Bipoc storie

"How would this work? We have nothing in common." "Really, Anu? Because when I look at your soul, it's the same as mine - but so much lovelier." Both Anupama and Sachin have been hurt by the very people that were supposed to protect their hearts and love them unconditionally. And only they can soothe one another's souls. But in a society bound by conventions, will they have the courage to hope for love? *** Although based on the characters from two Hindi Star Plus shows, this fanfiction will be written in entirely in English for the enjoyment of international readers.

When a cursed bangle binds Sea Drifter Ninnette to a dangerous demon, she only has three days to break the curse before it claims her life. °:•.🪸.•:° Ninnette is a Sea Drifter with the power to command water, dredging shipwrecks, and salvaging lost treasure. When she braves a sunken ship no one else dares to dive, she finds a strange clockwork bangle that binds her to an ancient curse and to the infuriating Kazi, a demon who leaves destruction wherever he goes. The moment the bangle is activated, they are hunted by a secret order led by a relentless Priestess who believes the armlet is a key to something far greater than treasure. But the true danger isn't the order. It isn't the demon Kazi. It's the curse. When Ninnette puts on the bangle, a countdown begins. If she doesn't break the curse in three days, she will die like every wearer before her. °:•.🪸.•:° She commands the sea. He is a demon who has lived for centuries. They are both bound by a curse. Only three days to survive. °:•.🪸.•:° Set in a Maritime Steampunk world, and inspired by Filipino cultures, from Spanish influence to the seafaring Sama-Bajau. This story weaves dangerous magic, high stakes, and heart-aching romance. °:•.🪸.•:° ONC 2025 Honorable Mention Round 1 Winner Round 2 Ambassador Pick Round 3 Ambassador Pick °:•.🪸.•:° Romantasy High Fantasy Fantasy Adventure SciFi Steampunk Fantasci Young Adult

Previously known as Silent Downfall. Featured on @mystery and @Ambassadors 2nd Place | Best Protagonist | Reader's Choices Awards by @thetranquilityteam Revenge is not the only thing on his mind as he observes the ten-year-old. Indian all-rounder Mayank Sharma has never had a smooth life, on or off the field. Being constantly haunted by traumatizing memories is bad enough, but things take a worse turn during a home series against Bangladesh, particularly owing to its ever-mysterious captain, Waseef Ibrahim. For a reason unknown to most, his long-cherished grudge against Waseef intensifies this time, before an encounter on the field makes it spiral out of control. On a short trip attended by both teams, Mayank is finally awarded a chance to seek revenge for everything he thinks Waseef has put him through. However, as he approaches his foe's unattended young cousin, a whirlwind of conflicting emotions overpowers him. Is he even half the monster he thinks he is? Rated mature for themes like self-harm, suicide, and mild violence.

She woke in the snow with no memory. No name. No past. Found beside a dead direwolf and adorned in gold no one can identify, Khava becomes the mystery of Winterfell-beautiful, foreign, and utterly alone. But when the game of thrones shatters the family who sheltered her, she makes a desperate vow: protect the Starks. Whatever it costs. She will kneel to monsters She will wear their colors. She will become their obsession. Because the blood of Old Valyria sleeps in her veinsand fire remembers what the snow tried to bury. First black oc

As the dutiful daughter of Alfheim's foremost scholar, Loreli has learned to never ask for more than what she has been given. But when an Angel named Ryksten arrives bearing manuscripts from the Silver City, he plants a question in her heart that will not fade: 'How do you know what you are meant for?' - Loreli.

"Where do you begin if you want to investigate a murder, Bennett?" She asked, the phone pressed against her ears. He didn't ask questions, "The autopsy." * * * The summer before senior year turns out to be everything Sheri never expected when a groom turns up dead at the dress rehearsal for his wedding. Submerged into a dysfunctional world of family secrets and a demanding love triangle, one thing is as clear as day; the killer is walking the same halls as she and lurking in the dark, waiting and watching. Her undoing however would be the one thing she never saw coming, the greatest force of all; Love. * * * Landon Carmichael: he's a douchebag with abandonment issues. choleric 90% of the time but watch out for the tongue of this son of the devil when his sanguine 10% surfaces. perhaps he's the most dangerous in this story. Sheri Abbah: she's insecure and hopelessly codependent. she has only ever been sure of one thing: her feelings for him but that's about to be put to the test. content warning: suicidal thoughts, emotional/psychological issues, family dysfunction, possible trauma. Copyright© 2023 by TheShadyButterfly. TeenFiction/Mystery/Love™

