City Stories

After the accident, Noah Archer built a wall around himself. But Riley Dawson is curious about him, and she's determined to meet the man behind his defenses. ***** Riley Dawson has always noticed Noah. He was the most popular guy on campus, until he lost his parents in a car accident. Now he's withdrawn and silent. Mustering up the courage to give her condolences, the two end up talking, and Riley grows determined to help Noah find himself again. Every time she coaxes a smile from him, she can feel the ice around his heart melting. But Riley knows that Noah's loss is still close to him. She's opening up her heart, but can Noah do the same? He's got so much to lose, but now, so does she. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

After falling in love with a younger and much less successful man, can Yiwen convince herself and her parents to accept him into their wealthy family? ***** When Yiwen Wang suddenly finds herself 30 and single, she lets her well-meaning best friend talk her into a blind date with the handsome Zi'an Li. And not only is he plucked straight out of a movie screen, his witty banter over dinner also convinces Yiwen he's exactly the type to make her toes curl. Yet, by some wicked twist of fate, he's five years younger than her and has no house, car, or stable, high-paying job. So how is she ever going to convince herself and her parents that he's the right choice? Especially when her new, attractive boss makes it very clear that he's interested in her? [[1st Place, Flower Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[1st Place, The Golden Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

Achilles De Vera is one of those spoiled brats who has it all: money, fame, and freedom. Nights at bars, loud laughter, and zero worries in life. But everything changes when his parents send him away to Valle Verde, a quiet province far from the chaos he's used to. He hates it there at first, until he meets Gabriel Reiven Tejada, the most admired boy in school whose smile could disarm even the proudest heart. Two boys from different worlds brought together by fate. But can love really bloom between two of a kind? .☘︎ ݁˖ Cover design by Aeris WP ❀

☆~°Together in Darkness°~☆ ☆~°Leon Kennedy X Reader°~☆ ~°☆°~ (Y/N) Ortega was a normal person, they're living with their best friend in Raccoon City. Without being able to afford college they had little options for jobs, and they struggled for money. But now the city was in a state of chaos, a virus out break. Hoping to escape the horried apocalypse, they find Leon Kennedy in the cities police station. Maybe this is how they live, Leon is how they may escape. maybe they could help each other? friends turned to lovers, with betrayal, Heartbreak and a virus that could ruin the whole world. the two must work together to save each other and everyone else on the planet. a person with no job and an officer on his first day, I wonder if they'll make it out? They/Them Pronouns Resident Evil, Characters and some dialogue belong to Capcom (Completed) ~Parker-6A5~ 🌙

A Story of A City girl and A Tribal Man ｡⁠.ﾟ⁠+◍✧⁠*⁠。 Previous Name: Lost in wild, found in you. Adityanath x Dhanvi

Renée Clark is a confident city girl who knows her stuff. All that's missing is love in her life. Her passion for interior design has earned her prestigious awards and has taken her all over the world to design hundreds of spaces of retail giants. When the heiress of a family horse ranch in rural Wyoming hires her to design the interior of their newly renovated property, Renee- along with her quirky boss and her spoiled shih-tzu- take residency at the ranch to help complete the intense remodeling project. While staying at Circle A Ranch, she meets the Allison family- whose lives revolve around horses, each other, and the visitors who come to stay at the ranch. One member of the family in particular catches the attention of Renée- Dennis "Denny" Allison. Denny was living his dream of being a rodeo star on the brink of greatness when a simple horse riding accident took his ability to walk only a year prior to meeting Renée. Falling for somebody- let alone with a classy city girl like Renée- was not even on his radar. He must become confident in himself if he wants to pursue her and get back to the person that he was prior to his accident and no longer be considered "hell on wheels." "Where Horses Run Free" is a story about love, family, horses, and redemption. Author's note: Hi reader!! I will try to post a chapter every Friday until it is completed! It is a story that is inspired by certain people in my life and also spending a lot of time with horses on my grandparents' ranch as a child. I'd like to dedicate this story to my Mamaw and Papaw. This one is for you. ♥︎ Top Rankings: #1 in wheelchair • 6/10/25 #1 in lifestyle • 1/18/26 #1 in job • 2/3/26, 2/21/26, 3/7/26 #1 in farm • 3/7/26

