🏆Featured on Wattpad ×4 ************** "She's weird." "She isn't the same person she was years ago." "She's probably faking it to get clout." She is me. I am she. Want a guide to failing to live up to your family's high standards for you? A guide to being a "misunderstood piece of shit"? A guide to being the most "not straight" student at school? A guide to being a social outcast? A guide to pissing off your overly Christian parents? A guide to failing to get together with your long time crush? Well hop right in! I have the exact guide you're looking for. Ladies and gentlemen, this is How To NOT Be Straight.

❝it's 3am, what do you want?❞ ❝there's a roach in my room, kill it for me?❞ 〤 Alvin, despite being 24 years of age, is terrified of bugs. Which is why he resorts to forcing the alluringly mysterious boy next door into killing them for him when roaches start showing up in his apartment. 〤 COVER BY: @lucidmelancholy started; 7/22/2020

#WINNER OF WATTPAD INDIA AWARDS 2021 (MATTERS OF HEART CATEGORY) Veritas is one of the oldest most popular newspapers in India, having been established prior to Independence. Born into a family of hard hitting columnists, Anita is a woman who has been raised on facts and logistics. And she knows the manner in which they must be presented to the world. And thus, as far was the world was concerned, Anita Sinha had had two accidents . One landed her in a wheelchair for a year when she was twenty-two. The other, several decades apart was a plane crash that killed her. But in between those two, another one lay, unheard of. In the year of her first accident, Anita was sent to England for rest and recovery. Amidst the process what ensued was a dangerous and passionate affair with the art teacher at the nearby St. Anne's school. Women who fall in love are frowned upon, Anita knew. But what happened to women who fell in love with women? This is India in the seventies, when Emergency raged on in the country. This is the seventies when bell bottoms and flared jeans were the rage in the world. This is the story of a woman who fell in love with a woman. Section 377 was decriminalised only in 2018; but even prior to that wasn't love just love? The story that didn't make it to the headlines. ( 59,000 WORDS )

○°●°☆•°~ She turned around after cursing her life out and froze. If a soul ever left a body without dying, it was in that moment that happened for Zara. For a moment she forgot how to breathe and her eyes widened in shock. There, sitting in her living room, were seven unfamiliar people. Three of them sat on her couch, two on the chairs from her kitchen, one was sitting on the floor while one was sitting on the only recliner she owned. They were all staring at her with different emotions and Zara felt her blood run cold. -_-_-_-_- Zara Romano, a fifteen year old sarcastic ball of intelligence, is thrown into a whole different world after discovering she has brothers and a father. The young teen whose main struggles were to get through school and pay rent on time is now faced with situations she never anticipated. From a big family to people after her life, you name it. Follow her on this journey of guns, family, sibling fights, coding and baking. And oh, don't forget her hedgehog, Nugget.

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[BXB] in which a boy leaves his love letters in the wrong person's locker. ↬ Kairo Alden has been pining for fellow classmate Alexandria Miller for as long as he can remember. Finally, with some persuasion from his friends, he decides to step out of his comfort zone and leave love letters in her locker. Only problem? He ends up leaving them in Alexander Rhodes' locker instead. milestones: 6/25/20 - #3 in bxb 7/03/20 - #3 in QUESTIONING 7/06/20 - #3 in LGBTQ 7/06/20 - #2 in QUESTIONING

Let's get one thing straight: satin is NOT silk. Don't be fooled by its flimsy ability to reflect light, so glossy that it's blinding and migraine inducing. If there's one thing Alex Han knows, it's that satin is made up of 100% polyester, lies, and betrayal. It's his eighteenth birthday and all he wanted was to enjoy the pleasures of being adorned in a dainty silk ball gown. You could imagine the anger he felt when his mandatory tailcoat and pleated pants for the night were made purely of the dreaded devil's cloth. But hey, maybe this was the world's cruel way of telling him that he truly was what he wore. started | 12.29.19

Ansh simply can't navigate logic between the coiled grooves of his brain. Sometimes he wishes to be a woman and other times, he wishes to transgress boundaries of gender and become a synthesis of all the mistiness he feels inside. Feeling entirely 'man' is the last thing his heart can agree with. Ansh is confused. How does he articulate his feelings to the boy he has come to live with? - - - Features a uranic/mascic and non-binary (bigender) lead with elements of the agender identity, a non-heterosexual cisgender love interest, descricbes typical responses of a person with an avoidant attachment style, all while being Indians and set in India. #Featured on the FreeTheLGBT page under the Diverse Lit reading list. #Featured on Wattpad India's Pride 2021 reading list.

Jack Robinson is a little more than world-crushingly-in-love with Nolan Skinner, who is well-known for being both stoic as well as intense. He knows Nolan feels the same way - but, is it enough to guarantee them working out? Jack wants a lot of things. None of them as badly as Nolan. - An entry for @lgbtq 's Song Fiction Challenge; based on "Lemon Boy" by the artist Cavetown.