Ownvoices Stories

ආදරය කියන්නෙ හිමි කරගැනීම ම නෙවෙයි අයිතිය හෝ අනියමත් නෙවෙයි. රාගය..විරහව..නියම්..අනියම්...මේ සේරම තියෙන්නෙ අයිතියක් ඉල්ලුවොත් විතරයි. ආදරය හරියට හඳ වගේ.... අයාන් මලික් කියන්නෙ මුළු පකිස්තානයම වසඟයට ගත්තු ජනප්‍රිය නිවේදකයෙක්.තරු පවුලක සැමියෙක්.පියෙක්. මෙත්මා අබේසිංහ කියන්නෙ ජීවිතේ ලස්සන හොයාගෙන යන ආදරේ භාෂාව ඇස් වලින් කතා කරන අහිංසක දඟකාරියක්. දෛවය කියන්නෙ..... ඒ දෙන්නාටම වෙනස් කරන්න බැරි වුණු ලස්සන කතාවක්. 'Firaaki' ඒ කතාවට දැම්ම නම 'වෙසක් මුබාරක්' මේක හඳක් වගේ ලස්සන හිත් ඇතුලේ පෑයුව තරු වගේ ලස්සන කතාවක්...

My mother loves me. She wakes at dawn to simmer silver ear mushroom soup. She knows every teacher's number by heart. She gave up her own dreams so I could play the piano. Everything she does, she does out of love. So when my right hand goes limp and dead, everyone says it's my fault. The doctors can't explain it. The teachers say I'm stressed. My classmates mimic me behind my back, like I'm putting on a show. And my mother just stares at me in silence, like I'm a doll she can't fix. But no one ever asked me - Do I even want this hand anymore? This is a story about love, control, and silence. About a girl who learns to say "no" to the world, with a hand that refuses to obey.

"He's teaching her how to hack his empire. She's collecting the evidence to burn it down." I was paid to translate. Not to interpret. Not to judge. Kira Khine arrives in Portugal with a passport missing an entry stamp, a revoked university admission, and €23,000 she refuses to touch. She didn't come for romance. She came to survive. But survival gets complicated when her landlord turns out to be Rodrigo Costa-a tech billionaire, single father, and the quietest, most unreadable face in northern Portugal. He offers her a deal: translate contracts in Burmese. In exchange, he'll teach her to hack. She takes it. Then she translates Clause 12.4. IMEI numbers. Geolocation data. Unrestricted real-time access-disguised as "urban planning." The kind of data you use to hunt people. The kind of people who disappear in Myanmar every day. Now, Kira has a choice: look away and cash the cheque. Or learn everything Rodrigo can teach her, and use it to destroy him. An impossible attraction. A dangerous game of secrets. He's letting his guard down around her-and she's collecting the evidence to burn his empire to the ground. Somewhere in the vineyard, a seven-year-old girl named Sofia is waiting for her friend Kiki to come to her birthday party. I trust me.She did. She does. A slow-burn geopolitical thriller about translation, cyber warfare, and ultimate betrayal.

🏆 Watty Award Winner (2022) This updated edition includes revised chapters and new scenes. Trans guy Collin makes a bet with his coworker that he can land a date with the hot new barista across the street. It should be easy. Except the more time he spends with her, the more the bet starts to feel like the worst idea he's ever had. ### It's 2003 in Santa Cruz, and 21-year-old Collin thought transitioning would be the hard part. But now that he's on hormones and passing with ease, he's still stuck wondering who he is and where he belongs. It doesn't help that his girlfriend of six years just dumped him. So when his coworker challenges him to prove he's still got game, Collin agrees to a stupid bet: get a date with Heather, the cute new barista who just started working at the café across the street. With some unexpected help from his roommate Sam, getting close to her might be easier than Collin expected. But what starts as a harmless distraction quickly turns into something real. And when the truth behind the bet finally comes out, Collin will have to decide whether risking his heart again is worth it... or if he's about to lose the best thing that's happened to him since the breakup. A nostalgic beach-town rom-com about bets, baristas, and what happens when pretending turns into something real. ☕ Tropes: friends-to-lovers vibes, a very bad bet, coffee shop flirting, early-2000s nostalgia, and learning who you are while falling in love. NEW CHAPTERS EVERY TUESAY & FRIDAY

The world wanted quiet. It got a riot instead. The school called it policy. They called it war. One boy is trapped in a mind that has betrayed him. The other is an artist who stopped sketching and started swinging. But if the world will label them as villains, they might as well give them a reason to be afraid.

