Diaspora Stories

Seeking solace at the Han River after a difficult day, Ese encounters Youngho again. What begins as a simple conversation opens into a shared understanding between two people shaped by migration, distance, and lives lived between worlds. As their connection deepens, they begin to wonder whether the safest place they've known is something they might build together. -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.

I was paid to translate. Not to interpret. Not to judge. Kira Khine arrives in Portugal with a passport missing an entry stamp, a revoked university admission, and €23,000 she refuses to touch. She didn't come for romance. She came to survive. But survival gets complicated when her landlord turns out to be Rodrigo Costa-tech billionaire, single father, and the quietest, most unreadable face in northern Portugal. He offers her a deal: translate contracts in Burmese. In exchange, he'll teach her to hack. She takes it. Then she translates Clause 12.4. IMEI numbers. Geolocation data. Unrestricted real-time access-disguised as "urban planning." The kind of data you use to hunt people. The kind of people who disappear in Myanmar every day. Kira has a choice: look away and cash the cheque. Or learn everything Rodrigo can teach her-and use it to burn his empire to the ground. He's falling for her. She's collecting evidence. And somewhere in the vineyard, a seven-year-old girl named Sofia is waiting for her friend Kiki to come to her birthday party. I trust me. She did. She does. A slow-burn geopolitical thriller about translation and betrayal, Clause 12.4 asks: when the contract is written in your own language, how do you plead?

📅 New chapters every Friday ✍️ Written in simple, easy English so more people can feel the story. This is not just a story. It is a life many people carry quietly They thought coming here would change everything. They didn't know what it would take. They didn't come to New York chasing dreams. They came carrying them. A quiet house in Queens-New York, shared spaces, and rules no one explains. Strangers become family. Silence says more than words. Each woman is building something: a future, a way out, a version of herself she hasn't reached yet. The house has its own rhythm. Its own way of holding people together. No one talks about it. But everyone feels it. Between long workdays, late-night thoughts, and messages from home, they begin to understand what it really means to stay... to endure... and to keep going. Because some dreams don't change your life. They ask you to survive it.

18+ A collection of Thamizh stories written in English (predominantly) featuring Thamizh characters from a diverse range of backgrounds (i.e. India, Ilankai, Malaysia, Singapore, and diasporic communities). These will be romantic in nature and will portray love found in various moments and situations. Most stories will be positive and will depict non-toxic love. If toxic love is portrayed, it is to reflect reality and would not promote toxic relationships. Most chapters will contain mature scenes, themes, and language (iykyk). Reader discretion is advised.

What started as a simple delivery shift in New York City turned into one of the deepest arguments of his marriage. After a quiet moment of solidarity with a Black custodian during work, a Dominican delivery driver returns home believing he experienced something ancestral - an unspoken connection between people of African descent. But when he shares the story with his wife, the conversation spirals into a heated clash over identity, FBA ideology, ancestry, Blackness, culture, and belonging. As old wounds surface and personal attacks cut deeper than expected, both husband and wife are forced to confront a painful question: Can love survive when two people see identity completely differently? Set against the backdrop of NYC, this emotional short story explores marriage, diaspora tensions, masculinity, race, and the invisible lines that divide people who might have more in common than they realize.

A prisoner son becomes a fighter to redeem his parents american dream

Chimarama, an Igbo girl gets a scholarship to study nursing in South Africa. At an event, she clashes with Amathi Sityebo, the only son of the richest man in SA, Mr Nandile Sityebo. Meanwhile a doctor is already in love with her and after a long talk, Amathi pretends to be his cousin and his cousin pretends to be him as he tries to navigate his life as a middle class boy, and not being used to all the riches of life. He ends up falling in love with Chimarama,who hates lies. At the end of it all, secrets explode and misunderstandings occur Will this blue Love come back or will it be quenched forever? Welcome to a Mzansi- Naija Love story

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I write elegies for the living. I believe grief is just love wearing different skin.

