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38 Stories

  • That Day by WillAlbar
    WillAlbar
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    Menceritakan tentang Dimas Setiawan, seorang siswa SMA tahun pertama yang kesehariannya berjalan mengalir seperti air. Diantara kesehariannya yang sepi dia bertemu seorang gadis yang menangis di gedung tua lorong sekolah, pertemuan itu aneh sekaligus membuatnya familiar dengan sesuatu yang pernah ia alami. Sejak saat itu hari-harinya yang tenang perlahan berubah dan membuatnya teringat dengan kenangan-kenangan yang selalu dia ingat.
  • PJ MASKS FIVE IN MOUNT ATHOS by joshmandreza1977
    joshmandreza1977
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    PJ Masks Five in Mount Athos is a quiet, reflective side story set beyond the familiar battles of the PJ Masks Universe. When Drake Von Romas (Draco), Connor (Catboy), Greg (Gekko) and Howard Lucian Kestrel (Technocrat) are sent to the Holy Mountain of Mount Athos, they do not face villains, weapons, or epic showdowns. Instead, they encounter silence, obedience, labor, and the slow, difficult work of becoming human. Under the guidance of Athonite Elders: Abba Solemnis, Abba Prophyrios, Hegumenos Joseph and the Fathers of the Monastery, the Boys learn through prayer, shared meals, discipline, and honest confrontation with themselves and one another. Jokes don't disappear. Friendships don't become perfect. But something deeper begins to form. Inspired by Eastern Orthodox Spirituality and the Evergetinos Tradition, this story is not about action or spectacle. It is about formation, restraint, mercy, and growth-how children learn to listen, to serve, to forgive, and to carry light quietly back into the world. This is PJ Masks Five reimagined through Stillness rather than speed, through work rather than triumph, and through Silence rather than noise.
  • "The Memory Between Heartbeats" by sayuGIA8
    sayuGIA8
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    -a love story told in pieces. 💔 She writes letters she'll never send. 🎨 He paints memories he's trying to forget. 📚 And someone's been watching all along. Lylia moves like a whisper through the world-quiet, unnoticed, and hiding something heavy behind her silence. Jack doesn't believe in second chances, especially not for himself. But then she walks in. And Mara? She sees it all-every glance, every missed moment. But she's not just a bystander. A slow-burn story about the spaces between people, and what lives in the quiet. Soft. Bittersweet. Unforgettable. Sometimes, love doesn't shout. It lingers.
  • Whatever Keeps Moving by Wolfie_Rain
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    Emily Wheeler survived Hawkins by learning how to listen to the world. Now the world won't stop listening back. After leaving town with Ryder, something remains - not a monster, not a threat, but a quiet force that remembers how they used to keep things from breaking. As it begins to move on its own, Emily must learn the difference between awareness and responsibility... and what it means to finally step back. A story about boundaries, chosen family, and learning how to live when survival is no longer the point.
  • The Bookshop on Second Street by Prici0us_Pearl
    Prici0us_Pearl
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    After a long creative burnout, Elara stumbles into a quiet bookshop on a rainy day - a place that smells like stories, tea, and second chances. Each visit brings something new: a handwritten note tucked between pages, a quiet artist sketching in the corner, and a reminder that some stories begin when you're not trying to be found. A cozy tale of rediscovery, anonymous kindness, and the slow-burn magic of being seen.
  • Don't make it weird by sweetmundane
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    Jo's life is simple. Same routine. Same places. Same days. Nothing's wrong with it. Nothing's really happening either. Then-quietly-something shifts. Not in a big way. Just enough.
  • Unreadable  by miraculerval06
    miraculerval06
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    People are comfortable with stories they can label. This isn't one of them. Unreadable follows a quiet protagonist who learns early that silence is safer than explanation. Living in a world that constantly demands answers-about love, identity, and belonging-they navigate daily life by performing what is expected and hiding what isn't. When another person enters their life, not to fix or save them but simply to sit and listen, things don't suddenly get easier. They get clearer. This is not a love story. It's a story about existing without translation.
  • The Wrong Way Home by chaptear
    chaptear
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    One wrong bus ride shouldn't change anything. But on a quiet winter night, far from the city lights, it leaves him stranded somewhere he's never heard of-where the roads disappear into darkness and the last ride home is already gone. The only way forward is deeper into the night. On a train cutting through falling snow, he meets a girl from a village so small most people don't even know it exists. What begins as a simple conversation between strangers slowly becomes something else-an exchange of stories, regrets, and the quiet truths people rarely say out loud. Between missed stops and midnight stations, two lives briefly intersect. Some journeys begin with a plan. Others begin by getting lost.
  • The Purple Journal  by TheEngineer
    TheEngineer
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    This short story follows a young girl's second-grade year as she documents her family's quiet dissolution. Through her evolving spelling and innocent observations, she tracks her father's deepening depression and her parents' eventual separation. What begins as a simple school assignment becomes a survival tool for processing "temporary" boxes, lonely apartments, and the confusing metaphors of adulthood. Content Warning: This narrative contains themes of parental depression, marital breakdown/divorce, and childhood emotional neglect. It depicts a child's perspective on a family unit "figuring things out" and the subtle grief of losing a parent's presence while they are still physically there.
