Introspective Stories

Published on 4/5/20 In Neo's past life, he was a wicked person who sought to kill his little brother, the rightful heir of a Ducal House. His conspiracy led to his eventual demise. Then he was reborn into another world and became a successful medical researcher... ... Then he died again because he believed he was too good for the concept of sleep, and was sent back to the beginning, before his plans and cruel deeds led him down the path of no return. This second chance might be his salvation. . . It was said that the oldest Young Master of the Odum Family has become strange as of late. Was he perhaps trying to kill someone again? His younger brother better watch out, or else he might die this time. Everyone, duck and cover! Don't want to be in the crossfire! Edited by: bafflinghaze Cover by @Niveggo. Volume I Spring 1 - 40 Complete Volume II Summer 41 - ??? Obligatory Declaration (because it is now 2025): This story was made by a human author. In fact, all my stories were made by a human author. Do NOT feed more work into AI. I do not permit my works to be used in any way to train generative AI.

Book Descriptions are so Irritating. If you want to read a book, just read it. Why do you want to know the description? -That's Kai, and this is his story. Excuse me, whoever is writing a shit of my life, get your head checked. What's there to even write about my life? -A book unlike any other, focusing on Kai's monologues of life and his journey to find his purpose in life. Excuse me, what!!!, That makes me seem like I am depressed, I am fucking not!!! -Join him on his journey of badminton and contemplate thoughts about life. It's not that deep, dude, stop!!! -Junior school last year arc is undergoing.

Tilly Diggory has spent her life running when things get too close. Learning to Stay is a soft, emotional story about love, loss, and what happens when leaving is no longer an option. Part 1/3

Erith survived the impossible. Maeric seeks the truth. The drought is unending, the Kingdoms are on the brink... ...and the moment Erith is seen, war will follow.

"I'll go anywhere as long as there's a slope." The photo studio is located on the largest island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea. "Masui Traveling Photo Studio" is a small studio run by Shinya Masui, a photographer who uses a wheelchair. Because he can't take physically demanding shots, Shinya puts his whole heart into capturing the true beauty of his subjects. Nothing much happens, but something is definitely unfolding in Shinya's daily life. It's gentle and brings back a nostalgic feeling. If you like, why not take a peek into his world and share those moments with him? This is the English translation of "増井出張写真館～あなたの幸せ、切り撮ります." You can read the original Japanese version here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/397066248-%E5%A2%97%E4%BA%95%E5%87%BA%E5%BC%B5%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F%E9%A4%A8%EF%BD%9E%E3%81%82%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AE%E5%B9%B8%E3%81%9B%E3%80%81%E5%88%87%E3%82%8A%E6%92%AE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%EF%BD%9E

"If things were different..." Jeff's voice trails off. Ivy finishes it for him: "We would've been something, right?" He fell for her when she was still learning how to let people close. She fell for him when he'd already learned how to stay safe behind silence. They walk the same campus, smile the same polite smiles, and avoid the same memories they both keep replaying at night. Jeff doesn't blame her for falling late - he thinks she deserves a love without hesitation. Ivy keeps drifting toward him anyway - a little too curious, a little too attached to the version of him she once imagined. Some stories don't arrive loudly. Some slip in quietly, in the hesitation before a confession, in the space between two hearts that almost touched. A tender, aching slow-burn about timing, courage, and the love that waits in the quiet.

In the Concord, love is a program-not a feeling. At twenty-two, Liova gets one chance to match before the system quietly decides she's better off alone. At the government-run Coupling Party, everything is staged: recycled décor, endless tests, a scripted speech. Liova wants to succeed. She wants to belong. Then she meets Coren. He's charming in a way that feels practiced, familiar in a way that feels designed. Choosing him isn't rebellion. It's alignment. And Liova has to decide what's more frightening: going against the Concord... or wanting exactly what it wants. Because the Concord is never what it seems. And what appears to be a love story might be far more sinister under the surface. There's always calm before the storm. 🌧️ I'm updating regularly until it's complete-come join the journey. 💕

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.

What I Saw is a collection of poems about love, loss, silence, and the small moments that stay with us. These pieces move through quiet rooms, busy streets, and the spaces in between, noticing how people connect, how they miss one another, and how meaning can be found in the things we almost say. This book isn't about having answers - it's about paying attention. This is what I saw.

These are the poems I've written when no one was looking. Some are quiet. Some are messy. All of them are pieces of me. For anyone who's ever felt unseen, unheard, or just... human.

I loved how beautiful my name once. Now I wonder if it ever belonged to me. My name is Suhani. Growing up, I believed beautiful names were meant for beautiful lives. But reality taught me that I was never the favorite not my parents' not my friends' not even God's. I was always there, always trying, but never chosen. That's why I hate stories where the soft-spoken, broken girl turns out to be God's favorite and gets everything in the end. Real life doesn't work like that. At least, it never did for me. And then, suddenly, everything started changing. My parents want me back. My best friend whom I loved quietly started returning my feelings. The love I waited for my entire life finally showed up. But instead of happiness, I felt fear. It isn't thrilling. It isn't exciting. It doesn't feel like a dream come true. It feels...wrong. Why now? Why all at once? Is this God's way of apologizing for all the years of my loneliness? Or is something bad waiting for me at the end of this sudden warmth? I don't know if they truly want me or if I'm just a pawn in someone else's secret game. What I do know is this: I will not let anyone ruin my life anymore. I will not accept love at the cost of my freedom. I will question. I will search. I will find the truth. This is not a love story. This is my story of fear, awakening, and choosing myself. Will you walk with me through this rollercoaster, where love feels dangerous, faith feels fragile, and the truth might change everything? ✨ Because sometimes, being noticed is far more terrifying than being invisible. ✨

The forest was never empty. It was waiting. Elias lives at the edge of a land preparing for war, where silence has become rare and choice even rarer. When he crosses a boundary hidden in plain sight, he doesn't find danger right away, only a forest that watches and a quiet that refuses to let go. There, he meets Asphera. She is bound by rules he doesn't yet understand and offers no explanations, only stillness and the sense that something ancient has already taken notice. As the world beyond the trees presses closer, Elias must decide what it means to stay, what it means to leave, and what it costs when silence begins to ask something of you.

