Nonlinear Stories

Ki Centauri is a man with many faces. The life of a military peacekeeper is not a kind one, and the people he's lost are nearly as numerous as the ones he knows. Time and time again, lives slip through his fingers, and all he is left with is the black skies of people now gone. Yet human beings cannot live without connections. Somehow, there must be a way to find friends beyond the limitations of Crest and Clan and forge connections that last and truly matter. But is the pain of finding love in an often bleak and broken world worth the cost of of threading a family across the stars? An ONC 2026 story based on prompts 29 and 69: "You will meet many people in your life. Many will come and go, but some will leave footprints on your heart." "The stars are disappearing one by one, and only you can hear their whispers."

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.

Minjae can't say he's known a lot of peace since knowing any of them but he doesn't think he'd want it any other way. Or Bits and pieces of group that's weaved themselves together like a quilt, unknowing where one begins or ends Or Maybe Yechan was onto something when he swore up and down that Junmin was pack omega. {A xikers omegaverse au}

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. All rights reserved by @J. Lee Kennedy, except for images contained in this book. Crayon drawing "Wander XIX" by @Clara Lieu. Copyright of images, including cover art, belong to their rightful owners, and are attributed accordingly, or used in accordance with the rules of Creative Commons licensing as "fair use." Altered, filtered, or edited images are copyrighted by the author in its final form.

POWER TAUGHT THEM SILENCE. BETRAYAL TAUGHT THEM STRATEGY. When a young woman exposes her affair with a powerful CEO, the women he once controlled-his calculating wife, discarded mistresses, and an illegitimate brother-quietly dismantle the dynasty built to protect him.

When the world crumbled and fell silent... A new order rose from its ashes... The Apocalypse wasn't a disaster... It was a design. Welcome to the dawn of the New World Empire :)

"Knowing you felt like" is a series of poems, that I wrote over the course of almost an entire year, while processing my past relationship. They are expressions of thoughts and emotions based on real memories and don't follow any chronology or hierarchy; they rather coexisted simultaneously, equally. Even though the poems are shaped by the retrospective awareness of unfulfillment, regret and longing, they offer an extremely authentic reflection of my emotions during the relationship, in which longing and unfulfillment were always present. Thank you for reading.

Every story that had ever begun, began with a decision: silly or serious, conscious or unconscious. And then, an action-which leads to situations, and more actions, then more decisions. And as all stories go, this also began with one silly decision, by one very silly, nasty being (my bad, and my bias). By one being notable for having no fear or respect for any man. A being who had grown bored of his work, and wanted to try something new. "If Christ had done it, I might be able to do it as well," he had thought. And then he had thought again... "That was Christ; I'm no Christ. I am bound by rules." And then he had thought, harder this time... "What if..." So he made a decision-trickery, lies, manipulation. He went against the princes of Hell: Beelzebub, and Lucifer himself... And while that might have been unthoughtful, despite all the thinking, and thinking harder, it would have been nice if he had paid the price himself, and paid it in full. Unfortunately... Stories are such that every story, which had ever begun, began with a decision and an action... and often than not, those entangled are not the ones who made that decision, nor took that action that birthed the situation. However, as the unwritten rule must have it, when they find themselves in that situation, they must make more decisions-and take more actions. Hell Wants Her Back is a gripping, relentless thriller that entwines the fates of many-each an unwitting victim of one great, foolish plot, set in motion by one very sly being...

A wandering collection of messy feelings, half-formed truths, midnight epiphanies and the kind of chaos you collect while growing up. There's no perfect storyline here-just honesty, curiosity, and the little lessons life slips when you're not paying attention.

A non-linear story told through the perspectives of various characters across varying worlds trying to comprehend the impossible as unexplainable cosmic events begin to unfold. However, during this journey of survival, understanding, death, brutality, and discovery, so.ething unseen lurks in the darkness between the stars, waiting for the right time to claim what none ever owned.

Welcome to the Mansion. You didn't choose to come here, but don't worry, the house decided long before you arrived. The rooms will shift to accommodate you. The portraits will adjust their angles to admire you. The walls will whisper your footsteps in hushed converstation. You'll meet the residents, some polite, some eccentric, all wrong. They've seen you before. They'll see you again. The house likes rules, rules that must be followed no matter what. Pass them all and you might escape. Break one and the Mansion will simply...keep what it's already claimed. Take your time. The Mansion has plenty. Updates every Friday I am a new author so feel free to DM me if you have any suggestions/edits!

