Becoming Stories

Some girls grow up playing in the sunshine. Others grow up learning how to survive the storms. In Where the Sky Changed, one woman traces her life from a quiet, fearful childhood to a resilient adulthood shaped by love, loss, and the search for belonging. Told with raw honesty and poetic reflection, this story explores what happens when a child feels abandoned, when a young woman looks for love in the wrong places, and when life keeps rewriting the plans she thought were certain. Through heartbreak, motherhood, grief, and unexpected truths, she learns that healing doesn't always come from forgetting the past - sometimes it comes from finally understanding it. This is a story about survival. About becoming. About learning that even the darkest skies can change color. And sometimes, the place you once cried as a child becomes the place you return to as a woman who finally understands her own strength.

Chrysanthemum Glow is a soul-blooming collection of poems that trace the fragile journey of human emotion and the ever-shifting landscape of the heart. Structured in four sections - Wither, Fade, Sprout, and Bloom-the collection moves through love lost, homesickness and longing, tentative hope, and the quiet radiance of growth. Each section captures a stage of feeling, honouring both the weight of what breaks, and the resilience required to begin again. Through delicate verse and raw vulnerability, Chrysanthemum Glow will be an emotional odyssey - a reminder that even in our most faded moments, there is beauty waiting to rise.

Enough of the forced smiles. Enough of trying to tame your dysregulated nervous system. Enough of merely surviving. The time to heal is now. The time to laugh freely is now. The time to thrive, intentionally and peacefully, is now. This book is an invitation to step into your best life. One rooted in joy, balance, and purpose. A life where happiness isn't forced, healing is prioritized, and success flows from wholeness. Originally outlined in 2021 First published chapter: January 22, 2026 You deserve to be happy. You deserve peace. You deserve success in all that you do.

She lived quietly-in sketches, half-baked dreams, and a room that felt safer than the world outside. An introvert who learned early how to hide her emotions, she mastered the art of appearing strong while never truly being seen. Love wasn't something she understood-until she lost it. When he left, on a day meant for devotion and endings, her world shattered in silence. No dramatic goodbyes. Just absence. Just waiting. Just the slow realization that some goodbyes don't come with closure. What followed were months of pretending, of forcing strength, of learning how to choose herself after everything she loved slipped away-dreams, people, versions of who she thought she'd be. But loss has a strange way of revealing truth. This is not a story about heartbreak alone. It's about rediscovery. About the quiet miracle of finding yourself after losing everything else. When He Left, I Found Myself - "the end of him was the beginning of her ".

[The amazing Cover was made by @Bry_anime everyone please check them out!!!] Its hard to follow your dream when no one supports it. Join Chris as he follows in the foot steps of his hero and tries to become a Pokemon Master so he can meet his hero the illusive Red. Chris will make new friends, reunite with old faces and make new enemies. Can Chris handle that challenge? Find out in Predecessor "Even in the darkest times you have to listen to your heart and always fight for you dream. No matter how impossible" -Trip Kitagya

Softly, I Kept Going is a gentle, emotional collection of poems that explores love, loss, healing, and self-discovery. In these verses, Stanaika writes with raw honesty about quiet crushes, the ache of letting go, the strength it takes to keep believing, and the beauty of becoming. These poems speak to anyone who's ever felt unseen, uncertain, or quietly breaking and chose to keep going anyway. Through softness, doubt, and faith, this collection reminds us that growing gently is still growing, and surviving is a form of strength. For the ones healing in silence, hoping in secret, and learning to love themselves along the way, this is for you.

A collection of a few poems by myself

FOR THE "UGLY" BLACK GIRL is not a pity story. It's a manifesto. A reclamation. A love letter to every Black girl who's ever been made to feel invisible, undesirable, or "not enough." They called us ugly. We call it U.G.L.Y.-Uplifting Greatness, Loving Yourself. This book dives deep into the scars left by beauty standards, colorism, and generational wounds that taught us to shrink. It's about unlearning their lies and unearthing the light that's always been inside you. You don't have to prove your beauty to a world that profits off your doubt. You were always the blueprint. For every Black girl who's been overlooked-this is your becoming.

"Give Me My Crown" is a series about growth, self-discovery, and learning to celebrate every little win. It's me owning my journey-the struggles, the lessons, and the progress I'm making along the way.

🌌 We are all becoming-slowly, quietly, beautifully. This is not a story. This is a journey. A journal of small realizations, unanswered questions, divine timing, fears, strength, and the soft magic of being alive. Here, nothing is rushed. Here, every entry is a moment of surrender - to God, to the universe, and to the version of ourselves we are still learning to love. If you believe in signs, timing, healing, moonlight, destiny, butterflies, or change... maybe you didn't find this book. Maybe it found you. 🪷✨

To Love You Without Holding You is a tender work of literary fiction about a love strong enough to loosen its grip. It follows a relationship that does not collapse in anger, but quietly transforms into something more fragile, more restrained, and infinitely harder to define. Through moments of closeness and distance, longing and restraint, the story explores what remains when love can no longer be claimed-only respected. Like a sunflower that continues to turn toward the light even after the seasons change, it reflects resilience, self-discovery, and the courage it takes to stand on one's own after love reshapes itself. For readers drawn to intimate, emotionally driven stories about love, loss, and quiet becoming, this novel lingers-not because of what is held onto, but because of what is gently released.

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It scars to get out of your sharp shell, I know.

My mom always used to say how it rained the day I was born. That's how I got my name. Rain May Halstead. Kind of gloomy I know. Wasn't my choice. Anyways, I live in Chicago. The city of shootings, robberies, fights and gangs, oh my! My family has tried to protect me from it my entire life, but I am a stubborn 14 year old rebel, teenage girl... What do you expect? . . . . . . *I do not own Chicago PD, Chicago MED, or Chicago FIRE, just using some of the characters for fun*

Escaping from an abusive mother, Aurora decides it's time to leave the controlling claws at home and start a new life. Taking her best friend Brooke along for the trip, the pair set off on an epic adventure around the world at the mercy of a golden dart and living by one rule; 'where the dart goes, I go'. Navigating their way through the world's hotspots, they become stranded somewhere in the middle of rural England. Enter Riley Fletcher. It's lust at first sight for Aurora, but she's not ready for a relationship of any kind. What does she do when she finds herself running again, but this time from the one thing, or person, that could just complete her? The girls meander their way through the toughest journey of life to start new, find themselves and discover that forever and always is not just a fairytale. Not everything ways goes to plan, and sometimes imperfect is simply a little... perfect.