Grief Stories

She didn't come to this university for a fresh start. She came for revenge. Valencia has one goal when she arrives at Crestmont University: Get close to the powerful man who destroyed her life. And destroy him back. But revenge was supposed to be simple. Until she meets Lorenzo. Confident. Dangerous. Irresistible. The kind of boy who smiles like he already knows all your secrets - and enjoys them. Lorenzo makes it impossible for Valencia to remember why she came here in the first place. And the worst part? He's the son of the man she hates most. Then there is Jaylen. His brother. Cold. Intense. Infuriatingly observant. Jaylen watches her like he's trying to figure out exactly what game she's playing. One moment he's pushing her away, the next he's protecting her like she belongs to him. And Valencia quickly realizes something terrifying. Jaylen sees too much. Because the deeper she gets pulled into the brothers' dangerous world, the harder it becomes to remember who her real enemy is. The charming one who kisses her like she's everything. Or the one who looks at her like he already knows she's lying. But revenge always comes with a price. And Valencia is about to find out that falling for the wrong brother... might destroy all three of them.

Life has never been easy for Nami. After losing the people she loved, she built walls around herself-cold, distant, untouchable. At Tokyo Jujutsu High, she trains alone, pushing herself harder than anyone else, refusing to let anyone get close. But Megumi Fushiguro isn't like the others. Calm, observant, and quietly determined, he notices the cracks she tries to hide. And when a sparring session turns into something neither of them expected, Nami begins to realize that letting someone in might be harder-and more dangerous-than any cursed spirit she's faced.

A group of high school seniors-on what was supposed to be a carefree spring break trip to a remote family cabin-find their world upended when they stop at a Gas 'N Gulp and are attacked by the reanimated corpse of a clerk. Thrust into a sudden and violent apocalypse, they're forced to navigate the brutal new world together-facing starvation, betrayal, and the horrors of the undead. Along the way, they meet survivors, form uneasy alliances, and make impossible choices. Because in this world, the only rule left is simple: kill, or be killed. (All characters are mine and not to be taken.)

They were never supposed to become strangers. Sarah and Samuel Blake were childhood sweethearts who built a life out of love, loyalty, history, and the kind of quiet routines that once felt unbreakable. But somewhere between pressure, pain, pride, and everything left unsaid, the marriage they built began to crack. Now they're left facing the hardest question of all: When the love is still there, but the hurt is too, can two people find their way back to each other? Still Us is an emotional adult romantic drama about childhood sweethearts, marriage in crisis, grief, distance, memory, and the brutal tenderness of choosing the same person again when it would be easier to let go. Updates every Tuesday and Friday at 10:00 AM PST.

Elijah and Greyson were inseparable once. Maybe it was because they were young. Maybe it was because their families were close. But that didn't matter once it all crumbled before Elijah's eyes. And suddenly, after seven whole years of torture, and Hell on Earth, Greyson wasn't pushing him to the ground. He was helping him up from it. Why, you might ask? Elijah couldn't tell you for the life of him.

A story of a woman and her mother who has 3 months to live

A book of poems from an amature author

Some voices save you. Some voices destroy you. The worst ones whisper her name. CONTENT WARNING This story contains dark themes including trauma, loss of family, fire-related tragedy, mental health struggles, and intense emotional situations. Reader discretion is advised. Please read responsibly and take care of yourself while reading. A Note from Me Hey, this is my story, and everything in it-characters, events, places-is from my imagination. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is totally coincidental. Also, this story deals with heavy stuff like trauma, loss, and intense emotions. I just want you to be aware before diving in. Read with care, and take breaks if you need to. Thanks for giving my story a chance. 💕 -Tivi

She comes home believing it's the same night she left-bruised, shaken, asking about butter and planning a shower-only to find a house that feels older, quieter, wrong. Her family looks at her like she might vanish if they breathe too hard. Slowly, unbearably, the truth emerges: she has been dead for five years. No one knows how she returned. There is no miracle to explain, no science to cling to-only the wreckage of a life mourned, a family reshaped by loss, and a town that learned how to move on without her. As she tries to understand a world that grieved her and closed the door, her return begins to disturb something deeper beneath the surface-an unseen thread connecting past and present, memory and meaning, drawing in forces that have been watching far longer than anyone realises. The Night Skye Came Home is a quiet, devastating mystery about love that never lets go, grief that changes shape, and what happens when the dead refuse to stay where the world put them.

