Grief Stories

Everyone at school knows Andrew Jennings. Missing an arm. Openly gay. But when he meets star athlete Ryan Sullivan in therapy, can friendship lead to more? ***** When Andrew 'Jacky' Jennings ends up in therapy after an English assignment gone wrong, he doesn't expect to find his high school's star athlete, Ryan Sullivan, sitting in the same waiting room. After all, he and Ryan couldn't be more different: football captain, future valedictorian, and all-around nice guy, Ryan is the school's golden boy, while Andrew is known for his permanent snarl, being openly gay, and losing his left arm (along with his father and sister) in a car accident. But when Andrew learns they actually have a lot in common, he's surprised to see past the enigma that is Ryan Sullivan and his seemingly perfect life. And as the two boys begin to connect over their shared grief, depression, and teenage angst, they might just discover a little pocket of happiness for themselves -- if they're willing to fight for it. [Word count: 100,000-150,000 words] Cover designed by Lily Taylor Please read the 'Introduction' for a full list of content/trigger warnings

Gabriella showed up for him when it mattered most, believing she knew exactly where her life was going, until everything unraveled in a single moment she couldn't unsee. Walking away wasn't something she had planned, but it became the only choice she could live with. With nowhere else to turn, she leaves behind everything familiar and starts over in a quiet town that doesn't quite feel like home, trying to hold on to the part of herself that still feels like her. She tells herself it was the right decision, that some things can't be undone and are better left behind. But distance doesn't always bring clarity, and no matter how far she goes, the past has a way of following. Because some choices don't stay in the past, and some stories don't end just because you walk away. Updates weekly ✦

Leaving behind everything she's ever known, Emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes. The new freedom that comes with being a part of the Famoux is intoxicating, but behind the perfect image lies an ugly truth - being popular is a matter of life or death. ***** Out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of Delicatum emerged. Its most popular celebrities are the Famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality TV show called the Fishbowl. In a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. Sixteen-year-old Emilee Laurence is obsessed with the Famoux - they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. When she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she takes it. But soon she realizes that fame can be deadly... Content and trigger warning: This story depicts mental health issues and contains scenes of violence. [[word count: 350,000-400,000 words]]

Storie Sovany is used to being dismissed as the fat friend, until she moves from New York City to rural Ohio for college and the charming frat boy Liam Alexander approaches her. Torn between disbelief and flattery, Storie hopes her luck may have finally changed - but is it too good to be true? [author's note: this is not a romance!]

JUST AS LONG, AS YOU STAND... STAND BY ME. June Caulfield is a very simple person, thank you very much. She likes sunny days, old music, messing with her sister, going out with her best friend, playing chess with her grandpa, taking long walks with the dogs she takes care of for her neighbours... She loves little big things. George Weasley was a very simple person. He liked his school, Hogwarts, and his family, especially his twin, Fred. But school ended and Fred's not there anymore. He's not been there for... what, seven months now? He died in the battle of Hogwarts. Sometimes George forgets. He turns around and Fred's not there. There isn't his warm laugh in the air, or his cheeky grin by his side. George lost his spark. But June is a literal fire, and George's about to get burnt. ★ Copyright goes to J.K. Rowling (whom I DON'T support) except for my original characters. Enjoy!!

Raised to be holy. Born into something far more dangerous. Seventeen year old, Evienne Ellery spent her life preparing for heaven. Sent away to a secluded boarding school in the Swiss Alps by distant, unfeeling adoptive parents, she was raised by nuns and priests to be obedient, submissive and small. Behind stone chapels and cold classrooms, Evienne learned early that love was conditional, punishment was holy, and suffering was something to be endured quietly Her future was simple: be good, be faithful, and one day do her duty-marry a man who would secure her family's interests. Her life was planned. Controlled. Perfect. Until it wasn't. When everything she knows collapses, Evienne is torn from the only world she has ever known and sent to live with her biological family-six brothers who are loud, vulgar, violent, and unapologetically criminal. They don't pray. They don't obey. And they certainly don't believe in God the way she was taught. They believe in blood. With them, she learns the truth of who she really is: The lost princess of one of the most powerful mafia families in the world. Her brothers have been searching for her for years, and now that they've found her, they refuse to lose her again. In their world of power, crime, and betrayals, Evienne learns that love doesn't always look gentle-and protection often comes with a body count. But as old family feuds resurface, enemies close in, and the past she was hidden from begins to reach for her, Evienne is forced to confront an impossible question: What happens when the people you love will never be welcome in heaven-and you're no longer sure you want to go without them?

