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Jisung is exhausted. Worn thin by performance, expectation, and a life lived in full view, he stumbles into a small café on a rainy morning in a city that never really slows down. Tucked between a laundromat and a boarded-up bookstore, it's the kind of place that offers warmth without questions. Rin has built a life out of quiet routines: early shifts, stubborn machinery, mismatched mugs, and a café that feels more like shelter than business. She doesn't recognize the masked stranger with the overly specific coffee order and tired eyes - and when he returns the next day, and the day after that, she lets him stay anonymous. As the days unfold, something gentle takes shape between them in the spaces between words: in shared silence, late-night cleanups, bad chalkboard jokes, and the comfort of being known without explanation. She doesn't know who he is. He doesn't know she's been trying to outrun her own past. But inside this little café, they find something neither of them expected: a place to belong. Until the world outside finds its way in. ━━━✦❘༻༺❘✦━━━━━━ This is a soft slice-of-life friendship story set in a quiet café. It's platonic, grounded, and full of late-night vulnerability, awkward honesty, quiet defiance, and tea that says everything they won't. No romance. Just two people learning to be themselves - slowly, safely, together. A soft, platonic story about showing up, staying quiet, and finding home where you weren't looking for it. Thanks for reading. I hope this feels like a warm drink on a heavy day. ~CURRENTLY UNDER EDITING~

After his failed attempt at an Olympic victory, Ilia Malinin starts talking to Audrey to help him with his panic attacks after his teammate Isabeau tells him about her. She doesn't know anything about figure skating, even though Isabeau Levito is her childhood best friend. But she's the reason he comes back better than ever, ready for redemption. Everybody's wondering who's the girl that Ilia's smiling at after he delivers his perfect performance at World's. It's Audrey.

Sorora "Aura" Laurent never meant to disrupt Riley Matthews' perfectly balanced world. Blunt, awkward, academically gifted, and recovering from a serious knee injury, Aura transfers into John Quincy Adams Middle School with no interest in fitting in. But somehow, people keep gravitating toward her anyway. Farkle Minkus is fascinated by her honesty, Maya Hart can't decide whether she understands Aura or resents her, and Riley slowly realizes that for the first time in her life, she may not be everyone's favorite person in the room. As middle school turns into high school, friendships shift, feelings deepen, and the cracks in the group become impossible to ignore. Through first love, jealousy, growing pains, and the pressure of figuring out who they really are, Aura becomes the one person nobody expected to change everything. Especially Farkle. Because he falls first. And hard.

In a world where every Color is a living person, each gifted with unique powers and responsibilities, the kingdom depends on their unity. But when Prince Red pushes himself beyond his limits, leading to Purple eventually putting him under a sleeping spell for his own safety. While Red sleeps, the other colors react in different ways-some worry, some tease him, some try to take over leadership, and others simply miss him. These moments reveal how important Red has become to the people around him.

[POETRY #2] A collection of poems about growing up before feeling ready. twenty-something explores the realities of adulthood, the exhaustion hidden behind independence, the loneliness of becoming, and the pressure to keep moving even when life feels uncertain. Through soft and reflective poetry, this collection captures the in-between phase of navigating dreams, responsibilities, changing relationships, and the version of yourself you are still learning to become. For anyone who has ever felt lost, left behind, or overwhelmed by the weight of growing up: this book is a reminder that you are not navigating life alone. twenty-something written by: syrynah © All Rights Reserved

Every heart holds a story, and every story leaves a weight behind. The Weight We Carry is a living collection - written in real time, in the middle of survival, burnout, healing, and trying again anyway. These poems come from the spaces between responsibilities: grocery aisles, late nights, applications, shifts, side hustles, and the quiet moments when everything finally catches up. This collection explores the ache of memory, the exhaustion of caring too much, the frustration of broken systems, and the complicated reality of choosing to help when it costs you something. There is grief here, and anger, and dark humor. There is healing, but it is not linear. Hope shows up when it can, but it doesn't pretend to fix everything. Through raw, unfiltered verses, The Weight We Carry holds space for the people who keep going without applause - the helpers, the burned out, the ones trying to build something better while still carrying their own survival on their backs. These poems are for anyone who has felt the weight of the world press down and kept moving anyway. Not because it was easy. But because stopping was never really an option.