Seventeen-year-old Valencia has been raising her younger siblings for as long as she can remember. With a mother lost to alcohol and reckless nights, Valencia is the one making meals, cleaning up messes, and shielding the kids from the worst of it. She's sharp-tongued, guarded, and mean to almost everyone except to the few people she dares to let close. Trouble clings to her: cigarettes on the porch, alcohol stolen from the cabinet, scars carved into her skin when the weight gets too heavy. And through it all, the fear lingers what if she's becoming just like her mom? Then the night comes. Her mother, drunk behind the wheel, crashes the car. She survives, but barely. The state steps in, and Valentina and her siblings are swept into the system. For the first time, the control Valencia fought so hard to keep is ripped away. That's when she learns the truth her father by blood the man she's never really known and his partner want to take her and the kids in. Suddenly there's a chance at stability, at something like a family. But can Valencia trust it? Will she clash with her siblings now that she's no longer the one in charge? Or is this the break she's been waiting for-the moment where something good finally begins to grow out of all the pain?

"Eternity means nothing to me if it means that I have to carry the guilt of destroying you." ----------------- Wylie Moore, a Reaper who clings to morality in the absence of life, has made a fatal choice. She's abandoned her oath, and neglected to collect a soul when its fated time came. When an unlikely ally joins her side-Finn Halstead, her silent sworn rival-a timeline is severed, and a soul spared. But the afterlife isn't what it seems, and their act of generosity is deemed a crime, pitting them against the commanding powers themselves for judgement. With a guilty verdict on their hands, it is decided that the two of them will be punished in the worst way possible for a Reaper: Resurrection. Thrust into the rural hometown Wylie grew up in, with her murderer still running free and her memory of her death severed, the two Reapers must navigate a twisting world of lies, ominous shadows with pointed teeth, a forced friendship, and their own growing feelings for one another. But Wylie's murderer remembers. They want her dead again-for good this time-and will stop at nothing to see it come to fruition, even if it costs the lives of others. A Reaper's greatest temptation is revenge. To succumb is to be destroyed. To Refuse is to suffer. Wylie will do anything to get back at her killer. Finn will do anything to atone for past mistakes. Even if it means destroying what he was sent to protect.

He thought grief would fade with time. But every night, something came to comfort him. It didn't speak much. It didn't ask for anything. It just stayed... closer and closer. Until the night it spoke in her voice. Until the night he believed she had come back. Love can heal. Grief can destroy. And sometimes... something in the dark is waiting for both.

A dead girl in a red dress. A detective with nothing left to lose. A killer who collects grief like art. Sam Grant is a 35-year-old NYPD detective with a crumbling relationship, a rescue dog who misses her, and a case that won't let her sleep. The victims are young, beautiful, and processing loss-targeted by someone who understands their pain intimately. The killer has been operating for twenty years. And he's not done yet. When the Medical Examiner finds a connection that spans decades, Sam realizes this isn't just a case. It's a reckoning. With the killer. With herself. And with the grief she's been running from her whole life.

He wrote the best part of my story. Then the chapter ended. Theo was supposed to be my forever. The boy who built me a treehouse, who made me playlists, who looked at me like I was the answer to a question he'd been asking his whole life. We had a plan. We had a future. Then a storm rolled in, and he never made it home. Now I'm just the girl standing in the wreckage of an "us" that never got to be. I scream at his voicemail. I wear his hoodie until it loses his smell. I push away everyone who tries to help-until I meet a boy with sad eyes who understands that some losses don't just heal. They say time heals all wounds. But what if the wound is shaped like a person? A raw, painful journey through first love, devastating loss, and the slow art of learning to breathe again.

