Non-linear Stories

Snippets of an invisible life, as told by Tethys. Kind of. Decided to rewrite the Chrysalis arc a little. Same story, just my take on it. Just a heads up, the story intentionally is very messy. POVs and times can jump quite a bit. Updates when I feel like it.

"You're very confident this afternoon. What makes you so sure I'm interested?" George shrugged. "I'm not." "Very persuasive." "I'm sure about me." | | | | | Twenty years of friendship. The evidence suggested otherwise. In 2012, Chelsea Penrose works for Percy Weasley, spends far too much time at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, and has appeared in Weasley family photographs for years. George knows how she takes her tea and when she's about to insist on handling something herself. Chelsea knows when he's bluffing and when there's something under the joke he'd rather not say. Fred knows both of them well enough that very little gets past him. They grew up. They dated other people. Fred and George built a joke shop. There was a war. Fred nearly died and, very stubbornly, didn't. Somewhere along the way, George and Chelsea became so tangled in one another's lives that nobody thought much about it. Fred noticed everything. Eventually, "friendship" stopped explaining whatever they had become. Told nonlinearly between their adult lives and the years that made them, Here and Waiting is about growing up together, wanting more, and finding the nerve to ask for it. COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT • New chapters every Tuesday & Friday George Weasley/OC • friends to lovers • found family • slow burn • post-war • nonlinear

After witnessing their classmates get mauled during a school service trip across the country, eight teenagers barricade themselves in a clothing store and survive as the world around them falls apart. But when their refuge is destroyed, they're left with nothing but each other and a desperate plan: walk all the way back to Halmont and hope there's still a home waiting for them.

in a decaying city where reality rewrites itself and memory cannot be trusted, hal awakens again and again, searching for meaning in a world designed to obscure it. godd watches all-an omnipresent system where technology and spirituality have become indistinguishable. as the sky pulses and time fractures, hal and others like them-half-saviors, half-simulations-begin to slip the recursion. but breaking free has a cost, and not everyone wants to remember who they were before the world collapsed. a psychologically intense descent into self, identity, and the disintegration of meaning, the children of the black veil is a nightmare you wake up inside.

Those are the sounds of men getting down. Large in number, maybe five or six. There are sounds of pistols clicking. How do I know this, 'cos I have a gun with me here myself. My friend beside me is holding a piece of antique pistol his great granddad was gifted for serving in WW1 - that aside, these people want the studio. Yeah, the brownie studio. Technically, they don't want to own the studio or something. They just need the recipe. The recipe to make perfect brownies.

[[ONC 2026 Honorable Mention]] 25-year old Lee still hasn't figured out why they could not form any long-lasting relationships, even friendships for that matter. Aside from family members, which they are obligated to talk to, there is no one else Lee had even come close to calling a friend. Well, maybe except for one. -------- Submitted for ONC 2026 @OpenNovellaContest Using the following prompts : 29. You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints in your heart. 104. While wandering in the woods, you dismiss the rustling behind you as nothing more than wind through the trees until you turn around and realize it isn't the wind at all. 106. After waking at 3AM to a freezing room and a door you're certain you closed, you find wet footprints and melting snow leading from your bedroom into the hall. Realizing someone or something is inside your home, you follow the trail to uncover the truth. ------------- © 2026 J. Lee Kennedy. All rights reserved. Cover design © 2026 J. Lee Kennedy. Images used in this work belong to their respective copyright holders and are used under license or in accordance with applicable Creative Commons terms. Edited or altered images are copyrighted by the author in their final form.

Samantha Reece is your average, everyday, very normal twelve-year-old girl. She's a starry-eyed, hopelessly romantic geek who desperately wants to fall in love at the camp she's heading to in just a few hours. Where she's from, she's known as the trumpet-playing, comic-book-reading, ancient-Egypt-loving nerd who is just one of the guys. So she yearns to be like the heroines in the stories and books that she reads-to be swept off her feet by some handsome stranger in a whirlwind romance. She wants the kind of passionate, sweet, caring bond that she sees between Rogue & Gambit in her X-Men comics. But then something strange happens. She goes to sleep on May 16th at a camp in Maine, but wakes up in her 17-year-old body. Sam lives an entire day in this future version of herself, then wakes right back up in her small pre-teen body. Was it real, or an incredibly vivid dream? Just in case, she records a tape recounting everything that happened that day. The thing is, it was real. Every few years, Sam wakes up in the body of her future self. As she gets older, she becomes mature enough to plan for these jumps-and the questions become harder to ignore. Why is it happening? Where is she going next? What happens if she changes something her future self already lived? When does it end? And most importantly, what happens when it does? Mixtapes to Myself is a story about finding yourself, appreciating where you come from, and enjoying every step of the journey that gets you to who you will be. It's about finding and losing love, the friendships that come and go, and the ride-or-die friendships you're lucky enough to find. It's about the things you tuck away, the pieces of yourself you may forget, and the people you lose along the way. It's a vivid tale of a girl who becomes a teenager, who becomes a woman, and how much we can change in just a few short years-and just how completely our lives can change along the way. This...is Mixtapes to Myself.

