Masculinity Stories

Story Description "I thought being a man meant keeping the armor spotless, clenching my jaw through the collapse, and turning my own blood into ice..." Sabali is Still Standing is an intimate 10-poem journey through heartbreak, deep self-reflection, isolation, and quiet endurance. Born out of raw late-night texts, unspoken words, and the wreckage of a lost love, this collection moves from initial breakdown to reclaiming self-worth on your own terms. A story for anyone who had to bleed through the dark in silence and chose to keep standing anyway.

A short tale about three women at a dinner table.

At twenty-five, he has little to show for his life. Unemployed and living with his mother, he spends his days smoking, watching porn, staring at himself in the mirror, and wondering why everyone else seems to know where they're going. Still living with grief of his father's passing a decade ago, the woman he loved has married someone else, and the future has a big wall he doesn't know how to climb.

Stoker, newly arrived on Nyxoria, witnesses the seamless harmony of S'erayah and her husbands as they share the burdens of love, parenting, and daily life. His growing jealousy collides with a dawning realization: polyandry is not chaos but balance, a system aligned with nature's limits. Later, in the solitude of his chambers, Uva offers a clinical comparison to Earth's history of polygamy, underscoring why one woman with many men endures where one man with many women falters. The Case for Polyandry blends intimate domesticity with cultural reflection, reframing love and duty as a structure that holds.

"It is not a story about masculinity. It is a story about the boy hidden beneath it." Not every wound is visible. Not every voice is heard. Aawaz explores the silent struggles of boys growing up beneath expectations of strength, asking one simple question: Who listens when the unheard finally speak?

a wry, hallucinatory novel about one man's misguided attempt to flee the wreckage of his life - and what he finds instead. Lodge Gratz has had enough. Orphaned, recently divorced, and quietly convinced he's dying of a slow, invisible illness he traces back to the dust of September 11th, Lodge does what any desperate, spiritually curious New Yorker might do: he buys a one-way ticket into the Amazon jungle. What follows is not a neat arc of healing, but a humid, often absurd plunge into ritual, ceremony, and the myth of reinvention. As Lodge stumbles barefoot through the unfamiliar terrain of ayahuasca retreats, silent guides, and his own crumbling psyche, he begins to confront the very thing he was trying to outrun: himself. Told in a voice that's as sharp as it is compassionate, Holidays, Travel, and Other Misconceptions explores how we project meaning onto holidays, travel, and transformation - and how those projections, shaped by personal trauma and cultural noise, often obscure the quieter truths hiding in plain sight. It's a story about grief disguised as escape, about the rituals we inherit and the ones we invent, and about what's left when the curated version of ourselves finally collapses.

A true story about unexpected confidence and an increasingly important tail.

Alis broke up with her boyfriend, Wesley, 5 years ago making her single till now. Every man that courted her got rejected as she didn't want to have a relationship with anyone after what she had done. A mistake. One mistake that she used to be afraid of. Using her boyfriend from another point of view or you could say that the mistake did hurt him. She doesn't want to repeat it. She has thoughts of wanting to have a relationship with someone special countless times yet she could not. Alis Covington Wesley Ryleigh Start: 27/7/2022 End: -

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Dreams of Stars takes place in a fictional 18th century France. It follows Clovis Beaumanoir, a newly graduate man from one of the top universities in France. It's a story about unexpected love, ideas of freedom and a conventionalist society. (NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE AT ALL)

* Dedicated to our brothers and sisters who suffer in Palu, Sigi and Donggala. * *This is going to be an epic sized novel* *Contains communism and vulgar words (the level has been set to not offend people)* Xander Foss made his bad reality to a good reality. But his good reality became a bad reality again after this bad reality made his good reality to a bad reality. Now he has to face this bad reality and heal it to a good reality. Turns out Allah is not the only way to turn this bad reality to a good reality, but he has to do the bad reality again.

A poem about what we can learn from male suicide statistics. Struggling? Visit AskLyss.com for someone to talk to.

Every young hockey player dreams of making the big leagues, but none of them will have the same journey as Dale "Mac" MacLeod, Canadian junior hockey's first openly gay player. A public hook-up and a vindictive reporter led to his outing before his final year of junior hockey, triggering a trade to the Fort Richard Voyageurs, the most storied and successful franchise in the Western Canadian Hockey League. He was once the best player on his former team, now he's one of many talented athletes jostling for victory and draft position. The Voyageurs are fragile, with consecutive post-season disappointments belying one of the most talented rosters junior hockey has ever seen. Fort Richard is perched on a skate blade's edge with every win and loss, and none of the Voyageurs are safe from their collective scrutiny. Mac needs to rebuild his reputation, defend himself against on- and off-ice hostility, survive high school, and end the year by getting drafted to the pros. Every game brings Mac closer to his destiny. Does he have what it takes?

