Poverty Stories

Kyla isn't your average teenage girl. She finished high school, but isn't too sure about college. Looking from the OUTSIDE you may THINK that you have a glimpse of what her life is like, but you really have NO IDEA at all. At home she shares a bedroom, her older sister is a stripper, her mom always has men in/out the house at all hours of the night, oh yeah and did I forget to mention that she has a 3 month old baby girl? Her baby father abandoned her once he found out she was pregnant. Get this .. He left her for her own SISTER and does NOTHING to take care of his daughter. He doesn't even claim her. Reese is straight from the hood. The most ruthless thug that you will EVER and I do mean E V E R meet. He will sell drugs to ya grandmother even if you grew up with him. He will fuck ya bitch then dead her in 0.0 if he even THINKS she's secretly plotting on him. He will dead ya mom if she owes him $ and hasn't paid her debt. He wasn't always like this, but the streets turned him into a STONE COLD KILLER! These 2 meet in such a dangerous way that it'll heave your head spinning. Hold on tight for the roller coaster called .. Darkness: Living in Poverty

Behind a bright smile hides a silent struggle. A Broken Heart follows the life of Nile, a hardworking student burdened by poverty, responsibility, and guilt far beyond his age. While the world sees his success, no one sees the nights he runs to hospitals, the tears he hides, or the promises he whispers to a mother who may not wake up. This is a story of sacrifice, love, and the quiet strength of a boy forced to grow up too soon.

Kim Nana is a beautiful young girl of 15 years endowed with all the right curves. At 15 she already looks like 18 year old. Even her father and brothers are swooned by her. she draws people closer without trying. she's a bitch,a bully and arrogant. she's from a poor home and she has two elder brothers,her mum left them when she was three because of her father's poverty. on many occasions,she escaped getting raped. Her eldest brother Jude is 18 year old in his final year of highschool while Steve is 16 year old and in his tenth grade of highschool. Her father is a mechanic and despite being poor and suffering he doesn't look aged, he's still looking handsome. You could say beauty runs in the family that is why Maya (Kim Nana Mum) married Cyrus in the first place but when poverty and suffering was too much,she left him and didn't even turn back for her kids. Kim Nana hates her mum, not because she left but because she married a poor man because of beauty. And now she swore never to choose beauty over money. she'll rather choose ugly with riches than beauty with poverty. She's a bitch to strangers but a good girl only to are family.

Beauty they said fade which is true. But beauty within never fade. Tehzeeb a young and elegant lady. She have grown up without knowing what opulence is rather she have grown up to know what penury is. Would she be able to know what opulence is? or would she forever remain in penury?. Opposite they said attract. Does that means that the rich and the poor will attract. Fate can't be change and Destiny they said can't be predicted. What would her destiny be? What does destiny have in store for her? Could it be love? Or what?. If you want to find out what happened to Tezheeb the press the add button....... Started July 20 2020 Ended November 28 2020 ( My Buffday) 1st in Umma ........September 12 2020 WORDS COUNT= 116,780 © Zeeekadir

All her life, Selestia Eira (Nyebe) lived in the shadows of poverty. A small house with leaking roofs. A table sometimes empty. A childhood stolen too early. While others watched sunsets with laughter and carefree hearts, she spent hers working, chasing coins just to make it through another day. But then came him-the boy who lived in a world completely different from hers. Rich, untouchable, and free. The kind of person who never had to count loose change or wonder if tomorrow meant hunger. She swore she would never let anyone see her scars, her struggles, her truth. Yet somehow, he found beauty in her broken pieces... in the sunsets she thought were stolen from her forever. But can love really survive when the world keeps reminding her she was never meant to dream that high? Started: Sep/19/25

