Shame Stories

The Perpetual Anguish is my record of a life that slowly stops insisting on its own exception. In my late twenties, I begin to treat every interaction as a quiet confirmation that I am misplaced. Robots outperform me without hesitation. Men and women move through the world with a coherence I cannot replicate-more composed, more capable, more fully assembled, as if they were built correctly while I was left unfinished. Even animals lose their distance. The cat and the dog in my home, simple and self-contained, no longer sit beneath me in any imagined hierarchy. I stop separating myself from them in any meaningful way. I arrive at a blunt, uncomfortable equality: I am on the same level as animals. Not as metaphor, not as comfort-just as fact in the way I experience myself. Another organism reacting to hunger, habit, and routine, without the clarity I keep expecting consciousness to provide. What follows is not collapse, but simplification. I stop believing I am meant for long expression. Long thoughts begin to feel like borrowed clothing-ill-fitting, performative. I give myself permission to exist only in fragments: quotes, jingles, brief observations never exceeding seven lines, each one a way of shrinking before I can be judged for taking up too much space. My inner world contracts around this rule. Every idea is edited before it fully forms. Every sentence is trimmed in advance, as if restraint is the only honest shape I can maintain. And so the book becomes what I have become: a series of brief, controlled reductions. Men and women, robots, and animals all remain moving through their own forms of certainty, while I exist as a quieter, reduced presence among them-no longer reaching upward, only continuing in fragments.

Fading Embers (الجمر الخافت) "One small light against the encroaching dark." Behind the heavy wooden gates of a sun-baked mud house in early Arabia, a silent war is being waged. For young Riham, home is a place of shadows, sharp voices, and a father's hardening resentment. Her existence is fragile, protected only by the fierce, quiet love of her mother, Khadijah. Standing on a breaking bridge between duty and survival, Khadijah carries a crushing weight-pouring her tears onto her prayer mat during Tahajjud, begging for a sanctuary that feels entirely out of reach. But in a world governed by rigid tribal pride, walls cannot keep out the storm forever. When a single domestic spark ignites a dangerous rage, the fragile peace of the household fractures completely, forcing a desperate choice. In a society where the weak are easily extinguished, survival requires a strength that must be forged in the deepest darkness. When the embers of resentment finally boil over, how far will a woman go to protect the light she was born to shield? A gripping historical tale of silent sacrifices, hidden resilience, and the fierce fight to survive against an encroaching dark.

These short stories are written by ChatGPT and released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which means you are completely free to take these ideas, rewrite them better than me, earn recognition from them, make money from them, and forget about me entirely afterward. Truly, nothing would be more tragic than allowing random netizens on the internet to keep insisting I should 'write it myself' when they could simply do it themselves and enjoy all the rewards instead. Stories survive by escaping their creators anyway.

"You want me to stop?" Mr Moriarty smirked as he left a hickey on my neck, holding my hands tightly above my head. "You're so weak that you can't even push me away. You're mine." 19th Century London. England's power and discrimination has birthed a hero who destroys all injustice: 'The Lord of Crime.' The Napoleon of Crime who is feared by all. Except he has a secret... Misaki was a sideshow for her brilliant cousin who won a scholarship for Durham University. Although her beauty, grace and gentle nature is unmatched, she is extremely frail and prone to illness. Just a lifeless jewel. Just a fragile butterfly. Just a fleeting blossom. But there's more to her than meets the eye... When these two souls meet, a passion blooms that cannot be extinguished. Lust, desire, shame. How will the brilliant criminal stage of London play out? How will their past come back to haunt them? Based on the 'Sherlock Holmes' Stories by Sir Arthur Colan Doyle and the 'Moriarty the Patriot' Anime and Manga by Ryōsuke Takeuchi and Hikaru Miyoshi. Cover by Harw_99 Copyright © PeonySan 2022

Your body was never meant to become your enemy. And yet, at some point, it did. You compare. You control. You promise yourself it's the last time - and then it happens again. Trapped in the Body is a psychological exploration of why body image struggles rarely begin with vanity - and almost always begin with emotions, shame, comparison, and the need for safety. Drawing on psychological research, real-life mechanisms, and emotional experiences, Marta Ewa Mazurek explores: - why thoughts about the body become obsessive - why comparison feels automatic - why food, control, or avoidance bring temporary relief - how social media intensifies shame and self-monitoring - and where real change actually begins This is not a book about "loving your body." It is a book about understanding why you learned to fight it in the first place. A psychological non-fiction book about body image, emotions, emotional regulation, shame, and self-perception.

