SlowBurn
3 stories
A Year of Salt and Light by RinaLavert
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Three foreign girls take on a hotel internship in Guam, expecting sunshine, easy money, and a year away from their real lives. Instead, they get thrown into a high-pressure resort environment where everything is performative - the smiles, the service, the relationships. The story follows Kira, who didn't choose hospitality out of passion but as a way out. She's structured, observant, and not particularly interested in people- until she is, and it destabilizes everything. Around her, friendships start to shift. Lines blur between loyalty and self-interest. There's interracial romance, messy entanglements, cheating, emotional abuse, and the slow unraveling of who these girls thought they were versus who they become in a place where no one really knows them. It's part coming-of-age, part relationship drama, set against the artificial paradise of a resort on a tropical island.
When silence meets storm by author_aaruuu
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"Odh ke dhaani....preet ki chaadar, aaya tere sheher mai....raanjha tera" "Ho....sheesh mehel na, mujhko suhaaye, tujh sang sukhi....roti bhaaye..." Akshara Deshpande had a plan. 1.Study hard 2.Stay out of trouble 3.Survive college Then she met Siddarth Oberoi. The college owner's son. Campus menace. Every teacher's headache and every student's worst nightmare. Akshara can't stand him. He is entitled, rich, popular, arrogant. Everything she seems to hate. Siddarth can't stop noticing her. Her, the only girl who dares speak up to his face. What starts as constant arguments turns into something neither of them expected, especially when a cheating scandal, anonymous threats, and dangerous secrets begin surfacing within the college walls. Now they're stuck between solving a mystery, surviving each other, and pretending their hearts aren't getting involved. Now, you'd think it'd be easy.... But that'd only be possible if Siddarth Oberoi stopped looking at her like she's something worth protecting. ~Sometimes, the people we claim to hate the hardest are the ones most difficult to let go of. #1 in oppositesattract (20.04.26)
The Shape of His Absence by AllTheLoveKatXx
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She arrives in the city hoping to disappear. After her older brother's sudden death, Katherine leaves behind the only home she has ever known, carrying nothing but grief and the belief that distance might quiet the past. In a place where no one knows her name, she builds a life in silence-working mornings in a small café on the edge of a busy financial district, learning how to exist without being seen. Before she leaves, she finds a hidden box in her brother's room. Inside are letters she was never meant to see. Most of them are simple at first-ordinary words, familiar handwriting, fragments of care she doesn't fully let herself read. She only opens a few before closing the box again, leaving the rest untouched as if keeping them sealed might keep something else from unraveling. In the city, life settles into routine. Early mornings. Familiar faces. The comfort of being unknown. It should be enough. But it isn't. A man begins to pass through her world each day-always at the same time, always just out of reach of notice. He does not speak to her. He does not look at her like she is anything more than part of the background. And she does not recognize him. Not once. And yet, something about his presence begins to linger where memory should be clear. As fragments of her brother's past begin to surface in small, unsettling ways, Katherine starts to understand that distance does not always mean escape-and some things follow you quietly, long after you think you've left them behind.