Minority Stories

Augustine, better known as August by her relatives and close friends, moves away to her aunts city to have a better education and better chances at success. With her new school and people around her, the influences and trouble begin to stack up against her and try to pull her away from what she knows best as she refuses temptation. With a rival and drama circulating around her as her year within the school brings more and more chaos, she begins to doubt whether or not she should stay or go back to her home. Everyone needs a new start, Right?

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Abra is having trouble with her English partner. Esme is back and ready to start a new and better year. MacKenzie comes back to Toronto with a new look and hopes to find some friends This has not been gramatically edited or revised. This is the first draft but we just wanted to put it out for you to read. You can also messege us to join our team. Hopefull by next week we will have a theme song and credits. 😘 Karli *Disclaimer* We do not own Abra Esme Hunter Frankie Shay Yael Lola Baaz ViJay Rasha Mr. Simpson Or any degrassi character that you can google

A futuristic battle for survival! Set in the year 2510 in a time where there are two types of human beings: Mutants and Normals. Mutants are born with specific enhancements that give them an advantage in life. Some Normals fear what the rising population of Mutants might mean for society. One such group, known as Normalization, begins to take matters into their own hands. Follow the story of Adem Demir as he and his group of rebel Mutants fight back against those who seek to harm them.

Fatan Naufal is a quiet freshman, trapped in anxiety and a big secret: his struggle with his sexual orientation. In the midst of his turbulent first semester, Ryan Aryasatya, a charismatic senior with a mysterious aura, enters his life as an exchange student. Ryan's attraction is so strong, he draws Fatan into a sweet but challenging relationship. As Fatan struggles to accept his identity as a gay man amid social expectations and fear of judgment, he also learns to face Ryan's biggest secret: bipolar disorder. Together, they navigate love, self-acceptance, and vulnerability. Can Fatan find the strength to be himself, and will their love survive the storm?

Rain had a fairly easy life until college. A baby, a deadbeat baby daddy, and no college degree later, she finds herself struggling to make ends meet and maintain her sanity. Losing her job right before Christmas doesn't help. Just when she's reached her breaking point, a mysterious job opportunity overseas becomes available. Starting the new year in a foreign place will prove to be extremely difficult...is Rain up for the challenge? Submission for the open novella contest 2019!

Basketpolo, wallah bros, and weddings. In other words, clearly a work of fiction. Our story begins with the 2016 Basketpolo Championship finals. Orlando captain Elnaz Rashid has her eyes on the prize, but perhaps something else on the field catches her eye as well.

Amara Holland is ready to fly by senior year as painlessly as possible. Isaac Coleman is ready to graduate and leave a town that thinks he's someone he's not. They've been at the same school since they can remember and yet have never had a real conversation. As chance would have it, they have run-ins and Isaac's best friend Brett is crushing on Amara's best friend Emery, causing them to start spending more time together. With new friends, new feelings, and secrets, can Amara and Isaac trust each other with their pasts and meet on the other side?

ca·thar·sis noun 1. the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

A book about rebels.

Sam is working on a private yatch for the summer. Meeting the every demand of the privileged, wealthy white family on board. Yet as much as he hates to deny it, something about Dominic Bentley intrigues him immensely. This isn't a story about a bad boy and a little nerd. It's about two People who find comfort within one another. But sadly for them, they are both men.

Just like the title indicates, this is a series of works that can get very emotional and feelsy, usually written at midnight, usually written at the pinnacle of my loneliness. Mostly for people to relate to, but can educate curious minds what it's like knowing that romance is out of the question. DISCLAIMER - The art of the title does not belong to me, full credit to the original artist

phary, jayda and noelle were having a sleepover. not anything unusual for 16 year olds. but something did stick out in the middle of it. *photo for cover not mine*

It's exam time but feisty Nigerian Secondary School (High School) Senior, Maro has more things to worry about than being weak at Math when a special "thing" is stolen from her - the thing that protects her life as a supernatural being called an Abiku - a thing that she wants back so badly that she dangerously enlists the help of a reincarnated witch, a Deity and a... cobbler? "Abiku is a Yoruba word that can be translated as "predestined to death". It is from (abi) "that which possesses" and (iku) "death". Abiku refers to the spirits of children who die before reaching puberty; a child who dies before twelve years of age being called an Abiku, and the spirit, or spirits, who caused the death being also called Abiku." - Wikipedia Basis of Cover Art: Sit Haiiro(SIT)... http://www.kaifineart.com/2015/04/sit-haiirosit.html This story is also published (except for the final chapter) on my blog: https://indigofm.wordpress.com/

Days when you feel threatened and a sense of estrangement, and you run from your social order.

Peterborough, Canada in 2053 is the world's top city to be. With many tech giants and investors pumping money into the city in recent decades, people from all over Canada and the world swarm for job opportunities in this former sleepy cottage town. Unfortunately in the last few weeks this city of the future has been plagued by gruesome murders that seem to be racially based. The murders cause racial tensions in the city and its only a matter of time until the situation escalates. Will the cases be cracked in time or will chaos ensure?

"Leadership of the [UK broadcast] industry appears to remain in the hands of predominantly white, able-bodied men". Broadcast Training & Skills Regulator, Equal Opportunities Report 2008 In the United States, 'diversity' has been described as: * One of the "paramount goals of broadcast regulation in America"; * "One of the foundation principles in communications policy"; * "A broad principle to which appeal can be made on behalf of both neglected minorities and of consumer choice, or against monopoly and other restrictions".

Mason, a surfer in New Jersey, prepares to face a horrific monstrosity of a wave that claimed the life of someone he can't live without. Through his preparations, he flashes back to his story, his love, and discovers something about himself that he wasn't prepared to face.

Abdul Sahshir has won great victories and achieved many of his goals in life. Yet with the gradual encroachment of his disease, and the coming of the Heir of Kings, his work is not done. Now he must embark on mission alongside the Disciple of Baltoth, Tuor to retrieve the Heaven's Eye. Yet all is not what it seems, and many dark powers are stirring within the Islands of Power. And other plans are set into motion beneath the surface of reality... The ninth installment of Heaven and Hellfire.