Some people pass through our lives quietly. Others stay long enough to change us forever. Rudra dreams of becoming a boxer while struggling with school, family expectations, and a life slowly breaking apart. Shivani enters his world as a seatmate, a helper, and soon, someone he learns to depend on. Through loss, ambition, and unspoken love, they grow closer. But when distance, silence, and misunderstanding take over, their story is forced to end before it is ready. This is not a story about forever. It is a story about love that lingers. About people who leave, but never truly disappear. Because some footprints remain. This story is an ONC entry using the prompt:- 29. " You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints on your heart."

Natasha Brigade- Seventeen, brilliant, untouchable- top of her class, loved by everyone but seen by no one. A year ago she had everything - a bestfriend, an insanely hot boyfriend, and a life anyone would kill to have. Then, her bestfriend died. And somehow- Natasha got the blame. A year passed, her family burried the case. People who once loved her, now turned against her. Natasha build herself back up, put on a mask, and pretended that as long as she held herself together, everything would be okay. But what happens when her own body betrays her. Diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, she is given a year to live. And Natasha has only one goal: To catch her bestfriend's real killer

When I noticed the man in cubicle 7C, no one else saw him. Not Derek from Accounting. Not Priya from HR. Not the dozens of people who walked past that dead-end corner every single day. But he was there. Navy tie. Gray eyes. Waiting. His name is Luke Grady. He's been invisible for three years. Everything about him erases when no one looks-photographs, documents, handwritten words. The world forgets him in increments. But I remember. And the more I learn about him, the more I realize: I'm not just finding him. I'm finding what I buried. 𝐀 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

Ira was never supposed to survive. A family trip ends in tragedy when a devastating accident takes the lives of everyone she loves-leaving her as the only one who made it out alive. Haunted by the memory of the moment her older brother pushed her to safety, Ira is forced to live with a truth she cannot bear: she survived while they didn't. Now alone and surrounded by relatives who see her more as an obligation than family, Ira slowly begins to lose herself to grief, guilt, and silence. But before she decides to end everything, she writes a list. Twenty things her family once dreamed of doing. Twenty promises she will fulfill before saying goodbye to the world. She hides the journal at a quiet spot on the beach-never expecting anyone to find it. Until a stranger does. Raksh never planned to get involved in someone else's life. But when he stumbles upon Ira's diary and reads the final page, he realizes one terrifying truth: the girl who wrote it is counting down the days until she disappears forever. Determined to change her mind, he decides to help her complete the list-hoping that somewhere along the way, she might rediscover a reason to live. But as the two grow closer, buried secrets begin to surface, and Ira must confront the painful truth about the life she was given. Because sometimes surviving is harder than dying. And sometimes the hardest thing of all... is choosing to stay.

Kao Neptune was never meant to love. Born into wealth, sharpened by loss, and crowned the youngest CEO of Thailand's most powerful music empire, Kao lives by control, silence, and distance. Emotions are weaknesses. Love is a liability. Then a reckless boy from Bangladesh falls into his world-bright-eyed, stubborn, burning with impossible dreams. Nil was never part of Kao's plans. Yet he becomes the only person who sees past the cold façade, the only one Kao would bleed for, ruin for, choose against fate itself. Power cannot protect love. Status cannot silence bullets. And when Nil walks away-sacrificing everything so Kao can be "complete"-Kao finally understands: A man without the one he loves is already broken. Across borders, scandals, and cruelty, Kao defies family, society, and destiny to reclaim the men who became his home. A BL novel of obsession, devotion, sacrifice, and a love that refuses to kneel-even to fate.

Juliet Dutta was born into a legacy of art, but after her father's death, the girl who once lived for painting can no longer hold a brush. At Goldenrod University, she plans to stay invisible. That plan fails the moment she meets Ade Devereaux - the campus "Prince" who is used to attention, admiration, and applause. When the quiet girl ignores him like he doesn't exist, irritation turns into rivalry. But beneath the gossip, pride, and broken expectations, both of them are hiding something unfinished. Sometimes the most incomplete stories leave the deepest legacy.