Literary-fiction Histoires

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. Prompts: #16 - Into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. And a slightly modified version of #104 - while wandering through the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than the wind through the trees until you turn around realize it isn't wind at all. 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.

Summerhall has always known where to find Prince Daeron. Find her. She remembers his dreams before he does. She knows which silences mean he will drink and which mean he will disappear. For years, the castle has mistaken devotion for duty and habit for love. So have they. Then the king announces her betrothal to Prince Aerion.

Une nuit, Diana Berkoff est réveillée par des bruits de guerre dans sa bibliothèque vide. Elle y trouve un livre qui ne raconte pas des histoires : il s'en souvient. Et il se souvient d'elle.

One night, Diana Berkoff is woken by sounds of war in her empty library. She finds a book that doesn't just tell stories - it remembers them. And it remembers her.

Barry believes he ruins the lives of everyone who loves him. Stella believes no one is beyond saving. When tragedy forces their beliefs to collide, only one of them can be right-but discovering the truth may cost them everything.

When Raghav Das receives an unexpected message from a woman he barely remembers from school, he assumes it is another coincidence life likes to arrange. It isn't. Ananya Mishra has carried one quiet certainty for twelve years: that some people change your life simply by being exactly themselves, even if they never know they did. Across government postings, lonely bungalows, spare rooms, unfinished stories, and the ordinary work of building a marriage, two people learn that love is not found in grand declarations, but in the rare courage of seeing another person without trying to change them. A quiet literary novel about memory, attention, ambition, and the lives we slowly write into one another.

They survived the crash. That was supposed to be the hard part. Adam and Anwar fled violence and poverty for a shot at a new life in America - and got it, until their plane fell out of the sky. Pulled from the wreckage by a billionaire with a private agenda, they're offered everything: money, a home, a future. All they have to do is not ask too many questions. But questions keep finding them. A grieving woman who swears Adam is her dead son. A cold, watchful family that treats them like pieces on a board. Two words overheard in a hospital hallway - the first model - that neither of them can shake. Some doors only open one way.

Every day, he sees the same girl. Every day, he tells himself he'll talk to her tomorrow. And one Sunday... he finally does. But some stories don't begin where they seem to. And some endings aren't endings at all. As reality and fiction slowly intertwine, A Week of Love unfolds into a deeply emotional mystery where every page makes you question what was real, what was imagined, and why some names stay with us forever. A novel about love, loss, and the memories we choose to carry.

Some friendships begin with a promise. Others begin with a question. Long before Troy remembered the name of Patroclus, before Achilles, before war and glory, there was a quiet hill overlooking the sea, two weathered stones, and a boy who believed the horizon was never the end of the world. When Patroclus meets Clysonymus, an ordinary afternoon becomes the beginning of a bond that will shape the person he is destined to become. Together they chase distant shores, impossible dreams, and the wonder of a world that always seems larger than yesterday. Yet beneath the innocence of childhood, unseen threads are already weaving a fate neither of them can escape. A reimagining of Greek myth that begins not with heroes on the battlefield, but with two boys learning how to look beyond the horizon.

My mother loves me. She wakes at dawn to simmer silver ear mushroom soup. She knows every teacher's number by heart. She gave up her own dreams so I could play the piano. Everything she does, she does out of love. So when my right hand goes limp and dead, everyone says it's my fault. The doctors can't explain it. The teachers say I'm stressed. My classmates mimic me behind my back, like I'm putting on a show. And my mother just stares at me in silence, like I'm a doll she can't fix. But no one ever asked me - Do I even want this hand anymore? This is a story about love, control, and silence. About a girl who learns to say "no" to the world, with a hand that refuses to obey.

Some dreams don't end when you wake up. . . . ⭒Keonho × OC ⭒Literary Fiction - YA ⭒The characters portrayed in this work are purely fictional interpretations. They are not based on, nor do they represent them in real life. This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment purposes only.

The question for Avi was not whether she could give up her ambitions for Orion, but rather how far could Orion go for someone he knows he can never truly have. Avi, in Orion's little conclusion of her, was always going to belong to herself. That's what made her so bewitching, that's what made her so fragile to hold, and that's what makes Orion hold his breath whenever he's around her that all he could do was admire from a safe distance. Yes he was selfless, most especially to her. Orion wanted nothing more but to linger in the premises that she would allow him to, and he would not demand more, he swore. He swore, he swore. But the measure of his selflessness is not about his obedience to her boundaries, but rather in his acquiescence to let her go. A tale about connection, bargaining, and eventual surrender. Is love worth pursuing in the presence of uncertainty and passionate promises made in the heat of the moment? And most importantly, does it matter how it ends when all you've really lived through was the in-between moments?