When given the opportunity to change her life for the better, she is thrusted into a portal leading to another world. Though it's a lot different than anticipated. After getting fired from her job, just days away from getting kicked out of her apartment, instead of saving what little money she had left, she wasted it on booze and spent the rest of the day drinking away her sorrows. Whether it was the alcohol or a figment of her own imagination, a screen appeared in front of her promising a better life... though at a cost. The story of how one woman, with nothing but her own skills in business navigates a dual life. Surviving flesh eating monsters in one world, and taxes and fines in the other. She uses the opportunity given to change her life for the better, making new friends and family along the way. Intersex Mc (Mc will be transporting between 2 worlds only, their home world and the apocalyptic world. If this is not what you were expecting, do not read.) *Any and all pictures and/or videos used in this story do NOT belong to me

When you are all alone in a world, that has ruined you, and taken away your life. What will become of you? Insert yourself, in this action, drama, and horror elemented thrilling story. That is set around one city, where all you ever known, has been lost. Who will find their way through, at the city's heart.

Heliox is a city that never stops moving. Maglev trains cut through glowing districts. Neon lights never fade. And the next generation is already learning how to build the future. Fifteen-year-old Naomi spends most of her time designing robots, skating through crowded stations, and trying to keep up with the brilliant city around her. Her best friend Rika is the opposite- she's brilliant and full of light. But Heliox is bigger than both of them. Across the city's districts, their lives begin to intersect with others chasing their own ambitions: a quiet automotive prodigy, a reckless guitarist who understands electricity like rhythm, a relentless hockey player who refuses to slow down, and a photographer and bomb enthusiast who sees the city through a lens no one else has. Together they build, experiment, argue, and dream about the future waiting for them. For a while, it feels like nothing could stop them. Until one day, everything does. In a city that never slows down, the hardest thing to learn might be how to keep moving forward when someone you love is suddenly gone. Because the future isn't just about sharp witted prodigy. It's about the people who are brave enough to get back up when life feels hopeless.

She left her quiet village with big dreams and suitcase full of hope. Moving to a new city for college wasn't easy. New faces. New rules. A hostel room that didn't feel like home. But she believed this was the beginning of something beautiful. And it was...until she fell in love for the first time. He was her first love. Her first late-night calls. Her first butterflies. Her first everything. And also her first heartbreak. Betrayed and broken, she learned the hardest lesson of all-not every love is meant to stay. Just when she thought her heart would never feel the same again, someone unexpected walked into her life. Calm. Patient. Real. He didn't give her butterflies. He gave her peace. This is not a story about first love. It's about second chances. About the kind of love that stays. The kind that leads to forever.....and a future she never thought she'd have again. Because sometimes, the second love is the one that we are destined for.

Sometimes, life feels too heavy to understand. Maybe every eldest daughter knows this pain - the silent weight of responsibilities, chores, and expectations that never seem to end. We grow up too fast, forced to be strong when all we ever wanted was to rest. At the end of the day, all we truly crave is peace - to be loved, to be seen, to be taken care of. Because for as long as we can remember, we've been holding everyone together while quietly falling apart. When will it be my time? Will I ever find peace amidst the chaos?

Readers, I have returned!!! Returned with a delectable, densely-packed and dorky tale of stolen trading cards, Comic Cons and car chases! --- $500,000 of Gut Puncher trading cards have gone missing from New York Comic Con... 4 DAYS before they need to be presented to the masses! Now it's up to Ray Strongmann and the Dork Detectives to find those cards and arrest the culprits! Uh... READ ON!!!

She goes to the city for the first time to school but has to uncover mysteries surrounding the school .........