Have you ever wasted a whole day thinking of things that have not happened yet and just might never happen? Day dreaming 9 to 5, no break, just feeling pathetic, hoping someone might just understand. They say writing helps detach, but I rather read it. nonsense is what this is. The story of insecure young adults learning to love

This is a love story about a boy named Lucas and a girl named Laura. It was meant to be a sci fi story, but once it got going, I followed them and let them take over. What I ended up with was something I had never meant to write but did anyway.

BENEATH. 9 characters. 9 lives, 9 perspectives. I welcome(challenge) you to explore them. Each character has four chapters and the way you read them doesn't matter. The story doesn't care. The only thing it cares is you end on The Ending Eza Moreiza, 1-4 Z Melody, 5-8 Professor Reinhart, 9-12 Uko Uzumaki, 13-16 Irides Shards, 17-20 Nyra Armani, 21-24 Ollie Lenz, 25-28 Karez Coloir, 29-32 Enzui Enkonzui, 33-36 The Ending 37-40 Btw, you can also read Irides' chapters in any order. Anyways, that's all from me. I won't hold your hand anymore. Explore BENEATH for yourself. Break your mind. Break your heart. Break yourself. Have fun. ... Ok maybe I will give you a lantern. The Path of the Boring Guy : Eza, Z, Reinhart, Uko,.....you know where this goes. The Path of The Fool : Enzui, Z, Irides, Eza, Nyra, Reinhart, Uko, Ollie, Karez, The Ending The Path of The Wise : Karez, Nyra, Eza, Reinhart, Uko, Irides, Ollie, Z, Enzui, The Ending The Path of Birds : Eza, Ollie, Nyra, Reinhart, Uko, Karez, Irides and Z, Enzui, The Ending The Path of the Damned : Nyra, Reinhart, Uko, Irides, Eza, Ollie, Z, Karez, Enzui, The Ending The Path of Resonance : Uko, Nyra, Karez, Ollie, Z, Irides, Eza, Reinhart, Enzui, The Ending

When a mother vanishes without a trace, leaving behind her husband and two teenage daughters in their small New England town, no note and no warning, the family is left fractured. One year later, a duffel bag appears on the doorstep, full of personal items no one has seen before, including a camera with undeveloped film. The story alternates between the months leading up to her disappearance and the present-day investigation by her eldest daughter. As buried truths surface, about the mother's past and her entangled friendships, each family member must confront what it means to stay, and what it means to escape.

Boom Zahramay! Brand new adventures are on the way! In this collection of one-shots, you'll find out about some of Shimmer and Shine's other adventures on Earth. You'll see how Leah's parents react to some of Leah's wishes. You'll even get answers to some of the series' biggest mysteries! All this and more in Shimmer and Shine: Earthly Escapades! Very Important Note: This fic is abandoned. If you're getting notifications about it, it's because i got self conscious, deleted it, then sucked it up and reposted it

A very short story about memory and trauma This story doesn't follow proper storytelling structure. It's direct on purpose Read it however you want.

Getting to Nowhere is an epic dark fantasy saga where the world itself is the protagonist - a vast, ever-shifting land shaped by forgotten wars, fractured kingdoms, and the passage of unknowable time. Across continents where time bends and reality rewrites itself, empires rise only to fall into myth, and heroes are remembered not for their triumphs, but for what they couldn't escape. In this world, no path is straight. No future is certain. And no one truly knows where the story leads. Told through multiple eras and voices, Getting to Nowhere explores a realm where magic decays, truth fractures, and even gods must face what lies beyond their design. As generations clash and civilizations unravel, the question remains: What happens when the journey never ends - and the destination may not exist? A brutal, visionary tale of war, identity, and fate, Getting to Nowhere is a fantasy not about where we go - but what we become along the way.

On the eve of independence, a forgotten father makes one final vow not to a nation, but to his child. A quiet monologue about memory, sacrifice, and the kind of heroism history leaves behind.

In a world fractured by war and surveillance, silence became the strongest weapon. Emperor Eagle, master of strategy and shadows, leads China and a coalition of unlikely allies in a war not just for land-but for control of truth itself. As nations fall and whispers grow louder, one question haunts the world: When power builds its empire from silence, how do you learn to scream again? Ashes of Dominion is Book One of The Memory Pattern - a poetic and ruthless dive into modern warfare, resistance, and the echoes we leave behind.