One man is her family's dream. The other could be her undoing. Suraiya Rao has never quite belonged. She's not white enough for society, not brown enough for her family... not enough for anyone. She's spent her life walking a tightrope between British reality and Indian expectation, doing everything by the book, no matter the cost. Then one chance encounter changes everything. Haydn Ellis Clarke isn't part of the plan. He's rich, ridiculously handsome, and absolutely not the man her family has chosen for her. But he sees her - not the dutiful daughter or the girl buried beneath generations of pressure, but the version of herself she's never dared to be. Mendhi My Heart is a story of identity, belonging, and choosing love, even when it means breaking every rule. Because love doesn't always arrive in the "suitable" package. Sometimes, it wears torn jeans... and gives your grandmother a heart attack.

[This is the translated version of my original Indonesian story. To support me or read the Bahasa Indonesia version, visit my profile] In an alternate version of the 2000s, where technology surges forward and magic-once revered-is hunted to the edge of extinction, lives a young man named Hans. By day, he is a quiet bartender, blending drinks for patrons who never suspect the truth: buried deep within him lies a power passed down from his mother, a healer and sorceress, and his father, a drunken gambler entangled in the shadows of the criminal underworld. For years, Hans has lived in silence-choosing solitude not for peace, but to shield himself from the scars of his past and the shame that clings to him like a second skin. He hides his power, not out of cowardice, but out of pain. That is, until a stranger walks into his bar. A dark-skinned man from the southern isles, the stranger calls himself Kaelani-or Kaelan. But he is no ordinary guest. He carries with him a sorrow deeper than grief, the remnants of a lost homeland-Maluʻia-an archipelago laid to ruin by the very technology that now rules the world. Like Hans, Kaelan is a mage, a guardian of protective magic betrayed by the one he loved. That betrayal cost him his people, his purpose, and nearly his soul. Their meeting is no coincidence. Two fractured souls, exiled from the destinies they were meant to fulfill, begin to find flickers of hope in each other's quiet company. But beyond the whispered conversations and the soft hum of city nights, the world stirs once more. Magic is awakening-and Hans may be the key that time itself has tried to forget.

My short stories and one shots

S.E.T. The Earth on Fire is an epic sci-fi dark fantasy about the desolate future of mankind after its recovery from an extinction level event one thousand years prior. Men, machines, demons, and gods clash with conflicting motives, all for the survival of their people. A human named Ethos, in a twist of fate, is bound to a malevolent entity with powers to give him exactly what he desires, revenge against the gods of Akhet for murdering his friend. Vengeance may cost Ethos more than he bargains for as the true threat to humanity lies in waiting, an ancient evil pitting its enemies against one another to ensure its ultimate victory. Time is running out as Ethos is slowly being consumed by the dark forces within, but with the help of unlikely alliances, he just may be able to save the world. -Big Scope -High Stakes -Intense Action-adventure Out on eBook, paperback, and hard cover on November 20th, 2021 (my birthday!)

Memories of him, but he's not really dead.

Do pictures enhance experience? I have no idea. Here are experiences which have shaped my relationship with cameras. Part 2: Siena

17 year-olds Fabio and Marlon are outsiders. They're a black guy in a white town, a gay teen in a straight world. Their mutual god is music, dance their life-long bond. Their rainbow glows with hues no one else can see.

Opinions, wonderings, and creative scrap metal.

This is the journal of Tammy Maheswaran, a reclusive roboticist living with undiagnosed autism. It documents the creation of Mariimo, a developmental robotics platform through which Tammy subconsciously externalizes her issues with isolation, anxiety, and touch. Upon the machine's activation, Tammy gradually begins to realize that in the act of constructing Mariimo, she's been unknowingly deconstructing herself.

