Asianamerican Stories

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.

It's a story about one American high society girl being threatened to be mudered by some unfriendly person's of her father. So her father decided to improve her security system but it became suffocating for her. After a long search her father got a guy who was a great martial artist. He kept him as her bodyguard. He was a handsome masculine Asian guy and she was a beautiful popular American girl. So they had a great difficulty of understanding each other but their heart couldn't see it .

After her parents went through a tragic accident things haven't been the same for Ailee, especially since she bought that vintage mirror from the thrift store 7years ago.

THIS WAS A TEST STORY AND WILL NOT BE CONTINUED UNLESS REQUESTED. Everything with Nicholas Chu is normal until his baseball team goes out of town for a game, and then something that's anything but normal switches up his life. Like kissing a boy on the baseball team, and ruining his friendships.

"This book is the bomb!" That's what one reader said about book one of The Doomsday Kids series. If you love post-apocalyptic, dystopian stories, welcome; this book is for you. If you're a fan of The Walking Dead, The 100, Doomsday Preppers or The Road, this one's for you! If you love heart-pounding adventure, characters you can love and page-turning excitement, this one is for you! When nuclear disaster strikes, eight misfit kids (ages 7-15) find themselves alone except for each other. Separated from their parents, scared and products of the "Internet" generation, they now must dig deep inside themselves to find the skills they will need to survive. In the face of danger, death and deprivation--and in the ruins of the world they once knew--the kids embark on a perilous two-hundred-mile walk to a cabin in the West Virginia mountains where they hope they will be safe. Kirkus called Liam's Promise "a solid start to a post-apocalyptical tale" and reviewers and readers have added to the praise: "My coffee-is-gone-cold page turner!" "I cared about every one of these characters." "Real... all to real." "Getting my go-bag together now!" And if you like it, there are two more books in the series and fourth on the way. Visit www.thedoomsdaykids.com to find out more and to match our pictures of The Doomsday Kids with the ones you've created in your imagination!

Mike Burbank, fresh out of college, believes that a cheery smile and bottomless drawer of fun socks is enough to keep him going at his new career at Infinitech. While all his friends find the work soul-sucking, Mike refuses to let his neighborhood faceless tech company bring him down. When a senior executive tears down Mike's seemingly perfect sales proposal, Mike is forced to relive his humiliation over and over again in a time loop. Will he win over upper management before his sanity crumbles? Is there a limit to how many times one can hear "TGIF" before one's sanity snaps? Only time will tell... (No groundhogs were harmed in the writing of this novel.)

Seven high schoolers in Saint George High struggle against their circumstances to pursue their dreams, form connections, fall in love, and grow into their ideal self. *** Elijah Walker Zaniston (aka Elijah Park/ Park Dae Hyun) is not society's stereotypical definition of a male. He's not 'masculine' enough, not spoiled, doesn't have much of that thing - what you call it again? Yes, 'guts', and he knows it all too well. 'Socialization' is the word he dreads the most. Books are his world. Against his wishes, his family had to shift back to The United States from South Korea to revive his father's business. What he does not recall is that it's not his first time here and had connections that he forgot about due to an unfortunate incident in his childhood. Now he has to spend three years of his high school in Saint George where people become increasingly interested in his life. Is it because of his demeanour or he might be hiding something? He ends up being chased by Scarlett Ava Williams who is the captain of Saint George's girls soccer team and an admired personality in there. She's also the reason for his success in his desired career that his family is against. People that he disliked in the beginning become the best of his friends, each with their own struggles, dreams & aspirations and a story to tell. Watch the drama unfold as different secrets are found out and bonds are changed, as people get hurt and struggle to find their true selves, as hearts are broken and homes are made. And most importantly, dreams are finally chased.

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....

David Kaminski is trapped in a relationship. He can't leave his girlfriend, Eve. David loves her, but was afraid that, if anything, it was a strange case of Stockholm Syndrome. Eve is everything David is not- exciting, fun, brave and beautiful. David has nothing and no one, so without thinking twice, he let Eve become his everything. Eve's love is intense and consuming. By the time David realizes how dangerous Eve really is, he finds there is no way to leave the girl he thought he met by chance. All throughout this relationship David must ask himself: Is it love, or fear? This book supports diversity & inclusion by: featuring an Asian-American lead (the title character, Eve) Featuring interracial relationships includes LGBTQ+ representation in multiple characters Additionally, "Eve." Is written by a black author.

