Realsticfiction Stories

Alexander is a powerful and emotionally gripping novel about identity, love, loss, and the courage to remain true to yourself in a world determined to change you. Growing up in a deeply religious small town in Nigeria, Alexander has always known she is different. Her masculine appearance, quiet strength, and refusal to conform make her the target of ridicule, rejection, and violence. When she experiences love for the first time, she discovers a sense of belonging she never thought possible. But in a community where prejudice outweighs compassion, that love comes at a devastating cost. After tragedy strikes, the people who tried to erase Alexander's story are confronted by a movement determined to remember her. Through journals, memories, and the voices of those she inspired, her life becomes a symbol of resilience, hope, and the enduring power of truth. Heartbreaking yet deeply human, Alexander explores the consequences of intolerance, the complexity of faith and family, and the lasting impact one life can have on countless others. It is a story about being seen, being remembered, and the courage to live authentically even when the world demands otherwise.

Peter runs a bookshop where the days repeat and the solitude never asks anything of him. He opens early. He sorts shelves. He goes home alone. He likes it fine. Then Sara walks back in after years away, her five-year-old daughter Mia trailing behind her with a stuffed fox and too many questions. They knew each other once. Teenagers circling the same store without ever quite colliding. Now she's tired, fierce, and carrying more than she'll admit. Mia claims a reading rug. Sara starts staying longer. And Peter realizes the emptiness he'd grown used to was never comfortable at all. But Sara fought hard to stand on her own. And the closer Peter gets, the more she fears losing the ground she built beneath her feet. Until Tomorrow Comes is a quiet, character-driven story about love that arrives gently and leaves a mark. About the difference between being alone and being lonely. About what it costs to let someone in and what it costs not to.

Samiya Sterling wasn't looking for anything outside of school, family, and keeping her life in order. Simple. Predictable. Safe. -- "Yuh always suh tense?" Najeeri asked, his voice cutting through the thick atmosphere. "I don't think I am at all." I retorted before I had the chance to think about my response. -- But after meeting Najeeri, she begins to learn that life, cannot be predicted.

She promised herself she would never fall in love again. But sometimes promises we make to protect our hearts are the ones life decides to test. The Tested Promise is a heartfelt story of first love, heartbreak, healing, and finding the strength to keep moving forward

She measured her waist every morning. He measured his hope in months. The measuring tape won. Amara has spent her life controlling her body - measuring, restricting, sculpting - because she believes her worth lives in her waistline. When pregnancy forces her body to change in ways she can't control, she faces an impossible choice: let go of the identity she's built, or fight to keep it at any cost. Her boyfriend Alex watches her disappear into obsession. He begs her to stop. She hides. She lies. She works out in secret, wearing corsets at night, tightening the measuring tape until something finally breaks. This is not a romance. It's a reckoning. A story about muscle memory, inherited trauma, and the brutal difficulty of unlearning the beliefs that have become our identity. Because the body keeps everything - even the things we wish it would let go. 🕯️ Content warning: pregnancy loss, body image struggles, emotional distress. 16+ #Dark Romance#Psychological Fiction#Women's Fiction#Contemporary Romance#Emotional#Sad Story#Grief#Loss#BodyImage#Obsession#Love#Heartbreak#PregnancyLoss#Trauma#Healing#SlowBurn#Angst#RealisticFiction#Tearjerker#New Adult #Character Driven#Literary Fiction#Relationship Drama#Mental Health#Self Discovery#Emotional Rollercoaster#Dark Themes#Intense#Romance With Depth#Coming of Age#Family Drama#Mothers andDaughters#DomesticFiction#Infertility#Miscarriage#Grief and Healing

A 21-year-old racing driver escapes the spotlight during the off-season and embarks on a road trip across Taiwan. Along the way, he meets a college student who unexpectedly becomes his traveling companion. Over thousands of kilometers, they discover each other-and themselves.

THE LONDON SMILE. Millions know his face. She doesn't. Gracie has always believed that the best moments in life happen by accident. A wrong turn on the Underground. A forgotten side street. A tiny London café hidden between crowds of strangers. She never expected that one ordinary morning would lead her to Sammy a quiet, thoughtful young man with an easy smile, an uncanny knowledge of art, and secrets he never quite explains. To Gracie, he's simply someone who makes London feel a little less lonely. To the rest of the world, he is someone else entirely. As chance encounters become impossible to forget, photographs begin appearing online. Rumours spread. Headlines explode. Suddenly, the ordinary life Gracie has always cherished collides with a world of sold-out stadiums, relentless cameras, impossible expectations, and a fame powerful enough to destroy the very thing they are trying to protect. Because everyone thinks they know him. No one truly does. Caught between two completely different worlds, Gracie must decide whether love is worth the cost of losing the life she's always known, while Min-jun is forced to confront the question he's spent years avoiding: When millions love the person you've been told to become... who could ever love the person you really are? Heart-warming, emotional, and impossible to put down, The London Smile is a story about fame and anonymity, first love and impossible choices, and how sometimes the smallest act of kindness can change two lives forever. Some people saw the star. She saw the man.

To be disillusioned is to feel disappointed, let down, or disenchanted after discovering that a person, ideal, or situation is not as good, true, or flawless as you once believed. Cortessa Diaz and Legend Noir experience disillusionment firsthand as their first loves show their true colors. Now, they've built walls they allow no one to break through, until they meet each other. Will they learn how to love again? Or will that feeling of being disillusioned haunt them forever? Also based on the song "Disillusioned" by Daniel Caesar.