A brilliant, emotionally isolated engineer builds an AI designed to mirror his own mind, only to discover-after living an entire alternate life-that understanding reality means relinquishing the need to control it.

I used to move through things without really stopping. Days came and went, and I let them. It was easier that way. Nothing asked too much of me, and I didn't ask much back. If something slipped away, I told myself it was fine. Most things are. Somewhere along the way, though, I started noticing how quiet moments linger longer than they should. How certain thoughts don't disappear just because you ignore them. How even small things leave behind a shape when they're gone. I don't think I changed all at once. I'm still much the same. But, it was more like slowing down without meaning to. Letting my eyes rest on things for an extra second. Feeling something soften, just a little, before moving on. And I just wonder, when something small disappears from your days, do you feel it leave?

Sara is a stay at home mother of three whose life works, even if it no longer feels like hers. When a small meditation class sharpens her intuition, people begin turning to her for insight. What starts quietly grows into something larger, shifting her marriage, her role, and her sense of self. The Hinge is a contemporary story about motherhood, marriage, intuition, and the moment a woman realizes she cannot go back to who she was.

After her mother's death, Milcah tries to keep her life intact - until workplace politics and a shifting friendship turns her grief into a battleground. ★ ★ ★ When Milcah Sweetwine loses her mother, she loses her sense of home. Grieving in silence, she faces a world that mistakes her composure for strength and her quiet for weakness. Inside a fluorescent postal facility - where small politics can feel like survival - Milcah confronts betrayal, jealousy, and the haunting echoes of womanhood passed down through generations. Held by a love that doesn't ask her to perform, Milcah learns to live inside her grief without disappearing. ★ ★ ★ Sweetwine is a tender, haunting story of loss and becoming - a reminder that even what's been buried can bloom again. Content Note: This story explores grief, death, mental health, psychological abuse, and sexual content. Reader discretion is advised.

This is a book about the lives that never happened - and the thoughts that did. Each story imagines a different situation: walking beside someone admired but unreachable, loving someone deeply without needing to possess them, standing alone on a balcony, asking God questions that have no answers. None of these events are real. What's real is how a person might think, feel, hesitate, care, and choose gentleness if placed in those moments. This is not a romance. Not a memoir. Not a fan story. It is a quiet collection of imagined lives - about love without ownership, admiration without entitlement, and faith without certainty. Some people chase endings. This book sits with the questions.

When thoughts within become reality without, every idea counts. When the world bends to people's will, how do we control it and make it stable? How do we react when collective faith threatens the freedom of the individual? These are questions that face Eda as she steps into her duties as a part of the core of officers manning the great walls of the federated free cities. This is the story of a young woman being thrust into a world in which her preordained place demands much of her. How will her friendships fare as the reality of prolonged conflict starts to weigh on all of them? The trio of Eda, Addrian, and Matthew take their places in a conflict much larger than themselves, and we follow their journey of discovering how to hold onto who they are while adapting themselves to the hostile environment of the federal defence front. _________________________________________ Writers note This is my first public effort at creative writing. As such, there might be retroactive editing going on. The story as a whole has been ruminating in my head for years, as often happens for us first-time writers. No AI will ever touch my pages, although it graces the cover for now (I am more than ready to swap it out as soon as I can find a good alternative). This means that all my writing is in my personal prose, and I appreciate any constructive criticism as well as other types of notes. As said, the story is somewhere in there, in the back of my head. Now we'll see how it comes out. Also, as a sidenote. While the story involves religiosity heavily, this does not reflect any condemnation of religion in general. If anything, the story seeks to critically examine any kind of absolute and controlled belief. As such, any resemblance to real-life religious practices is sincerely coincidental Weekly additions! I hope to set a couple of pages worth of writing each week.

‎What if the life you're living was never really yours? ‎ ‎Some choices feel right only because we've never questioned them. ‎ ‎The Life I Chose: Awakening the Oblivious Self follows lives moving quietly in parallel, people making decisions, avoiding others, and carrying responsibilities they never asked for. ‎ ‎As ambitions rise and expectations tighten, the line between freedom and obligation begins to blur. ‎ ‎What seems like escape starts to resemble another kind of confinement. ‎ ‎This is a character-driven story about identity, uncertainty, and the moment we realize that the life we're living may not be the one we chose or... fully understood. ‎

In a city where magic flows like code-compiled, structured, auditable-Vex has learned to survive by being useful. They cannot cast. Every spell crashes with a fatal error no diagnostic can explain. So they've become a translator, a compiler, making everyone else's magic work while their own refuses. When wild-code appears-magic that flows from intention rather than syntax, impossible to regulate or suppress-the Mage Council sees risk. Vex sees people whose magic works differently, not wrongly. People the system rejected first. Commissioned to help eliminate wild-code, Vex must choose between the safety of invisibility and the risk of being seen. Between a career built on working around their "limitation" and fighting to prove it was never a limitation at all. A novel about systems that claim to be neutral, magic that refuses to lie, and the cost of rewriting infrastructure when you can't stay invisible anymore. Updates Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays!