Chineseamerican Stories

Growing up Toisanese (the real pronunciation is Hoisanese) in the San Gabriel Valley suburbs of Los Angeles, I was an awkward but observant Toisan Girl. I never really fit in anywhere - straddled between American and Chinese cultures as an ABC. Between a paranoid born-again Christian mother, and a rageful, hardworking father behind closed doors, I somehow survived. Many a misadventure unfolded through my coming of age years....

Jeremy Zhang is poor, technically homeless, and lives with his mother and two (half) siblings on the highway, going from one place to the next across the country. It's no picnic, but he has his family, and that's all he needs. But when a series of sudden disasters strike, he finds himself living at his estranged grandparents' home, facing the one thing he's always dreamed about and dreaded: a normal life. High school. Friends. Living in a stable house. Jeremy doesn't know what to feel about all these changes, but he has to learn to adapt or spend the rest of his life running away, just like his beloved mother.

Where 'ABC' by Gene Luen Yang meets 'Starry River of the Sky' by Grace Lin... Kieran Fu and Katharyn Kuang have been inseparable since Day One, building their friendship on shared stories of ancient folktales and a love of home-cooked, non-American food. But they're more connected to those old fables than they think: riddles and red strings run deep in Kieran's family, while Katharyn can trace her family tree back to a tragic myth of star-crossed lovers. During their formative years, the pair encounter groundbreaking discoveries and strange signs that reveal the truth - and the interconnectedness - of the folktales they know and love. When Kieran and Katharyn return home for the summer after university, their families start pushing them toward a fate of eternal union that neither of them wants. Bound by ancient prophecies and long-standing tradition, the two must decide: can they rewrite their destinies, or will the red string of fate tie them down a path they can't escape? After all, only one thing is for certain: legends are more than lessons - and they can turn to reality in the blink of an eye. ----- 'red string:' an ONC 2025 novella by Faith @kth_disneyfanatic cover by @Saramitra_ 🏅 ONC 2025 Round 2 Ambassador's Pick!

Three women, two generations, one meal. Holly is a college student caught in the ridge between childhood and maturity. Doris hovers nervously, a once-loving auntie turned stranger by time and personality. Mama: the woman who binds them together, once the boldest of the three but suffering from dementia. One runs from the past, one still lives in it, and one cannot help but let go of it. What remains unsaid stifles the home, and they all stopper their suffering with mouthfuls of rice.

𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 (𝚊𝚍𝚓.) /ˈnevərˈendiNG/ "(especially of something unpleasant) having or seeming to have no end." _ Kamila Wang was the model of high school girls her age: smart, pretty, social. Scouted as a runway model at 11 and now working towards boosting her college applications, Kamila's one and only goal in life was to get rich and enjoy it when she gets older. As junior year lies ahead of her, the pressure just grows stronger (like with any highschooler). However, the stakes only get higher as Kamila is invited into a whole new world and becomes more and more involved with the upper echelon aristocrats she so dearly had wished to become a part of. In reality, things aren't as simple as just networking. The upper echelon's version of ideal is far from Kamila, and just because she's become rich doesn't mean she's enough. Etiquette lessons get added on top of her previous schedule, and interactions between herself and the upper class become priority instead of her previous goals. She needs to change completely. Without enough time, she has to choose just how much of herself she's willing to give up just to fit into this new persona. Well, as long as she reaches the top, there's no problem in sacrificing everything. Right? _ Helia Rosworth has never liked the environment at Goldencrest Academy. Not the teachers, and definitely not the hypocritical students secretly competing with one another just for a college. The most hypocritical of all? His so-called "best friend", Kamila. However, as she grows increasingly distant towards her friend groups and starts becoming a version of herself that even the previous Kamila would've hated, he just knows that something is wrong. And he's going to fix it.

How Elizabeth Chen found a missing puzzle piece in the form of Christian Lim.

[Bauhinia Legacy Series, Book 3] The Jewel of the Orient isn't all that true to its name - most inhabitants of Hong Kong never get to enjoy the high-end splendor the city boasts. Yeung Tze Yan is more than eager to return to the city she calls home, but she has become nothing but a forgotten name in her family's triad organization, the Bauhinias. Her unexpected return sends a wave of shock throughout the household. Under the lead of her fearsome father, the Bauhinias have gained notoriety over the years, but Yan's brother Hak Keung is eager to take charge. Feeling determined to be recognized, Yan decides to collect intel about the Bauhinias through her passion for cosmetics and fashion, exchanging innocuous disguises for gossip and heist locations. Through her small business, she learns about her brother's malicious - yet rightful - intention to take over the Bauhinias. It doesn't help that Yan must care for a young prodigy orphan who shows up by her shop window one day, begging to join the triad. After Hak Keung's takeover, the tantalizing call for power and greed slowly takes root in his mind. Yan must make dangerous decisions that could change her life forever. Secrets become as precious as currency, and Yan must learn to balance the fabrics of fate in her hands. Will fashion be her escape or her end? Will she be able to navigate between silhouettes and shades of gray? Above all, if there's one thing clear to Yan, it's that all that glitters is not gold. --- The prequel to Amelia's action-packed world in 'The Cantonesia Caper' has arrived. Dive into Aunt Yan's treacherous tale of the spaces in between black and white... Note: Can be read as a standalone. --- ONC Prompts used: #13, 67, 95 --- Accolades: 🏅Honorable Mention: The Nova Nexus #GirlPower Awards 2024

4/16/21 Dear Diary, So apparently I'm supposed to be keeping a diary now. Adults are so weird. I mean, you don't talk for months because COVID has made you realize you don't have any friends and bam! They give you a book thinking it's gonna solve everything. ~~~~~~ Story summary inside :)

