Literary-fiction Stories

Life is like a rollercoaster. It has its ups and downs, but it's your choice whether to scream or enjoy the ride. What happens when life throws you off track completely? Do you scream... or do you hold on tighter? For Ira and Rudraksh, the journey is far from smooth. One is suffocating under the weight of failure, the other carrying the fragments of a shattered heart. Two strangers, caught in life's ugliest turns, where every step forward is a fight against invisible battles. This is not a story of being saved by each other, but of learning to live despite the wreckage, of finding the courage to stand when the ground never stops shaking. However, if their paths ever converge, will they find solace in each other... or will their differences pull them apart? ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️ This is a character-driven literary fiction set in a contemporary world, where every character breathes fully and every emotion unfolds in its own time. It is the kind of story that feels less like something you read and more like something you live beside, watching the characters grow, falter, heal, and discover themselves at their own pace. If you have a moment, and a heart willing to feel deeply and quietly, I invite you into this universe of mine. And if you wish to know more, simply explore the tags. They hold the essence of what awaits you here... with a little something extra, like a cherry on top. Copyright © 2026 Jambudweep. This content is protected under applicable international copyright laws. Unauthorized reproduction, adaptation, translation, or redistribution on any platform without the author's explicit written permission is prohibited. Original publication: Wattpad.

At fifty, life feels fleeting. Years of laughter, loss, and longing have left their mark. Through reflections on joy, heartbreak, and the road not taken, Ariadne journeys back to the moments that defined her, and the one love her heart never let go of.

Anna is the kind of girl people look straight through. At school, on the bus, at home - she exists quietly in the background, where asking for anything comes with a price she learned long ago to stop paying. Even with her best friend, Alice, she never fully steps into the world. She just survives it, carefully and without being noticed. Her life was supposed to stay bland, colourless, manageable. Nothing was supposed to change that. Then she runs into Sophie. And something shifts - not all at once, and not enough to understand, but just enough that it doesn't stop. Anna finds herself pulled toward something she can't name, something her body recognises before her mind can catch up. And the worst part is, she doesn't want it to stop. Highest ranking: #1 literaryfiction 01/03/2026 - Ongoing.

[ COMPLETED ] She wasn't easy to recognise at first, yet she had always been there. Time blurred her face, but her presence lingered - living quietly in places long forgotten. It's strange how the younger version of ourselves can fade, yet remain. Now she stands clear - her voice, her wounds, her loneliness - all still present, all still true. If only someone could go back and rewrite her story, whispering, "It's going to be okay." This is no ordinary book. It's a letter to the younger self we all once knew, and the silent truth behind the pain in her eyes.

In the silk-producing valleys of the Kingdom of Naples, Renza, the daughter of a respected silk merchant, has been raised within the careful order of family and tradition. Lucien arrives as a restless outsider, marked by a past he cannot escape. Around them move others bound by secrecy and survival, including a spy for the Inquisition trained to live between two worlds. As tensions deepen and suspicion spreads through Silk County, their lives draw toward a tragic event history has nearly erased. Echoing the ancient myth of Galatea and Acis in a 16th century setting, Silk County explores how love endures in fragile and often dangerous spaces, where even the most delicate threads can bind souls across time. #ONC2026 contest. Story is complete. Content Note: This story contains references to non-graphic sexual situations. It also draws on historical accounts of the Inquisition, including themes of religious persecution and some chapters contain acts of violence. While these elements, as well as 16th century attitudes toward women, are handled with care, they reflect the realities of the period and may be difficult for some readers. They do not reflect this author's viewpoint.

Some silences don't break. They grow. At a crowded railway station, where people come and go without looking back, a young officer meets an old man who does nothing but sit and wait. Day after day, in the same place, with the same stillness. At first, it feels like curiosity. Then concern. And slowly... something far more unsettling. Because the stories the old man begins to tell are not just about loss- they are about everything that was never said. A daughter who waited to be heard. A wife who stayed... even in silence. A life that slowly slipped away, not in one moment-but in many small ones. And as the days pass, the line between the old man's past and the young man's present begins to blur. Until one question remains-

On the edge of a quiet town, where the road curves and the night settles in, an old man sits on a porch and tells stories. He doesn't tell them to crowds. He doesn't tell them for answers. He tells them to the night-and to anyone who happens to wander by. Each story carries something different: something lost, something carried too long, something mistaken for truth, something that refuses to leave. They are not stories meant to fix you. They are stories that sit beside you... until you're ready to hear them. Welcome to the porch. The night is already listening.

This story follows a 16 year old girl, Rena Nelson. While she's struggling with her home life, she's facing major problems that have to do with a certain boy from her past named Cutter Welsh. A 16 year old boy dealing with addiction and other personal issues. Not only that a certain girl at school who he's vulnerable to. Will their troubles bring them together? Or will they push each other further away?

