1900s Stories

Ashley had been Kayla's best friend for years, the kind of friendship built from long bike rides through the neighborhood and too many sleepovers to count. By high school, everyone had started settling into their roles. Kayla was the outgoing one who seemed to get along with everybody, and Ashley was the quieter shadow beside her. Somewhere along the way Kayla started dating Chris, a broad-shouldered football player who wore his letterman jacket everywhere. He was loud and confident, the kind of boyfriend everyone expected Kayla to have. Ashley never said anything about it. She laughed when Kayla talked about Chris, nodded along to stories about football games, and pretended it didn't bother her when he threw an arm around Kayla in the hallway. The truth was something Ashley kept buried. It wasn't the kind of thing people talked about, not here, not with the way rumors spread. So Ashley stayed quiet and played the role she'd always had: the loyal best friend who walked home with Kayla after school and spent weekends sprawled across her bedroom floor listening to mixtapes. Kayla didn't notice anything was different at first. Ashley was just Ashley, the one person who had always been there. But over time she started catching small things she'd never paid attention to before. The way Ashley went quiet when their hands brushed, or how she looked away too fast when their eyes met. Once Kayla noticed it, she couldn't really stop noticing. Chris was easy and predictable. Being around Ashley felt different. Quieter, heavier, like something sat just under the surface neither of them knew how to say. Kayla didn't understand it at first, but the more time they spent together, the harder it became to ignore the strange pull she felt whenever Ashley was close.

Once you start having a celebrity crush, It's best to never meet them.

In the ancient era , in the early 19th century peace is held together by a sacred law: brothers must marry one woman-one soul shared, one heart bound-to prevent power struggles that once shattered the realm. When the innocent and beautiful Aradhya is captured by an old man thrice her age for marriage, her fate takes a dramatic turn. Two powerful thakur brothers, Thakur yatharth-the cold, calculating war strategist-and thakur yashraj -the charming, ruthless protector-defy the rules and tradition to save her. By ancient decree, saving her means claiming her. Now, she is not only under their protection-but their shared bride. What begins as a duty quickly turns into something far more dangerous. To yatharth, Aradhya is the key to controlling his darker urges. To yashraj , she is the light that anchors his chaos. And to Aradhya these two opposite souls become the only safe harbor in a world full of hidden daggers and whispered threats. But being bound to two royal obsessions comes at a price. As palace intrigue thickens and old enemies rise from the shadows, Aradhya must learn how to wield the power she never asked for-because in this twisted game of loyalty, obsession, and law, love might be the most dangerous weapon of all.

At Crimson University, discovering people was the easy part-surviving one wasn't.

Set in the 1980s, a string of murders suddenly appeared, all dictated by "BEAUTY", a serial killer who kills those with ugliness in their hearts. Friend or foe, insane criminal or delusional vigilante, the cops don't know. A strange and difficult case that leaves the police force stumped. Who is BEAUTY? Why are they killing those they deem ugly? Are they just a psychopath who takes pleasure in people's pain, or are they actually on the side of justice?

♡Completed in paid♡ ယဲ့မုန့်ယောင်က ၂၁ ရာစုတွင် မိဘမဲ့တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ပြီး သူမ၏ ၂၅ နှစ်မြောက် မွေးနေ့တွင် ကားမတော်တဆမှုတစ်ခုကြောင့် သေဆုံးသွားခဲ့ရသည်။ သူမ သတိရလာသည့် အခါတွင် မွေးကင်းစကလေးငယ်တစ်ဦးအဖြစ် ပြန်လည်မွေးဖွားလာ​ကြောင်း သိလိုက်ရ၏။ အပြင်ကလူကြီးတွေပြောနေသည့်အသံကို ကြားနိုင်ပြီး ပစ္စည်းရှားပါးတဲ့အချိန်ကာလတစ်ခုကို ရောက်သွားတယ်ဆိုတာပဲ သိလိုက်ရသည်။ သို့​သော် ကံကောင်းစွာနဲ့ပဲ ၂၁ ရာစုတွင် ဖွင့်လှစ်ထားသည့် စူပါမားကတ်တစ်ခု ပါလာတာကြောင့် ဒီ​ခေတ်ကြီးထဲတွင် အစားအသောက်နှင့်အဝတ်အထည်အတွက် သူမ စိုးရိမ်စရာ မလိုတော့​ချေ...