Joshua Choi has been Navii Caliano's academic rival from first grade to their now junior year of high school. The two have always been stuck together in the same class; causing them to always be at each others' throats for years now, the feud is everlasting. With both Navii and Joshua being voted as their classes class presidents it only adds more fuel to the fire; causing there to be more class debates and bickering than usual. Even if the two have worked together because of their shared class president duties and they've known each other since elementary, they've never had serious deep conversations with each other-- the three main topics of their conversations with each other are: school, who's right/wrong, and who's better than the other. But, with the recent school cultural festival coming up soon, both Navii and Joshua have been spending more time together after school than usual. every day the two meet to talk about their plans for the festival and the event they must hold for their class. With this extra time spent together, they both open up more-- letting their vulnerability spill out, and seeing the other in a new light. will the vulnerability cause them both to see that they're no different from each other? or will it add an awkward impact on their 'just a rival' relationship? YA academic rivals to lovers trope </3

"Huang Zhenghua, what are you doing in America?" "Me? I'm cultivating immortality." "Come on, I'm serious." "So am I." "Ha! There's no spiritual energy in America." "Who told you that? There's plenty-just hidden." Huang Zhenghua, a Chinese-American nobody, accidentally inherits the legacy of a powerful cultivator from the Beidou Realm. From that day on, while others chase money, fame, and Hollywood stars, he chases the Dao. Scarlett Johansson wants to meet him? "Not interested." Megan Fox? "Tell her I'm in seclusion." In the land of fast food and flat screens, one man dares to seek enlightenment-and maybe a little immortality-between yoga studios and Silicon Valley startups.

Love is an agile fish, and those seeking it are the riders of a slow boat sailing on a mellow river. It's a rare thing to find love, a rarer one to catch it, and the rarest to keep it. And when two women stumble upon this precious gem, they are forced to consider whether to unearth it or not. OR... Two old souls find each other in a new world.

College kid, Jin Chung, always wanted to become a writer ever since he was little. His dream followed him through childhood on the streets of inner city Oakland, college life in Berkeley City College, and eventually young adult life in the Bay Area. When he met the girl of his dream, Sophie Kei, a yoga instructor, his life was forever changed. This novel followed his pursuit of dreams, pursuit of love, hope, peace, and everything in between.....

His parents, once lured in by the Gold Rush and the follow-up construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, incarcerated God knows where. Non-fluent in English, he now sits solitaire on the brink of success-driven insanity. Come 1943, a pale white hand, with wounds of red and blue shows him fearless hope anew. Will the paranoia instilled by an eking Cold War, its personified bearer your bitter-cold silhouette, break them before his paper sons go through? Content Warning: This fic will include allusions to racial discrimination, albeit from a historical perspective. Namely, against the Chinese American pre, post and during WWII.

She crossed the Pacific to find freedom. Instead, she found a world that demanded more than she was ready to give.

Sixteen year old Evaline is a Chinese American junior in high school. One autumn day, while returning home from SAT prep, she receives the news: her older brother, Vincent, is dead after a college party and too many bottles of wine. For Evaline's tiger parents, Vincent was the golden child. The valedictorian of his class and a sophomore at Stanford, Evaline has spent her whole life living under Vincent's shadow. Now that Vincent is gone, Evaline is shattered. She is forced to confront the painful process of grieving, and begins to discover that maybe Vincent wasn't the perfect son she'd always admired.

If you were thinking this was somewhere close to crazy rich Asians I don't think you're in the right place. However if you've been scrolling through SAD on fb, constantly laughing about the memes on everydayasian , and constantly counting the coins in your coin pouch

LATER CHAPTERS. ML (Stephen Yang): "chrysie~ my darling come let's do something secretive" FL (Chrystal Zhu ): "STOP calling me like that who is your darling wanna get some shots?" ML: "you want to give me an injection?" keep dreaming who do you think I am? FL: "you think I don't have a syringe?" with that Chrystal started to search around her but where did it go? ML: "are you searching for this? come here..." with a seductive to he called her showing the syringe Not knowing anything Chrystal went near him to get back the syringe but instead of getting it she got two tight spanking on her butt "Ah!!!! it hurts.... you stupid idiotic pervert" Chrystal yelled at Stephen ML: "Oh the compliment you gave me is good. Let me show you what perverts do" __________ Chrystal Zhu is a nurse while Stephen Yang is a doctor the both were arranged marriage which was bestowed to them by their grandparents. But they both knew each other since High school Stephen Yang was rejected by Chrystal Zhu when he proposed her. Let's see how their life would be __________ The start would be slightly sour but I do hope that the upcoming chapters would be good.. Keep supporting this book and thankyou.

~An anthology written for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month '23, '24, and '25~ It's no surprise that my stories are all written from the heart. I've been thinking, though - home is where the heart lives. Maybe I should write about my home this time around. These stories, accompanied with notes about identity and diversity, intertwine into a possibility of how culture shapes who we are today. Embark on adventures or relish in the little moments in life, filled with Chinese history, culture, mythology, and more - tidbits from where I live and where my heart lies. Each story will acclaim and pay tribute to where I am and what made me, me. After all, there's no shame in loving who you are. ------------------ Accolades: 🏅featured on @IdentityandCulture's 2026 AAPI Heritage Month / API Month Reading List 🥇1st in the Glorious Awards 🥇1st in the Dazzle Awards: Random Category 🥇1st in the Brumous Collab Awards 2024: Best Opening Line 🥈2nd in the Categories Mini Awards: Best Opening Chapter 🥉3rd in the Valentine Awards: Diversity Genre

Two friends growing up in the American Midwest, one Chinese-American the other, Turkish-American, have their lives turned upside-down by the 9/11 attacks. They struggle to come to terms with what it means to be American in a world where they never quite fit in.