Reina never thought she'd enter her 30's as a divorcee, yet here she is. They had the perfect love story. High school sweethearts. The kind of relationship others idolized. Her friends always told her how lucky she was to have such an amazing, attentive husband. But one day Reina receives a message that would change everything. With that one message, a web of lies came undone and the future she had envisioned came crashing down.

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

The story of a naive Khushi and a kind hearted Arnav together at the wrong place at the wrong time.

For two years, everything seemed perfect. A shared home. The same uniform. The same future. Tim and Lucy. What connected them was more than love-it was trust and the belief that shared goals are strong enough to withstand any challenge. Until one decision changes everything. When Lucy becomes unintentionally pregnant, she makes a choice that feels unavoidable to her. Her career is just beginning, her future within reach-and she is not ready to give it up. For Tim, however, the unborn life is already real. Hope. A future. Something he cannot let go of. What follows is an argument. A battle between love and conviction. Between the right to decide over one's own body and the desire for a shared future. Even though they still love each other, it is no longer enough. The separation comes without many words, but with final consequences. New cities. New relationships. New roles. And yet something remains unresolved. Guilt. Loss. Unfinished feelings. Months later, it is the next step in their careers that forces them back together-at Mid-Wilshire. Professional. Controlled. Distant. But when a joint undercover assignment forces them into close proximity, those boundaries begin to falter. Old wounds reopen. Feelings that never disappeared demand their place once more. They know they are going too far. They know they are breaking promises they made to others. They know that sometimes love is not enough to forgive. And yet they find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into something they once believed they had lost. Because what if you can't escape love? What if some decisions destroy everything-except what you feel for each other?

Max Verstappen is in his second year of formula one, no victory to speak of yet, not even a podium, the paddock is full of smiling faces and the sun is bright yet Max's life lacks sunshine. Max's sunshine hasn't shone in a while, actually, his green eyes rarely light up anymore, but Max wants to be the one to bring him in from the darkness. Charles doesn't know how to cope with his grief, eighteen and away from home in a country that doesn't speak his language pursuing the one thing that he's ever known, so close to his dream yet so far from achieving it and being held back by financial restraints. Will he ever be able to shine again?

Once inseparable. Now impossible. A friendship destroyed by grief. A lie powerful enough to build enemies. A truth buried deeper than both of them are ready for. They say love and hate are separated by a thin line. They forgot to mention what happens when you grow up standing on it.

My Last Rites My Brother Performed My Last Rites While I Was Still Alive. At fifteen, I was called a monster for a crime I never committed. My family performed my last rites and declared me dead while I was still alive. I begged them to stop. No one listened. I begged them to believe me. No one did. At sixteen, I watched the same ritual with numb detachment. At seventeen, I stopped caring. At eighteen, I watched it with amusement. Because I knew... It would be the last of my last rites I would ever witness. I laughed. Because I knew the next funeral would be real.

"Through a Shifting Lens" is a collection of semi-real stories about romance, timing, and how we view relationships as we grow up. It is less about finding "the one" and more about how our perspective on love changes over time. Think of each chapter as a snapshot of a moment. You get the starry-eyed crushes of youth, the messy heartbreaks that teach you hard lessons, and the quiet realizations that come with maturity. It is funny, a little bittersweet, and totally honest about how the people we date end up changing the way we see the world. If you have ever looked back at an ex and thought, "What was I thinking?"-or if you simply love revisiting old memories-this book is for you.

