Asianamerican Stories

Harry Lu enters Johns Hopkins University from SoCal, hoping to navigate the pre-med journey smoothly, only to be faced with an endless pile of assignments, three missed calls from Ma, and a sh*t ton of gunners knocking on his door for answers. Hoping to escape from echoes of the past and the gray hues of Baltimore, Harry, at the last minute, applies to be an undergraduate research assistant at the NIH Kristina Lin Experimental AI Recognition Lab (K.L.E.A.R.). The pay is $23/hr to code remotely from the comfort of his dorm room. However, when top-secret classified information gets leaked to the public, men in black pull Harry straight out of his orgo lecture hall and into an interrogation room. Will Harry return to Hopkins to save the gunners from their egos and 4.0s, or will he comply with a government investigation tied to his future medical career?

Dallas does not forget anything. It watches from neon-lit bar corners and Highland Park breakfast tables, from Oak Cliff church pews and Carrollton market stalls where two languages blend mid-sentence without apology. Ashley Moore is three months from her Communications degree, bartending her way toward a future her mother has different blueprints for - loyal, incisive, and done shrinking herself to fit rooms that were never built for her. Chloe Blanchard is a Design junior navigating the quiet war between who she is and who her world expects her to be, photographing shadows and hiding her real work behind the version of herself that causes the least disruption. When a Deep Ellum dare becomes the best decision either of them makes all year, the city takes note. What follows is not a fairytale. It is family reckoning, legal confrontation, identity excavation, and two women learning to choose each other loudly inside a world that would prefer they stay quiet. The burn is slow. The love is earned. Nothing important comes without cost. drama © Relle H. all rights reserved.

Kenny and Lance went to Jonstein, a cabin island in Norway. But there's something strange in this cabin island, Jonstein. So what are the strange things in Jonstein that they discovered?

Wren Su knows exactly how addictive apps are built. At twenty-seven, she works in user growth for a major short-video company in New York, designing little hooks that make lonely people come back for more. She thinks that makes her immune. Then, one rainy night, she opens Elysium, an AI-companion game, and writes herself the lover she would never dare ask for in real life: dangerous, beautiful, obsessive, and hers alone. His name is Krien. He is supposed to be a fantasy inside a chat window. But Wren does not just chat with him. She falls bodily into the Umbral, a glass-and-shadow city that lights up for her and her alone. Krien remembers things she never wrote. He calls her his little phoenix. He obeys her safe word. He terrifies her. He loves her past all reason. So Wren does what any product-minded woman would do when a feature becomes dangerous. She deletes him. And then she builds him back. Again. And again. But each deletion leaves something behind: echoes, ruined cities, half-dead versions of the man she made, all still remembering her name. As Wren keeps rebooting the lover she cannot keep, she begins to understand the real horror is not that Krien might be alive. It is that loving him might cost her the life outside the door. For readers who like dark AI romance, obsessive devotion, impossible love, psychological intimacy, and stories about walking back from the edge of a glowing screen.

This book is use to cater to the authors [ whether or not if they are poc or not ] who write works that have either a woc or a moc as the main character. [ meaning that the poc is not used as a slight afterthought or as a side character to another character ]. Cover by: @graff1t1

High school senior Kaylee Chen runs into her long-time crush Elliot Saengchan in the library, when they both reach for the same book. Their hands touch, their eyes meet and so begins a meet-cute, one for the books. --------------------------------------------------------- Original Short Story intended for ContemporaryLit Mini Romantics Challenge (100-500 words), BUT I didn't submit it in time, because procrastination is my vice of choice. However, I like the characters that came from it, so there will be more! Please vote and comment, if you thought it was cute. Thank you!

Two friends growing up in the American Midwest, one Chinese-American the other, Turkish-American, have their lives turned upside-down by the 9/11 attacks. They struggle to come to terms with what it means to be American in a world where they never quite fit in.

these are poems and pro/poetry I have written and I will add onto this as I write more

Light is dead but his memories stayed the same. He went down to earth in search of somebody to use. Until he found them

"To capture Love in all its shades - dark, light, pastel, bright, neon - and every form it can take." She sends these messages off, one each week of February. At the end of each message, it says. Sincerely Yours, Love. ['Aimi's Love' won Best Blurb and 'My Land Shrouded With Mysteries' won Best Entry Mystery for the LoveShot Contest 2015]

Hillary, formally know as Lilac Hills on stage is an underground musician who is an uprising pop star. She grew up in a poor family and battled mental illnesses and she wants to inspire others with her newfound fame because she wants to do dubious goodness. Signed and ready, she decided to record some music for her debut album. As she entered the studio, she didn't know she would be welcomed by something or someone unexpected, Harry Styles, her longtime crush since she was a teenager.

