Cultureshock Stories

she never planned on joining the hard life. she never planned on living with a cop. she never planned on her entire life falling apart. she did plan for the end of the w...

In the wake of graduation, Seraphina Hawthorne finds herself at a crossroads. Leaving behind the comforts of her small hometown, she embarks on an adventure to a vibrant...

In the heart of a Slavic village where hard work is revered, and traditions run deep, a young healer's life takes an unexpected turn. When she discovers a wounded soldie...

Having just returned from backpacking around the world, Abby is slowly navigating culture shock while adjusting to Vancouver life again. When Darren, her old best friend...

Eryn Gwózdek has taken a risk, moving from her family farm in eastern Poland to the land of freedom for a mercenary job. And oh jeez it is NOT what she had imagined at a...

A secret government agency has unlocked time travel and utilizes it to retrieve children from the past to enrich the future.

|| ×3 FEATURED || When the ever-skittish, homesick, twelve-year old Fralith accidentally-on-purpose stops a kidnapping, no one knows what to think--especially Fralith. N...

I have been living in and out of Korea since 1999. I got my Korean citizenship in 2003 and it is embarrassing that after living in Korea for so long my fluency in Korean...

After many years of hostility between Athens and Crete over the death of the Cretan prince, a tenuous peace is struck in the form of a marriage agreement. Every nine yea...

[If you want to use/change/alter the concept that I wrote, you certainly can and pls credit ok~~<3] [Also wanting a better story cover than that... ugggghhhh potato p...

ONGOING: This is basically a reworking of some older characters I created when I was in middle school, a prince who was in love with a princess who was much larger than...

Charting a profound journey from unfamiliar shores to personal revelations, "Odyssey" chronicles a young migrant's transformative experiences in the UK. As he...

He is the powerful... He is the enigmatic... He is the mysterious... He is the compassionate... He is the ancient... He is the land... He is Ophanim Wathaku, The S...

Japan is transferred to the world of Alagaësia just before the start of Eragon. Inspired by Nihonkoku Shoukan.

Deepak's experiences are moving and ring true, echoing and enriching truths that have been explored in the body of South Asian immigrant writing. Acharya's prose tends t...

COVER CREDIT-@-BUBBLEGUYM / Cross-posted on Quotev / UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY / Rowan Evergreen, age 14, will be attending Saint Clair's Academy, one of the most prestigious...

Black Hermione x Armin Hermione, in an effort to improve the Wolfsbane potion, becomes trapped in the world of Attack on Titan. ATTACK ON TITAN x HP Crossover

Its Christmas Eve in Japan! The first year Monody and Jester get to spend it as a couple together after the war. ...Jester doesn't quite get her traditions.

I've been wanting to make a list of things that are new to me when I arrived in the US. Culture shock is not an unusual occurrence in someone's life when they visit a fo...

There's a 15-hour difference between Billings, Montana, and Tokyo, Japan. A 14-hour difference from Manila. A 6 Hour difference from Dublin. I can recall certain thi...