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"Paper Hearts" Is a heartwarming coming of age novel that follows the journey of Willow Lin, a 15 year-old Vietnamese girl. She never felt like she fitted anywhere, until she moved to a small town in Vermont just after losing her mother to a tragic car accident back in her old home in the city of Connecticut. Willow was forced to move to a small town called Havenridge, Vermont, where she must start a new fresh life, until she eyed a boy, a boy that soon changed her life. Willow followed an un barring emotional exhaustion. The mysterious boy also getting distracted by her. He didn't want to like her, but in his eyes he could even see the sparkle people never noticed in her. As a shy and introverted teenager, Willow finds it difficult to make friends and fit in with her peers. However, she soon meets Charlie Anderson, a boy who is sweet, mysterious, and has a certain charm. As they get to know each other, Willow starts to open up and finally feels like she belongs in Havenridge. "Paper Hearts" is a touching and inspiring novel that explores themes of love, loss, friendship, and self-discovery. Written with depth and sensitivity, this book will resonate with readers of all ages and leave them with a sense of hope and optimism.

We didn't end because the love ran out. That would have been simpler-clean, explainable, the kind of ending you can wrap up with a sentence and survive. Instead, we ended the way long relationships sometimes do: quietly. Carefully. With a tenderness that made the damage feel almost polite. After years together, we had the kind of intimacy that turns ordinary things into vows-knowing each other's orders, falling into the same step on the sidewalk, keeping a spare key without ever questioning what it meant. And then the world around us started asking for proof that our love was "worth it." His family never called me a problem outright. They didn't need to. Disapproval arrived dressed as concern-soft-spoken, well-intentioned, impossible to argue with without looking ungrateful. We love you. We just worry. Be mindful. Don't give people something to talk about. Support came with edits. Acceptance came with conditions. And he-caught between duty and desire-began to protect me with omissions, hoping silence could spare me the feeling of being measured. It didn't. This story begins at the end: a breakup spoken in restaurant voices, a spare key slid back across the table, a cheap claw-machine charm clicking once like punctuation. Then it rewinds-through the last community banquet, the first "helpful" correction, the first time he chose peace over honesty-back to the night we won that stupid little charm and thought we'd found something that couldn't be touched. We were wrong. But for a while, we were perfect.

My name is Lucy. I'm a human. I save werewolves.

A memoir that follows the life of a new family in war-torn Vietnam escaping by boat not knowing where they would end up. A very pregnant Lan and her husband, Thanh, float aimlessly in their family's broken down fishing boat until a big Hong Kong cargo ship pick them up. They eventually make their way to Hong Kong and save up enough money doing odd jobs until they land in the United States. A week after landing, Lan finally gives birth to their daughter, Thuy Duong, the first to be anointed Vietnamese American in her generation. This is a story of grit, perseverance, love, betrayal, and forgiveness.

Twenty two year old Ram has got it all, he's intelligent, athletic, social, and he's just been hired by a well known consulting firm. Life would be perfect...if his grandmother weren't ill and if his mother didn't think she'd be miraculously cured by him getting an Indian girlfriend on the premise of marriage. Still, Ram trudges on...until he meets Chen. Whimsical, openly gay, and following his dreams of being a novelist, Chen is the complete opposite of Ram. Yet, he has nothing to do with Ram until a sudden accident brings them together. (Inspired by the Chinese BL Tattoo) https://www.novelupdates.com/series/tattoo/

What if you only had a few months left? How would you live your life? This is my adventure, join me won't you! - Mei

After the death of her mother, Akira Tsukimura moves from Seoul back to Japan with her grandpa only to find out her grandpa had not been living in that old house in Japan for a few years now. His disappearance had been unsolved she was left with a note to a new bilingual school she'd attend called the silvermoon academy in which she finds out there's a dark secret about the school as she meets two mysterious girls Amara Divya and Nara Blackwood. Started: October 25th 2024. Ended: November 17th 2024. © @whimsicalbbydoll

This is a short story dedicated to my mother and grandmother- a story about reconciliation,healing and unconditional love between three generations of women. Originally published in an Asian American anthology, "Kimchi For Life." *** Copyright © 2014 by Angela J Kim. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Angela J Kim.

'I have this friend, right? She saw something. Something really bad. A crime. They saw somebody commit a crime. They think they should go to the police. But my friend's afraid of recrimination. You know, somebody coming after them if they tell. What should they do? Should they go to the police?'