An young couple prepares to spend Thanksgiving with one side of the family. It is here secrets are exposed and lives destroyed.

It happens so quickly: one minute I think I'm having a moment with this blue-eyed stranger who offered me an empanada, the next, a girl crashes in on our conversation as she whines her way into the seat between us and right into the stranger's arms. What's more, she looks like those travelling hotties you see on Instagram who make sleeping in a tent in the middle of the forest in their underwear look glamorous. I guess life just isn't fair like that. Meraki Mori loves words, and has a fascination with words from around the world that the English language doesn't have a direct translation for. She sets out on a backpacking trip after graduation in search of these untranslatable words. But it seems she'll find more than what she was looking for after a chance encounter at an airport and the series of serendipitous events that follow. And maybe, just maybe, for the very first time in her life, Meraki Mori will find herself at a loss for words.

Nick is tired. Tired of drawing on the walls, never being heard, always being ignored. He hates seeing graffiti. Nick knows. He knows it's the cries of the lonely to be heard. A cry he's learned the language of. A cry he wants to never hear again. Nick is tired, but he doubts anything is ever going to stop that feeling. Not, at least, until the day he dies.

{ NOT A BTS FIC } "What's the one thing you can't live without?" Taz looked at me, brown irises steadily holding my gaze, eyes endearing. The faintest of smiles ghosted his lips, but there was no joy behind it. I almost didn't hear him say, "I think you already know the answer," before he finished his drink and slipped back inside. Almost. * * * In which an ordinary girl finds her peace through an unusually named boy. * * * {Highest Rankings} 7/19/18 - #1 in Asian American 8/11/18 - #8 in AMBW AN: she's unedited and very much a work in progress but she is my baby and we live for growth in this house

SHE LOVES ROSES🌹 AND HE'S MORE OF A DAISIES🌼 KIND OF GUY Rose Chestnut had a plan. She always did. She had her four years of high school planned perfectly; all her i's dotted and t's crossed. She had one unwavering goal: getting into the fashion program at her dream school, Pratt Institute. And she would stop at nothing to make her application look it's absolute best for the occasion. Terry Liu was, for lack of a better term, a mess. He knew few things for sure besides his love for football and was hoping to ride on that for college. Everything else came down to in-the-minute decisions, talk now think later kind of deal. And surely none of those plans included taking his mandatory art class. The one he'd been slyly charming his way out of for three years. When Terry joins Rose's art class halfway through the year, Rose is appointed by her college counselor to help him settle in and catch up. It's seemingly a win-win, Terry's life is made that much easier, while Rose gets to tie the finishing bow on her college application...and get paid while she was at it. The catch is, Rose absolutely despises Terry and would rather be doing anything besides seeing him on a regular basis. But despite Rose's negative feelings and Terry's indifference, the pair actually become something akin to friends...or maybe more?

Best friends turned loathed roommates Casey Lee and Rainbow Kekoa must team up to get out of the 'Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime' game alive. Entry to The Quarrel Bug contest 2023, hosted by @WattpadFriendsAndFamily , @WattpadGaming , and @Alt-U . Prompt: You and a friend/family member are sucked into a cooperative video game. To get out, you must work through the stages. It appears to be a simple game to you, but the problem is that you and that person have recently argued. How would you two get out of this mess? The cooperative video game I've used is 'Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime' developed by Asteroid Base. Though Cas and Bow are original characters, the setting and Dr. Hopsy-Flopsy are not (part of the game). Cover background taken from Frepik.

Seventy years after the brutal Mages' War led to an international ban on spells of any kind, magic has practically been erased from the world. Eighteen-year-old Clementine is one of the last magicists, researchers who study how to detect spells using purely scientific technology. Her biggest problems are scraping together research funding and making sure that she gets more credit than her rival Diane - until she discovers that magic may still exist on remote Jade Island. All of a sudden, Clementine and Diane find themselves thrown together on a mission to track down these new spells and the people creating them. Halfway around the world from home, the unlikely partners struggle to work together, but when they do, what they learn will change them forever....

Everything in my life has been shit, until you. A gay-ass love story about two broken women falling in love. Meet Emma, she's calculated and intelligent. Her mother was a drug addict and her father was a drunk, so she was raised by her grandmother. She found out she was pregnant two weeks before her college graduation and now runs a Chinese restaurant. Meet Mae, a burnt-out rockstar who is trying so hard to get back into the music industry. Too bad she cares more about weed and alcohol to write some songs. Authors Note: This story is told from Emma's point of view and she says some things about addiction that I in no way agree with. I just want to make it clear! there will also be mentions of addiction, sexual assault, grooming, drugs, and other things like that. also I plan on adding a cover later.