Elizabeth Fitzwilliam Full name: Elizabeth Gabriel Fitzwilliam Date of birth: 1 June 1994 (Vällingby, Stockholm, Sweden) Zodiac sign: Gemini Favorite color: Volcano Orange/ Black Occupation: Professor, Career Advisor, Modeling Trainer, Human Resource Manager and Motivational Speaker. Social media: Instagram, YouTube, Patreon. City: Quebec Country: Canada Francis Zoldyck Full name: Francis Christopher Zoldyck Date of birth: 1 November 1987 (San Luis Obispo, California, United States) Zodiac sign: Scorpio Favorite color: Forest Green/ Light Grey Occupation: Entrepreneur, Investor, Share Holder, Ambassador and Mentor. Social media: - City: Napier Country: New Zealand Both wants to live a normal, ordinary and boring life. However, their past won't allow it. Even worse when their life collided with one another. How will they ever face it or will it be the end of them?

Welcome to the EU Shorts- a collection of character-driven vignettes set in the expanded universe of The Ninth Arm. These stories explore the quieter corners and intimate moments of a richly layered world, offering glimpses into the hearts of its most beloved (and complicated) characters. Start anywhere including "The River". Before the vineyards. Before the portal. Before the gods began to watch-there was Rien. Years after a brutal mission left them the only survivors, Stoker returns to the grave of the man who once pulled him from the edge with nothing but a river and a whisper of something neither of them were allowed to want. In a world ravaged by duty, grief, and unspoken longing, The River is a meditation on masculine tenderness, survivor's guilt, and the unbearable beauty of laughter after war. This is not a love story. But it is about love.

The Return of the King is based on stories of initiation. 'Initiation' literally means 'to go within.' In our time the need for contact with the inner world becomes increasingly evident. Without a connection between daily life and the soul, our life becomes empty. Many men seem lost in our society, in search of what it means to be a man: no macho or softie, but a man who is both in touch with his feelings, as well as being grounded in a healthy masculinity. Many men have become solitary fighters who do everything on their own. They lack contact with their fathers, their first example of masculinity. They prefer to discuss their emotional matters with women, but they lack the security and strength that stems from the contact with other men. The king, symbol for the heart, is absent. The transition from boyhood to manhood has become a forgotten stage and there are very few initiators - old wise men - who can help other men to get in touch with their own essence. This book describes the process of initiation of becoming a man; going down into the dark realms of the soul, of despair and loneliness, to come out again and be reborn into who you truly are. A man who is not controlled by his mind or his emotions, but who knows his own heart. This is the archetypal and ancient theme of 'The Return of the King.'

Tom and I were childhood best friends. And were convinced that we were funny. So convinced that, when we grew up, we drove across the country to make our mark writing comedy in Los Angeles. And against all odds, we did. Until one day, Tom told me something about himself. Something shocking, something I never expected. A secret that would change everything. Our friendship had survived the hellish halls of High School and the cut-throat studios of Hollywood. But would it survive this? A work of fiction inspired by true events, "PRONOUN PROBLEMS" is the hilarious and heartbreaking story about what happens to a guys' friendship when one of them stops being a guy. (Cover by the talented and oh-so-patient @Lucyface, aka Lucy Rhodes.)

Xu Yang thought he knew his father. A strict, muscular gym coach with a body carved from years of iron and discipline - Xu Gang was the definition of raw masculine authority. Widowed early, he raised his son alone while building a physique that made even bodybuilders jealous. But everything changes when Xu Yang accidentally opens his professor's laptop and clicks on a hidden video titled "Horny Dog Coach.mp4". The man moaning shamelessly on screen, begging to be destroyed, calling himself a "filthy slutty dog" while getting railed mercilessly... is none other than his own father. Now Xu Yang can't stop thinking about it. The powerful body he grew up admiring. The deep voice now broken with lust. The forbidden desire awakening inside him. As the lines between father and son blur, and the professor's bedroom becomes the stage for dark secrets, Xu Yang discovers just how deep his father's hidden cravings run - and how much he wants to be part of them.

A pure masculine alpha man gets the attention of the room without saying anything. His absence creates a sense of longing and a want to be with him asap.