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Almost, Maybe Yours The last time Khalid spoke to Iremide, he left without an explanation. No goodbye. No closure. Just silence. Now, years later, he's back- with the same voice she never quite forgot... and the same feelings she thought she buried. Iremide has always believed in love- the kind that consumes you, breaks you, and somehow still feels worth it. The problem? Love has never quite believed in her. Especially not Khalid- the boy who almost chose her, almost stayed, almost gave her a reason to believe. But never did. This time, things are different. She is different. The only question is- will he finally choose her... or will she learn to stop choosing him?

Temptation In Cleats. A college athlete romance where she is emotionally unavailable and meets a boy that lights up her whole world, tempting her to fall into the temptation of love.

Through small observations and gentle daydreams, ordinary moments become meditations on self awareness, gratitude, loneliness, empathy, and the quiet stories that surround us every day. Each story begins with something easily overlooked: a passing stranger, a changing light, a small detail; and follows wherever the imagination leads. None of these imagined lives may be true, but perhaps they don't have to be.

She thought the perfect number on the scale would finally make her happy... but she never expected the real battle to be inside her own mind. A story about weight, identity, and finding herself again.

In a quiet town of Taiping, Rizal Salleh has always known the rhythm of his days. The scent of leather, the careful stitching of soles, the familiar faces that pass by his small workshop. But some paths are not meant to stay in one place. When an unexpected opportunity calls him beyond the town he has always known, Rizal finds himself stepping into a journey that will take him across unfamiliar roads, cultures, and people-each leaving behind something he cannot quite name, but cannot forget. Along the way, he begins to understand that some things are not simply made by hand... but shaped by stories, memories, and the quiet connections we carry with us. Langkah Warisan is a gentle journey of discovery, heritage, and the footsteps we leave behind. Malay words and phrases are woven throughout the story to preserve its cultural voice. The journey begins with a 3-chapter release followed by one chapter every Saturday, Monday and Thursday. And if you like to learn more behind the process of creating Langkah Warisan, feel free to follow instagram account @langkah.warisan

🏆x3 Awards! ✨️Second Place for Best Cover in the Cassiopeia Mini Awards. Proud to say What Was Held made the short list in The Original Muse Awards! I'm Liliah. Sixteen, almost seventeen. I hate being me. Why? Ten reasons: 1. I'm stuck in Muxleigh - a suffocating seaside town. 2. My mum only cares when it affects her. 3. My step-dad runs our house on fear. 4. I'm failing the person I love most: my six-year-old sister, Forsythia. 5. I don't know who I am... or why I'm here. 6. I attacked the worst boy in town - now I'm hated, and he's still worshipped. 7. My vice? It's leaving scars. 8. My mental health? Apparently I belong in a psych ward. 9. Bexmoore was meant to be a fresh start. It wasn't. 10. I had two chances at something real... and I ruined them both. I'm at breaking point. Hiding in the dirt, literally, I'm not joking. What I hate the most? How alone I feel. Maybe telling my story means someone else won't feel like this. Before it's too late.

We thought we were only writing letters. We never imagined we were writing the beginning of a story that would carry us across countries, silence, war, and the years that followed. Some people don't change your life all at once. They do it quietly.

Aadhya did everything right-studied, tried, waited. But two years later, she's still stuck. Not because she has no choices... But because every choice feels too heavy to make. While everyone else moves forward, she's left questioning herself, her path, and her pace. This isn't a story about having it all figured out. It's about feeling lost, overthinking everything... and learning to move forward anyway. Sometimes, you're not behind. You're just still becoming.

Lukas joined the Eastern Defense League to become a hero. One strike of the Red Beam turns him into something else entirely. Across the front, Anna Petrova - the scientist behind the weapon - watches her creation tear through soldiers, cities, and her conscience. As both sides scramble to understand what the Soviets have unleashed, General Reinhardt begins a political performance that threatens to turn the battlefield into a stage. Operation: Red Theater is a story of broken ideals, impossible weapons, and the moment two lives are shattered by a war that has stopped obeying the rules.

A Lifetime of Becoming is a story about dreams - the kind that begin quietly in small places and slowly grow bigger than fear, distance, or failure. It follows the life of a girl who leaves behind the only world she has ever known to chase a future she once thought was impossible. Bright, kind, and endlessly giving, she steps into adulthood carrying dreams larger than herself, believing hard work and hope are enough to survive the world. But life does not move in straight lines. Set against the changing seasons of youth and adulthood in South Korea, A Lifetime of Becoming is an emotional journey about hope, identity, love, loss, and the quiet strength it takes to keep moving forward even when life turns out nothing like you imagined.

She never believed in love at first sight. She believed in friendship. In late-night conversations. In coding questions asked just to keep talking. In birthdays remembered. In ordinary moments that quietly become extraordinary. After years of silence, the boy she'd loved finally confessed his feelings. It should have been the beginning of their story. Instead, it became the day everything started falling apart. Right Person, Wrong Time is a story about timing, hope, misunderstandings, and the kind of love that refuses to disappear even when every reason tells it to. For anyone who's ever wondered whether love alone is enough... This story is for you.