Diaspora Stories

Seeking solace at the Han River after a frustrating day, Ese has a second encounter with Youngho. What starts as a simple conversation quickly uncovers an instant, unexpected rhythm, a shared language of two people living between different worlds. As their lives begin to intertwine, they find harmony, proving that sometimes the most profound connections are often the ones you never saw coming. -Rominaj♡

I once told someone, in my best Devdas voice and with the utmost seriousness, "One day I'll write a book for you before I die." She looked at me, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Write it in a language I can read. Otherwise, I'll come kick your grave. Kameene, yeh kya likh ke mar gaya? Mujhe bhi padhni thi." (You scoundrel, what is this nonsense you wrote and then went and died? I wanted to read it too!) That should give you an idea about the heart of this story. Set in the 2010s Canada, between chai and snow, this is the story of Alizey and Zayan. Zayan didn't believe in marriage. Alizey believed it was sacred. He thought love was like mist, meant to be felt, not seen. She thought he sounded like an overdramatic Victorian novel. They didn't marry for romance. They married for a plan. The arrangement was simple. The feelings were not. What began as a practical agreement, two adults negotiating boundaries, rent, and kitchen duties, slowly turned into something far more unstoppable. Because love, when it finally arrives, doesn't knock politely. It walks in silently and stays. This is a story about marriage before love. Trust before desire. Surrender before confession. And the confounding realisation that sometimes, you don't choose your life partner. You just discover you already have.

They called it The List. Not officially. Never on paper. But every woman in the compound knew-when the gray van came, someone's name had been added. Folake wrote her own name down first. Kemi jumped from a balcony rather than be taken inside. Funmi has spent twelve years searching for a man who vanished. And Nneka kept a box under her bed for twelve years-until today. Now their stories are connecting. Through a notebook in Enugu. Through a forum post in London. Through a name no one has spoken in twenty years: Tunde Adebayo. The List was meant to erase them. Instead, it's about to make them impossible to ignore.

Drawing upon the works and interviews of James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Roger Reeves, Morgan Parker, Safia Elhillo, Aria Aber, and Solmaz Sharif, among others, DISLOCATIONS seeks to investigate and disrupt the dominant narratives of exile and displacement (which often excludes Black Americans) and what Roger Reeves refers to as our "American complicity," referring to our simultaneous roles as victim and victimizer, and the fact that we benefit from the exploits of empire, whether we directly support our government, or consider ourselves "proud Americans," or not. © Z. T. Corley, 2026 Cover: Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq, Untitled, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

The King of Hell was demoted for being too compassionate. He went to Ksitigarbha for guidance. Ksitigarbha said: You have judged humanity for ten thousand years from a throne. You have never lived a human day. You say they are worth saving. Go. Prove it. He drank Meng Po's soup and forgot everything. Then he was reborn. Not as a king. Not as a god. But as a man. Zheng Wen De. Chinese. Fifty years old. Living in Indonesia. A body that hurts every morning. A life that has already been worn down. A world that does not welcome him. No power. No memory. No escape. Let's find out how Yanluo Wang mitigated his life with nothing left.

At West Point in 2005, Amara Louis-Jean learns quickly that discipline can silence more than it strengthens. But beneath her uniform, she carries something older-stitched memory, ancestral fire, and a name history forgot. As dreams begin to bleed into reality, Amara is pulled into a lineage of women who refused to disappear-women who stitched their names into cloth, into silence, into time itself. From Haiti in 1804 to Brooklyn, Atlanta, and beyond, their stories are not gone. They are waiting. And now, they are calling her to remember. Some legacies are inherited. Others burn their way back.

The story of a little introvert who slowly believed in herself and discovered the power of her voice.

On a sweltering summer day in America, Hartford, the death of Hopewell-a quiet, brilliant South African expatriate-reveals itself not through love or concern, but through the unbearable odour of a body left alone. As neighbours gather, authorities intervene, and his mother travels across oceans to retrieve her son, the story unfolds in fragments of memory, grief, and unanswered longing. Through the voices of those who barely knew him and the one who loved him most, The Smell of Loneliness meditates on exile, queerness, motherhood, and the devastating weight of being unseen-even in life. It is a haunting exploration of how love can exist and still fail to save us from solitude

Luego de tomar una decisión sin retorno, Carlos, Alexander y María, se ven inmersos en una situación difícil, ellos luchan fervientemente por llegar a su destino, pero se topan con grandes obstáculos y les toca hacer cosas que nunca imaginaron. Pese a que se encuentran con personas dispuestas a ayudarles, su situación es precaria...