☆A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY - October 2017☆ ★Highest ranking in adventure: #81 ★Winner of the 2017 Sparkling awards! Action/Adventure 1st place! ★Winner of the booklovers story writing contest! ★Winner of 'Serious Talk' in Action/Adventure of the Unknown Writers awards! Do you know what it's like to be trapped in a paradox? Ego is tired of his life going on the same routine everyday, but he has taken it in as his fate. However, as he meets the girl from the RL, Violet, he recognizes his true feelings about the injustice of society and starts to take actions for the rights of the Confined. His potential is awaken, and as he goes on a dangerous quest to help Violet, he discovers hidden secrets of his past. On his quest, he is threatened and challenged by the RL officials who know his weak spot, his loved ones. Will he be able to keep his loved ones safe, much less himself? Do you know what it's like to plummet down from the top to the bottom in a blink of an eye? Violet is happy. Her life is perfect because she has all she needs, and all she wants. That is until her life plummets to the bottom. Because of her father's choice, she is taken to the Confined. Taken everything away from her, Violet resists from following the rules of the Confined and refuses to cooperate. She is helped by a boy that has been in the Confined from the start, and decides that she will one day free the Confined from their burden and pain. Will she adapt to the Confined, or continue to rebel till the end?

In a world where humans are pets and commonly over bread in mills and don't live long. One is given to the only son of a wealthy being that is part of the domain species. The human grows up while his master doesn't age over a year within the human's 14 years of life. Patch is a defected breed of human, one that was ruled to be put down at birth and if found at any other age the same would applied. But Ivan his owner has a powerful enough family to protect him from the death penalty that fallows him around where ever thy go. It doesn't matter if it's the front yard of the estate or the private school. Trouble fallows Patch and Ivan and it nearly costs them both their lives one day, at the hands of his own step-mother and then his family business. This is Ivan's story about his first and only pet human. "Patch was the only one I ever loved... that's why he's still around to meet you. He's the oldest human on record. No matter what they say, he is."

Compass Series #2 (Completed) After her sister's death, Ylla ended her education and started working instead at the age of 16. She spent most of her days as a parent to a little boy named Rush, the only family she has left. Unfortunately, in such a young age, Rush was diagnosed with cancer and Ylla has no choice but to collect every single penny she could have and pour them all for Rush's treatment before her own needs. Living with a lot of deprivations in an unprivileged island, she came across with a man named Rhysand whom she thought has the exact same struggle as hers. She thought someone could finally understand her... But Rhysand was never the kind of man who's capable of understanding anyone, not even himself, and who only turns out to be the most broken person she has ever met. More than anything, she wanted to know why. -- Genre: Teen Fiction/Romance Language: Filipino and English/ Taglish -cover is not mine, credits to the owner.

Refusing to be a pawn to his mother and grandfather,Aemond rides to harrenhal to stop this war. No more battle. No more lost dragons. The Greens are dismantled, most of the dragon seeds are burned by vermithor,the Iron Throne passes to Rhyeanera as Viserys declared, and Aemond steps into the shadows as Master of Whispers. Loyal to the crown. To family. still a kin slayer. Still the best swordsman of the seven kingdoms. Fierce and deadly. The rider of the largest beast. Far from crowns and castles, in Flea Bottom, Arella Waters awaits a knight. (This does not follow the story closely at all) (Not too political because this is a one shot type love story) (this is just my attempt at a One-eyed prince fan-fiction because I'm obsessed)

In 1996, when the Opel Astra was launched in India, the car caught the eye of ten-year-old Veer. As the son of a prostitute, he didn't even have the privilege of touching it. The immoral act has always been looked down upon, but for Meera, it was the only means of survival. She's the mother of two rasgullas, Veer and Tara. It's not easy for the children either. Their mother is always treated as an outcast, but the young boy is determined to be the man of the house. Their way of life is disgusting to many, pitied by some, and accepted by one man. Kindness, love, and courage can lead to the most beautiful thing... A Handful of Happiness. --- Ongoing | PG13

A story inspired by true events. Netnet didn't had a choice but to work in a pub as an exotic dancer because of poverty and lack of education. She is so beautiful that the richest man in the city, Don Alberto, took noticed of her. Don Alberto and Netnet spent nights together for exchange of luxury things.

