray these experiences with care and respect, not as a spectacle or shorthorthand, but as something lived and carried. Please read at your own pace and take care of yourself. Thank you for being here.

A career sales professional stumbles upon an opportunity only to regret it later.

Bound by a cursed ruby, his spirit haunts a black Dodge Challenger-seeking revenge and protecting the wife he loved.

Set in San Diego, CA, 1998, this is a lighthearted story following a young Indian software engineer's humorous battle against cultural isolation and his culinary nemesis: the endlessly boring khichdi.

When I saw him I thought it's not same as before but little did I know..

She woke to a world washed in silver. The clouds hung low, heavy with secrets. And when the rain began, soft, deliberate. She welcomed it like an old friend. But this morning wasn't like the others. Between the drops, she saw them. Tiny beings, born of shimmer and storm. Fairies. Real ones. They moved like the rain itself knew how to keep them hidden. And in that quiet wonder, something ancient stirred. Everyone else rushed past, umbrellas raised, eyes down. No one noticed. Except her. One fairy remained. Still, glowing, watching her like it had been waiting. When she whispered, "Hello," the world began to shift. But the rain wasn't the only thing falling that day. A parcel was coming. A diary that writes back. A demon who already knows her name. And a truth her father buried long ago. The past isn't sleeping. It's waking up.

What happens when two people learn to read what words can't say? Diya, a sharp and composed business graduate, joins Vishwakarma Institute to understand the art her father only ever measured in profits. Samarth, an architect and guest faculty who speaks more through sketches than sentences, teaches there. He carries a past that silence has shaped. Their paths cross not through romance, but through recognition of restraint, ambition, and unspoken hurt. When Silence Speaks is a slow-burn story about what's left unsaid, about people who listen better than they talk - and how connection doesn't always need noise.

Book 1 of "𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐐 𝐀𝐔𝐑 𝐑𝐀𝐀𝐇" series INAYA'S POV Before me, he sits. After 7 long years-7 years of absence, he shows up. Yet, when I study his eyes, I find nothing but unfamiliarity. His once warm, brown orbs are now veiled with darkness, devoid of any emotions, with a coldness that chills the air. His rosy pink pigmented lips, which once used to mold in a tender curve in my presence, now refuse to smile. Am I looking at the same person? How can his face be so familiar, yet his essence a mystery? Is he the same person-the Ishaan I once loved? The love that remained unspoken seven years ago, the love that refuses to fade? Is he truly the Ishaan Shekhawat that resides in my memories, or a specter of the past, wearing a guise of indifference over the soul I once knew? Started on: 21 December 2023 Ended on: 21 December 2024 #2 in the top 10 India on 9/10/24 # 2 in the top 10 India on 10/10/24 #1 in the top 10 India on 11/10/24 #4 in desi love story on 4/11/24 #5 in friendship on 10/12/24 #2 in friendship on 14/12/24 #1 in angstwithhappyending on 23/1/25 #1 in amnesia on 5/2/25 #1 in office on 25/4/25 #2 in office on 12/5/25 #1 in grumpy on 12/6/25 #4 in friendstolovers 1/10/25