Domesticfiction Histoires

Suzanne is a traditional mother-in-law who is desperate for a grandchild so her family name can continue. Her son, Steve, is married to Lisa, who says she cannot get pregnant. In reality, Lisa is having an affair with her boyfriend and secretly takes birth control because she doesn't want a baby to limit her freedom. Suzanne decides Steve should marry a second woman from a poor family, a girl named Emma, whose only "duty" will be to give Steve a child. Emma gets pregnant, and during this time Suzanne discovers Lisa's lies and cheating. Heartbroken, Steve divorces Lisa. Suzanne regrets using Emma and instead accepts her as her true daughter-in-law. With baby Daniel's birth, Suzanne, Steve, and Emma start to build a real, loving family based on honesty and care, not just on the family name.

LOW BATTERY is a quiet, sleepless story about the moments where love, exhaustion, and responsibility collide. At 4:47 a.m., Morgan stands in a dark hallway holding a single AA battery, forced to choose between waking a fragile child or trusting the silence. As texts go unanswered and the night stretches thin, the story traces how modern parenthood turns ordinary objects-monitors, mugs, batteries-into moral weight. This is not a story about catastrophe, but about the fear of it, and the way people carry on anyway when no option feels safe, and the smallest decisions feel impossibly heavy.

I Captured the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has 'captured the castle" - and the heart of the reader - in one of literature's most enhancing entertainments. - ❤ P.S. [ story not mine ]

One scream shook the entire township - a mother's scream that said what words never could. When tragedy strikes the Khanyile family, the echoes ripple far beyond the walls of their small home. Grief crawls through the silence, exposing secrets, distance, and wounds that never truly healed. In this deeply emotional short story, we meet a family forced to confront not only the loss of their son but the emotional walls that have quietly grown between them. Echoes of Grief is a reflection on love, silence, emotional absence - and how grief reveals what was already broken.

Zoe Maidens is sick of her stressful life. She runs away from home and her life is turned upside down, until she met Harry, Harry Styles

Genre: Contemporary, Emotional Drama, Slow-burn Romance Status: Ongoing / Completed Suraya is a career-driven architect, a loving mother of two, and a woman silently carrying the emotional weight of a crumbling marriage. Her husband, Matty, is drowning in the failure of his business and the quiet shame of not being able to provide. They used to be fireworks. Now they're silence. Then enters Ben - a site engineer with a complicated past and a quiet gaze that sees her. They never cross the line, but her heart does. And it begins with one green tea on a weekday - a drink she only ever drinks on calm weekends, when she's with Matty. As lines blur and emotions build, Suraya must choose between fleeting passion and the love she once built her life on. But in the ruins of everything, she finds not just herself - but a new beginning. This is not a story about cheating. It's a story about what happens before. And what might still be saved after.

Kornél is an archival-minded student in Pécs who discovers a photograph that refuses to stay a private thing. What begins as a quiet curiosity becomes a moral puzzle that pulls family secrets into daylight, strains a friendship with Zsombor, and sends him back into the slow work of memory-sorting receipts, revisiting archives, and learning when to speak and when to hold silence. Across five years of lectures, late-night translations, small reconciliations, and a practicum in front of teenagers, the city itself turns into a character: rooftops that remember, benches that keep shape, and everyday people who witness the past in ways the archive never could. With Melinda's little press and a redacted Wattpad publication, Kornél tests the ethics of making private grief public and discovers that repair is practiced in cups of tea, returned calls, and the careful act of naming. Tender, uneasy, and sharply observant, The Ghost at the Table is a meditation on attention, responsibility, and belonging-an elegiac hybrid of memoir and fiction about how we carry what we cannot solve and how a city teaches us to keep walking.

This is a story about a girl's 7 year long battle with cancer -leukaemia- It contains some very sensitive topics that may be triggering to some people as well as some strong language, therefore, read at your own warning. This is a story inspired by John Green's 'Fault in our stars' and Jodi Picoult 'My sister's keeper'

Would you give up your old life... for love you weren't meant to have? Phoebe Winters left behind a stable job in interior design after a chance encounter with a man she couldn't forget-and a prophecy that told her everything would change. Now working as a live-in maid for Michael Summers, a man haunted by his past, Phoebe finds herself drawn into a world of silence, longing, and unspoken emotions. She wasn't supposed to fall in love. Especially not with someone promised to another. But some hearts don't follow rules. 💔 Maid for Love is a moving romantic drama about timing, tenderness, and the kind of love that asks for everything.

