Codependency Stories

27 Minutes to Eclipse is a darkly gripping tale of twin siblings, Sol and Selene, bound by blood, trauma, and a supernatural curse: every time they both die, the clock rewinds 27 minutes to the moment before the first twin's death. But this gift-or curse-comes at a cost. Memories of each loop stay with them, twisting their perception of time, morality, and each other. As their lives spiral deeper into chaos, the twins navigate the suffocating weight of their codependency, the unspoken secrets that fester between them, and the growing wedge driven by Mia-a steady but unwitting outsider who stumbles into their fractured world.

Anna lives a deliberately colourless life-one spent in the background, where asking for anything comes with a price she learned to stop paying long ago. At school, on the bus, at home, her world has been built on silence, routine, and the certain safety of going unnoticed. It's a balance she maintains meticulously, because being seen has never ended well for her. Then, one day, that balance fractures after a brief moment of accidental acknowledgement-small, meaningless, fleeting, and completely impossible to undo. Now, Anna is forced to confront the quiet life she's built. She begins to question whether survival is the same as living... and what it might cost to want more. She finds herself wondering whether the price is too low-or far too high. Because once you're noticed by someone, the world doesn't always let you disappear again. Highest ranking: #1 literaryfiction 01/03/2026 - Ongoing.

Between the poisoned soil and the mutants outside the fence, survival is a habit. At the Academy, it's a command. Shut up. Stay in line. If you can't breathe, you're doing it right. Cassie hated the drills and the ranks, but the rot didn't matter as long as she had Sophia-the only person she ever loved, and the only thing that made her feel human in a world of concrete and wire. Then, she was erased. Wiped clean. Now Cassie is clawing through the lies to find her, only to collide with a cadet who has his own agenda and his own secrets to protect. He's not a partner. He's a tactical necessity. They have nothing in common except a mission that's already falling apart. They'll either use each other to reach their own ends, or tear each other down from the inside.

A suddenly appearing sister and an erased clan. A strange black hound and a blood-soaked traitor. The chance for a new family-and the danger of losing the old one forever. Nikko and Taiki once again face unanswered questions, long-forgotten myths, and the simple struggle of staying alive. Their search for truth leads them to the most precious magical artifact ever believed lost-straight into the shadows of the deadly perils it carries with it.

☩ "Have a good day, Ivan." The name he had never given. She already knew it. A translator worn hollow by boredom. After his mother's death, Ivan drifts to Saint Petersburg as if running away. ☩ A story of two people slowly consumed by something neither of them can name. ☩ Copyright ©CatMollu

Have you ever loved a videogame so much that you wished you were somehow magically transported into it? Tough luck, this isn't your typical isekai story where the protagonist ends up in a different world. The videogame becomes the new reality in this one. Features: a cute gay protagonist (and his handsome boyfriend), strong female characters (probably too strong), magic, huge fluffy wings and... did I mention BL? Doesn't feature: waiting for romance to finally happen after xxx chapters, stupid girls who need rescue and... did I mention it's not straight? Warning: I might have a fetish for angel wings. I mean... I most probably do.

This narrative explores the suffocating domestic architecture of a woman's life, defined by a restrictive upbringing in a home where personal space and autonomy were nonexistent. Trapped by a matriarchal system that views unmarried women as burdens, the protagonist attempts to escape through a performative marriage to a transient stranger. This union acts as a temporary simulation of freedom, eventually collapsing into a cycle of debt, displacement, and emotional abandonment. Despite the ultimate failure of the relationship and her return to a state of poverty and isolation, she finds a grim clarity in her circumstances. She transitions from a victim of familial rations to a silent witness of her own life, using writing as a tool to document the cage she inhabits. Ultimately, the text illustrates a harrowing journey through a landscape of social rejection and the search for an authentic self amidst systemic erasure.

☆ Ian Gallagher, ginger-headed son of Monica and Frank Gallagher. Living in a dysfunctional home with his siblings. ★ You, your parents were MIA for most of your life, leaving you in the hands of your uncle, living in the same neighborhood as the Gallagher family. You had practically grown up with Ian, not exactly since he barely knew your name and face. Though, you did go to school together. You two ended up in a semi-codependent relationship before high school ended. You haven't spoken since a nasty breakup letter was sent through the mail. It rekindled itself after you see his face on the news.

Four chaotic twenty-something roommates-Kye (a guarded trans guy), Jackson (his hot, emotionally unavailable maybe-fling), Isaiah (a burnout grad student), and River (a stoner with too many opinions)-are just trying to survive adulthood, sex, identity, and each other under one roof. Hookups get messy. Secrets get out. Feelings get caught. Nobody's as together as they pretend to be.

She is not cold. She is tired. Ruth has spent so long surviving her own mind that loving someone feels like another responsibility she might fail. She pushes. She withdraws. She convinces herself she is protecting him. Dylan loves without knowing where to stop. He stays when it would be easier to leave. He calls it devotion. He does not realize it is slowly costing him pieces of himself. When honesty finally breaks through, love is no longer soft. It is heavy. It is breathless. It is two people trying not to drown while holding on to each other. "And You Stayed" is not about perfect romance. It is about what happens when love is real but oxygen is not. For readers who believe staying is sometimes harder than leaving.

