Literary Stories

When her therapy app accidentally sends Riley's private confessions to a random British expat - and his to her - what began as a glitch quickly evolves into the kind of intimacy that can only exist between strangers. A slow-burn contemporary romance. * * * When a company health initiative forces Riley Markle to download a trendy mental health app, she fills out the onboarding survey without much thought, expecting to get paired with a virtual gym buddy who'll send thumbs-up emojis twice a week. Instead, she gets paired with Joe, a lonely British expat whose wellness concern of Compulsive Behaviors is flagged by the AI system as a perfect match for Riley. Riley resolves to complete her month of check-ins and be done with it - until a glitch in the app sends both her and Joe's embarrassing therapy videos to each other instead of their therapist. Soon, Riley and Joe are talking late into the night, exchanging thirst-trap videos of their weekend routines by day, and thinking about each other constantly. Both are smitten, both are broken, and neither of them knows how to do this without destroying each other. The plan: Limit all communication to the app until after Day 30, then see where things go. But plans change. * * * 🏆 High Rankings: #1 in LITERARY #1 in QUICKREAD #1 in NEWENGLAND #3 in EPISTOLARY #14 in SHORTCHAPTERS (out of 38,000 stories) #87 in ROMCOM (out of 35,000 stories) #147 in ROMANTIC (out of 86,000 stories) Updated November 2025

The Dreamer awakes, the shadow goes by; the tale I have told you, that tale is a lie... Portals to magical worlds, corvids that speak the meaning of life, and more await one who sits and listens to this sharing of tales between two anachronistic raconteurs, one of whom may or may not be Geoffrey Chaucer. Reader, remember this: the tales are pure fictions. Fantasies. Except when they are not.

Psyche is a collection of poetic fragments, prayers and personifications written from the inner landscape of a mind learning how to survive. Here, abstract forces speak-Truth walks barefoot, Faith has no name, Mercy grows tired, and Death is not always the enemy. Myth, nature, and emotion intertwine as the psyche gives voice to what cannot be said plainly. This is not a diary. It is not doctrine. It is a quiet mythology of the inner world.

He built everything in silence - a business worth millions, factories, a university, hundreds of lives resting on his decisions. He never spoke about it. And she never knew. She waited, believing silence was temporary. Believing distance had an explanation. Then the messages stopped. While she was counting days and fighting her own quiet battles, corruption was dismantling his world - carefully, legally, without mercy. He disappeared not by choice, but because everything he had built was being taken at once. She learned who he truly was only when it was already too late to ask questions. This is a story about waiting that turns into fear, about silence that hurts more than truth, about feelings that begin as anxiety and slowly become something deeper - something dangerously close to love. Sometimes love doesn't start with a touch. Sometimes it starts with silence .Based on true events

The kingdom never rejected anyone. It simply revealed how far each person was willing-and able-to go. Behind its warm gates stood firm laws, silent watchers, and doors that did not open easily. Not because they were guarded by fear, but because what lay within required care. This is an allegorical story about boundaries, choice, and quiet endurance. About entering spaces that feel safe, staying where responsibility begins, and understanding that not every ending is a loss. Some doors remain locked-not to keep people out, but to protect what must remain whole.

To Love You Without Holding You is a tender work of literary fiction about a love strong enough to loosen its grip. It follows a relationship that does not collapse in anger, but quietly transforms into something more fragile, more restrained, and infinitely harder to define. Through moments of closeness and distance, longing and restraint, the story explores what remains when love can no longer be claimed-only respected. Like a sunflower that continues to turn toward the light even after the seasons change, it reflects resilience, self-discovery, and the courage it takes to stand on one's own after love reshapes itself. For readers drawn to intimate, emotionally driven stories about love, loss, and quiet becoming, this novel lingers-not because of what is held onto, but because of what is gently released.

Literary reflections presented as a dialogue between two parties, addressing profound philosophical and intellectual issues within the depths of the human psyche in a philosophical, intellectual, and literary manner, and critiquing societal conditions and erroneous religious beliefs through a descriptive, creative, and philosophical approach.

On a rain-lashed night in 2003, a signal failure halts every train passing through Kochi Junction. Among the stranded crowd, six strangers briefly cross paths - a disillusioned teacher, a young nurse bound for the Gulf, a returning architect, a restless journalist, a weary migrant mechanic, and an aspiring coder chasing her first job. None exchange names. Yet that night of shared waiting becomes the quiet axis of their lives. Over the next two decades, their stories flow outward - across Kerala's backwaters and India's cities, into deserts, boardrooms, and faraway apartments - tracing how ordinary people carry fragments of one another through distance, failure, and rediscovery. From night schools under railway bridges to floating hospices on the Alappuzha backwaters, Monsoon Junction maps the fragile beauty of human connection in a world always in transit. Lyrical and deeply human, this multi-voiced saga explores the lives of those who arrive, depart, and sometimes return - finding that the hardest journeys are not measured in miles, but in forgiveness.

11x featured wattpad story. Before everything, it's assumed there was nothing, but what if there was no real difference between the two? Just two extreme philosophies from the first conflict. The planet Huom has been under observation for longer than should technically be possible. The primary watcher, a bitter black hole, is excited to see that there is finally a proverbial Darkness at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, on the planet, in the freezing mountains of Empris, Lyeasrakardsul, the oldest living sorcerer, suffers from devastating nightmares. At the same time, far away in the sandstone desert of Zenon, Herschel, a man filled to the brim with weird ideas is escaping a prison filled with strange old men. What does all this have to do with arsehole Gods, hairy Dwarfs, frustrated Afreets, curious Knomes, lizard-women, and nude Áettar? Perhaps Nothing, perhaps Everything... but why can't it be both?

