Manics!
17 stories
noneedforgoodsouls
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- Parts 5
Richey is days from vanishing. Nadia, half-forgotten by time, lands one breath too early, armed with a machine that can bend timelines but not undo trauma.
She finds him. Not gone, not dead. just broken. What follows is a quiet, furious battle against inevitability: against myth, against James, against love's ruinous echo. As memory unravels and obsession calcifies, they both realize that survival isn't about going back - it's about choosing what not to become.
Time fractures. Bridges burn. And not everyone gets out clean.
TW: Self harm (cutting) / explicit sex scenes.
noneedforgoodsouls
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- Votes 25
- Parts 6
Time fractures. A girl arrives in 1991 Cardiff claiming to be from the future. She meets the Manic Street Preachers before the myth is written. before the loss, before the rot. Richey falls. James fights. Nicky remembers. And she disappears.
This is the beginning. The first spark.
The version of history they were never meant to keep.
For the next parts:
Part 2: From Despair to Where?
Part 3: Everything Must Go
noneedforgoodsouls
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- Votes 0
- Parts 5
Richey joins the band. Loses his virginity to a stranger. Starves a little. Writes a song that feels too honest to sing. (they never performed it live)
This is how condemned to rock and roll gets written: in gig toilets, travelodges, and the space between wanting to disappear and needing to be seen.
A love letter to image, myth, and the worst years of his life.
tegansioned
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- Votes 5
- Parts 3
TRIGGER WARNING- MENTIONS OF SUICIDE, SELF-HARM, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, EATING DISORDERS
I had to write a short story about a true event that happened in my country (Wales), so I decided to write about the disappearance of the legendary Richey Edwards from the Manic Street Preachers. If this is offensive in any way I will take it down, however, I wanted to share this story as it took a long time to write and is one of my proudest works.
noneedforgoodsouls
- Reads 69
- Votes 0
- Parts 5
She is running out of jumps.
Richey is already unraveling. Carving the myth into his own skin.
She's not back. She's chasing him through time.
One year too late. One wound too early.
This is the story of the myth before it ossified, and the girl who tried to reach him before history did.
Dark_Diamond_16
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- Votes 31
- Parts 5
They never understood him.
He hid his scars behind a mask.
People never told him what was right.
They never listened.
He disappeared.