Don't be so judgy about someone based on their looks and social status. There is a high chance that someone who isn't perfect but enjoys being themselves will surprise you knock you off your feet and reject you. #everydaylife. However, keep hope. There's always a chance for a miracle to happen.🤧🤧🤧 A short summary. *Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Ava Kingston thought her life was perfect-a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a promising career. But everything unravels when she discovers that her husband, Jacob, has been leading a double life, hiding dark secrets that threaten to destroy everything they built together. Devastated, Ava decides to leave, only to find herself pulled into a deeper conspiracy involving betrayal, manipulation, and revenge. As she uncovers the truth behind Jacob's lies, she realizes that the people she trusted most have been playing her for years. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous her situation becomes. Can she find a way to reclaim her life, or will the secrets of her past consume her?

Lilibet's marriage to Tyler is unraveling in polite, invisible ways. Decisions are deferred. Boundaries are blurred. And hovering over everything is Laurie-Tyler's mother-who has already lost two children to estrangement and refuses to lose a third. When Laurie begins to show signs of confusion, concern turns into obligation, and a temporary solution becomes a permanent invasion. As Laurie moves in, Lilibet is forced to navigate pregnancy, marriage, and a mother-in-law whose memory seems to fail at the most convenient moments. Lilibet Is Not Confused is a story about family loyalty, selective memory, and the quiet rebellion of a woman who refuses to disappear politely.

The Babysitter AU takes place during Season 3 of BFDI (IDFB), where book and pin take turns babysitting Penny, the younger sister of their partners. Pin is dating Coiny, and book is with nickel. Coiny and nickel are penny's older brothers. Pin and Book rarely, if ever, babysit together. The reason? They don't get along. Especially pin, who can barely stand book. They clash on almost everything, so the brothers came up with a system: Book babysits penny one week, and pin takes over the next. Penny's best friend is Firey Jr., who often visits when she's being babysat. But one day, something unexpected happens, both Coiny and Nickel **intentionally** schedule Book and Pin to babysit at the same time. not by accident, but as a sneaky plan to get them to finally cooperate and get a long. What happens when two rivals are forced to work together? That's where things start to get interesting.. Side note: In this AU, Firey Jr. is a girl, Penny is a added oc that's the little sister of Coiny and Nickel, and its all humanized!

{UPDATES RESUME FROM JUNE 1} Two strangers. One marriage. And a love story that grows the way mangoes do-slowly, quietly, sweetly. When Dharani is married off to a shy farmer in a remote Maithil village, she expects duty. She does not expect tenderness. Or the drought threatening the land. Or the silent boy who becomes her husband. Under the shade of an old mango tree, Dharani and Madhav learn the meaning of partnership- not in grand gestures, but in everyday kindness, whispered fears, and standing together when the world turns dry. A gentle, slow-burn romance set in 1990s Bihar- about love that grows not with fire, but with patience.

"Not every happily-ever-after is written in gold-some come veiled in silence and sacrifice." Aditi Agrawal is 35, confident, independent, and content with her life as a successful architect in Hyderabad-despite her family's growing desperation to see her married. Years after a heartbreak that left scars deeper than she lets on, Aditi has no desire to seek love again. But when her parents convince her to meet the seemingly perfect Shashank Gupta, a charming and progressive businessman from a reputed builder family, she hesitantly agrees. What begins as a gentle, promising arranged match soon blossoms into a whirlwind romance. Shashank is kind, understanding, respectful-everything Aditi ever wished for but never believed existed. Within months, they marry. A dream fulfilled. But dreams have a dark side. Behind closed doors, Shashank reveals a sinister patriarchal mindset. Aditi is asked-then forced-to give up her career. Kindness turns into commands, love into control, affection into abuse. And what began with rose petals ends in bruises, humiliation, and silent screams. Veil of Perfection is a haunting yet courageous tale of a woman who dares to reclaim her voice in a marriage that promised everything but gave her nothing. It explores the societal pressure on Indian women to marry, and the unspoken horrors many endure in the name of tradition.