Once upon a time, fairy tales had endings. A kiss. A crown. A happily ever after. But stories never truly end. When a dark power begins to stir through ancient magic and forgotten legends, a new generation finds itself pulled into a world they believed existed only in myths. Hope and her friends soon discover that the stories they grew up with were never just stories. Beneath the surface of their world lie old kingdoms, dangerous secrets, and powerful forces that have been waiting to rise again. As mysterious artifacts awaken and long-buried magic returns, the line between legend and reality begins to fade. Because every story has its heroes. Every story has its villains. And sometimes... the real ending has not been written yet.

The city was a circuit board of cold, flickering neon and bruised purple clouds, a place where the air always tasted like ozone and forgotten conversations. Tadao lived in the high-altitude silence of a cramped apartment, a space overtaken by the skeletal remains of cassette tapes. Their black ribbons unspooled across the floor like tangled veins, snagging on the corners of old wooden chairs. He sat in the center of the mess, his fingers stained dark with magnetic oxide-the dust of a thousand recorded moments. To the people in the streets below, Tadao was a ghost story they told to feel better about their own moving on. They watched him from the sidewalk with those hollow, "I don't care stares," whispering about the boy who stayed behind to guard a frequency that had gone dead a year ago. They called him a hero because he was the only one who refused to let the silence win. But Tadao knew that being a hero was just another way of saying he was a curator of a graveyard, tending to a treasure that was rotting in his hands.

Team Knight and the United Forces are tied once again to save the day when Kyanite, a ruthless criminal forms an alliance with The CAV to commit a massive attack on the United Forces' Capital at the City of Northvale. Complicating matters is when Knight and Kirstie's relationship are pushed to their limit due to the former's commitments to the UF.

Jacob Derrows is a young man that was content simply trying to survive the day to day with his uncle. It was far from an easy life, but it is always what's on the inside that's import, and what actually is inside is 100% METAL! After a chain of events sets his life on an unexpected turn, Jacob is granted amazing powers in the form of a suit of armor and cape that makes him the invincible warrior. Together with his new techno savvy buddy, Lance, Jacob strives to find his uncle while dismembering the villainous criminals that made off with him, and all the while he must discover the secret of the mysterious pendant that acts as the source of his power. What is the Sterling Star, who is the Slumlord, and how does all of this tie back into Jacob himself? Welcome to the introductory story of an all new heroic universe! Enter the Keystone Omniverse with an all new hero. The Sterling Star: Midknight! Cover by https://www.deviantart.com/ora-ivory

In a house where cousins grow up together, life is never quiet. Teasing at the breakfast table. Late-night arguments on the terrace. Stolen snacks, shared secrets, and a bond that feels unbreakable. Dhina never expected to fall for someone who was always part of their circle. Diwa hides a heart that refuses to move on from the girl who keeps pushing him away. Narmada finds herself caught between comfort and something dangerously new. And somewhere between laughter, chaos, and family expectations... feelings begin to change. Because love doesn't always arrive with grand confessions. Sometimes it grows quietly - in late-night phone calls, accidental touches, and moments that only exist in the moonlight. But when the sun rises... Will those feelings survive the world waiting outside? This story exists because aunties have unlimited data plans. Every family function. Every temple visit. Every "accidental" phone call on speaker. Information was collected. Observed. Stored. And what I have? A premium subscription source. What you're about to read is built from 10% real-life gossip and 90% overthinking. Names changed. Drama upgraded. Logic sometimes missing. If you recognize someone in here - no, you don't. Welcome to the only place my brain prefers to live instead of doing something useful.

❝ I went searching for my best friend and ended up kidnapping the city's most dangerous man. ❞ ***** Kieran "Kie" Maddox only wants to find his missing best friend, but a wrong turn lands him in the hands of Dante Veyra, the feared crime lord of the city. Now trapped together, they must outsmart the dangers around them and a growing attraction that none of them expected. Among lies, schemes, and threats around every corner, the riskiest move is to let your guard down and fall for the wrong man. ***** Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2026 Main Prompt: 51. While in search of a missing friend, you accidentally kidnap the most feared crime lord. © 2026 | purringpages | Wattpad