-COMPLETED: Aug. 25, 2018 -Selective mutism - personal experience This is a short autobiography I wanted to write. In the future I do wish to eventually write this longer and more in depth. One day I will actually (hopefully) publish it. This is just my personal experience with selective mutism and I wanted to share it for those who suffer from it or can learn more about it. It's all about spreading awareness. Rankings: 1. #1 in selective mutism - Sept. 1, 2018 2. #2 in own voices - Sept. 1, 2018 3. #7 in anxietydisorders - Sept. 1, 2018 4. #51 in autobiography - Sept. 1, 2018

A boy whose home was taken from him seeks freedom. A mindrenderer with dangerous hands hopes to undergo his own redemption arc. When Cole was younger, his mother told him about the men who played at being gods. Self-righteous, arrogant fools who stole his people and used their wicked mindrenderers to take away their free will. And as he got older, they nearly took away his mind, too. Alistair didn't like his job. If it were up to him, he would've discarded the part of him that made him a mindrenderer years ago. Perhaps then he wouldn't have hurt so many people. When the pair are forced together after a failed assassination attempt, they discover they might have to put aside what they know about each other in order to survive. Or kill each other in the process. (WARNING: THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT!! i'm so very sorry)

Dandara está grávida do namorado. Ela o ama, mas um cara branco às vezes parece não falar sua língua. Durante um ultrassom, ela tem coragem de pedir que ele se retire pela primeira vez. Isso porque sua melhor amiga de infância reapareceu. Talvez tenham se perdido uma da outra apenas porque os estudos apertaram para Simone, tão determinada a se tornar uma médica e ajudar com as contas da casa que abandonou sua vida afetiva e qualquer tipo de diversão. Juntas outra vez, cada qual com seu silencioso pedido de socorro, elas percebem que precisam de muito, mas também têm um tanto a oferecer. Uma para enfrentar questões difíceis sobre seu relacionamento e a chegada do bebê. Outra para lembrar que a melhor forma de lutar pelo futuro não está na solidão, mas na abertura de espaço para a amizade e, quem sabe, o amor. _ ATENÇÃO! Esta é uma degustação do título "Você por aqui?" das autoras Ana Rosa e Wlange Keindé, que faz parte da série Melhores Amigas do Clube P.S.: em 2020. O livro é impresso em tiragem limitada por pré-venda e assinaturas, disponíveis até 7 de janeiro. Não haverá exemplares extras ou e-book da obra. Veja os pacotes e garanta o seu em http://psdoispontos.com/clube-literario/

[ COMPLETE ] Ananya Sathe was hoping for a do-not-disturb solo writing retreat. What she got was something better. Much better. - - - - Featured on the following profiles and reading lists: » @WattpadShortStory - REALISTIC FICTION » @AsiansReads - HEART TO HEART (ROMANCE) [x] 2k reads - 31/01/2021 [x] 100 votes - 24/03/2021 [x] 150 votes - 06/06/2021 [x] 5k reads - 11/07/2021 [x] 200 votes - 23/07/2021 [x] 7k reads - 21/11/2021 [x] 8k reads - 28/01/2022 [x] 300 votes - 10/01/2023 [x] 10k reads - 07/02/2023

When Amira Bashir almost dies from hydrogen peroxide poisoning, PI Anjali Dayal must figure out who wants the president dead. Only 6 people could've spiked the glass, and with all of them having strong motives and shaky alibis, the case proves quite difficult to crack. Link to google slides with names, titles, and pictures of the characters: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_jqfuxyQ8sv7cvA08jUhTNsAO9UxaE4oF6IQyrut17Y/edit?usp=sharing

"Behind Our Backs" is an #OwnVoices short story about being an autistic kid in middle school. This story includes depictions of ableism. _________ Like most teenagers, Natalie thinks she knows everything. In her efforts to befriend a loner classmate, she realizes the world isn't as simple as she thought.