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.

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.

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.

This is the true story of my family and our homeland, Sudan. Through memories, loss, and the stories of my relatives who lived through the war, I'm trying to spread awareness for my country. If you want to understand what's really happening in Sudan beyond the headlines, this is for you.

The third book in the trilogy following on from The Nationalists and Exile. The Irish will follow the ancestors of the people introduced in the earlier titles and will continue their stories well beyond the events of 9/11.

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.

A lil poetry for your soul, to empower, uplift and inform. It entails what it's like to be a black girl in America. The poems are not in any particular order, skip around as your heart may desire. ****Picture in cover is not my art

- No picture, no description, just art. Please Enjoy :)

The Desi wealth boom is transforming luxury. With India's market set to hit $200 billion by 2030 and Indian-Americans earning well above the U.S. average, South Asians are powerful, culture-driven consumers. They value authenticity, heritage, and identity-not just status. Lavish weddings, real estate, and luxury goods reflect deep-rooted aspirations. Brands like Dior are taking notice, but true success lies in long-term cultural engagement, not token efforts. Luxury now lives at the intersection of tradition, innovation, and meaningful connection.

Adaeze Okonkwo has built a life in Leeds around quiet conviction - a faith that gets up before the coffee does, a job that costs her something, and values that make her quietly unfashionable in a world that prefers things easier. When Kofi Mensah walks into a friend's engagement party and actually listens when she speaks, she is curious but careful. Curiosity, she has learned, is not the same as readiness. Woven between Adaeze's story is the life of her grandmother, Ngozi - 1940s Nigeria, a northern field under colonial threat, a courtship conducted with extraordinary dignity, and letters that have been waiting seventy years to be read. Two women. Two centuries. One inheritance. Patience of Rivers is a story about what it means to hold your ground when everything around you is shifting - in love, in faith, in identity, in the complicated and beautiful business of being African, female, and alive in the world as it actually is.

WARNING: Do not read if you are sensitive to mental health issues. If any part of this book triggers you negatively, seek help immediately. The rain poured heavily as Rachel stared out of her bedroom window. It was a typical British day - grey and gloomy. Rachel was used to the bleakness of the UK, but her mind was in a darker place. She clutched her diary tightly, her only solace in a world that had turned against her. Rachel had left Nigeria with dreams of a better life, but the reality had been far from what she expected. The days were long and lonely, and the nights were even worse. Her dreams of making it big in the UK seemed to be fading with every passing day. Rachel had always felt like an outsider, even in her own country. But in the UK, she was an alien. She felt like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. Her depression had taken over her life, and she felt like she was drowning in an ocean of despair. As she opened her diary and began to write, Rachel wondered if anyone would ever understand her pain. Would anyone ever read her words and see the world through her eyes? She doubted it. But still, she wrote. She wrote about her struggles, her hopes, and her fears. She wrote about the people she had met and the ones who had left her behind. Rachel's diary was her only friend, her only confidant. It was the only place where she could truly be herself. She poured her heart and soul into those pages, hoping that one day, someone would read them and understand. Little did Rachel know that her diary would become her lifeline. It would be the only thing that kept her going through the darkest of times. It would be the key to her survival. As she closed her diary and lay down on her bed, Rachel knew that the road ahead would be long and difficult. But she also knew that she had her diary, and that was enough to keep her going.

Aquarius Adama doesn't speak unless spoken to. A quiet, soft-spoken librarian in Memphis, she lives surrounded by silence, shadows, and her mother's ghost-gone five years to the day. But something is shifting in Memphis. Billionaires are circling. The sky is drawing symbols no one can explain. And the ground beneath her feet hums with something ancient-something buried. Then come the dreams. Voices in a language she shouldn't know. A woman in gold, whispering her name. When a mysterious envelope leads her to a land deed tied to the Memphis Massacre, Aquarius discovers she's part of a legacy older than the country itself. One hidden in plain sight. Because Memphis, Tennessee, isn't named after Egypt. It is Egypt. And the land is remembering.

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A short story about a 20-something year old, who can't deal with is present so he just dwells on the past. Originally, published on Brittle Paper, an online platform for African literary creatives.

THE WORLD BRINGS ABOUT MANY THINGS, FROM RIFLES TO RIBS TO FLOWERS I, HOWEVER ONLY MISS, EACH WINTER, ITS MANGO SHOWERS. THE WORLD IS FULL OF MANY GAZES, FROM THE COY TO STINGING GLOWERS I, HOWEVER, ONLY LONG FOR THE TEARS OF MANGO SHOWERS. THE WORLD HOLDS MANY SECRETS, FROM ITS WEAKNESSES TO STRANGE POWERS I, HOWEVER, ONLY WAIT FOR THE CRACK OF THE SKY, BESTOWING UPON US, MANGO SHOWERS. [Collection of short stories]

short poems. not to be taken seriously because i'm not a serious poet. i'm just a girl who gets high too much. it ain't that deep.