Non-romance Stories

Patrick Jane was once a charming fraud, a man who made a living pretending to read minds. Now he works as a consultant for the CBI - not because he chose redemption, but because tragedy forced it upon him. The moment he mocked the infamous serial killer Red John on live television, his life shattered. Red John answered the insult by murdering Patrick's wife and young daughter, leaving him with nothing but grief sharp enough to carve him hollow. Since that day, Patrick has lived every emotion a human body can hold - fear, rage, despair, numbness - all circling around one single purpose: finding Red John and ending the monster who destroyed his family. Grace Sullivan is only nineteen, yet she carries a lifetime of scars. Her childhood was a battlefield, her father the enemy who found pleasure in breaking both her and her mother. She tried to protect them, but survival was the only thing she ever managed. One night, after returning home from work, Grace walked into the same familiar nightmare - her parents fighting, her father drunk and violent. But this time, the chaos tipped into something irreversible. John Sullivan snapped, pulled the trigger, and killed Brooke Sullivan in cold blood. The gunshot echoed through the neighborhood, through the trees, through Grace's life. By the time she reached her mother, it was already too late. The case landed on the desk of the CBI. And suddenly Grace, alone and hopeless, crossed paths with Patrick Jane - a man who understood loss in a way few ever could. He could read her pain as easily as he read people's lies. Two broken souls, both robbed of the people they loved, both burning with the same quiet fury toward the ones who took everything from them. Their stories collide in a hunt for justice, revenge, and maybe - if fate allows - a reason to keep living.

The empire is gone. The spire has fallen. For the first time in his life, Cael has something like a home: a cottage in the marsh, a mentor who's learning to be honest, and a routine measured in scraps and firelight. But something is stirring beneath the ruins. The wards are failing. A trader who hasn't been late in a decade is running out of time, and the thing the old empire buried under the world is starting to remember it's awake. Peace, it turns out, is just the space between storms. The next chapter of FoxTale. A slow-burning dark fantasy about the quiet work of survival, the debts we carry, and how much of yourself you can give away before there's nothing left to give. The sequel to Foxtale Vol. 1. Can be read with some context, but welcomes new readers.

"Mulder, why are you doing this? Why drag us out here in the middle of nowhere on a half-assed theory?" Actually, you know what, she already knew the answer to that. Why did she even ask him. He smiled wryly. "Can't a guy have a little fun when he's on holiday?" . . . . Takes place between Fight For the Future and Season 6 Spoiler: It absolutely, certainly does NOT turn out to be a fun trip. (Also posted in AO3)

got her dream job in Seoul, but her new boss is her own K-pop bias. Now she must hide that her laptop, phone, and whole heart are full of him. In Part 2, her presentation plays his photos, HR finds her secret fan account, and her boss bans K-pop in the office. No romance, only chaos and comedy. Can she save her job and her secret?

Aki Nana spent twenty years alone in a world of magic, where raising the dead was simply part of life. Then one summoning experiment went horribly wrong. She awakens in a world where sorcery exists, curses prey on humans, and most people have never even heard of necromancy. Naturally, Nana adapts the only way she knows how. She starts summoning the dead. Unfortunately, her summons turn out to be less like obedient undead and more like a very strange family. There's a cheerful boy who follows her around as though she hung the moon, a gentle woman whose presence feels like spring, and a dangerous man who insists he doesn't care about anyone while quietly refusing to stray from the woman's side. And then there's the long-haired man who calls everyone monkeys, spends ridiculous amounts of money on perfume, and somehow settles into the household as though he belongs there. For a lonely necromancer who only wanted a few useful spirits, Nana has somehow ended up surrounded by people who care about her. For the first time in twenty years, she isn't alone. It might even have been peaceful. If the strongest white-haired sorcerer in this world would stop trying to steal her family.

For a while, it seemed as if all good things were stripped from them. No home, no family... It was then that she found them. She, and then he. What more will be discovered after the moon?

