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  • 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑, Regulus Black by 666biteme
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    ❛ You think you're so charming, don't you, Black? ❜ ❛ No. But I think you want to be the judge for yourself, Vivien. ❜ ⚤ 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 Vivien is an aristocratic young witch who keeps her heart in one hand and a lit match in the other as she is about to learn the greatest lesson of her life: there is a dangerously thin line between loathing and longing. 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 Psych seeks and Eros hides. [marauders era] [regulus black x oc]
  • Feelings, On Record by xthale98
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    Ivan Guillermo de la Vega knows how to write about people. He just doesn't get involved. As a writer for the Indiana Daily Student, he's built his life on observation-clean, precise, and carefully neutral. Until one late night, when he answers a simple AI prompt and creates something he doesn't expect: An ideal. Calm. Consistent. Someone who stays. He closes the tab and forgets about it. The next day, he walks into a café and meets him. Owen Maverick Turner isn't loud. He doesn't try to impress. He doesn't interrupt. He just... stays. And somehow, without even realizing it, he becomes everything Ivan wrote down that night. What begins as coincidence becomes pattern. What feels manageable becomes undeniable. Ivan knows how to observe. He knows how to write. But this time, he's no longer outside the story.
  • Whispers of Serendipity by Dil_se_nayan
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    In the charming town of Everwood, where stories come to life at twilight and dreams drift on gentle winds, lives Eleanora Anderson. She is graceful and strong, her world filled with city lights and quiet moments. But behind her elegant appearance is a story of loneliness. Eleanora is the overlooked daughter of the wealthy Anderson family. Though surrounded by luxury, she grew up without the warmth of family. Raised mostly by house staff, her childhood was filled with isolation, and she learned to be strong through the emptiness around her. One magical winter evening, as moonlight lit up the cobblestone streets and stars filled the sky, Eleanora's peaceful life is changed. She meets Tommy, a sweet toddler with eyes as bright as morning fields, and feels a spark of compassion she thought was gone. She decides to care for him, and her heart begins to open. As Eleanora and little Tommy grow closer in the enchanting town of Everwood, they start a journey of discovery and healing. Together, they find unexpected joy and quiet victories, creating a new story of hope and connection. ..........................................................
  • Liminal Drift by LegionCraft
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    Why do dreams occur at night? And what do they symbolize? Are they fragments of an existing Multiverse? Or are they just mere creations of our own intense feelings and emotions? The question that even modern science failed to answer. Meet Kaizen Mizuki, an ordinary high schooler living an extraordinary nightmare. By day, he survives classrooms, bullying, and the quiet weight of expectations pressing down on him from every direction. By night, his sleep fractures into something far stranger, dreams that feel too real, spaces that exist between waking and reality, and fears that take shape and speak back. At first, they are only dreams. Then they begin to follow him. As Kaizen drifts through liminal worlds where logic bends and fear becomes tangible, he learns that sleep is not an escape, but a doorway. What begins as psychological horror slowly unfolds into something vast, astral travel, higher dimensions, and cosmic beings that do not hate humanity... yet are willing to erase it without hesitation. While galaxies burn and universes tremble beyond human perception, Kaizen still wakes up for school. He still laughs with friends. He still falls in love. Aoi, a girl who is playful, teasing, and painfully human towards him becomes his anchor to a normal life, even as Kaizen is pulled further away from it. Between awkward lunches, quiet walks, and moments of fragile romance, he carries a truth no one else can see, that reality itself is unstable, and he may be the only one standing between the boundary of existence and collapse. This is a slow burn story, blending slice-of-life warmth with psychological tension, scientific curiosity, and cosmic horror, Liminal Drift is a story about crossing boundaries, between dreams and waking, fear and courage, love and responsibility. Because sometimes, survival isn't just about saving the universe... It's about choosing to face it, even when the cost is everything... - P.S- Images in this story are all AI generated
  • Victorian diary entries by minsung_brained
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    Just a bunch of fictional diary entries I came up with because i was bored lol ! Very Victorian-style prose and vocabulary A/N: This piece is stylistically inspired by older literary English rather than written as a strict historical or linguistic recreation of any one period. It's a creative exercise focused on voice and mood, not accuracy. Cover: Pinterest
  • I Still Hate Summer by AuthorRLSade
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    Sable Travingdale hates summer. And summer seems to hate her back. Between floods, grief, and ghosted friendships (literally and hypothetically), every summer feels like a rerun of something she didn't ask for. But this year, she's enrolled in summer classes at Bluegrass Valley Community College. Partially to avoid her house, mostly to prove to summer that she'll keep fighting it. There, she meets Nova: a plant-obsessed chaos engine with quirks for hobbies and a jungle for an apartment. Alongside Elowen: quiet, observant, possibly psychic; and Jesse Moore, the boy she remembers too well, who doesn't seem to remember her at all. But memory has sharp edges. And when Jesse starts showing up more often: annoying, chatty, and completely unaware, Sable is forced to confront what it means to be remembered wrong... or not at all, all while being pulled into a summer of playlists, plants, and emotional detours. Even then, summer keeps dragging her in. Hope you brought your boots, 'cause it's gonna be a messy summer!