Since ancient times, a woman's life has been likened to a river. She is born in one place, often unnamed, and flows forward-not by choice, but by circumstance. Along her path, she nourishes all she touches. She gives, but is rarely held. In the end, she reaches the ocean-not as a retreat, but as a return. For the ocean has always waited for her-quiet, vast, eternal. Some poets say it is her destiny; others believe it is the love she was always denied-an ardent longing that defines her journey. Cover and Graphic Edits- @me_idnsd

A 1900 era bl...... As you read the title, "Umr Se Pehle" this story is based on how a child have to grow up before his age........ drive into the story to know more......

Since ancient times, a woman's life has been linked to a river. She was born in one place and then gently undulates towards the sea. But have you ever thought about its seabed, the one which gets affected and depleted at the same time? The river might be the physical persona, but look deeper. It's merely a facade. The water is clear, sometimes and sometimes not. But what lies inside is a different story. There lies ashes, fishes, quite many clashes, splashes, and maybe a few wishes. Maybe unfinished, maybe incomplete. The same sediments can throw cold, making the land alluvial. But once internally disrupted, they cause havocs. This is the story of a river towards its story of being a mighty river.

Taehyung thinks Jungkook is beautiful. Jungkook doesn't think so, he thinks himself an average omega but for some reason Taehyung seems to be head over heels for him. It's wrong, they know it. Loving your own cousin is not considered good in their family or society then why their heart pulls them towards each other. And to make matters worse, Taehyung is betrothed to another omega, who also happens to be Jungkook's friend. What will happen when their family gets to know about it? Will Taehyung marry his fiancee or will Jungkook be able to see it? Alpha Taehyung Omega Jungkook

1902. A courtroom. A glance that changes everything. Harry Styles, an attorney who has spent his whole life trying to disappear. Niall Horan, a woodcarver who is never silent, even when times aren't safe. They cross paths in a trial they'll never forget, but their story is written elsewhere... in pages where ink spills in secret, love presses between lines, and truths that can only survive when hidden. Love doesn't always survive in this cruel world, but love always survives in memories. DOES MENTION (CHILDHOOD) SA, PLEASE READ WITH CARE!!

My name is Babi, and my only goal in life was to retire early. I had the perfect plan: my gold Baby Boo dress, my Swarovski crystals, and that Victoria's Secret scent that makes everyone stop in their tracks. My target? My wealthy "Sugar Daddy." But gossip is an extreme sport. While trying to film a TikTok in the wrong place, my Chanel heels betrayed me, and the cliff became my runway to disaster. When I woke up on a beach, I thought: "Great, I survived and my makeup is still intact." I didn't count on the hit to the head, or waking up in chains in a filthy 1910 Scottish slave market. My expensive perfume now mixes with the smell of dirt, and my only hope for freedom has a name: Ares McLean. A tattooed redhead with icy blue eyes and the heir to a clan that doesn't accept strangers... much less a girl from the future who demands her skincare routine and refuses to get her shoes dirty. How did I go from hunting millionaires to being the "property" of a Scotsman who seems to hate me as much as he desires me?

Set between the aftermath of World War II and the shifting promises of the late 1950s, this story follows two men raised on opposite sides of privileges and survival. Vincent grows up in wealth, discipline and expectation. Heir to a powerful name, he was taught early that image is everything. Alastor, raised by a violent father, lives in an era that limits him at every turn. He learns how to move through spaces that welcome his talent, yet reject his presence. Their lives collide in a moment neither will forget - a brief encounter marked by judgment which later leaded to consequences. What follows is not a simple romance, but a slow unraveling: of inherited beliefs, carefully performed roles, and desires that refuse to remain buried. Vincent and Alastor are forced to confront not only each other, but the parts of themselves shaped by fear, expectation from society, survival and the cost of choosing who they are allowed to be.

