Literary Stories

[Now on WEBTOON!] Introverted and awkward Autumn Lyne is content with having just books as companions--that is, until her extrovert of a sister drags her out to meet her band. But nobody has expected that this would mark the plot twist her heart has never signed up for. Her first love. *** Autumn Lyne has terrible social skills, and when her older sister has had enough of her being alone all the time, she's forced to interact with people outside of her tiny world. Meeting and befriending her sister's bandmates is only the beginning. Her growing bond with the charming Michael Summer seems unstoppable. But what if there is more to him than meets the eye? How can a girl who has barely opened up her heart handle her first love--and first heartbreak? Illustration by raindrops_ [complete raw version]

He brought his penance to the Mother, and laid the rosary at Her feet; There are loves which prayer may bless, though men may call them sin. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ At the hour when the last bells have fallen silent, a penitent kneels before Our Lady and takes up the beads of his appointed penance. Yet prayer proves a poor refuge for a heart that has kept one name too faithfully, and before the gilded Virgin he must reckon with a devotion he cannot bring himself to call sinful.

In the midst of war, where every street may bury one last memory, Yulia sets out in search of the truth, only to find herself on a path where the lines between love, loss, and deception begin to disappear. Every answer opens the door to a darker secret-and sometimes, the most terrifying truth is the one that has been hiding in plain sight all along.

Twenty-four-year-old Kavith is finally ready to close a chapter. Living with his platonic soulmate, Anshul, has been a beautiful anchor, but Kavith knows it is time to stop holding onto a love that was never meant to be his. He desperately wants to step into his own future and move forward-he just doesn't quite know what that looks like yet. Then comes the cannonball. Enter Anurag: the handsome new upstairs neighbor who seems to have his life perfectly curated. But behind the easy banter, the cozy coffee runs, and the golden retriever, Anurag is silently fighting his own internal battles. He is caught in a loop of his own making, carrying the quiet, heavy weight of a past he can't quite shake. What starts as a crash into a stranger might lead to a emotionally rich and yet challenging both their ideas of relationship and trauma. Watch as they both had once learned to live the pain. Two mosaic broken hearts. Their golden age of something Good right and real. All the while Anshul maintaining his Promise to never part with Kavith. The test of this promise as he has to watch Kavith move on in his life. PS : don't worry Anshul too has a love interest. Tropes : Guy next door Hot neighbour Slow burn Friends to lovers Found family SFW/ NO SMUT

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 #1 in SHORTCHAPTERS (out of 38,000 stories) #3 in EPISTOLARY #87 in ROMCOM (out of 35,000 stories) #147 in ROMANTIC (out of 86,000 stories) Updated November 2025

පරාද උන කවියක් ගැන කතාවක් අහලා තියෙනවද 💔🥀 දිල්..දන්නවද එක දෙයක්.. කලාකාමියෝ ධනාත්මක උනාම තමයිලු ලස්සනම.. ලු..?? දිල් කියන්නේ හින්දි භාෂාවෙන් හදවතටලු.. ලු...?? මිනිස්සු මල් පිපෙනවා දැකලා නැත්තම්..හැමදාම මල් පිපුනට වැඩක් නෑලු ලු..?? ආදරේ හිතේ තිබුනට වැඩක් නෑලු එළිපිට කියන්නේ නැත්තම්.. හොදටම විශ්වාසද..??

[Short Tale] Finally, Lexi has found someone who gives all the attention she is dreaming about. Will the fairy tale she's having at the moment can give her a happy ever after? ---- This is one of my first short stories and has been first published in Independent Ink Magazine, and I now repost on WATTPAD under my nom de plume @Rainydusk.

The Modern White Nights is a sentimental psychological romance set in Dhaka in May 2026, told through ten sleepless nights in the life of a 29-year-old dreamer. The story follows a lonely, introspective lawyer who, after the collapse of a seven-year relationship with Moriom, unexpectedly meets a mysterious young woman named Malena through an online video-chat platform. Their first conversation lasts for hours and quickly becomes an intense exchange about love, trauma, loneliness, mythology, religion, literature, astrology, and the hidden sides of human nature. Both carry complicated histories, and the protagonist begins to believe that their meeting may be more than coincidence. Over the following ten nights, their relationship develops into a strange mixture of romance, mystery and psychological investigation. The protagonist begins searching for the truth behind Malena's contradictory stories, while simultaneously confronting his own tendency to idealize people and his inability to let go. Dostoevsky's White Nights, Kafka, mythology, the Mona Lisa, the Eye of Horus, jasmine, and recurring symbols become intertwined with the events. Ultimately, the story becomes less about getting the girl and more about understanding her-and understanding himself. Malena eventually disappears from his life, leaving him with unanswered questions. On the final night, Moriom unexpectedly calls after years of silence, bringing the protagonist back to the unresolved past just as the new mystery has ended. At its heart, the book is about loneliness, obsession, hope, memory, human connection, and the painful realization that sometimes you can understand someone completely without ever being able to keep them. The book itself describes its central idea beautifully: "white nights always feel the same"-whether in Dostoevsky's nineteenth-century Petersburg or modern-day Dhaka

