Literary Stories

Ziri Meziani does not want friends. Born to an unremarkable town in southern England, Ziri spends most of his time in his head. His parents and his therapist tell him that he "shouldn't spend so much time alone", but to Ziri, other people are an inconvenience at best and a threat at worst. Unfortunately, Miles Hoàng is committed to getting on his nerves. GENRE: coming of age, teen bxb romance TROPES: the boy next door, reluctant lovers, tutoring COMP TITLES: The Perks of Being A Wallflower, The Black Flamingo featured in Wattpad: BxB Pride Spotlight featured in Wattpad: Written With Pride 2023 AMBY AWARDS WINNER in teen fiction featured in Ambassadors: Rainbow Fiction featured in Teen Fiction: LGBTQIAP+ Teens featured in lgbtq: BoyxBoy (YA) featured in FreeTheLGBT: Diverse Literature featured in StoriesUndiscovered: Tales Of The Heart featured in YaRomance: Unforgettable Firsts

If you were given the chance to become a bystander in your favorite Harbinger's life, how would you react? Even if it meant becoming his test subject first...

Some places never really leave you. A campus tucked away behind old trees. A hostel room that slowly became home. Friendships that once felt permanent. Conversations that lasted until sunrise. And one person who arrived quietly... only to leave behind a silence that echoed for years. Evelyn never expected college to change her life. She certainly never expected it to break her before teaching her how to put herself back together. This isn't the story of a girl who found love. It's the story of a girl who lost herself, searched for pieces in all the wrong places, and discovered that growing up means learning to become your own home. Years later, when life unexpectedly brings the past back to her doorstep, she's faced with one question she'd stopped asking long ago: Can timing rewrite a story that was never truly finished?

He asked the doctor to call his daughter. The doctor said they would do it in the morning. Morning never came. After fifteen years in a failing public hospital, Dr. Pavel Somov has learned how to treat patients without seeing the people inside them. Then Semyon appears-an elderly orderly with no badge, no personnel file, and an unsettling habit of knowing things he could not possibly know. As Pavel moves through another series of night shifts, every patient brings him closer to the grief he has spent years avoiding. And one question becomes impossible to ignore: who is Semyon-and why does he seem to know the one death Pavel cannot forgive himself for? Darkly funny and quietly devastating, *God Wasn't on the Roster* is a novel about burnout, loss, the words we leave unsaid, and the difference between saving a life and refusing to let someone die alone.

Cade was forced to watch his older sisters witch trail whom he believes cursed his entire village to death. He is has to start elsewhere in a new town with new social expectations for what it means for a boy to become a man. The social expectations being: find a fiancé, career or buy a property. He feels the pressure to become man as he senses his sister haunting him and pressuring him to be a strong and good man. Along the way Cade meets Mariaya who is charismatic and also meets a honest bartender not afraid to challenge him.

A deadly heat wave coupled with a power outage in a rural Appalachian town leads to a series of tragic deaths; an HVAC repairman must get to the safety of his home with an old woman whom he has kidnapped. Also, there's a deadly wildfire. Also, God has forsaken him.

The Last Harvest Some love stories are written in letters. Others are written in a lifetime of sacrifices. After graduating with a degree in Accountancy, Neir Nevaeh M. Pisiac returns to her grandparents' quiet provincial home, hoping to spend a year away from the rush of city life. But the season she comes home is harvest season-a time when golden rice fields promise both hope and livelihood to the farming community. While her grandmother manages the endless work of the harvest, Neir Nevaeh M. Pisiac devotes herself to caring for her bedridden grandfather, Feodor. Day after day, she feeds him, changes his clothes, listens to his stories, and stays beside him through long, silent nights. Though an accident has stolen much of his memory, Feodor remembers one thing with remarkable clarity: the life he lived before old age claimed his body. He remembers a childhood shaped by poverty in the rice fields of Bohol. He remembers the father who healed with faith instead of medicine. He remembers the stubborn boy who refused to let hardship bury his dreams. He remembers leaving home in search of an education, working tirelessly to build a better future, and meeting the woman who would become the love of his life-Miracle. As forgotten memories slowly return through heartfelt conversations, Neir discovers that every wrinkle on her grandfather's face hides a story worth preserving, every harvest carries the weight of countless sacrifices, and every lifetime leaves behind seeds for the next generation. The Last Harvest is a moving novel about family, resilience, enduring love, and the quiet heroes whose greatest achievements are not written in history books but live on in the hearts of those they leave behind.