Cordelia Green is a spirited and temperamental nineteen-year-old with a deep devotion for music, living in Philadelphia at the dawn of the year 1905. Her carefully ordered world collapses in the most humiliating and distressing manner when, by a cruel mistake, she sends a letter that was never meant to see the light of day. One in which she confesses her forbidden love. By fortune or misfortune, the letter does not reach its intended recipient. The true calamity begins when Cordelia receives a reply. The sender should not exist. What follows is a tale of unexpected romance and tangled emotions, of hearts drawn together and torn apart, bound and released by the quiet, inexorable hand of destiny. ⭑*•̩̩͙⊱•••• ♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧••••̩̩͙⊰•*⭑ Participant of the || Open Novella Contest 2026. Main prompt: 79. A letter arrives addressed to you, written by someone who shouldn't exist. Secondary prompts: 24. Staying as friends feels safe, but that doesn't mean it's the path you're meant to take. 2026 Umi Moriko Original

Lisa invents a new Time Machine that doesn't just send people back in time but reverses time itself so that everyone from the present is able to live in the past. The more the machine activates, the further back they go. Can this be reversed before they go too far back in time? Well, I did say I would work on this one, and here it is now.

Synopsis: When Leah Eliot receives devastating news from the war front, her world fractures overnight. With only a final letter and a promise that will never be fulfilled, she is left drowning in grief and unanswered prayers. Just when despair begins to consume her, an unexpected encounter with a solitary sailor changes the course of her healing. In quiet conversations and fragile moments, Leah slowly begins to rediscover warmth in a world that had turned cold. But war does not end when the guns fall silent. Its shadows follow those who survive... and some returns are far more complicated than they seem. Returned from the Unknown is a haunting story of love, loss, faith, and the invisible scars left behind by war - where the heart must decide whether to cling to the past or risk everything for an uncertain future. 🌸🌸~•°•° Prompt from the Open novella contest : { A letter arrives addressed to you written by someone who shouldn't exist}

The fragile space between the ordinary and the unexplainable- where a passing shadow lingers too long, a stranger knows your secrets, and familiar places turn quietly hostile. Each story explores true events my near and dear ones encountered and I got to know from their mouths. A moment of crossing: a step taken at the wrong hour, a voice heard when no one is there, a choice that cannot be undone. The characters who wander into these pages are ordinary people- until they find themselves standing at the threshold of something vast, watchful, and unknowable. Not all encounters leave you unchanged. And not everyone returns.

​"They told us we were just hands to be used. They didn't realize we had hearts that could burn." ​New York City, 1908. In the sweltering, crowded garment factories of the Lower East Side, thirty-eight-year-old Elena has spent twenty years living as a ghost. She is a woman caught between two worlds: the duty she owes her husband, Thomas, and the electric, forbidden pull she feels toward Anya, a young firebrand on the factory floor. ​But as the city nears a breaking point, Elena realizes she isn't the only one tired of hiding. ​On March 8, fifteen thousand women take to the cobblestone streets to demand bread and roses. Amidst police batons and rising revolution, Elena must navigate a different kind of uprising within her own home. In a time when the world demands you choose one life or the other, Elena, Thomas, and Anya are about to discover if the "new world" they're fighting for is big enough to hold all three of them. ​A story of labor, liberation, and a love that refuses to follow the rules.

Beijing, 1900. The Great Qing Dynasty is a dragon gasping its last breath. Outside the Forbidden City, the Boxers are rising, the Western Powers are invading, and the scent of incense is being replaced by the smell of gunpowder. According to the Sancong-the Three Obediences-Empress belongs to the men in her life. To her father, her husband, and eventually, her son. She is a golden bird in a cage of ancient ritual. But Lanfen has a secret that could burn the throne to ashes. Hidden beneath her ceremonial robes is a book that speaks of a kingdom where there is no master or slave, no man or woman. In a world that demands her silence, she is learning to speak. In a dynasty that demands her submission, she is choosing to lead.

This story follows the life of Flossie Whitt a girl from a holler in the Appalachia of Kentucky who is completely surrounded by bad luck like no other, her entire life from her prospective, a life full of happiness instantly wiped away with a swarm of heartache, will she ever get a happy ending will all the mysteries of her life ever have an answer?