Newly divorced, forty-nine, mildly menopausal, with free-range boobs chanting no cage, no shame in cahoots with an unsupportive bra that snapped in the Woolies freezer aisle. Living wildly she packs a bag (and a box of wine) and leaves it all behind. From caravan park showers to karaoke catastrophes, beach epiphanies to bra meltdowns, this is midlife mayhem in full, unfiltered Australian colour. If you've ever: • cried in a Woolies, • yelled "I am NOT lost!" at a family BBQ, • or wondered if your life was a chickpea salad no one asked for - this slice-of-life comedy will feel like coming home in the weirdest, warmest way. This isn't a comeback. It's a slow-motion cartwheel into middle-aged mayhem. It's not about bouncing back. It's about bouncing forward - boobs, baggage, bad decisions and all. A funnywoman tale of menopause, misadventures, and messy self-discovery. One VB at a time.

In a quiet Tokyo elementary school, Aika-deaf, withdrawn, and new to the classroom-just wants to blend into the background. Ren, a boy who sketches time to time, doesn't know what to feel. But when his friends push him into bullying her, he listens. And everything begins to fall apart. One cruel moment spirals into tragedy. Aika disappears from school. Ren is blamed, abandoned, and left with nothing but guilt. Five years pass. Now seventeen, Ren is quieter. Older. Changed. But trying. He studies visual art, working to atone and make amends. Until one day on a train, he sees her again. This is a bittersweet coming of age romance story about childhood scars, growing through silence, and the possibility of redemption. It's not a romance built on easy tropes. It's about earning... finding love again where the pain first bloomed.

In an authoritarian right-wing America of the 2000's, two girls, Chloe and Eden become close friends and try to live their lives in a society that wants everything they stand for to crumble at it's core. But as they further into their friendship, they start to contemplate if these feelings are really platonic or if they've found a relationship that can warm them from the cold judgement of the outside world? Find out in Beneath The Surface: A FernHill County Story...

Thoughts- for those feelings I failed to express in everything and yet stayed quiet enduring and keeping it all to myself, trapped in both my mind and heart and now I find it overwhelming. A space to let out and be heard.

Teachers are notoriously underpaid and overworked despite being such a crucial occupation. They are responsible for the education of millions of people regardless of age or maturity. They are entrusted to take care of children when parents are unable to, and they are expected to provide the best education for their students. Even when they are off the clock, teachers are still working. They grade, they plan, and they care. Students never really think about what goes on in their teachers' lives. They do not spare a single thought about it, and they are shocked when they see that their teachers have lives outside of the classroom and the school. For students, when passing periods come, it just means that they have five minutes to go from one class to another. It was different for teachers. Passing periods were their five minutes of calm, and it gave them brief time to decompress and catch a breather. At Astrarium Institution, teachers are properly paid for the work they have to carry. The institution had long passing periods to compensate for how vast the school was. It was practically a college with its layout, but the high school was known for dominating sports, fine arts, and academics. Their success as a school would not be achievable without their faculty's impact on the students. For the teachers at Astrarium, passing periods gave a glimpse into their lives. ***** Please note that this story is set in an entirely fictional universe that takes themes from omegaverse, and this world has its own continents, and cities. Continents are referred to as Kingdoms. Countries are known as Provinces with their own cities and towns. Warnings: Mpreg, Smut, and Heavy Subjects such as discussions of miscarriage Started: 12. 12. 2025 Completed:

Ariel Monica Sanders, age 13 has been trying to manage her slice of life but turns upside down by a whirlwind of chaos and tragedy losing her parents and grandparents at the Sametime and has to take care of herself even though CPS wants her into. Foster care she refuses the option and continues to go to her family's church to find truth in all of this.

The Synopsis: A Different Kind of Lesson Alijah Chō, the 5'4" transfer student with amber eyes, sits quietly in the back of the classroom. When the "Queen" of the class tries to test him with her usual cold, panties-flashing display, Alijah immediately shields his eyes, his neurodivergent traits making his discomfort clear. He tells her honestly, "I don't want to see them if it makes you feel like an object." This rejection of the "pervert" role stuns her. She realizes he sees her as a person, leading to a deep conversation where her cold stare turns into a genuine, blushing confession of interest.

Lucius Lopez is the famous writer who goes by the name, "Lax Lily." His works are recognized for heavy and mesmerising poetical statements as seen from objects. On the other note, he is also a simple college student who doesn't like attention. To get on with his schedule as a famous figure, he hired his cousin, Lewis, to be the face of Lax Lily to go on his interviews and book signing events so he won't have to deal with the crowd. Unfortunately, his plan is being tested when Annatalia Jimenez, a fan of his, coincidentally enrolled to his school and met both of him and his cousin. Instead of flowery and metaphorical phrases, his life starts to fill up with anxiety and panic statements such as - "What should I do with her?!"

Let's be honest: not every important person in your life is going to stick around. Some of the most meaningful connections you'll ever have are the brief ones. The stranger on a park bench who listens to a secret you've never told anyone. The person you meet on a night you can't sleep, who makes you feel understood for the first time in years. These stories are about those people. They take place in the quiet hours- in all-night diners, on empty city streets, in the fluorescent hum of a hospital waiting room. They're about love that doesn't have time to fully bloom, grief you share with a kind stranger, and the moments that hit you hard and then disappear. They're also about the part that comes after: the quiet goodbyes. No drama. No promises broken. Just two people walking away, carrying a piece of each other with them. We Were Brief, But We Were Real is a reminder that the shortest encounters can leave the longest echoes. It's a book for anyone who believes that meaning isn't measured in time, but in impact. Some people don't stay. But they stay with us.

Rasmus, frontman of the rising indie band Rouhi, is slowly unraveling. Amid growing fame and mounting pressure, he's haunted by a quiet emptiness he can't explain. When a devastating betrayal breaks him completely, Ras walks away from everything-music, love, and himself. In a quiet town by the sea, he finds stillness... and people who don't ask him to be anything but real. An old man with a past, a girl with paint on her hands, and silence that heals more than it hurts. But healing isn't linear-and some echoes refuse to stay buried. The Sound of Stillness is a deeply moving novel about brokenness, beauty, and the long, uncertain path to becoming whole again. Told with lyrical prose and raw honesty, it's a story about friendship, creative freedom, and finding your way back-through music, through memory, and through the people who never stopped believing in you.