In a dingy karaoke bar, sparks fly. - Amirah Begum has always believed in happy endings. Even after everything she's been through, whether it be years ago when she lost her favourite pair of light-up sneakers or three days ago, when she got dumped by the girl she thought was the one of her dreams, she hasn't lost her dream of a happy ending. So, when she finds a brooding stranger doing the exact opposite of what she lives her life by, she makes a pact to help them get their happy ending, and maybe re-evaluate her own definition of a happy ending in the process. - started: february 3rd, 2022. completed: april 24th, 2022.

a story where two boys meet at boarding school.

A collection of short stories about women loving women. - i. in bloom - completed. ii. matter of time - ongoing. - started: june 1st, 2021.

Two childhood best friends. One accidental kiss. A summer that changes everything. *** Felipe Rivera has a problem. Several problems, really; as if his anxiety disorder and his strained relationship with his father weren't enough, he's also been in love with his best friend for as long as he can remember. Now that it's their last summer together before they go to separate colleges and leave the suburb they grew up in behind, he's determined to keep his feelings for Aaron bottled up. However, things quickly move beyond his control, and what was supposed to be a summer like every other turns out to be something that might just put their friendship to the ultimate test. Content warnings for themes of anxiety/mental health issues and recreational drug use

When the name Asif Nazari is said, people listen. People turn their heads to see the college drop-out who got lucky with a modelling career, the person who's been living and building his whole life in New York, and hopefully, the new face of Diadem Agency. All everyone wants him to do is go to San Diego and do his job well. All he wants to do is live and be alive. But with the agency working him harder than ever, the constant pressure to be the best he can be, and the slowly unravelling pieces of his brain, it's a whirlwind of chaos. And there's almost no time to fulfill his goal. That is, until he meets Storm Renaldi, who turns his entire world upside down with a smile and two words. - started: january 28th, 2021. completed: june 28th, 2021.

EDITOR'S CHOICE ~ When heartbroken March Marino books a road trip across the western US, he has no idea what he's getting himself into.

Dmitri West has always been good at staying afloat. Nothing bothers him, nothing makes him lose his cool - one of the things he's had to learn in order to keep his job as a high school History teacher. When things slowly start to crumble around him, Dmitri tries to remain unbothered, he really does, but things start to spiral out of control, too fast for him to keep up. The tipping point, however? Seeing Tariq Riaz. His ex-boyfriend of two years. - started: october 23rd, 2020. completed: december 31st, 2020.

❝we'll survive, you and i❞ ➸ f. scott fitzgerald the story of a boy named campbell told in snippets from the ages of seven to twenty-seven; the tale of enduring transphobia, dealing with a divorce, the death of a parent, falling in love, and maybe even finding yourself along the way.