In a world where people are separated by economical status, Elle, a maid with a troubled passed allows her hatred for Nobel people to consume her world view. It is only when she meets the Princess, who herself has endured tremendous trauma in her young life, that Elle recognises how similar they truly are. Facing all odds in this world that seems to be crash around them, will the two's forbidden romance blossom and hold or will they be torn from one another due to unexpected circumstances?

"I fall asleep with the image of the crying angel in my mind." Book #1 of the Midnight Kingdom series.

When Anita's mother dies, the heart monitor flattens into a straight line - a line her mother could never draw. That moment changes everything. At sixteen, Anita becomes the mother of three siblings in the soot-stained city of Port Harcourt. While other girls dream of school and love, she learns to trade both for survival - selling zobo by the roadside, burying her tears beneath duty. Life takes more than it gives: her father, her dreams, her body, her freedom. When a boy named Kenneth offers her a glimpse of tenderness, it feels almost like healing - until loss returns, sharper than before. From the farms of the village to the glittering loneliness of the city, Anita's life becomes a series of choices made in the dark, each one carving her into someone she never planned to be. In Straight Lines, I tell a story of womanhood, survival, and the cruel poetry of fate - where love comes too late, and the lines we draw to hold ourselves together don't always stay straight. #1 rightpersonwrongtime - Jan 6th, 2026 #1 teenagehood - Jan 6th, 2026 Started: 29th October, 2025 Ended: ... #JusticeforOchanya

y/n bumps Carl Gallagher and they quickly become friends . or more?

My name, my dear and deranged compadres, is Samson. And let me tell you, tomorrow marks the grand finale, the climax of my sordid existence. Why, you ask? Well, gather 'round, because this tale's a rollercoaster ride through the abyss of chaos.

Twelve-year-old Sarah Lee longs to remain in the golden fields under a starry sky forever, but life has other plans for her. After the bleak spring of 1816 yields meager crops, Sarah's family flees its home in the English countryside to labor at a textile factory in newly industrial London. A factory accident several months later leaves Sarah's father out of work and her family desperate for money. Despite the worries of her older brother Thomas, Sarah disguises herself and ventures into a dangerous new job. Sarah soon learns that life in London is not as simple as it seems. She meets Jamie, a sullen, aggressive boy who helps her adjust to the new conditions. But Jamie has dark secrets of his own, and his reluctance to trust strangers clashes with Sarah's burning curiosity about his past. As the city creeps towards winter, Sarah and her friends stand face-to-face with the horrors of London poverty-rising prices, rampant crime, disease, and hopelessness-and it becomes clear that not everyone will make it out alive. Everyone has a secret, and the consequences can be more devastating than any of them can imagine. "Dark, emotionally gripping, highly researched... very impressive." "Deeply moving and heart-wrenching, it will forever leave a mark on my heart." - anonymous readers WARNINGS: This excerpt contains descriptions of physical injury and child abuse. There is a more detailed content warning in the published book. Sweepings of the Street is now available for purchase! Enjoy the first 4 chapters, then consider getting a paperback or ebook version of the full book! Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and more, or upon request at your local independent bookstore.

Vijay Dhawan, an ambitious teenager who is in love with the spherical ball that has to be kicked into a net, feels very highly about himself and one decision causes him to get shoved out of a career oppurtinity in doing what he does best, lose his friends, his family's love and the love of his life...

•WARNING• THIS HAS VULGAR LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL DESCRIPTIONS... READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! It all started in New York when I saw him with my boss...

He gently pressed his forehead against my own. I felt his curls tickle against my skin, sending shivers down my spine. "I'll be with you for eternity." he said before placing his lips on the top of my head. I let out a sob and wrapped my arms around his neck, keeping him close. I heard a soldier's heavy footsteps coming up the stairs...