Childloss Stories

"Still." Finley and Lorelei Casper were once a happily married couple. They fell in love when they were just children and soon their lives started together. All that they wanted was to start a family and grow old with one another. And when they discover they're pregnant, they can barely contain their excitement. When their daughter is born lifeless after a completely normal pregnancy, Finley and Lorelei's marriage begins to deteriorate and fall apart. Finn begins to devote more and more time to working to keep his mind off of everything. He wants to try again, but every time he brings it up, Lorelei shuts down. Lorelei is struggling to find her place in life again. She stops painting. She stops going out with friends. She stops telling Finn that she loves him. She feels every day that passes, her world crumbles just a little bit more. Lorelei and Finn struggle to regain the love they had for one another while they fight with the demons of the past and try to look for a brighter future. This story is heartbreaking. It is raw and it is real. Please take caution while reading this. Lorelei and Finley's story will involve: child loss, stillbirth, depression, suicide, heartbreak, grief, and alcohol abuse. But their story will also show growth, hope, new life, togetherness, and purpose.

Some love stories begin with a first glance. Theirs begins after goodbye. This story began with silence. The kind that follows heartbreak, stillness, and unsaid things. It's about what remains - of love, of memory, of people - after everything falls apart. If you've ever carried grief like a second skin... If you've ever loved someone you had to let go... This is for you.

Charlotte 'Cherry' Hopper finds herself attempting to navigate high school whilst battling otherworldly creatures with a group of strangers and a boy she has come to hate. At the same time, she is living her worst nightmare - a think so horrifying to her, she has woken up in a cold sweat over it hundreds of times but never dared to think about the reality of it coming true.

Jamar Miller took his life not expecting to be missed. Little did he know how loved he was and how the lives of his loved ones would unfold. Explore the lives and experience the decisions of people like his mother, ex girlfriend, and best friend, as they grieve the loss of their beloved son, partner, and friend.

!!When the Lights Go Out Novella!! Emma and Bobby Dodson lose their son on the morning of his eighteenth birthday. Following an overdose that causes rapidly progressing cerebral swelling, Beau passes away weeks after his diagnosis, dying in his parents' arms. Shattered by the loss of their only child-their greatest gift-Emma and Bobby are left uncertain how to continue living in a world without him. Emma is meant to be a nurse. Bobby is meant to be a firefighter. Yet neither knows how to return to the lives they once knew when their baby is no longer walking beside them. To survive, they must learn to go back-to who they were before Beau, and to who they must become without him. They must accept. They must grieve. And somehow, they must keep moving forward. They must remember their little boy. They must remember everything that made Beau extraordinary-and ensure that no one else ever forgets.

Everybody wears masks. Physical or metaphorical. Sometimes both. Sometimes more than one. And the reasons may vary. Some aim to better the way they're perceived. While others seek to protect themselves and those around them. Some people wear masks to dissociate from their lives. And others do it to justify their actions-however honorable or barbaric they may be-without consequence. Most importantly, masks cover the rawest version of oneself. A person who wears a mask actively chooses to hide a truth about themselves. To deceive others so as to never be forced to acknowledge who they are at their core. They are not to be trusted. Or It's been six months since Bruce donned the suit for the first time. Six months of readjusting his entire social life for one mission. One city. He finds out he underestimated the toll it'd have on him. You'd think it gets easier-playing up the charm at parties, dodging suspicions, making up believable excuses. It takes great time and effort, but Bruce Wayne's nothing if not determined. Yet, what's he to do when one bored woman he accidentally let into his life starts to dig too much too fast? Well, Alfred *did* say he'd need allies. Maybe even friends. || Also on AO3 ||

Short story 1, gun in the wrong hands.

A grieving mother struggles to carry on after the man imprisoned three years ago for the murder of her six year old daughter is released from death row. His conviction having been overturned on a technicality, he now walks away a free man. Wracked with sorrow, Tova Arquette's world is turned even farther on its head when she begins receiving what she believes to be communications from her daughter from beyond.

they stole my daughter and I'm angry as fuck about it

A mothers emotions as she experiences and moves past an early child loss.

Thea was hopelessly in love with Payton, her childhood friend and neighbor. On her fifteenth birthday everything would change but not the way she expected. her world was about to change and be turned upside down by one moment.

The true story of my miscarriage and my life.

A short children's book dreamed up my my son, about the adventures he would go on with his twin brother, had he survived after their birth ten years ago. These stories help us to keep our dear Joey's short life front and center in our lives, and help Jack to feel closer to the brother he never got to know. A story to help heal a little boys heart, and to help him feel closer to his brother as he drifts off to sleep each night.

Every night, Francine lies awake, unable to stop imagining Steve's last moments. It permeates her dreams and she wonders whether or not he called for her. Part 3 of A Family Torn Apart.

What Remains

In the hush of winter's breath, a whispered promise drifts beneath the snow. Love flickers like candlelight, fragile and fierce, amid the quiet storms of a broken world. A woman's heart beats through loss, her voice rising in the dark- a song of resilience, of memory, and the depths we carry within.