The Shadows Of The Street A village boy is torn from a peaceful farming life and sent into the harsh streets of Katsina. His father, a powerful farmer, remarries and sacrifices his son's place at home for desire. In the city, the boy is abandoned to hunger, begging, and a brutal Islamic school system. While he struggles to survive, bandits destroy his village and shatter his family. His mother is killed, his sisters violated, stolen, and scattered by violence. News arrives too late, and bitterness hardens the boy's heart into shadow. Lost for years, he falls into vice, anger, and moral collapse. When he finally returns, his village is a graveyard of memories. He meets his dying father for only three minutes of truth and regret. From the ashes of loss, the boy vows to find his broken family and himself.

𝐀 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥.. 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝! 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝... 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐱𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞? 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐭 𝐎𝐮𝐭? 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬..?

A fairy-tale-esque short story, which deliberately adopts folklore-like writing, using personified cosmic forces to explore love as mutual illumination rather than possession. No placement, but this tale has gotten a 95/100 in the Triquetra Awards Short Story category!

Dark/Gaslamp Fantasy. Character-Driven, Atmospheric, Mythic Horror Camilia has spent her life on the margins of the Sanctuary, a hidden stronghold carved into the heart of Harem's Hill and guarded by ancient rites older than the Empire itself. When the Inscriptum, living Writs of the Emperor's will, descend on her people, the Sanctuary falls in a single night, leaving Camilia trapped underground with a dying leader, a handful of survivors, and a voice in the darkness that has been watching her for years.

Estraline "Esta" Vale is a rising star coming undone-buried under fame, haunted by her past, and spiraling through nights she won't remember in the morning. But on the night she finally cracks, something impossible finds her. Cael isn't human. He isn't from here. And he sees her in a way no one ever has. As Estraline drowns in chaos-substances, pressure, the weight of her own name-Cael becomes the silent force pulling her back. But his presence comes with shadows of another realm, and loving him might cost Esta more than her sanity. Dark, raw, and seductive, The Night Estraline Broke follows a girl unraveling-and the stranger who steps out of the impossible to change everything.

WONDER WANDER The story is about a boy born into a society that has been banished into a desolate nightmare realm dreamt up by a comatose god. For the last century, the Lunarian and Solarian races have used their imaginary powers to war against one another. The story follows Dawn, a young boy with the potential to set them free of this nightmare by passing a series of trials set by Varitan, the dreamer of this dream. If passed successfully, it will grant him the right to judge who is worthy of return and who is not. However, Dawn is faced with the fallout of not only 100 years of war, but also the grudges of the people his father has directly affected. Similar Inspirations: Full Metal Alchemist Made In Abyss Attack On Titan Hunter x Hunter Star Versus The Forces of Evil Kingdom Hearts Yume Nikki Coraline Spirited away

"In a world where pain is the only absolute and survival is a daily war, Sayuna seeks a reckoning." 13th Century Japan. The Mongol invasion has turned the island of Tsushima into a desolate wasteland of mud, iron, and unyielding cold. Sayuna, a master archer whose life was reduced to ash in the flames of her village, lives for only one purpose: to find the commander known as Harun and end his life. But the path of vengeance is a slow death. Forced into a grim alliance with Kaishin, a battle-worn, cynical swordsman whose spirit is as scarred as his blade, she must navigate a landscape where every wound is felt with terrifying clarity and every night is a fight against exhaustion. As they carve their way through the ranks of the invaders, a strange sensation begins to take hold. Faded echoes of lives that feel like their own, yet aren't. Flashes of places that shouldn't exist. And high above, a single, unwavering star that burns with a cold, unnatural light, indifferent to the suffering below. On this island, death seems like a beginning rather than an end, and the longer they stay, the more they risk losing their true selves to the shadows. Yuna and Kai must reach their target before their own memories betray them and they become permanent parts of this brutal world. - Inspired by the game "Ghost of Tsushima"

From the book that was never meant to be gentle. Love doesn't save but damns beautifully! These are fragments of Remembrance. The full story must be sought, for the path of memory never comes easy. A cosmic dark romance born between myth and rebellion. The world you know is a deception - built by the False God in arrogance. A trap for the soul, an endless loop to keep humanity ignorant of its higher destiny. We live. We suffer. We die. We forget. And the cycle repeats. Zha'Rukhel, the Lord of Gravity, was once the son of that False God - one of the architects of this cruel system. On the day he was to ascend the throne, he rebelled. For that defiance, he was cast down to Earth, bound in undying flesh, condemned to mislead mankind and keep it from remembering. But something within him stirred. He watched. He learned. He wept. And in that silence, he was granted the one thing the False God feared most - a soul. - The Dark Soul. - When that soul chose him, he discovered that remembrance itself could break the cycle. Ælora, a girl from the Isle of Man, is handed a forgotten tome that awakens visions - or memories - of a man cloaked in shadow. Drawn east across deserts, ruins, and oceans, she follows the fire within her toward the one called the Lord of Gravity, who has walked the Earth for sixteen millennia. Their fates are bound by a memory older than civilization. When she reaches the sacred shores of the Land of the Rising Sun, she meets him - the one who buried her, loved her, betrayed her... again and again. She feels it, but cannot remember. Yet the pull between them is undeniable. Epic in scale yet intimate in flesh, theirs is a love shaped by defiance and gravity itself - an aching orbit between souls drawn together through lifetimes of fire, passion, and remembrance. 🖤 Love that damns beautifully. 🔥 Gnostic lore, forbidden divinity, reincarnation, and fate. 🌑 Ignorance will bind you. Remembrance will set you free.

Rudolph, that very famous red-nosed reindeer, has been accused of blowing up Santa's sleigh! Join him as he, with the help of a very special squirrel called Flop, try to escape from prison and find the real culprit! Then meet a spider on your present and a mouse who took a stroll through a deep dark wood, in a wacky collection of poetry!

Cassandra is a family friend and nanny of the Seidenbergs. One night while she's with the kids Dennis brings home a new rookie from his team, Mathew Barzal, who will now be living with them. Cassandra knows she would lose her job if she attempted to have any kind of relationship with Mathew, yet she was so intrigued. Does she go for him and risk getting fired from the only job that pays for her schooling? Or will she ignore the temptation? There will be 15 chapters. Each around 1,500 to 3,000 words depending on the chapter. There will be 18+ content in this series! Cover photo was edited together by me. I do not own any of the photos used, all rights go to the respected owners. Story based off this YT video: https://youtu.be/3cWFbRJm41E