Self-journey Stories

a harrowing and deeply moving exploration of the "Emotional Keeper"-the man who absorbs everyone else's poison until it begins to rot him from the inside out. When a silent health crisis forces Julian to finally reach for the support he has spent decades providing to others, he discovers a devastating truth: his family and friends don't love him; they love his utility. When he tries to speak, he is muted. When he shows his wounds, they are weaponized against him. The book follows Julian's slow, agonizing realization that his heart has become so fragile that a single loud word feels like a physical blow. Forced into a "quiet departure," Julian must walk away from everything-and everyone-he has ever known to find the person he was before the world told him his only value was his silence. From the suffocating suburbs of his childhood to the salt-aired solitude of a new life, Julian learns the hardest lesson of all: that boundaries are not an act of war, but an act of survival.

Good women with head on her shoulder gets involved with barista from the wrong side of the tracks. She waits around for him to change and it tears her apart. She moves to a new town and has a rich guy and poor guy fighting over her but she cannot be involved with them. She is also secretly attracted to the smart guy by the lake. One of their friends knows someone from her past and wants to stir up trouble. What will happen? Who will she chose? Will she be able to keep away from the ones she is not supposed to be with? This story is full of heartbreak, love, lust, suspense and happily every after.

I am a bird with clipped wing, I have always craved the open sky, but I am a prisoner both of cage and fear.

Enter the secret underground world of the dancers and performers who live for the night. Jacob, a lonely man, who has just arrived to New York City goes with his new friend/neighbor, John to the secret under ground club in the heart of what is believed to be by the New York citizens as an abandoned building. Jacob will go on a self journey towards finding himself and also what it is like to fall in love for the first time.

Rori is a simple college girl who loves to read, Sami is a girl who loves plants. When saving a cat the two meet, there is a spark which generates something between them which could be more than a friendship, will it last and what will the future bring ??

" I am done with your kind" he said

This story is a parallel one-shot to Understanding where Momo deals with the guilt of what she did with Toshiro and comes to understand her little brother a little more. Disclaimer - I don't own Bleach. Original publication date 11-25-09.

Hudson Burke is often referred to as the Golden Boy. He is a straight-A student, an amazing baseball player, polite, attractive, and his family is very wealthy. He gets everything he wants, no questions asked. But when Hudson's family moves to a completely different town, he breaks down. He is no longer the Golden Boy. Can Hudson climb his way back to the top? Will Hudson find a way to be happy again? Find out in The Golden Boy, by ReadWriteRun.