When her office burns down an editor must work together with the most infuriating man alive or risk the promotion she's been working her entire career for. **** Chielozonam 'Elo' Williams is doing great. All things considered. It doesn't matter that the job she loves as editor at PerfectRomance, the publishing imprint she's been working at for the past five years has started to feel more like a chore these days. It doesn't matter that her judgemental father might be right about her wasting her life away by not using her full potential. What really matters is getting her dream promotion and enjoying the prime years of her youth. That is until the unthinkable happens. After Elo's office building burns down overnight she's forced to share an office with the one person that makes her blood boil: Connor Price. Archenemies since their days at college Connor makes getting under her skin an art form. He's brash and rude and irritates her like nobody else can with his scathing looks and contemptible behavior. It's not long before they're locked in a battle of wits, neither willing to back down or give up. When they have to work together to acquire a potentially lucrative manuscript, they are forced to put aside their long-standing animosity for an adventure that will blur the line between hate and desire until neither of them can tell where the fighting ends and the falling begins. PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION meets ANYONE BUT YOU meets THE HATING GAME in this contemporary rom-com about resilience, self-discovery and two sworn enemies who can't tell the difference between wanting to kiss or kill each other. An ONC 2026 story inspired by prompt 40. THIS NOVEL IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD AND INKITT. IF YOU ARE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, PLEASE INFORM THE AUTHOR VIA WATTPAD, AS YOU MAY BE READING FROM A MIRROR SITE WHERE IT HAS BEEN PLAGIARIZED AND YOUR DEVICE MAY BE SUBJECTED TO A MALWARE ATTACK.

A dermatologist with vitiligo discovers her demisexual identity while juggling fake dating, a tangled love triangle, and family pressure to marry-forcing her to choose between conformity and self-acceptance in conservative Bengali society. When Aaheli Chatterjee jets off to Vietnam, to avoid arranged marriage and nosy aunties, a fake dating pact with charming Ayan spirals into something dangerously real. But love gets messy-especially when she faces backlash from Ayan's family and growing feelings for her best friend Tara makes her question her sexuality. Back home, family pressure, viral videos, and a rising queer campaign test everything. In a society where scars run deeper than skin and queerness isn't easily labeled, can Aaheli choose love without losing herself?

In a city divided by power, secrets, and survival... the walls don't just protect-they hide. Raya Johnson has spent her life on the wrong side of the wall, where survival means silence and trust can get you killed. Labeled, overlooked, and underestimated, she knows exactly what the world thinks of girls like her-and she's learned how to use it. But when a dangerous opportunity places her inside the very system built to keep her out, Raya finds herself caught between two worlds: the one that raised her and the one that could destroy her. As alliances shift and hidden agendas begin to surface, Raya realizes she's not just fighting for her freedom-she's part of something bigger. Something divine. Something dangerous. Because some walls aren't meant to stand forever. And when they fall... everything changes. A modern, emotionally gripping retelling inspired by the story of Rahab-where faith, survival, and purpose collide.

Centuries before "Twelve Tomes", the adventures of Tomekeeper Naveah Cress had yet to become legend. Follow her journey in this collection of short stories created for Fantasmical 2024!

Tellus Mater, ruler of Ortis Solis Silva, is informed of her son's disappearance. His last known whereabouts are near the border of Nocte Silva territory, an area that has been scorched to the ground. She follows the fires blazing trail all the way to her home. Every inch of her land is covered in burnt trees and flowers turned to ash. The only surviving being is Lux, child of Nocte Silva's ruler, laying unconscious on a patch of lush and untouched grass. Her son is missing. Her home has burned down. And her enemy's child is smack dab in the middle of it all.