Depression is the only thing I ever did right, if you take that away from me then what do I have left? Whoever is reading this, the onset of insanity starts slowly...then all at once. I will be painted as the villain and be blamed for all that happened, but I wanted to write this, not to prove my innocence but to show you that there were integral steps that you all made me take to get here. I may not have asked for help the traditional way and I see that was my fault, but I did ask for help. Maybe not in words, but I did ask for help far many times before I reached this. Whoever is reading this, this is not an apology.

Behind quiet streets, warm churches, empty hallways, and familiar bedrooms... something is already waiting. 10 Tales of the Unknown drags you into ten ordinary lives at the exact moment reality begins to rot. A man wakes up to a life that suddenly fixes itself, his job restored, his girlfriend returned, his confidence rewritten until he discovers he is only a test subject in a machine that studies human suffering. A devout town feeds a living god beneath its church, and a girl must watch her sister willingly give herself to something that will never be full. Two boys who once ran from their mistakes are hunted by the echo of a scream they tried to forget. A child follows a beautiful fairy into the woods and learns what hunger really looks like. A hospital orderly becomes a patient in a hallway that refuses to let anyone die. And a young woman slowly uncovers the truth that her family erased her identity because love, in their world, is allowed to destroy you. 10 Tales of the Unknown is not just about monsters. It is about control, guilt, faith, fear, and the quiet cruelty of systems that claim to protect you while slowly taking everything you are.

"being a shield is my birthright." • This work is dedicated to everyone who is healing, recovering, learning (and unlearning), discovering, becoming, and being. For all of the oldest siblings, those recovering from trauma of any kind, the twenty-somethings, all of my queer and trans and disabled and neurodivergent siblings, people whose favorite trope is found family, those who struggle with chronic pain/illness, and anyone who just can't figure out how to word things. This is for you. This is also for me, for my future self, so I can hopefully look back one day and thank the Universe for how I've grown and how much I've gained. Here's to hoping for a better future.

The story of how the infamous Horcrux diary ended up in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in the wrong way-and it led to the right consequences. • What? A proper old‑school romp in fanfic trappings. Scratch the surface and you'll find social speculative fiction, a coming‑of‑age tale, a psychological thriller, and a good deal else. • Who? Readers who've had their fill of harems, secret legacies and overpowered heroes, and want some solid storytelling with soft humor, fully realised characters and plot. • Who won't it suit? Anyone on the hunt for the 'steamy stuff.' There's none of that here-absolutely none. Sorry. Really, though, it's just a story for people who love magic with all their heart.

It describes the emotional aftermath of a breakup, where love and resentment exist at the same time. The piece shows how shared spaces and memories make moving on difficult, and how a deep emotional bond can continue to hurt even after the relationship ends. It reflects grieving both the person and the future that was lost.

"The gods stopped being worshiped centuries ago. A demonic goddess thought to be dead has returned, the others have to keep her busy.." (idk man, my OCs suck)

WHEN YOU FALL APART is a one-page poem-book of dark romance and erotic gravity, written from the voice of a lover who stays-not to save, but to witness. It explores desire tangled with damage, intimacy forged in addiction, and love that becomes both shelter and wound. Bodies collide in the dark while souls unravel in the light; sex is not escape but exposure, a way grief learns to speak through skin. This is a book about loving someone who is breaking, about choosing closeness even when it costs you yourself, about the terrible beauty of falling apart together. Erotic, tragic, and tender, it treats sex as confession, romance as moral risk, and devotion as a force that binds harder than healing ever could.

I Keep Myself is a journey back to the self. Told through poetic reflection and grounded truth, this book explores how women learn endurance instead of safety, accommodation instead of intimacy, and availability instead of love. It examines the cost of staying too long, the language we use to excuse harm, and the courage it takes to choose oneself when leaving feels cruel. This book does not offer easy answers. It offers clarity. I Keep Myself is for those unlearning self-abandonment, reclaiming their boundaries, and discovering that love does not require suffering to be real. It is a reminder that keeping yourself is not selfish - it is survival, and it is sacred.

(THIS IS A FIRST DRAFT) A prince confined to his castle and a thief with a debt to pay meet in an unlikely way. When William Goldenhart, crown prince to the kingdom of Gladiolus, has a run-in with young thief, Edmund Mooney, he thinks this is his ticket out of the castle. Ever since he can remember, his mother has kept him on a short leash, never allowed to leave the castle on his own. She has always said that she is afraid of what could happen to him. When he learns of a map to the lair of a dragon's nest, he believes this is finally his time to prove to his mother that he is worthy enough for the throne. Edmund Mooney, a thief with a terrible secret, owes a debt to the thieves' guild. Presley, leader of the guild, took in Edmund and his sister, Iris, when they were young after their mother was killed by the king. Ever since then, he has held a vendetta against the kingdom and its rulers. On the night of the summer solstice, a banquet is held in the castle. The first time anyone has been allowed to enter since their king disappeared years ago. Thief Edmund is sent to rob the castle of its jewels in an effort to pay off his debt. He goes against his will, unable to disobey his captor. When the two end up accidentally running into each other while hiding from the castle guards, William tries to convince Edmund to run away with him to slay the dragon and take its riches. He thinks this will finally show his mother he's strong enough to lead his own life, and he believes the jewels will help Edmund pay off his debt. A story of a quest filled with pirates, sirens, dragons, queer romance, and so much more is waiting in Forget Me Not, by MK Orion

A poem of heartache and revelation.