He never dreamed of becoming a writer. He simply loved to write. What began as a childhood escape slowly became the only way he knew how to make sense of life. But dreams don't always survive reality. As the years pass, love, loss, grief, and the weight of growing up begin to rewrite the story he thought he was living. Now, with nothing left but empty pages and fading memories, he must decide whether some stories are worth finishing... or whether this one was always meant to remain unfinished.

There are people whose job is to read the fine print. Salvatore DeLuca's job is to make sure everyone understands it. Recruited into a discreet profession that sits behind legal disclaimers, commercial contracts, and international diplomacy, he discovers that clarity is surprisingly controversial. Especially among people who have built successful careers without it.

"This is a slow-burning supernatural horror novel about five orphan brothers who grow up together beside a haunted lake in a small Indian town. As children, they are given names and a mysterious brass locket containing a photograph of five unknown children. Years later, they return to the abandoned house at the edge of the lake - and what unfolds over a single terrifying night forces each of them to confront their deepest fears, their loyalty to one another, and a very old evil that has been waiting for them their entire lives. It is not a gore-heavy horror story. The dread is psychological, the characters are deeply human, and the ending reveals that everything they experienced was part of a cycle that has been repeating for centuries."

Eraser crumbs swept onto her desk. Her name turned into the class punchline. Rumors that reach a room before she does. Teachers who see all of it and mark her present. For nineteen months, that is Fuuko's whole school life, and she survives it by counting. Fifty-six ceiling tiles. Ninety-one steps. A three-hundred-yen notebook that holds her weeks. Coco Sakurai is the girl behind it, and the girl the whole class watches. Every laugh is placed. Every kindness has an audience. Under all of it runs one engine: fear. Nobody steps in. Nothing changes. Then six days do. ··· Prologue + 16 chapters, updating Mon, Wed, Fri. The final seven chapters post daily, one each day, ending Sunday night. This one carries real weight. A note before you begin, and resources at the end, are part of the book. Sixteen and up.

One morning, a phone call at five a.m. turns a man into a resource. An engineer, a philology student, an old Afghan veteran, a history teacher - all of them are overtaken by the same knock at the door. The State Machine sets its conveyor belt in motion: a draft notice, a medical commission, a training camp, a freight wagon, a trench, a stray shell fragment, a death notice. At every stage people become figures, and figures become accounts. Suddenly Mortal is a novella about the mechanics of dehumanization. About logistics in which bandages run out faster than soldiers. About heroism that turns out to be nothing more than a bookkeeping entry. And about a book that remains when the people have burned. Written in a grotesque, tragicomic manner, with epigraphs from Nietzsche to Brodsky and an intonation that echoes Bulgakov's satire, the novella asks a single question: what do you do when the Machine switches into sleep mode until the next cycle - while the dead ring out louder than any hymns?

Han Jue came to Tianzhu Sect with a forgettable name, a spiritual root assessment that clears scrutiny because he designed it to, and three sects' worth of fabricated lineage. Four months of careful performance. Mediocre. Wandering. Dull enough to discourage notice. The plan was working. Then he sat across a desk from a senior disciple who closes books with both hands and watches faces instead of pages, and the man read him a poem about a tree out of season, and looked up, and did not look away. Mosheng Peak is not what he thought he was infiltrating. The thirteen-year-old in the upper courtyard has a laugh that hurts to hear. The senior with the jade cord under his collar has lost someone he never speaks about. The orthodox cultivation world Han Jue came to dismantle has people in it. He had not planned for that. A literary danmei xianxia about hidden identity, slow-burn devotion, and the cost of finding people worth saving when you came to burn the place down.

Volume I - The First Rain On a rainy evening in Kyoto, freelance photographer Ren Aoyama steps into a quiet café called Tsuki no Akari to escape the weather. There, he meets Akiko Tsukishiro, the café's gentle owner whose warm smile hides an old grief and a life carefully kept behind closed doors. What begins as coffee, photographs, and quiet conversations slowly turns into something stranger when Ren notices that the café is being watched - and that Akiko's past has not forgotten her. A slow-burn supernatural romance and healing café mystery about rain, memory, grief, and the quiet warmth people leave behind.