Not just a fanfiction, or a vanil romance, but a real book Long-read

[ ကူးဝမ်ယင်း ၊ No romance ၊ Female Lead ]

Oblivion reset the universe, imperfectly. Today, too many timelines are colliding, tearing space-time apart like a soaked tissue, triggering countless anomalies. And yet, our paths still converge, no matter where we've landed. Soon, it will be time to join forces one last time... to prevent our final erasure from existence. --- In this fic, I use an OC appearing almost only in deleted scenes - Rin - to revisit and analyze The Umbrella Academy: to clarify certain points and try to fill in the plot-holes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focused on Klaus Hargreeves. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

The Electromagnetic Odyssey follows Deon, a brilliant but obsessive theoretical physicist who begins his experiment to harness energy from another universe. Then he tears open the fabric of reality, and it pulls him in. He awakens at the Chromatic Plateau, a breathtaking dimension with a magenta sky and resonating crystals, where his ability to manipulate electromagnetism is triggered. Erika, a sharp-witted field researcher studying the plateau's anomalies, rescues him and guides Deon to the city of Luminastrade. But Deon loses her to the owls in a forgotten tunnel and plunges into a quest spanning dying worlds and collapsing timelines. He finds her again in variations: a survivor of a dying world and a memory waiting where time cannot pass. With each loss, he carves another name into the notebook he carries everywhere, a ledger of everyone he could not save. To save Erika, Deon must face the Seeker Leader in a battle as much philosophical as physical. Korrin's argument is seductive: erase all suffering by erasing the conditions that made it possible. Deon's rebuttal is harder. Surviving is not winning, but it is what makes living feel real. Deon takes the last Galvanocharm. He has all five. The ritual begins. But Deon does not try to stop it. He cannot. Instead, he witnesses it.

**INDEFINITE HIATUS** 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 to be seven kingdoms. Now there are three. There used to be a Monarch of Wind; now there is a Monarch of Lies. Zephyr used to be the Heir of Wind. Now he is the Fearsnatcher, the terror of all kingdoms. When Zephyr, the Fearsnatcher, is recaptured by the Monarch of Lies after the umpteemth failed escape attempt and put on display in a huge celebration for the nobles while the people starve, he finally has enough. He needs to get rid of his curse-to be what everyone fears the most-and he needs to do it now. There is no other hope for the true Monarch of Wind's line, and peace, to be restored otherwise. Running from the winds he is meant to govern, Zephyr runs into an unlikely ally that tells him the only way to break his curse once and for all: find the five Heirs of the Fallen Kingdoms and bring them to the Throne of Kings before time is up. This is no easy task, especially with fear, lies, hate, and blood hindering them every step of the way. But Zephyr has to try, and not just for himself, but for all the Lost Kingdoms. «•----•----•----•» 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝚂 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝, 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢. ****Uᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇs ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ sʟᴏᴡ!**** Splendid cover by @DeelsDead! ***Exclusively on W A T T P A D. If you are reading this elsewhere, your device is likely to be subject to malware.***

Mazie didn't know a lot of things, at eight years old. That's the case for most eight-year-olds. However, most eight-year-olds have already discovered their species: human, or not.

Mika Romano is a teen who struggles with depression. She was abandoned by her mother at the age of nine and left alone with an alcoholic father who is never home and constantly moves them around for a new job. She has never had a stable home life nor has she ever been able to make long-term friends. She learned to just stay in the shadows and not get attached. But what happens when a strange girl decides to befriend Mika? Even more, what happens when Mika is suspected of murders that happened soon after she shows up?

This AU is about Chuuya as a dog! He's a Doberman-Cocker Spaniel mix.. but.. there's always been something off? His owner, Marie Dalton, a small girl just shy of 4, has no clue. Chuuya has been alive for much longer than any normal dog. His parents, his mother is a Doberman, his father a Cocker Spaniel. Both of them also share some secrets within their minds. Marie's parents also have some secrets... what will be uncovered? Also!! Chuuya is JUST A DOG. And please don't think any crude things about Marie, this is just supposed to be a cute little story about my aged down OC and her dog. Which happens to be dog Chuuya! I'm only putting this just in case anyone actually reads this fic😭 anyway, I hope anyone who ever reads this enjoys!!

Werewolves and vampires are real, but they're not these beautify supernatural beings. They are heartless monsters. This is the story of how I found them, and lost my freedom and joy in the process.

Rosie Quint had it all. The looks, the attitude, the riches and the enormous amount of admirers that so wish to be her friend. That is until a ghost behind the mirror became envious and forcibly switches places with her. ~~~~~~~~~ I had to create another account for this just so I can write this story again but mainly on this account. I prefer it to be written here. Also fair warning that my writing skills are mediocre at best and some of the dialogue might be cringe.

You are a renowned inventor who has turned out creation after creation to much awe and admiration. All the while, however, you have secretly been working on a steam-powered time machine, and today is the day to test your invention. You step inside and are transported into a different timeline - but then discover that you can't return home. *demon slayer is by Koyoharu Gotoge* *Non-romantic* *mostly with the manga up to book 8 will be used*

A young girl named Claire Winters moves from her old home to Racine Wisconsin. Having absolute no idea about the place and her older brother teasing her is what makes it worse. How will she combat this? Read on to figure it out..