A dying town launches a rebranding campaign that no one seems to be running. The billboards appear overnight. The slogans don't explain themselves. A diner waitress says nobody puts them up, and nobody takes them down. A couple arrives expecting ironic tourism and finds something closer to a live experiment. Beauchêne doesn't ask visitors to believe anything. It only asks them to stay. To notice. To participate. What begins as small-town decay becomes a slow, sideways unraveling... murals that feel instructional, civic programs that behave like dares, and a town that seems increasingly aware of the people passing through it. A surreal, slow-burn satire about American decline, anti-branding, and the strange comfort of entropy. Meaning doesn't collapse here. It rebrands. Entropy is a vibe. Decline tastes like caramel. Welcome to Beauchêne. You're here now.

Tay Tawan was not expecting to end up right back at work when he died. He was a happy-go-lucky kind of guy; he had no real troubles or regrets that he considered important enough to stop him from walking straight past 'Go' and collecting an eternal afterlife of sunflowers and good seafood. Sure, it happened a little earlier than he would have liked, but where was the use in getting hung up on that? So what was it? What sent him shuffling back into that dingy space with its desks and papers and coworkers and friends and New Thitipoom? This was going to be one hell of a useless, boring, ordinary haunting. ~~~~ *Please note: this story has been published in non-linear order. Chapters are numbered in correct order. You can read however you prefer!* *Check the tags before reading.* *This is a work of fanfiction. All names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales and incidents are used in a fictitious manner. The views and opinions expressed by the characters in this work do not reflect the views and opinions of the actual persons.* *Image in cover art credit to Dark Blue Kiss production team.*

breakfast with chenle and jisung through the years; a oneshot

Inanimate Insanity, It's Time For The, and Animatic Battle crossover, to form the worst possible parody I could have ever made. This is all satire. Hopefully I remember to actually finish this though. There's currently 4 comics of this made, so.. hopefully 4 chapters? In the future.

Twelve months has changed the both of them. Sebastian is not sure yet if it's for the better. (Or, in which Sebastian Sallow and Aurora Gaudreau enter their seventh year as total strangers after burying alive something that never died in their past relationship.)

The important parts of the always mysterious, heavily alluring, Rosa Waters' life can be separated into three parts: Before The Fire, After The Fire and Now. Before the Fire held the best years of her life. After the Fire was followed by the worst years of her life. Now? No one can tell. All she knows is that Red Star are back and they will not hold back this time. And neither will she.

Graduating a year early at twenty-one-years-old, Kenan expected to be farther in his journalism career by now. Instead, a year later, he's stuck being the designated coffee runner at the office. The only good part of this position is the barista that makes the orders: Jade. He's still not used to her, no matter how often they see each other-and never will he ask to change their acquaintance status into something more. But that all changes when the future of Kenan's job rests on this upcoming strict deadline for a story that could go nation wide. With the help of Jade and her suspicious journal, the two discover more than they could ever imagine while also having to manage their growing romance. "The Diary Of A Serial Killer" is a mix of genres: Thriller, Romance and LGBTQ (specifically wlw).

Welcome to The Fort - where folk horrors and eldritch terrors meet! The Fort is a town like a thousand other small and stubborn settlements, put where it doesn't belong in a land most unforgiving. There amongst the other townsfolk, live the LaPonte family. Mildred, and Mark - along with their 2 wonderful children. They live in a quaint house; modest and rundown, but very much a home filled with love. But all in not well in The Fort.... Dark forces look in on the LaPonte Family, through the windows, standing at the edge of their property where their land meets the overgrown and wild edges of a persistent, and creeping wilderness. Above, below, and beside are vast worlds of slumbering, malevolent creatures of existentially ambiguous origins, waiting to devour all.

This book is a collection of The Primordials, Goddess, and other minor Deities. Including Realms & Lands of Edradunia. This book is a dive into our Knowledge of how the lands were created, and where our creators are now. I've written and will write many Informiums for our land, for it was requested. My Brother Felrich has tasked me with keeping records of my own within the Telarum Academy, but do not confuse me with Henrich Barrow our Academy Log Scholar.

I met her in a dream. I had never dreamt before. I thought it was something I was incapable of. But that night, I was proven wrong. *** Scarlet is an orphaned teenager who cannot remember her past. Sage is a girl Scarlet met in a dream that cannot remember her own name. But they find that in the time they spend together, secluded from the rest of the world, they don't need to remember. *** i've been trying to be more laid back with my writing since i always get too intense with it. so this book goes against all the usual rules i force myself to follow (i.e. words per chapter, linear vs. nonlinear narrative, etc.)

Lucien J. Root streams conspiracy rants and glitchy gameplay under the name L.U.5.T. - just a vape shop stoner with epilepsy and a cult following. Until a trip mid-shift cracks reality open. A phrase echoes from an Ancient Aliens rerun: ".j-root protocol initiated." Now tech glitches, time fractures, and a rogue Grey starts to feel... Dreams. Memories. Tears. Lucien isn't chasing the truth - he is the error. And the system's coming to delete him.

An independent, loving, caring, and always kind person-Kishamera.She is also the woman who longed and hope to see the man she loved since young. Will this woman have her hopes and longing a dream come true? ** The only constant in this world is change. She always believed in that just like how she believed in fairy tales that impossible could turn into possible. She has faith and she succeeded, with a twirl of time she was able to see the man she longed to see, she was the happiest. As the clock strikes, the time is getting faster. Until how long will they experience being together? ** Photo cover edited by: Keizamayra

Corporal James Rameses finds himself lighting a fire under the seats of world powers when he runs into Chinese triad members sent out by the government. He must stop nuclear war from ending life as we know it. the world changes drastically in only 10 years. Experience the explosive action unfold in this nonlinear story of courage and sacrifice. What will happen, who will die, will it be all of us?