Love means, above anything else, benevolence and gentleness towards what is failed, disgraced, broken, unappealing, angry and foul in other people and in ourselves. Love isn't about an admiration for strength, it's about directing sympathy in a most unexpected direction: at what is messed up, lost and in pieces, and at what we might hate, resent and be frightened of. Anyone can express an interest in perfection, to love is to devote an active charity towards the mistakes and aberrations. One day, we will all require the charity of others. In one way or another, we'll be on our knees - and we will need people to look past our evident failings in a tender search for our deeply hidden merits. As you read we follow the path of two young love birds, still battling to know their true selves. Battling racial differences and cultures in a modern world.Go ahead and lets enjoy the mishaps of a Asian boy and an African girl.For my beautiful black queeennns out there👸🏾 #BWAM #STOPASIANHATE #BLM #FREEAFRICAFROMMODERNSLAVERY

[AMBYS 2023 Top picks in humor novellas ✨️] Lee Cook is heartbroken; his wife left him for another woman after twelve years of marriage. He vows to never fall in love again until his dying day. Sana Gulati is befuddled; her boyfriend left her for a woman ten years younger than her. She vows nothing; she's just pissed and consoling herself with anything sweet and comestible. He lives in London, she in Paris. They've met once; one walked out after drenching the other's face with beer. Since the two only see each other virtually on the Zoom meetings, their company loves to schedule every two days. When Sana replies to Lee's offensive PM, an odd stalking game begins between the two. Before they know it, they connect. Here's a simple story of Woman meets Man where Wifi is key, and where some vows are hard to keep. @ContemporaryLit Fall Awards 2021 longlister.

Poetry in the real mind of a Kenyan Lifestyle..

Some AMBW mini stories/ Reactions , including Kpop idols and artists. There are not a lot of AMBW and that bothers me as a Black Kpop stan . If you feel the same , why don't you take a look a my book ? :) Stories can include : ROMANCE SMUT JEALOUSY ANGST FRIENDSHIP and so on. You can request some idols and /or the main subject of the reaction /imagine ) Ah yes ! Also , I have to say that English is not my first language so I tend to make grammatical errors.. I will try to make sure everything is clear tho. Thank you and love y'all. YesIknowIdidntfinishedmyotherstorybutshhhh :x

Lily is a laidback slacker with a phobia for commitment...who happens to owe the devil her (nonexistent) firstborn. When the ruler of Hell comes knocking, what choice does she have but to let the devil play matchmaker? *** Lily has never been good at relationships, not that it matters to her. That is until Eve, a seductive woman claiming to be the devil's apprentice, shows up to collect a debt Lily doesn't remember owing: her firstborn child. Without a firstborn to give, and with the threat of eternal damnation at her heels, Lily finds herself on a chaotic matchmaking quest with the devil herself. Eve swears she's only playing matchmaker to collect the debt owed to her, but with each failed set-up, Lily suspects there may be something more to the devil's plan. [[word count: 60,000 - 70,000]] Cover designed by Joe Resch [[Wattys 2020 Winner]] Content warning: this story includes dark humour, mature themes, and scenes of violence and gore

Colors are seen everywhere. We live for color. The beauty of color, we have seen and became amazed by the exquisite details before us. Colors can describe anything or anyone. The moments you have, there will always be a color. #shortstory_1 ↫↬↫↬↫↬↫↬↫↬↫↬↫↬↫↬↫↬↫↬↫

~ AVAILABLE ON AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/164434193X ~ She hated riding the subway. It was cramped, smelled, and the seats were extremely uncomfortable to sit on for hours on end. Now add a group of crazy mask-wearing, weapon-wielding, maniacs to the ever growing list of reasons why Gemma hated riding the subway. Gemma Conners is your average eighteen year old and for the past two years she's been riding the subway to and from school with no problem. She always expected the same ol' same ol'. Cramped spaces, hard seats, and perverts staring her up and down and "accidentally" bumping into her and blaming it on the train as it jostled people into one another. Never did she expect a group of masked men to rush in and hold everyone onboard hostage, demanding that they all play along with their sick and twisted idea of a "game". It was either that or die. To add on to her ever growing list of problems, one of the passengers onboard just so happens to be Archer Daniels, your typical high school "heartthrob" and Gemma's classmate. Her day just kept getting better and better. With Gemma's luck, she'd be lucky if she lasted five minutes. Yep. She really hated the subway. *Book Cover Credit: Irah Marie* Thanks again for making such an AMAZING cover!❤️

One was a nerdy chess player. The other was an outspoken jock. But they both had a secret. A secret they unknowingly shared. Until one day it came out. Literally. And they came together in more ways than one. --- Started: 16/12/2019 Finished: 21/02/2020 Best rankings ever reached: #1 - bxblove | #1 - gayromance | #1 - cliche | #1 - chess | #1 - comingoutofthecloset | #1 - firsts | #1 - jock Other high rankings reached: #2 - lgbtlove | #2 - gayboys | #3 - bxb | #3 - sweet | #4 - gaylove Nominated in The Lattes Yearly Choice Awards [2020] as Best LGBTQ+ "✨👏🏽👏🏽 BEST.BOOK.EVER IF YOU DISAGREE COME FIGHT ME🙂" - @ZTL4ever "It was AMAZING I MEAN AMAZING I was feeling awful and this book just made everything better" - @spring_canary "This book is so... what should be the word, classy! I groaned internally when I had to read another nerd-jock bxb but damn this book screams the phrase don't judge a book by its description 🤧" - @fortheloveofgayy "I hate when books end because I get so attached that I start to cry; for me it's like losing a pet, that's how amazing this book is for me"- @CatKittensandPaws "What a bittersweet ending- bitter because it IS the ending. The story was really fracking amazing" - @drarry-wolfstar101 "honestly one of my favorite stories i've read" - @johngreentexas "Thank you, one of my favorite stories here, definitely archiving it for a re-read later!!❤️❤️" - @Mothra13 "Thanks for the amazing book... I loved this story so much! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻" - @WhiteLunaStories --- WARNING: will contain coarse language, lots of innuendos and 2 mature scenes (a warning will be indicated and they are not critical to the plot so they can be skipped if not your cup of tea). Also, any homophobic slurs by characters are condemned by the reader; verbal abuse is NEVER okay. Recommended 16+