The shrine at the top of the hill has been abandoned for four hundred years. The frost never crosses its threshold. Each spring, white flowers bloom where nothing should grow. The villagers leave offerings at the foot of the steps, then hurry away before sunset. No one speaks of what lives beneath the cedar hall. No one climbs the hill twice. Except her. What begins as fear becomes habit. Habit becomes conversation. Conversation becomes the slowest kind of devotion. He never lies to the ones he likes. She is never tricked. Across sixty years of winters, funerals, harvests, and ordinary days, a girl and the thing sealed beneath an ancient shrine forge a bond neither of them was ever meant to have. Some promises are not made with love. Some are simply kept. A quiet dark fantasy inspired by Japanese folklore, where monsters tell the truth, kindness can become its own prison, and attendance is the rarest form of devotion.

The Scribe of the Empty Room is a novel rendered from Yusuf Ataa's original poem, "My Unknown Love." Thank you for stepping into this journey-may you find clarity and resonance in these pages.

It's almost ten years since Komachi Hanaie died. Ise has spent a decade not saying her name. At sixteen she was the most beautiful girl in the school, and the most alone. She answered a compliment about her name by explaining what it used to mean. She told him they would never celebrate each other's birthdays. She was cold, exact, and entirely without fear - and she asked him for one thing. To be the witness. Ten years later he still has not gone to her grave. A quiet novel about beauty carried as an inheritance, about a mother who does not come home, and about the distance between wanting someone and loving them. Complete. 42 chapters. Originally written in Japanese.

The second volume in the epic fantasy series SOULWOVEN. Darkness is falling. The dragon Sherduan is free, and the fate of the world balances on its claws. The Jin brothers and their friends are separated. Alone, they face shadows deeper even than those in their dreams. Litnig wrestles with his heritage. Cole and Dil cling to shards of happiness as the world crumbles. Quay finds that, in the end, his weakness may outweigh his determination. Ryse and Leramis find in their homecomings not solace but soul-crushing ordeal. And others enter the stage. Len Heramsun's daughter follows Tsu'min as he tries to summon a force to oppose Sherduan. A prophet offers guidance to those he can find. In Nutharion, a boy of great power plots to reunite those spared by the dragon. And elsewhere, a ghost and a necromancer contend with the wages of sin. Those who stood before the black wall when Sherduan was summoned were chosen. But by whom? And for what? And will their courage create enough light to survive the darkness?

My translations from Russian and Ukrainian into English

When Ethan stumbles across an old newspaper article about a serial killer known only as The Ferryman, he barely gives it a second glance. It is just another tragic story-one he quickly forgets. Or so he believes. The next morning, Ethan wakes up twenty years in the past. There, he meets Nicole, a bright, compassionate young woman whose future feels strangely familiar. As scattered fragments of the article begin resurfacing in his memory, a terrifying truth emerges: Nicole is the girl whose death he already remembers. With only incomplete memories, fading clues, and a future that seems determined to repeat itself, Ethan becomes obsessed with changing what he believes is inevitable. But the harder he tries to protect Nicole, the more he begins to question whether he is saving her... or taking away her choices. As time, memory, and reality slowly unravel, Ethan must confront a question far more frightening than whether the future can be changed: If you already know how someone dies, how much of their life are you willing to control to stop it?

Julia and Silvia wake up in each other's lives. One has everything she once wanted: a family; the other has the career and freedom she dreamed of. But living the life they thought they wanted forces them to confront an uncomfortable truth: sometimes, what we long for is not what we truly need.

A poem can tell so many stories, a single word, a single line can have so many meanings. A single word can tell a story A line can change a perspective Every little word can have a deeper meaning

A house once filled with lullabies slowly learns the language of silence. Among white flowers, quiet windows, and a breeze that seems to remember a song, a little girl grows beneath the shadow of a promise she does not quite understand. She waits for something that never seems to arrive. And as the seasons pass, she learns that being good can earn many things-but perhaps not everything we wish for. Somewhere between childhood and growing up, Iel begins to wonder: How long must one wait before they realize that some songs are only meant to be remembered?

Research paper, just hearing those words brings back so many memories.

When two fiercely competitive and brilliant Cambridge mathematicians-who view each other as professional enemies-are forced into hiding together in a freezing attic to solve an intractable spectral problem before time runs out, their intellectual rivalry transforms into a profound, life-altering love story defined by an impossible countdown.

Three months after the events of "Mythical Artifacts," there's still no sign of the server's biggest foe. The spare time has let TheFlawed fall into a deeper state of grief, and soon his friendships aren't as they used to be. But soon enough, a new adventure presents itself, and Flawed is led to realize that he needs to fix his mistakes. But some mistakes can never be fixed . . . or, can they? Written 2022-2023