Roopika Kumar has mastered the art of pretending she's okay. After months of hiding behind a perfect smile, the last thing she expects is to be trapped inside her school with Manesh Vallabneni - the childhood friend who has always noticed the things she tries hardest to hide. Manesh has spent years being the person everyone depends on. The one who never breaks. The one who learned responsibility long before he learned how to be a child. But a missed bus, a locked campus wing, and seven unexpected days together force them to face everything they've spent years avoiding. Her fear. His grief. The secrets they never had the courage to say out loud. Between old memories, unexpected laughter, and a Diwali celebration they never planned, Roopika and Manesh begin to discover something neither of them expected: Sometimes healing doesn't come from someone saving you. Sometimes it comes from finding someone who stays. Nuvve Emo Maybe it was you all along.

After the Funeral Everyone came home to pay their respects. Kario thought he'd be gone by Monday. Kingston planned to handle the funeral, comfort the family, and get back to work. Zion just wanted to bury the man who helped raise him-his 68-year-old uncle, the neighborhood OG everyone respected. But the funeral is only the beginning. Old friends reunite. Old enemies cross paths. Buried secrets refuse to stay buried. A single weekend forces everyone to confront the choices they made, the people they left behind, and the truths the neighborhood has hidden for years. In a place where loyalty is remembered, betrayal is never forgotten. By Monday, some relationships will never recover. Some people won't make it home. And the neighborhood will never be the same. Sometimes the hardest part isn't saying goodbye... it's surviving what comes after the funeral.

Laurent Tessier no nació con suerte y su vida es prueba fidedigna de ello. Su vida ha sido plagada de desastre tras desastre, trauma tras trauma, y él nunca se planteó rendirse, pero su caída más grande lo destruyó completamente, incluso V, su querida V, no la pudo detener por más que quisiera. Conócelos. Conoce su historia. Conoce como llegaron a ese punto.

Fifty years ago, they saved the world. But what happens after the legends are forgotten? Half a century has passed since Braum, a fierce druid with a loyal spirit wolf, stood alongside the greatest heroes of the age to defeat a world-ending Lich. They were legends: a divine paladin, a prophesied chosen one, a living weapon. But defeating evil was the easy part. Surviving the quiet decades that followed proved much harder. When the party's beloved bard passes away in a remote village, Braum stands at the muddy grave and realizes a tragic truth. Not a single one of his old comrades came to say goodbye. The heroes who once bled for each other haven't just drifted apart-they have completely abandoned their shared past. Refusing to let his remaining friends fade into lonely obscurity, the aging druid packs up his wagon and sets out on one final quest. He doesn't need to slay a dark lord or thwart a magical apocalypse. He just aneeds to find his fractured family. But traversing a saved world as an old man will test his spirit in ways no battle ever could. A gripping fantasy adventure about the forgotten years after the prophecy is fulfilled, kicking off a sweeping new story about legacy, loyalty, and the heavy burden of outliving your own legend.

She measured her waist every morning. He measured his hope in months. The measuring tape won. Amara has spent her life controlling her body - measuring, restricting, sculpting - because she believes her worth lives in her waistline. When pregnancy forces her body to change in ways she can't control, she faces an impossible choice: let go of the identity she's built, or fight to keep it at any cost. Her boyfriend Alex watches her disappear into obsession. He begs her to stop. She hides. She lies. She works out in secret, wearing corsets at night, tightening the measuring tape until something finally breaks. This is not a romance. It's a reckoning. A story about muscle memory, inherited trauma, and the brutal difficulty of unlearning the beliefs that have become our identity. Because the body keeps everything - even the things we wish it would let go. 🕯️ Content warning: pregnancy loss, body image struggles, emotional distress. 16+ #Dark Romance#Psychological Fiction#Women's Fiction#Contemporary Romance#Emotional#Sad Story#Grief#Loss#BodyImage#Obsession#Love#Heartbreak#PregnancyLoss#Trauma#Healing#SlowBurn#Angst#RealisticFiction#Tearjerker#New Adult #Character Driven#Literary Fiction#Relationship Drama#Mental Health#Self Discovery#Emotional Rollercoaster#Dark Themes#Intense#Romance With Depth#Coming of Age#Family Drama#Mothers andDaughters#DomesticFiction#Infertility#Miscarriage#Grief and Healing