Linguistics Stories

THE SILENT CROWN He never speaks in public. Not once. Every order is written. Every punishment is silent. Every decision is absolute. People don't fear him because he's loud. They fear him because nobody has ever heard his voice... and remained unchanged. Jeon Jungkook is known as The Silent Crown-a ruler of an underground empire built on control, discipline, and silence. Then she appears. Y/N. A forensic linguist assigned to decode messages connected to his syndicate. Her job is simple: Study the handwriting. Track the patterns. Find the meaning. But something goes wrong. Because the writing starts changing. The words become personal. The pauses feel intentional. The messages begin answering questions she never asked. And slowly- she realizes she's no longer decoding him. He's decoding her. What begins as observation turns into something neither of them planned. A dangerous silence. Unspoken understanding. An obsession that doesn't ask permission. He never lets people close. She never meant to stay. But some things don't arrive like love. They arrive quietly. And one day you realize- you never left. A psychological mafia romance about silence, obsession, power, letters, and a connection that was never supposed to become permanent. In his world, nothing belongs to anyone. Until she became... ours. Genre: Dark Romance • Mafia • Psychological Romance • Slow Burn • Mystery • Obsession • Thriller • Mature Romance • Possessive ML • Emotional Tension

Rose Red and White Snow were not just a silly Grimms Brothers' story, but real. All is not as it seems and and it is time for the next generation to pick up her mantle or red cape rather. What will this generation's dwarf be?

Myan Lami was built to be unbreakable-a biotic Special Agent of the Terran Federation, forged from self-replicating microchips and genetically loyal to his creators. But on the ice-covered world of Epsilon Indi A 1, he faces a mission that will test more than his strength. Sent to investigate a vanished expedition, Lami stumbles into the path of the Minvali, a towering alien people with a complex society and a buried grudge. As he endures captivity, humiliation, and the slow unraveling of an interstellar mystery, he begins to question the Federation's truth-and his own purpose within it. Haunted by a past he cannot erase and drawn toward a future he may not understand, Lami must navigate a deadly terrain of cultural conflict, buried secrets, and choices no soldier was ever meant to make. In a world where loyalty is programmed and justice is expendable, Choices of Steel asks what remains when loyalties break-and whether conscience can outweigh command. This story takes place in my Lords of the Stars shared universe. See my profile for other stories set in the same universe.

An aging world linguist stumbles upon an interesting find at the British Library.

A fleshing out of a new collection of conlangs.

Sam and Alex McKay don't have a home anymore, but they have an old truck, most of a college degree, and a little gas money. Lovely cover by Alex Vonn (@SantanartEN)

There's something weird about Loki - or so humans often say. This book is not about Loki - for rather Loki is the teller of the tale. Born under lockdown - he has unusual linguistic skills which enable communication with animal and human alike. Although he can't speak human, he can understand it, and absorbs information from media and conversation like a sponge - though the nuances of language often send him off with the comical end of the stick. Smart and gauche by turn, his empathy leads him to understand the plight of other species. The more he learns, the more he comes to understand about humans and their role - and his suspicions fall upon his owner Benedict, and girlfriend Redcoat. Empathic to his core, he intervenes to protect other animals in danger, whether that be a hunted fox, a baited badger, a cow separated from her calf - or his kidnapped sister Luna. Loki will always go the extra mile to help, but his courage inexorably leads him into peril - from which his own survival is far from certain.

WIP A note for all you linguists out there: I'm well aware that neither the phonemic nor the phonetic transcription of crush is actually /'krʌshʃ/. However, I found that neither /krʌʃ/ nor [krə́:ʃ] are easily recognizable as 'crush' for non-linguists.

ive noticed alot of people get confused over the father of modern linguistics, and so i formed a poem hoping it would help others

curious

This is the story of how Hese found her one true love. Dive in.

People try to build a tower into heaven, again

Mathematics + Language

J.R.R. Tolkien, is one of the best known names in fantasy today, but few realize just what a profound influence he had on the genre as a whole.

You don't need to know any of this stuff.

A pair of old friends find an ex-military robot. Their plan - repurpose it to be helpful at the local pub. An unexpectadly rocky road awaits them.

Morty Guggenmoose has enough problems: his best friend Mashie is abandoning his philological calling to attend business school, his secret crush has just gotten engaged to his worst enemy, and he isn’t making much progress on his Horace paper. But Horace’s ablative case isn’t the worst of it when multiple thefts and a violent murder occur on the Life of the Mind University campus. All clues point to Morty’s blundering classmate, Alvy, who is immediately taken into custody. It doesn’t take a genius like Mashie to realize Alvy is too much of a buffoon to pull off any crime. Together, Morty and Mashie delve into the mystery, but they lose any help Alvy could have offered in their investigation when his ability for coherent speech disappears. Between writing philology papers, running from gangsters, and chasing the girl of his dreams, Morty searches for justice among the stacks.

When reclusive linguist Eliza Marr discovers a sealed manuscript hidden in the ruins of an abbey, she unearths far more than forgotten history. The book-known only as the Codex-is bound in flesh, written in ink that moves, and sealed by seven ancient words that were never meant to be spoken. Each word, when uttered aloud, peels away the boundaries between reality and something much older-and far more intelligent. Partnering with Arun Vale, a haunted AI ethicist whose research may have unknowingly replicated the Codex's logic, Eliza descends into a surreal labyrinth of memory, guilt, and unspeakable knowledge. But the Codex is not merely a relic. It's a test-and a weapon. With every word revealed, Eliza and Arun are drawn deeper into a horror that reconfigures time, reality, and their own minds. The final word does more than unlock the book. It rewrites the world.