The House of Memory For nearly a thousand years, Gabriel has guarded the world's forgotten stories. Hidden beneath an old wine estate on South Africa's Garden Route lies the House of Memory-a living archive where lost letters, forgotten songs, vanished languages, and the ordinary lives history chose to overlook are quietly preserved. Its Keeper has watched kingdoms rise and fall, loved and buried generations, and learned that the greatest burden of a long life is remembering. Then a young chef named Matteo De Luca arrives. Curious, stubborn, endlessly kind, Matteo has an unsettling habit of making strangers feel at home. Gabriel tells himself he is simply another guest passing through the estate... until an old handwritten recipe book awakens a memory Gabriel believed time itself had buried. As ancient friendships begin to fracture and secrets hidden for centuries threaten to surface, Gabriel must choose between protecting the life he has carefully built and risking his heart one final time. Some memories refuse to stay buried. Some doors are never closed. They are simply waiting.

A young man, recovering from recent events, moves to a cabin in the mountains near a small town. He hopes to discover things about himself, grow as a person, and break free of the past, all through isolation. His attempts are complicated by his own flaws, human nature, and the people he encounters. His life unfolds.

In Abuja, nothing is as simple as it looks. When Chioma moves into a new school system shaped by silent hierarchies, she quickly realizes that belonging is not given,it is assigned. Old students rule the invisible structure of acceptance. New students learn to survive it. Roomed with Esther, a seemingly perfect "good Christian girl," Chioma begins to notice cracks beneath carefully constructed identities. Esther is admired, disciplined, and respected,but something about her life feels controlled rather than free. At the same time, Chioma reconnects with Daniel, a charismatic outsider she meets at a social event. What begins as casual friendship slowly reveals a deeper struggle beneath his laughter one that hides dependency, pressure, and escape. As Chioma observes her world, she also meets others orbiting the same system: Zainab, who lives through image and validation Kemi, who confuses emotional dependency for love Tobi, a child slowly absorbing a world he does not yet understand What appears as normal teenage life is, in reality, a silent system of pressure where identity is performed, emotions are hidden, and survival depends on adaptation. But Chioma is different. She does not just live in the system. She sees it. And the more she observes, the clearer one truth becomes: No one is truly outside the board. Everyone is just playing a different square.

Before books were written. Before history was carved in stone. Before humanity built cities, crossed oceans, or reached for the stars, people gathered around a fire and listened. In a world still young, an ancient storyteller shares lessons carried by the earth itself-through fire, rivers, wind, and the lives of those who came before. As generations pass and civilizations rise and fall, the tradition of storytelling continues, guiding humanity through its greatest questions about courage, patience, loss, hope, and belonging. Blending myth, history, nature, and reflection, A Journey Through Time: The Storyteller's Fire invites readers into a circle that has existed since the beginning of human memory. Step closer to the fire. Listen to the stories. Rediscover the wisdom that has been waiting for you all along.

Once Upon a Human Heart "We are all just stories, written in stardust." They say every life begins with a heartbeat and ends with a memory. If, in the end, we all dissolve into stardust-our names forgotten, our voices silenced, our stories scattered across the universe-then why do we spend a lifetime searching for meaning? Why do we love, grieve, hope, forgive, and dream as though any of it could outlive us? Perhaps the answer has always lived inside the human heart. This is not one story, but many. A collection of poems that wanders through the quiet landscapes of being human-through the Beginning, the Withering, the Becoming, and the Blooming. It lingers in first loves and final goodbyes, in loneliness and belonging, in the questions we are too afraid to ask and the answers that only time can whisper. Not every poem offers certainty. Some exist simply to sit beside you in the silence. Because maybe life was never about finding a reason for every joy, every wound, or every goodbye. Maybe it was about feeling them. And perhaps, when the last page is turned and our stories finally return to the stars, we'll discover that the greatest answer was never hidden in the universe- it was beating inside us all along.

Grief once carried Iris Vollenberg away from Lindenheim. Her chronic illness brings her back. Halric Stein spends his months attempting to atone for a mistake he cannot undo. · · ─ ·✶· ─ · · Her whole life, Iris Vollenberg carried one belief her late mother gave her: she was more capable than her illness wanted her to be. Determined to prove it, Iris became a diplomat of New Astra despite her father's relentless worry and her brother's insistence that she settle down and become a housewife of his close friend instead. But when declining health forces her to return to her hometown - Lindenheim, she finds herself entangled with Halric Stein, the mysterious Herbkeeper whose benevolence is rivaled by his guilt. Halric has spent months carrying the consequences of a mistake which harmed Lindenheim more than it benefited it. He knows better. Every apology feels inadequate. Every attempt to help seems to deepen old wounds. When Iris begins involving herself in his affairs, Halric does everything he can to keep his distance. Unfortunately for him, Iris Vollenberg has never known when to walk away. · · ─ ·✶· ─ · · UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY + SATURDAY • Cozy fantasy setting • Slowburn romance • Character-driven story