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.

Some questions refuse to let go. When twenty-one-year-old Hannah Morgan leaves her small hometown to study neuroscience, she carries little more than a suitcase, a notebook filled with questions, and the unwavering support of the grandmother who raised her. She believes she's beginning an ordinary college education. She has no idea she's taking the first steps toward one of the greatest scientific challenges in human history. As Hannah watches the person she loves most begin to lose the memories that define a lifetime, a single impossible question begins to consume her: What if memory didn't have to disappear? Dismissed by colleagues, tested by failure, and forced to sacrifice more than she ever imagined, Hannah devotes decades to a vision that others call impossible. What begins as grief becomes an obsession, and eventually a revolution that will challenge everything humanity believes about memory, identity, and what it truly means to leave a legacy. The Architect's Journey is a sweeping founder story about love, perseverance, innovation, and the extraordinary cost of refusing to give up on an impossible dream.

For the average, middle school dropout, Tal Salve, her brother is this sort of enigmatic figure she has had her whole life: a genius writer, quiet, kind, aloof, her object of admiration... and jealousy. After dropping out of school, Tal found herself jumping from job to job and unemployment, never really having a dream of her own. Now unemployed again, she distracted herself with chores she hated, just as much as having to work in a job she never really had an interest in. Until she discovers something that made her remember a little light from her past, under her bed: a simple dream. *** Copyright © 2026 by alt_ctrl All rights reserved.

A spinoff from my first ever book in Wattpad BEAUTY which centers around beauty and how people especially women should love themselves better other than looking at others and putting on that reflection as themselves.A story about perfection and self acceptance. This story shows how dangerous it is wanting to look perfect in front of one's subjects. It explores love, family and friendship as the world around them changes and evolves an era where beauty reigns supreme, a young lady must learn how to conform to society while staying her ground as a Countess to her people and as an ordinary human being.

Book 2 in "Daughters of Eve" trilogy Before she became the girl who ran away, she was the girl who stayed. Adeline grew up in the second pew from the front as the preacher's daughter. She knew the rules of her home, the kind of love she was taught never to question, and the version of herself that had been decided for her before she was old enough to have a say. Then there was Darryl. Patient, steady, certain. He wanted to leave this town and he wanted to take her with him. And Adeline wanted to go. But wanting and doing are different things. This book lives in the space between leaving and staying. Where you can see the door and cannot make your feet move toward it. Where you love someone enough to want to follow them and are too afraid of yourself to try. Where you stand at the edge of something for so long that by the time you're ready, it's already gone. Because loving Darryl had been easy. Choosing herself had not. Small town roots. Inherited faith. First love that wasn't enough to save her. This is everything that happened before she left her home.

An arranged marriage. Two strangers. One home. It should have been simple. It wasn't. Not because of betrayal. Not because of tragedy. But because some truths take years to recognize.

For sixteen years, everyone knew her as the perfect daughter. She earned the highest grades, obeyed every rule, and carried herself with effortless grace. She was everything her mother wanted her to be-until one devastating truth shattered the life she thought she knew. Her mother's carefully buried past wasn't just a secret. It was the foundation of the perfect life she had been forced to live. Humiliated and unable to breathe beneath the weight of expectations, she runs away to her mother's quiet hometown, where no one knows her name, her reputation, or the impossible standards she has spent her entire life trying to meet. There, among strangers who become family, she discovers the freedom to make mistakes, chase adventures, and ask herself a question she has never dared to answer: *Who am I when no one is telling me who to be?* Then she meets a boy who sees the person she's becoming-not the perfect girl she pretended to be. But just as she begins to embrace the life she chose for herself, fate pulls them in different directions. Years later, with memories that refuse to fade and a love that never truly left, she returns to the place where everything began. Because some people leave your life. And some become the reason you find your way back. **Forever is a Long Time to Miss You** is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel about family secrets, forgiveness, first love, and the quiet courage it takes to become the person you were always meant to be.

He sat in the corner and watched everyone. She smiled at everyone and let no one in. When two people who've learned to protect themselves from exactly each other finally start talking - the question isn't whether they'll fall. It's whether the wounds they're carrying will let them. A dual-narrative philosophical romance told in two voices, two silences, and one sentence that almost ended everything. Some wounds aren't yours to begin with. You just inherited them.