The tragedy of the poor is not that they seek to die, but that even in death, the city finds a way to put them to work. Elias came to Recto to kill himself. A scholar stripped of his books and his home, he has one goal: a cheap motel room and a final act of acceptance. But Manila is a predator that refuses to let a body go to waste. When Seb-a sex worker-mistakes Elias's room for a job, the scholar's exit strategy is violently derailed. Trapped between a man trying to leave the world and a man trying to afford to stay in, Elias is forced to confront a devastating truth.

...Thirteen lifetimes and she never found the one... #enemiestolovers #slow-burn #reincarnation #GoodOmensbutSexy *** Synopsis: For 500 years, she has been condemned to suffer. Clark Parker is reincarnated thirteen times, only to live a cruel life. In her final life, she dies a Saint, and the Veil offers her release: a chance at peace, at bliss-rebirth without sorrow. She refuses. Clark doesn't want to come back. She wants answers. But the truth she seeks lies deep within the Old Archives, a place forbidden to all but reapers. And she isn't one-not yet. To become an envoy of death, she must destroy what remains of her grace and taint her soul. And there is only one place to break a Saint: Hell. There, among the ruined and the wretched, she will rise. Through torment. Through the ranks of demons, and ascend as a reaper. But the closer she comes to the truth, the colder the world becomes. Because some secrets are chained for a reason. And some names should stay in the dark. [updates every weekend] [First draft]

-"She'll ruin you! She'll bring you to your knees." His answer was a prayer, murmured above me. "Even better."- ~A tale of oaths, and the people who break them~ Cassia Aurelius is a thief, an orphan, and a girl who made a terrible mistake... she ate Fae food. Now she's trapped in a realm of beautiful half-truths disguised as mercy, where the price of survival is combat. Forced into deadly trials before a crowd of merciless Fae, Cassia fights to keep her life, unaware that the game was never meant for her to win. When a dashing Fae Lord steps in to save the hapless human girl, she sees no way to live long enough to find her way home, except his unwanted offer of marriage. This Lord had his own reasons for this chivalry, however. She was not to be a bride, but a key. Hunted, terrified, and betrayed, Cassia finds an unlikely ally in the court of her betrothed. One with secrets that echo her own... one who leads her to a reclusive and broken Fae Lord who sees the darkness she hides. As war brews and ancient magic stirs, love becomes a weapon. Cassia must decide who to trust before she loses more than her home and freedom. In the Fae realm, looks can be deceiving. And after a life of hot and cold, Cassia isn't certain she can trust a "just right". TWs: -Physical & Emotional abuse -Domestic Violence -Torture and Imprisonment -Major Character Death -Themes of Self Harm and Suicidal Ideation (part of character arc, not glorified) -On the page sex scenes (consent implied or explicit, but present) Read with care!

Phones, light typing...and murder. Think breaking into show business is hard? Try landing a temp job without office skills. That's the challenge facing aspiring actress Isobel Spice when she arrives in New York City, fresh out of college and deficient in PowerPoint. After being rejected by seven temp agencies for her lack of experience, Isobel sweet-talks recruiter James Cooke into letting her cover a last-minute vacancy at a bank. New to his own job, and recently sober, James takes a chance on Isobel, despite his suspicion that she's a trouble-magnet. His misgivings are borne out by lunchtime, when she stumbles across a dead secretary in a bathroom stall. Can Isobel find the killer before he strikes again?

She's bone chilling, she's mysterious, she, 5'1 lives like all humans do... But mentally, she saved you from the fate that is about to come. She lives immortally to savor the flavor of her characters' wildest dreams.

Noah Moore has been fascinated by serial killers ever since he was old enough to know that there are no clear limits to human cruelty. Determined to understand what drives people to kill, he decides to dive into the psychology of murder. But the journey takes a dark turn when he meets a convicted murderer who offers to answer all his burning questions. Temped by the idea of not only getting his information from books and documentaries, Noah finds himself having to make a tough decision. Should he risk his future for a life-threatening alliance, or should he let fear overpower his curiosity, knowing that some roads are better left unexplored, and some people only left as 'what ifs'? Warning ‼️ This series was never meant to be an easy read. If you're not comfortable with graphic depictions of violence, disturbing imagery, psychological and physical abuse, sexual content, racism, self-harm, kidnapping, drug use, substance use, and torture, you should move on or proceed with caution.

I made a career out of killing the worst people in history: Gacy, Denke, Dahmler, Hitler twice, Vasquez. But it's when I'm shot trying to stop JFK's assassination that I realise that there's someone else playing my game. I'm the next one on her list, and the only thing more dangerous than being in a hitwoman's sights is falling for her. Cover by: CasualClyde https://cara.app/casualclyde/portfolio/book-covers Or https://www.instagram.com/casuall.clyde/

When her therapy app accidentally sends Riley's private confessions to a random British expat - and his to her - what began as a glitch quickly evolves into the kind of intimacy that can only exist between strangers. A slow-burn contemporary romance. * * * When a company health initiative forces Riley Markle to download a trendy mental health app, she fills out the onboarding survey without much thought, expecting to get paired with a virtual gym buddy who'll send thumbs-up emojis twice a week. Instead, she gets paired with Joe, a lonely British expat whose wellness concern of Compulsive Behaviors is flagged by the AI system as a perfect match for Riley. Riley resolves to complete her month of check-ins and be done with it - until a glitch in the app sends both her and Joe's embarrassing therapy videos to each other instead of their therapist. Soon, Riley and Joe are talking late into the night, exchanging thirst-trap videos of their weekend routines by day, and thinking about each other constantly. Both are smitten, both are broken, and neither of them knows how to do this without destroying each other. The plan: Limit all communication to the app until after Day 30, then see where things go. But plans change. * * * 🏆 High Rankings: #1 in LITERARY #1 in QUICKREAD #1 in NEWENGLAND #1 in SHORTCHAPTERS (out of 38,000 stories) #3 in EPISTOLARY #87 in ROMCOM (out of 35,000 stories) #147 in ROMANTIC (out of 86,000 stories) Updated November 2025

Grand-Prize Winner of the Wuthering Heights Reimagined Contest 🏆 A Southern gothic reimagining of Wuthering Heights. Content note: One weirdly erotic scene (not explicit) + some light cussin'. Cathy Earnshaw is engaged to a decent and thoroughly respectable man. The party at his family's South Carolina estate is everything she's dreamed of - champagne glasses glinting under string lights, Spanish moss drifting in the sultry breeze - until Heathcliff shows up. Four years he's been gone. They used to run wild in the woods behind her family home, drawing blood and making promises no one else would understand. Now he's returned, hardened and hollow. When he ruptures the smooth surface of her genteel world, Edgar and his friends don't know how to handle him. But Cathy does.

Bloody mannequins have been found in various parts of the city of Los Angeles; all dressed in the clothes of missing women, and wearing flower crowns. No bodies have been found, but Homicide Detective, Adrian DeWitt, is the lead investigator on the case. The Doll Collector, is a lonely man, who stalks his victims before luring them to his cabin in the woods, where he murders and stuffs them like animals. He turns them into beautifully dressed dolls he keeps in his private collection. They're his life, his young ladies, his most prized possessions. Maria Gonzalez is a young girl down on her luck in the dating world. When her best friend convinces her to join a dating app, just as she's about to give up, she meets a mysterious man named Bud. Their paths are about to cross in the worst way. Based on the original, 2017 Watty Award Winning Tap story! Image credit: Getty Images Originally Published June 11th, 2017 Originally Finished October 13th, 2017 This story is being reposted after being taken down due to being plagiarized too much.