What comes after the main event? Neither a collapse nor a rebrand. A quiet choosing. Of a life that is yours. After years under the spotlight, Kim Seokjin leaves Seoul for London to start over quietly-far from the stage, the cameras, and the life that once defined him. In a new city, he builds a different kind of routine: working at a small Korean restaurant, getting lost in unfamiliar streets, and learning how to belong to himself again. But the past doesn't stay still. Old friendships, shared history, and the people who still know him best continue to find their way back. Background is a soft, emotional post-fame fiction about healing, distance, home, and the love that remains when everything else changes. (An ongoing novel.)

Bounty hunters surveil a bold fugitive disguised as a guard escorting slaves to market. Episode 1 - The Last Coffle Reading time: 14 minutes

Dalawang pusong natutong umiwas. Isang pag-ibig na hindi handang pangalanan. Sa mata ng lipunan, hanggang saan mo kayang panindigan ang sarili?

Five years. Five failures. One broken promise. When Hari leaves Samastipur for the jagged skyline of Mumbai, he thinks he has already lost everything. He is wrong. To survive the "city of illusions," he must lose his ego, his past, and his privacy. In the dark belly of a warehouse, amidst the smoke and the steel, he encounters the people the world forgot and the one man who leaves footprints on his heart that change the path of his life forever. A tale of sacrifice, struggle, and the search for a foothold in a world that never stops moving. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -•-•-•-•-•-•-•-• -•-•-•-• Written for ONC 2026 Prompt No. 29 :-- You'll meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some leave footprints on your heart.

'He had spent his life chasing a reflection, never noticing the life waiting for him behind his own back.' A mirror. A lighthouse. A curse whispered across generations. Silas Hale dreams of a lighthouse that calls him, and a mirror that whispers his name. Every time he follows it, misfortune follows too. The wind never quiets. The mist never lifts. And the sea ... waits for him to return. Prompt-34. "You have to sail the seven seas to find the lost treasure, but treasure means different things to different people, what treasures will you find at worlds' edge ."

The Last Bell is a diary-style collection of personal notes written from the perspective of a 23-year-old reflecting on childhood, school, friendship, and the quiet deaths that come with growing up. Set through memories of Russian school life, it moves between nostalgia and philosophy, exploring how people, places, and even versions of ourselves disappear long before we realize they're gone.

NEW EPISODES TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Launching the first day of spring - March 20 When Korea's most trusted "everything app" weaponizes her private medical data, artist Maya Kim is thrust into a system designed to predict-and control-her life. To fight back, she must expose a chilling network of government-backed surveillance before it strips her of her autonomy, her art, and her right to choose. The Algorithm of Spring is a near-future techno-thriller set in Seoul, blending high-stakes conspiracy with the emotional intensity of a K-drama.

"Two shadows stood on a quiet street-one lonely and in despair, the other intimidating and proud. In the silence of the valley, a story of pain, judgment, and the uncertainty of life begins."

In every structure, there is a point of failure. I just didn't realize I was the only thing delaying it. Being an engineer means understanding loads, tension, and balance. For a decade, I applied that logic to my marriage, quietly shoring up the foundations while my wife stood in the center of a home I was killing myself to maintain. Then came the day I stopped. I set a test I thought we would pass: a simple request for her to fight for us. But the divorce moved with a speed that stunned me, leaving me to sift through the blueprints of our past to find where it all went wrong. From the quiet questions of my children to the clarifying pain of the aftermath, this is a story about the weight we carry-and the freedom found in finally letting the sky fall. A fictional short story based on real-life events. New chapters published every Monday and Friday evening. If this story resonates with you, please consider adding it to your Library and leaving a Vote (Star). It helps other 'Engineers' find their way to this story.

This is the tale of how Telikos, once a bustling, beautiful city, was turned into but a small, unnaturally-shaped town whose residents, if they had not already died, were those condemned to the galleys.

Tujhse juda gar ho jaayenge Toh khud se hi ho jaayenge judaa...

In 1991, twenty-nine-year old Corrie Frederick wants to get out of the shadow of her mother Sophia, who is a world-renowned pianist. What better way than to prove that with the Nicholas Leblanc Emerging Pianists Competition? It is being hosted by the conservatory that she used to go attend years prior but she lost a scholarship to someone else. Someone she felt didn't really deserve it. With the support of her best friend, she decides to play one of the famous Louisiana composer Nicholas Leblanc's most difficult pieces. And that's where the nightmare begins. In 1891, a young woman by the name of Marie Fontenot wants nothing more than to compose her own music but her cruel and strict mother will not allow it. She feels trapped and alone, only finding solace in her secret music writing. But there is one person that she holds onto and loves. Her best friend, James Moreau. She has been in love with him for ages and now that he is recently widowed, she believes that she has a chance with him and the party at Euturpe Leblanc's home in Fontaine is going to be the day that she confesses to him. But when James rejects Marie, she is inconsolable. The man she despises most in the world, Nicholas Leblanc finds her outside but due to them being found alone without her companion, she must marry Leblanc for the sake of propriety. And she must give up music forever.