Deqawn/ Dawn is a college student whom had revolved her life around her girlfriend Eliza. Until one night during a great night drive they got into a car accident or so Dawn used to believe. Dawn starts going through changes after the wreck and the doctors don't take her pain seriously and brush it off as just a side effect of the medicine and concussion. She stays with her father for a while to recover and heads back to college where a lot of her questions about her changes will be answered.She later finds out she is a vampire and that another vampire bit her for his own personal gain. Dawn has no idea that this all is just surface level to the changes that will go on in her life. She will never be considered as the person she used to be.

After defeating Delphi, Albus and Scorpius are back in Hogwarts, right in the middle of their fifth year. Things are wholly different, now. Scorpius and Rose are dating, walking hand-in-hand in the corridors and Albus cannot help but feel jealous of the two. The sweltering question was: why was he jealous? Some things, however, remained the same. The bullies. The prejudice. The uncertainty. But that wasn't the worst of it. Albus thought he could forget about the horrors of what had happened last year with Delphi, but after a sinister lesson orchestrated by a familiar face, it seems that the past has a firm grip on both Albus and Scorpius. It is up to the two of them to defeat their qualms once and for all: before history repeats itself. *I edited "The Inevitable Fate" to make Albus have brown skin since that's how I have always seen him. :) * *I do NOT support transphobic J.K. Rowling*

Two neighbour youths find themselves relocated to a cabin in the remote northern wilds of Canada as they escape the ravages of another pandemic.

Moriah hates athletes. When she's fired from her position as the PR manager for a famous country singer, Moriah is out of options to find a new job. The good jobs are either taken, or she's overqualified. Confronted with a new job for the NHL hockey team, the Boston Bears, Moriah is forced to break her 'no working for athletes rule'. What's more, she's forced to straighten out the image of the hotheaded, short tempted leftwing of the Bears, Ezra Nevarez. He's everything she hates about working for athletes and the very reason she didn't want the job in the first place. However, the more time she spends trying to fix Ezra's image she sees there's a soft side to Ezra he can't hide from anyone, especially her. What's worse? She can't help but fall for this side of Ezra, and slowly willing to break all of the rules she made to protect herself from men just like him. --- Ezra has only two cares in the entire world, family and hockey. Point. Period. Blank. Everything else is a distraction he doesn't have the energy to bother with. So after a brutal game in the NHL preseason, where fists fly, Ezra as always is forced to take the blame. Being assigned a PR manager to work on his public image doesn't bother him one bit. He couldn't care less what the woman did with herself as long as she left him alone. The way he preferred to be. He didn't care about her job and silently hoped she'd be fired so she could leave him alone for good. He didn't care that there was something dark she was covering up with her sunshine attitude. And he surely didn't care about her full lips that more than once thought about what they tasted like. Wait what? No he couldn't care about her. She was one more distraction he couldn't afford. Though why couldn't he seem to shake thoughts of her no matter how hard he tried?

Book 2 in the Wellington duology. Who? Why? Will they ever get the answers to these questions or are they destined to be a step behind every time as they watch ANIMA up the ante? Will they finally unmask ANIMA or be destroyed by the secrets?

Sylas church is a Tribal mage who is afflicted by amnesia. After an accident at the tournament of Masters, Sylas and his friend Mason are thrown into an adventure to clear their names. As they escape for their lives, Sylas slowly reclaims his memories and comes to terms with his past.

In which two a-spec girls find each other...

After her brother Alfie pretty much runs the Daylight Factory into the ground, Penny Evermore has to leave her top job at Evermore Enterprises HQ to fix this mess. Together with the help of her best friend Sloane Hidaka, local trainee vet Ezra Montero and yes Alfie, they need to turn Daylight bulbs into a hot commodity while rebuilding bridges with the residents of Muckle Rock. But one day, Penny starts receiving bulbs with even more magical properties from a mysterious sender and she must figure out whether it is a threat or a warning. About this series: This is Season 1 of "...at the Daylight Factory". Structured like a TV series but written as short stories, I have 8 episodes and 8 'outtakes'. I'll be uploading these alternately every Friday morning. Grateful for any constructive feedback and if there's interest, I'll get cracking on Seasons 2 - 4! Hope you enjoy this :)

She, Leila, a sunny young girl, dreams of participating in the Olympic Games since her early childhood. He, Mehdi, darker with a tumultuous past, seeks to flourish. They will find their way through taekwondo.