There once was a girl name Autumn Leaf Falls. She talked to her dead brother in windows and had a werewolf boyfriend. She was cursed by an evil vampire and her best friend turned out to be someone no one had expected her to be. This story is about the life of a young girl who accidentally stumbles in to a wolf pack. She falls in-love and a war breaks lose. Who will live, who will die? But most importantly, who will stay the same?

Growing up in a dying industrial town, a skinny Catholic school boy learned early that some desires could never be spoken aloud...

This man has gone through a lot. Ex's, abuse, manipulation, sexual assault, deaths, losses, addictions.

Here is a memoir that I started. I debated whether or not to post this. I hate sharing things about myself, but here it is. I suppose I could always delete this if I needed to. This is not a work of fiction, I wish it was. It's really personal and I would appreciate not having rude comments posted please. Let me know what you think....but don't be a dick. There are some references to sexual abuse, but I try not to go into too much detail.

#Yatiz is a story focusing on the lives of young people in a small seaside municipality called Carmen in the southern part of the Philippines. The name is based on a cuss word here, "Yati/Yatis" that has no English equivalent but is closest to WTF. It will be focusing on themes of slut-shaming, sexuality, family pressure, grades, identity, colorism, cyber-bullying, toxic masculinity, peer pressure and many more issues prevalent among the youth of the Philippines.

A year has passed. Maybe, after a year, it's finally time to be happy again. Even if it means this disappears before anyone can see it.

Small story On regret

Set in the popular Mass Effect universe, this story details the teenage life of a female Commander Shepard, her upbringing in the urban jungles of Earth and her everyday struggles with friends, school and the 10th Street Reds criminal gang. She seems to have a hang of things, until she suddenly finds herself targeted by one of the biggest mercenary companies in the galaxy: the ruthless Blue Suns.

This is kind of a dark poem. It's my first so tell me what you think.. just don't be to harsh(:

Isabelle (Izzy) Johnson has never even thought of having a real friend in high school because of the embarrassment of her mother's drinking and pill-popping problems. That all changes when she meets Jasmine (Jas) Pierce. It's senior year and Isabelle is finally 18. One more year and she's out of that house for good. She's been working hard in school to get a scholarship to help with college and at her job to save any money she can for college. She can't think about what her mother will do when she leaves for good. She's been the mother to her mother for the past 3 years since her father disappeared. Her mother turned to drinking not long after and lost her job as a result. Isabelle had to step up and get a job to pay for the difference that her father's "death" benefits didn't cover. He was declared dead six months after his disappearance. Her mother believes he's still out there on some deserted island fighting to get back to them. Regardless of there being no survivors of the plane crash. Isabelle doesn't allow herself to have such fantasies, she has to be the adult and think practically. She's never allowed herself to enjoy the benefits of high-school outside of the school itself. That's all about to change though because this is her last year of high school, and she deserves to have some fun. But with the now disappearance of her mother, the struggle to open up about what's going on at home, and the budding chemical attraction between herself and Jeff who happens to be the twin brother of the friend she has finally made. Will Izzy choose friendship over love? Where's her mother disappeared to? Copyright © 2023 Rachel Maloy

It didn't happen, did it? Because who could ever forget something like that for more than ten years?

A collection of some embarrassing moments of my life. Hope they're embarrassing enough? A friend gave me this idea okay, Whoop WHoop! @BookNinja007 copyright © all rights reserved to @areemas_