  • Archangel of Nothing by Dyemaker
    Dyemaker
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    He rejected the world because he could. No prophecy. No catastrophe. No grand purpose. Just a quiet choice, a distant mountain, and a pit said to swallow everything. He jumped. A halo appeared mid-fall. He wandered through caves where mushrooms glowed and turned divine at his touch, where a silent black silhouette with two red eyes stared back in shared confusion, and nothing - absolutely nothing - judged him. He jumped again. And woke in the same ordinary house, the same quiet life. The halo never left. No one else can see it. No one else can touch it. But he can - cool, solid light circling his head like a crown no one asked for. A slow, unapologetic story about refusing everything... and being given almost nothing in return. Just existence, slightly altered. Forever.
  • The Last Cup of Rice by raineandruin
    raineandruin
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    She cooked rice the night after he died. Not knowing he had someone else grieving him, too. A quiet, slow-burning story about the kind of betrayal that's only revealed after the casket closes - and how grief doesn't care who was loved more. For the ones who never got the answers. For the ones who were left behind. For the ones who loved someone who was never really theirs.
  • Oh, the Pretence! by JRkingAuthor
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    "She's lived small for a long time. "
  • The Archive Between by Ayxious
    Ayxious
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    Dreams were supposed to be harmless. A place I could enter and leave at will. Then one night, I open my eyes somewhere else. A place too quiet, too white, too empty. A place that remembers me. The border is soft like glass. The bed floats. The console hums with dreams I don't recall living. It feels like lucidity. It feels like freedom. Is it?
  • It's Something  by sweetmundane
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    It was easy. That was the whole point. No labels. No pressure. No overthinking. Just... something. Until Jo realised it wasn't enough. And Tom realised he might actually lose her. Now they're stuck somewhere in between- not nothing, not everything- trying to figure out what this is... without ruining it completely.
  • Cathedrals by hecallsmehischild
    hecallsmehischild
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    Oneshot. Shorthanded on liminal phenomena experts, the Swollen Eyeball sends Agent Mothman out to investigate an unusual situation that crossed their radar. But Dib gets caught in a brutal storm and seeks shelter in a strange, compact building that appears in his path.
  • American Dreams We Carried by richstories
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    📅 New chapters every Friday ✍️ Written in simple, easy English so more people can feel the story. This is not just a story. It is a life many people carry quietly They thought coming here would change everything. They didn't know what it would take. They didn't come to New York chasing dreams. They came carrying them. A quiet house in Queens-New York, shared spaces, and rules no one explains. Strangers become family. Silence says more than words. Each woman is building something: a future, a way out, a version of herself she hasn't reached yet. The house has its own rhythm. Its own way of holding people together. No one talks about it. But everyone feels it. Between long workdays, late-night thoughts, and messages from home, they begin to understand what it really means to stay... to endure... and to keep going. Because some dreams don't change your life. They ask you to survive it.
  • The Boy Who Stayed (Short Story) by FragmentDreamer
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    The Boy Who Stayed tells a tender, post-apocalyptic coming-of-age story set in Reality Alpha-0001-A, part of the Fractal Multiverse. In 2199, in the silent ruins of Mexico City, a lonely boy named Tiran lives with his green-furred cat, Ayo, among fading memories and overgrown streets-until a distant sky-city reaches out and reminds him that he may not be as alone as he once believed. A soft, atmospheric short story about belonging, resilience, memory, and finding hope in a world that almost forgot how to breathe.
  • Forty-Forty by TheLastPage_01
    TheLastPage_01
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    An ordinary day. A saffron ice cream. A smile at a bank card with his own name on it. But why does everything start over again?
  • Where The Monsoon Felt Like Home by Tas_ye
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    Mayana arrived in the small hill town with little to no expectation. But, between mist-covered mornings, rain-soaked paths, and days that unfold with gentle familiarity, the place begins to feel like home. As the monsoon settles over the hills, Mayana finds herself reflected in the weather around her, its calm, its restlessness, its quiet depth. Where the Monsoon Felt Like Home is a tender coming-of-age story about belonging, fleeting connections, and the places that shape us without asking us to stay. A story of a season lived fully, and the traces it leaves behind.
  • Silent Dignity by JustADecentStoryWrit
    JustADecentStoryWrit
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    In the quiet, frost-covered town of Kamakura, 12-year-old Daisuke wakes each morning to a world painted in muted grays and whites. His small, worn home is filled with the faint scent of miso soup and the soft warmth of his grandmother Aiko's love-a love that keeps him going even when the cold bites deep. Abandoned by parents who left after a bitter separation before he was even born, Daisuke is raised by Aiko, an aging woman struggling with her own pains and burdens. At school, he feels the weight of being unwanted, sitting alone while others laugh and play. Inside, he wrestles with questions about family, love, and belonging-questions that echo louder than the winter wind. But amid the hardships, quiet moments of hope and connection shine through. Aiko's gentle hands mend his clothes, her soft voice promises he is not alone, and their shared resilience becomes a powerful bond. This story follows Daisuke's journey through loneliness and loss toward the strength found in unexpected love and silent courage.