The smell of burnt paper lingered in the air as AJ stepped into the charred remains of Kō's house, where the echoes of her unsaid words still whispered through the ashes. Among the ruins, he found fragments of a life woven with ink and desperation as her mind unraveled in a chaotic tapestry of thoughts, longing for understanding that mirrored his own. Each charred piece of paper told a story of sorrow and resilience, the ink a testament to battles fought within the confines of her mind. As she lay her soul bare in writing while seeking release in flames, AJ embarks on a journey to connect the fragments of her existence with his own, unraveling the threads of a life lost but not forgotten.

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.

What if the love of your life vanished, leaving only secrets behind? Ava never planned to return to the quiet hills of Jamaica. But when Micah disappears, she's pulled back by the memories, and the mystery. With only an old phone, a handful of photos, and Micah's brother Jahlil for company, Ava dives into a slow-burn search for truth and love. A romance-mystery about longing, loss, and the secrets that bind us-set deep in Jamaica's heart. Perfect for fans of emotional slow burns, tangled relationships, and stories where every answer brings its own ache.

[Book 2 of the Badmus Series] Jadésola Badmus, a 20-year-old British beauty and fashion influencer and socialite, is sent to Nigeria for the summer for her reckless misdemeanours. She's determined to maintain her polished image amidst the tumultuous environment of rowdy Lagos life. Jadé's world comes to a spin when she crosses paths with Ekene (Kene)- a streetwise local driver with dreams bigger than Lagos- under unideal circumstances. As Jade reluctantly befriends Kene, she's forced to confront the identity she's spent years rejecting. Torn between her materialistic instincts and growing tension for someone who reminds her of a home she's tried to escape, Jadé must decide in 30 days: will she cling to the fantasy she's built, or embrace a messier, more honest version of herself?

THYLONIUS(12) a young boy, is trapped in a burning building with his sister CNIDARIA (13) a young girl, on the day both of their parents leave from their home in Sierra Leone to visit America. As far as he can tell the area is being terrorized and burnt down to a crisp for reasons unknown. Both of the siblings are lucky to escape with their lives but not without a cost. Time has passed, now refugee orphans on the streets of Liberia abandoned by their country and parents. Thylonius meets a strange man LUCIUS (42) a pale American man, who claims to know their parents and that they are still alive. Cnidaria is skeptical of the man but accepts his offer to assassinate the parents that abandoned them in return for taking them under his wing. They are successful, which begins their lives as child soldiers. The cost for murdering their flesh and blood is not light, Supernatural occurrences start happening to the siblings both physically and other worldly. There's more to their past and family that meets the eye and it puts them on a path to take on the entire world.

AS A PRINCESS, MAGIC AND DUTY ARE IN HER BLOOD. AT LEAST THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE. An overlooked princess journeys to the edges of the realm to reclaim her stolen magic but discovers her entire world is at risk of destruction. --------------- At twenty, Lafia Ketonga has reached the age of eligibility. She only has to pass her Demonstration of Magic and she can officially begin courting and start her path to her dream of being a light leader. However, her magic is inconsistent and she's pretty sure it's broken. She's also certain that the gray smoke that has grown over the mountains above her kingdom of Narut, has something to do with it. Lafia finds herself on an adventure that takes her to the magical land where her former mentor lives, and beyond, all with the hope she'll find the answer to her failed magic. Despite the impossible choice she faces between her dreams and saving the world and people she loves, she always remembers what all the royals of Faduwata understand. Faduwata is, always. Maradobu Chronicles Series Description: Faduwata is, always. Everything a princess understands of her world, along with her future, is threatened and the only way to save it and her dreams is to reclaim her magic. But that requires going to the one place forbidden, just outside of the realm of Maradobu. The Tokahaya. Light of the Dark Moon is An Otherworldly Royal Chosen One Epic Fantasy Clean YA NA Adventure.

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.

A reflective, heartwarming memoir about mothers, sacrifice, and the flavors that carry us through time.

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.