Anissa Clifford's life was supposed to follow logic, not legends. But after one too many sleepless nights and a walk into the woods at 3 a.m., she discovers that reason doesn't always win against fate. Beneath a dying banyan tree, something ancient stirs, something that speaks her name and pulls her toward a realm where myths breathe and bargains cut deeper than truth. She came searching for direction. What she found was him.

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝖺𝖻𝖻𝗒 𝗁𝖺𝗌 𝗍𝗐𝗈 𝗀𝗈𝗅𝖽𝖾𝗇 𝗀𝗂𝗋𝗅𝗌，𝗍𝗐𝗈 𝖻𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝖿𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖽𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗆𝖺𝗒 𝖺𝗌 𝗐𝖾𝗅𝗅 𝖻𝖾 𝗌𝗂𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗌，𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖺𝗅𝗐𝖺𝗒𝗌 𝗋𝖾𝗅𝗒𝗌 𝗈𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆，𝗎𝗅𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗍𝗅𝗒 𝖻𝗎𝗋𝗇𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗍𝗐𝗈 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆 𝗈𝗎𝗍

A memoir about caregiving, burnout, and choosing a new path in life. A story of love for what I do, exhaustion, and the courage to start over. This is my truth.

The Weight of Rain At forty-eight, Elena thought the hardest part of life was surviving the man she loved. For years, she endured a relationship built on fear, unpredictable anger, and the hope that one day Marcus would become the man she first fell in love with. But after one violent confrontation leaves her wounded, Elena finally walks away-leaving behind everything she knows in search of freedom. Four hours later, a tragic bus accident changes everything. When Elena wakes in a small coastal-town hospital, she remembers nothing. Not her past. Not the life she escaped. Not even the names and faces of the two children she loves more than life itself. As she begins rebuilding herself among strangers who become friends, Elena discovers a peace she has never known. But when fragments of her memories start to return, so do the painful truths she left behind. To find her children again, Elena must face the life she once ran from-and decide whether the future she's building is worth risking for the past she lost. --- Author's Note This novel is an original work written by SAPPHIREHAVEN. All characters, events, locations, and storylines are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or deceased, or real events is purely coincidental. © 2026 SAPPHIREHAVEN. All Rights Reserved. This story is protected under copyright law. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced, translated, reposted, distributed, adapted, or transmitted in any form without the author's written permission. No Plagiarism Policy Plagiarism, unauthorized reproduction, AI reposting, content scraping, or redistribution of this story in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any violation may result in copyright claims and legal action. Thank you for respecting the time, effort, and creativity invested in this work.

Tsuki comes back to Japan with determination to be the best musician, but many things cause that dream to slip.

"I am a body in motion, but the soul stays still-wandering through days that no longer touch me."

This is gonna be a short book for when I'm bored and have nothing to do and don't want to put in much effort. Vesper. A normal girl. Well as normal as can be. How can she be normal when she's going to be acting as the main character in the newest horror movie! Dollie. It's been teasered so many times. Everyone is waiting for it to come out. But they don't know who the main character is yet... They don't know Vesper is the main character. Well technically Frankie is. But Vesper is playing her! Nobody knows. Not a soul except the cast and crew. But going to school, getting good grades, and acting is a lot of work. More than anyone realizes. What happens when the main actress faces burnout? The filming can't stop. And neither can the school work (First two chapter 3rd person the rest is first person because it's easier)

Mary has always been the person everyone can count on. The coworker who listens. The daughter who helps. The partner who takes care of everyone else first. As strange symptoms begin to creep into her life, exhaustion settles deep into her bones and the demands of the people around her seem to grow heavier with each passing day. Still, Mary keeps giving away pieces of herself, convinced that being needed is the same thing as being loved. The Shape of Being Needed is a quiet story about chronic illness, caregiving, and the things we sacrifice for the people we love.