  • twenty-something by syrynah
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    [POETRY #2] A collection of poems about growing up before feeling ready. twenty-something explores the realities of adulthood, the exhaustion hidden behind independence, the loneliness of becoming, and the pressure to keep moving even when life feels uncertain. Through soft and reflective poetry, this collection captures the in-between phase of navigating dreams, responsibilities, changing relationships, and the version of yourself you are still learning to become. For anyone who has ever felt lost, left behind, or overwhelmed by the weight of growing up: this book is a reminder that you are not navigating life alone. twenty-something written by: syrynah © All Rights Reserved
  • Fading Luminosity  by noexestencenova
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    What's the difference between living and merely existing when your life moves to the same rigid rhythm every single day? Kimi Disvinadiya, a half-Russian, half-Eastern boy raised in a strict middle-class household, has spent most of his life following rules so obsessively that even his emotions feel rehearsed. Every day is predictable. Controlled. Safe. But everything changes the moment he wakes up as a girl. Despite the abrupt transformation, Kimi continues living exactly as before. Clinging desperately to the routine that has long masked the emptiness inside him. Yet as his new identity slowly begins affecting the people around him and the way he sees himself, the fragile structure of his carefully controlled life starts to crack. Will this strange change finally force Kimi to truly live? Or will he continue existing behind the comfort of routine until nothing remains of him at all?
  • Flow Along the Waves by zzazrii
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    Sometimes, she finds herself staring at the ceiling, wondering what the point of her life even is. The purposes and goals she once held close now feel like distant dreams. Bawat tanong, tila ang hirap sagutin. Minsan hindi mo alam paano sasagutin. Milara Esguerra, a university student who was once full of dreams, is now slowly falling off track. The path to the future is blurry, unreachable, and what terrifies her most is the thought of being stuck with her regrets and never-ending what-ifs. Sabi nila, dapat nating sundan ang landas na inilatag para sa atin. Pero what do they know of the weight of silence? Of the dreams she tucks away just to survive? She barely strive to live, so what do they really know? Paano kung ang landas na iyon ay bigla na lang mawala sa isang iglap? There are things that aren't meant for us. Kahit gaano mo pa ipilit; if it's the same pole of a magnet, it will always push the other away.
  • Whispers of Forgotten Hours by ANightOwlNobody
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    Under grey skies and fractured dreams, she drifts between whispers of desire and the shadows of her own mind.
  • Wobble Wobble Kokomi by MyIrane
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    Wobble Wobble Kokomi follows Jin Hyun-hee, a middle-aged housewife whose daughter Hae-na left behind an overly powerful computer "for Mom." Hyun-hee barely knows how to use it, but after seeing a trot singer advertise a game on TV, she installs it out of curiosity. By accident, she crosses into the game world and begins a quiet, slow life far removed from work and noise.
  • Serendipitous Echoes of Me by beginner1
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    Preface This is not a story to be read. This is an invitation to an odyssey. It is an exploration of the echoes I once left behind-those former versions of a life I thought had gone quiet, but which still pulse beneath the rhythm of who I am today. We often believe we leave our past selves in the dust, yet they live on, whispering into our choices and shaping our shadows. As these pages turn, do not be surprised if your own history begins to echo around you. My echoes are on every page; are you ready to hear yours?