ACANDRAS awakens in a space that is neither sleep nor waking. Words exist, but speech does not. A voice speaks. A path begins. This is not a story of heroes or worlds, but of an essence in transit-a soul moving from the vastness of the universe toward birth. Along the way, each encounter, each threshold, will shape what must be learned once life begins. ACANDRAS is a speculative, symbolic tale about becoming human, about memory before memory, and about the invisible journey that precedes every life.

Juniper "Juno" James doesn't speak much. Her kitten, Lupi, doesn't meow. But when a fall leaves Lupi injured and a dusty lantern begins to glow in the corner of a quiet animal clinic, Juno's world begins to shift. While she waits-surrounded by chattering animals and silent glances-Juno meets Solani, a girl with a field journal and a dog with a marble‑colored eye. Behind the curtain, Dr. Mateo works to heal what's broken. But something else is stirring: dreams, memories, and a light that doesn't flicker...it pulses. Lupi and the Lantern is a standalone tale of emotional weather, soft magic, and the kind of transformation that begins with listening.

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Literary is the quiet place where words learn to breathe, where ordinary moments are shaped into meaning, and feeling finds a voice. @insiderhunter

The old Amarante Hotel isn't much to look at - faded carpets, flickering hallway lights, and a coffee machine that only works when it feels like it. But for six new residents, it's the start of something quietly unexpected. Lena twirls her hair whenever she's lost in thought. Lila bites her lip when she's unsure what to say. Luca can't seem to stop winking at everyone he meets. Avery avoids eye contact but somehow notices every detail. Elias pinches the bridge of his nose whenever the noise gets to him, and Hana covers her mouth when she laughs a little too loud. They all came for different reasons - work, study, escape - but what they find is a rhythm they didn't expect. Morning coffee runs turn into shared breakfasts. Awkward silences become familiar pauses. Little by little, the hotel's echoing halls fill with the soft noise of people getting used to one another. There are no grand moments here - just small ones: the smell of toast from the shared kitchen, the rain tapping against the windows, the feeling of realizing that being yourself - quirks and all - is enough. At the Marigold, everyone's just trying to figure things out. Together. Warning: mentions of drinking some swearing

The story continues as the mysterious warden of Zig-Zig is eventually informed about Herschel's escape. Against every principle of his precious Dalmicir school, Lyeasrakardsul submits and asks the Knomes for help before finally receiving the dreaded p-wyrd. Herschel is arrested as a chicken thief and brought to the town Stagna where he has been prejudged as a p-e-r-v-e-r-t by popular opinion, and where he will have some of the most significant encounters in his life.

Love is hard. Giving it a second chance is harder. Lara experiences life as a typical young woman: beautiful friends, summer travel, brief romance. But when her ex-boyfriend returns to town on military leave, she is thrust into uncomfortable territory. What's a girl to do when the man she once dreamt of marrying stumbles back into the world? A conversation sparks. A look is exchanged. Like nothing changed at all, she finds herself suffocated by unspoken desire. Hopeful to rekindle their connection, Lara prepares herself to love again - and do it right this time. *This is not a full-length novel. Rather, this is a four-part short story. I hope at least one person enjoys reading it as much as I enjoy writing it!

When her sister announces a pregnancy at 19, the narrator, an ambitious and hardworking teen, realizes that in her family, accomplishments are measured only by who creates life, not who builds a future. Her college acceptance letter is dismissed, her birthday forgotten, and her savings taken-while everyone cheers for Liliana and her new baby. Forced to navigate a home that doesn't celebrate her, the narrator learns the hard way that self-worth cannot depend on others' approval. Through heartbreak, resilience, and the support of friends who truly see her, she discovers what it means to stand apart and claim her life on her own terms. Proof is a raw, emotional coming-of-age story about family, neglect, and the courage it takes to grow up invisible-and emerge stronger than ever.

"When Elara leaves her journal on a park bench, she never expects a stranger to return it-or to spark a connection that will change both their lives. What begins as a simple exchange of messages soon deepens into something neither of them can ignore. Tender, funny, and achingly romantic, When Silence Speaks is a story of chance, hope, and love finding its voice."

"Scattered across our anthologies." 🤎 What once were scattered thoughts, are now gathered here, Becoming a collection of chosen stories. Our Anthologies dives deep into the forest of unplanned, melancholic, imaginary tales, from different perspectives and fleeting musings, It'a s a tale of love, loss, grief, whims and everything in between. - ONGOING - 🤎🤎🤎 TAGS: poetry, loss, heartbreak, anthology, flashbacks, poems, literary, fictional, fictional poetry, collection, folklore

Liora thought moving into the old house would be a fresh start. She didn't expect to find hidden journals that whisper secrets from the past-stories of love, regret, and choices that shaped lives long gone. As she reads, the lines between past and present begin to blur. Whose story is unfinished? Which secrets are meant to stay buried? And most haunting of all-what will she discover about herself along the way? Echoes of the Past is a mysterious, atmospheric journey through memory, human behavior, and the echoes that linger long after a life is lived.