The story of two women from different generations of South Indian diaspora. The first is a young woman today, but the second is her mother, a nurse and homemaker, strong, stubborn, very religious and very traditional. The story focuses on these characters as they come to terms with the fact that they are in fact members of a cult which has fundamentally isolated them and trapped them in their current lives. It explores the different ways they accept this and deal with it, how it affects their relationship with each other, their faith, and how they rebuild.

Sometimes life serves us lemons. Its easier to get bitter and resentful when things do not go our way. But sometimes life takes us the long way round before we come full circle to where we belong, where we should have landed in the first place. Following the death of their father, Paida, her brother Tawanda and their mother find themselves under the guardianship and custody of the Babamukuru, their father's older brother, as is done according to the cultural customs of their people. The only person who would be unscathed by this arrangement would be Tawanda, since he was a boy and considered to be the male figure that will soon be the head of the family, once he comes of age. Upon learning that Babamukuru was arranging for Paida to marry the Village Sabuku as a way of paying off an outstanding debt, her mother, Mai Paida, with the help of her firends, creatively finds a way for Paida to flee this arrangement and go abroad. Unfortunately, in an attempt to save her daughter from the looming doom, Mai Paida also unknowingly becomes the cause for Paida's broken heart.

In this sample chapter, new student Marquise Blood sneaks into a party he has no business attending. His roommate, Jerome promised that if he went, he'd be see the Negro Spirit in action, wielded by older students who'd mastered their craft. But Marquise didn't expect to wind up in a Rhyme Battle, stare down an angry mob, or have his (possibly magic?) hallucinations triggered by the party! Why didn't he just stay in his room? If you enjoy these characters, our flawless narrator, or the Southernplayalisticadillacfunkymajik misadventures described here, be on the look out for the full story in the upcoming novel, Hidden Black Conjure University: Delinquents!

In this book, we'll give you a brief guide on important terms, movements and more within Indian Country and Native communities across the globe. Take the time to learn from, advocate for, and uplift Indigenous peoples and allies. Read the first chapter to learn more about the containments of this book, and how it may benefit Indigenous peoples and you!

I lost the completed version of this book. Currently in the process of rewriting it❤ Lemuel Akan is what most people these days call an influencer, but she just does videos for fun. Inspiring people was never what she planned, all she wanted was to escape her monotonous life in Uyo. Life being what it is, she gets 100k subscribers and moves to Lagos. How does the nursery rhyme go again? Then comes love... Then comes marriage... But is life ever that simple?

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Updates every other Sunday. Next chapter: October 19th. This is a space for those who live in the gap. We support the voices of Asian Americans, and we want their stories to be truly heard. We understand how hard you've fought to be seen, to belong, to be more than a punchline. We're not here to judge you. We're not here to divide. We've been cheering you on from across the ocean-those of us still living on this side. But we also ask, with hope: When you say "I'm Asian," do you remember the ones who never left? The stories that were never translated, the voices that were never heard. The ones you still look like-but no longer feel connected to. We're not trying to speak over you. We're simply speaking-from this side of the ocean.

For thousands of years, the Jewish community has faced external threats from various civilizations and groups aiming to eradicate them. Despite these challenges, the Jewish people have not only survived but thrived. This thesis seeks to uncover the secret to their resilience by exploring the interplay of historical experiences, religious beliefs, cultural practices, and social structures that have fortified the Jewish community against adversity.

Modern day social musings on Black life, culture, and politics. Philosophically strengthened and psychologically aware writing concerning mostly American but also diaspora separated Africans and those on the continent. I hope to introduce Afrocentricity into my writing and theories that I hope will help to reinvigorate and rebirth a Black liberation movement. I am no professor or scholar, just a layman attempting to mix some old ideas into something new.

Wait... Listen, Do you hear that? Can you see? Will you join me on this journey? Take my hand, You hesitate, Trust me, I'll catch you. Come and See.

A moving, funny, and culturally rich coming-of-age story told through the voice of a Pakistani-American daughter shaped by love, grief, and laughter