  • A Symphony of Fate by AtharvBaghel
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    In a world where kingdoms rise on blood and fade into memory, fate is not a path but a question. Ardon stands united under House Valeryeon, rulers for five centuries, their power bound to the Aetheryn, beings of light and shadow that exist between reality and nothingness. Yet peace is fragile. Kings rule without conscience, and honor has lost its worth. Beyond all lies the Atheria, where reality begins to break. But Ardon is not alone. Elaria, a realm of mystics, holds Luminaera, the crystal that sustains existence itself. As long as it remains whole, reality endures. Something has disturbed it. In Noctyra, where darkness lives, and Aposteles roam, a man without past or purpose walks forward into the unknown. Across worlds, lives unfold, each believing their struggle is their own. They are wrong. Because beyond all of this lives Rei, a boy in a world without wonder. He escapes into stories... until they begin to look back. And slowly, he realizes- He may not be the observer.
  • For Thine Eyes Only by PrismaticTome
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    Words unwritten, a quill with no ink. The ethereal shrouded with truth, lies that keep the mundane from taking hold. Stories, untold - Only whispered, only carried by winds unfelt but by those who listen closely. So listen, between these lines you might find echoes of a voice you once had. One you silenced in favor of normalcy. One you locked away deep within the pages of your heart, the very ones you forbade every soul that came close from reading. The very ones that stoke the fire you so very desperately desire. For thine eyes only, you kindred spirits who share the fate of looking from a distance.
  • intropective  by Juicycyan04
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    Some things cannot change their nature. A rabbit will continue to hop. The sky will continue to darken before rain. And people... people will continue searching for meaning in places that were never meant to hold it. Introspective is not simply about suffering, loss, or disappointment. It is about perspective-the way people see, feel, and understand the world differently depending on where they stand within it. Some will read these words and see pain. Others will see growth. Some may only see confusion. And a few may understand what hides beneath the surface. Through fragments of thought, emotion, philosophy, and reflection, this book explores choice, identity, trust, human nature, and the silent realities people carry within themselves. Not everything is meant to be understood the first time. Some meanings reveal themselves only when the reader is willing to look deeper.
  • An End in the Beginning  by Hush_101
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    A story of silence, creation, and everything that doesn't fully end.
  • Contacts by brianjoseg
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    Contacts is a collection of poems about brief encounters and ordinary moments that unexpectedly reveal something larger. Through animals, strangers, rooftops, silence, humor, and direct experience, the poems explore what becomes visible when attention turns into contact.
  • Study of human behavior by ABC_123_XYZ
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    Lewtht, a genius student who gets bored easily, due to certain circumstances, ends up having lunch with a lonely girl from another class named Emily. Lewtht quickly sees through her and notices her past trauma, so he decides to use his abilities to help her get through it and, in doing so, solve his own boredom for a while. But every attempt he makes seems to fail or he makes some kind of mistake that makes him change his strategy.
  • 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘖𝘧 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 || Poetry by hetericl_wandls
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    The Aftermath Of Feeling is my first poetry album. It's an introspective collection of poems that explore identity, self-discovery, and the beauty of imperfections. Each poem captures a different emotion and feeling we often hide from the world, I hope you feel comforted and heard as you read this set of poems and discover the beauty of being unapologetically you. The style of my poetry album is dark, introspective, and free verse with vivid imagery and emotional depth as I express emotion through my art, in this case, this poetry album of mine. ~ I have created a playlist of 6 songs for each of my poems that match their vibe, as you can listen to while reading them one by one!! It can be found at the end!! It would be very helpful if you could share my poetry album with other viewers who you know will love it! Thank you for helping me grow my work!
  • Whirlwind Memories by xthale98
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    I thought staying was enough. That if something felt right, it would become right. But some connections don't fail loudly. They just... don't choose you. This isn't a dramatic story. It's about realizing that presence is not intention, that courage doesn't guarantee you'll be chosen, and that sometimes, the quietest decision-leaving-is the one that finally brings you peace.