Five years ago, Josephine Reed left her hometown behind without looking back. Now, after the sudden death of her mother, she's forced to return to the one place she swore she'd never call home again. With her mother's house to sort through and a lifetime of memories waiting behind every door, Josie plans to stay only long enough to settle affairs and leave. Then she runs into Ryan Taylor. Her childhood best friend. The boy she left behind. The boy who never forgave her for leaving. At first, reconnecting with Ryan feels like slipping into a familiar dream-comforting, effortless, and impossible to resist. But the longer Josie stays, the more she begins to notice things that don't quite add up. Familiar faces. Unspoken secrets. The unsettling feeling that some things in this town have been waiting for her return. And some people never learned how to let go. Because beneath the nostalgia, beneath the grief, beneath the version of the past Josie remembers, something darker has been waiting all along.

"They say some people are lessons, not lifetimes. I just didn't think I'd have to learn the same lesson twice." At nineteen, Ishaan was Aavya's entire world- the boy who promised her the stars under a Delhi sky and then vanished when things got "too serious." Four years later, he's back. He's older, more polished, and armed with the kind of apologies that sound like poetry. Aavya wants to belive in second chances. She wants to believe that the boy she loved has finally grown into the man she deserves. So, she lets him back in. But he doesn't just break her a second time- he shatters her belief that she's worth staying for. Enter Reyansh Reyansh doesn't offer grand, cinematic declarations. He offers a seat at his library table, a warm cup of cutting chai when she's spiraling, and a silence that doesn't feel lonely. While Ishaan treated her like a prize to be won, Reyansh treats her like a person to be known. In the wreckage of a broken second chance, Aavya realises that the most romantic thing a man can give isn't a promise of forever- it's staying grounded beside her.

Archive Six is collapsing. Its memory nodes are fragmenting, corruption is spreading, and the last trace of Eileen -the visionary architect behind the project- survives only as an unstable imprint. To save what remains, Luna dives into the heart of the Core: a living machine engineered to rebuild entire civilizations. But the Core cannot be restored with data alone. It needs a Breath. Hers. [To be cross-posted on Royal Road under the ID "RedMad"] [Cover by me, crafted on Canva with ressources imported from PNGwing]

For three years, Detective Lucía Reyes has been trying to catch the person behind a string of murders across Portland. Every victim is found with the same chilling detail: A carefully folded origami crane. The case has taken over most of her life, leaving little room for anything outside of work except her daughter, Chloe. Then Elena suddenly enters their routine as Chloe's new babysitter-loud, stubborn, and impossible to ignore. But while Lucía tries to keep her personal life separate from the investigation, the killer is still out there. And the cranes keep appearing. Folded Lies is a dark, suspenseful thriller about secrets, obsession, and the fine line between love and danger.

some people meet in coffee shops. izel and caleb meet in hospital hallways where the doors don't lock. izel is unraveling- haunted by a home that was never a sanctuary and a past that won't stay buried. caleb is a ghost in his own life, surviving on routines that keep his heart beating but leave his soul cold. they find each other in the quiet spaces between breakdowns: over vending machine coffee, in sterile therapy rooms, and in group tai chi sessions. what they build together is fragile, fierce, and terrifyingly real. this is a story about love that feels like rescue and hope that arrives a second too late. because sometimes, no matter how hard you fight for the surface-the ice still breaks.