El mundo adulto es demasiado ruidoso. Para Sam, un maestro de inglés de veintiséis años asfixiado por el estrés, las deudas y las implacables expectativas de su familia, la única forma de sobrevivir es aferrarse a un secreto que esconde debajo de su ropa de vestir. Un día, buscando escapar del caos de Monterrey, Sam se adentra en una vieja casona en el Barrio Antiguo. Guiado por la enigmática Madame Harmony y el sonido de un viejo tocadiscos, descubre un refugio mágico donde el tiempo no avanza en línea recta. En esta Hacienda, las almas rotas regresan a la edad de su infancia que más necesitan sanar. Al ritmo de sus canciones favoritas, adultos desgastados por la sociedad vuelven a ser niños libres de juicios. Pero el refugio está en peligro. Afuera, los "Silenciadores" -adultos consumidos por la amargura y la rigidez- patrullan las calles emitiendo una estática capaz de borrar los recuerdos y destruir la magia. Sam descubrirá que no es solo un habitante más; es un Sincronizador, el único capaz de adentrarse en la mente de los Silenciadores para rescatar a sus niños interiores. Cuando el Ruido amenace con devorar a su propio primo, Sam tendrá que decidir si quedarse en la comodidad y seguridad de su regresión, o enfrentar sus traumas para proteger a su nueva familia. Porque a veces, la batalla más grande de un adulto es permitirse volver a ser niño.

Isla Amores is a place of wonder and magic planted in the hearts of dreamers, and Soleil Jimenez longed to find it within the beige sands and cerulean waves of the island. But despite how much she tried, she always ends up in the same wall of disappointment. At the homecoming of an old flame for the following summer, she's faced with the challenge of having to see the face of Luka Cervantes once again-for sixty-two days until he leaves. Once a friend, almost a lover, forever a stranger. But hatchets are unburied when secrets resurfaced, and when caught between old letters and forgetting it altogether, Soleil might have to face the underlying truth that the spark she had been looking for had either been with him all along, or had long been gone all this time.

Basically a gay My Chemical Romance version of The Breakfast Club. It all started that dreadful Saturday morning. A day that at first we all wanted to fly through. It turned out to be the day we all wanted to last forever. For we would go back to our little worlds filled with either popularity or the loneliness we wouldn't admit. That Saturday we realized that there is different things inside all of us. Each of us are our, Brain Athlete Princess Burnout And criminal For we stood together that Saturday, and found our true selves. Our true selves were, The Breakfast Club.

I wish this were a tall tale. Unfortunately, it is my actual life. What follows is a largely true account of one FEMALE (the men have got it easy let's be honest) engineering student's slow descent into madness between professors yelling insults on the daily, being told I would never make it because I was a woman, fighting increasingly desperate battles for ADS accommodations, and getting buried under a metric ton of problem sets and paperwork (I did the math, you take all the digital files x the number of pages x the weight per page - I'm kidding I didn't and I also promise there's NO math in here. I hate it too) The chapters ahead contain raw wrath, questionable life choices, bureaucratic horror, and enough profanity to make an academic integrity committee faint. The names, universities, and other identifying details have been changed to protect the guilty (though they don't deserve it) So sit back, relax, and enjoy the saga of my misfortunes.

Kojo Mensah has everything. A respected banking job in Accra, the right apartment, the right reputation. From the outside, his life looks flawless. But inside is another story....... *Tags:* #contemporaryfiction #ghana #identity #mentalhealth #spirituality

Sarte é apenas mais um "residente de confiança" tentando sobreviver à engrenagem implacável de um escritório de alta renda. Entre reuniões intermináveis que claramente poderiam ter sido um e-mail, prazos sufocantes e o fantasma do burnout batendo à porta, ele tenta apenas fazer o seu trabalho. Mas o cansaço acumulado cobra o seu preço. Um leve tremor nas mãos, uma xícara que escorrega da sacada do 14º andar em câmera lenta e, de repente, o peso de uma tragédia cai sobre seus ombros. Enquanto o pânico distorce a realidade e os corredores começam a ecoar boatos e sussurros, Sarte entra em uma corrida desesperada contra o tempo, contra o sistema e, principalmente, contra a sua própria mente. Um suspense psicológico ágil, claustrofóbico e absurdamente real sobre como o verdadeiro caos, às vezes, está trancado do lado de dentro.