Simmering Stories

Some people leave because staying would have required more than they had left to give. Some people let them go for the same reason. Three years is enough time to build something - a career, a life, a version of yourself that does not need what it used to need. Roux Calloway has done all three. Jeon Sewon has done none. When a development contract brings her back into his orbit - not by accident, though it will take her the better part of a year to understand the full architecture of the collision - Roux finds herself navigating a world that has never wanted her in it. Not the project. Not the professional table. The world behind his name: the family, the legacy, the machinery of expectation that a man like Sewon carries without always acknowledging how much of it he wears. This is not a love story that forgives easily or arrives without cost. It is built from what two people owe each other when they have already failed once - not absolution, not a clean return to something, but the harder work of deciding whether the thing between them is worth the fight it will take to protect it from the people who have already decided it is not. Roux does not disappear. Sewon does not hide. And the city of Chicago, cold and loud and indifferent, holds the space between them while they figure out what it means to choose each other for the first time - the right way.

When opportunity comes knocking, Carly takes it.

An acclaimed singer and goth woman named Jessie Franzese (the book's protagonist) is murdered by neck snap in a hate crime, orchestrated by the malevolent Cult of the Violet Eagle, only to be revived just five days later by a supernatural swarm of Ravens and turned into a superhuman. Powered with healing, enhanced strength, and super reflexes, armed with a katana and a 44. Magnum, and equipped with a wide brimmed hat, her singing outfit, and a leather trench coat that allows her to fly, Jessie sets out to rescue her wife Emily from the cult when she learns that they kidnapped her.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine "Kahit anong mangyari laging nandito si kuya" malambing na sambit niya sakin habang nilalaro ang aking buhok. The wind blew making the wind chimes to make a melodious sound. You make me happy when skies are gray "Walang sino man ang pwedeng manakit sayo ipinapangako ko yan" You never know dear how much I love you Marahan niyang itinaas ang aking baba upang magtama ang aming paningin, his eyes are soulful, mixed emotions are evident with his stares. Please don't take my sunshine away "Don't move" bulong niya sakin saka dahan-dahang inilapat ang kaniyang malambot na labi sa akin. The way he kissed me sent shivers down my spine and ignited an unfamiliar wave of feelings within me. This is wrong, but it felt so right. I did not realize that something can be beautiful as this mistake. Marahan siyang lumayo at isinandal ang kaniyang noo sa akin, never breaking our eye-contact. Inilagay niya ang aking mga takas na buhok sa likod ng aking tainga. "I love you."

Justice, the powerful CEO of NYC's Veridian Press, needs a date-fast. His cheating ex, Mason, will be at both his cousin's wedding and his high school reunion, and Justice refuses to look like the one left behind. His solution? Luke Dalton, the quiet, kind-hearted small-town vet who treats his Yorkie. At a charity gala, Justice impulsively introduces Luke as his boyfriend-and Luke plays along. What begins as a fake relationship with a strict "no feelings" rule soon becomes complicated. Between nosy family, old wounds, and Mason's attempts to interfere, Luke's steady warmth starts breaking through Justice's guarded heart. As fake kisses turn real and walls begin to fall, Justice must face the truth: sometimes the person meant to heal you is the one you never saw coming.

with months of back rent to pay, ruby's audition tommorow is her only hope to escape homelessness. Except her plans for her broadway big break might be temporarily put on hold tonight by a mysterious, stranger with feverishly hot kisses. disclaimer: this is a chapters interactive story, the author is Helena Hunting

A picture-perfect love story set in the world of two middle-class black artists, Jaheim and Sanna share almost an instant connection after a chance meeting at The Boardwalk. A story made to illuminate black love in its excellence for everything that it's worth.

"𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏, 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖."

Vacation! A whole three weeks away from their usual lives, a group of friends decide to take some weeks off and just chill, relax and kick back. Just not as easy as that for Geles and Yashel who've always had those kind of feelings for each other and have difficulty in steering clear away from each other. Now imagine in a house of horny ass motherfuckers called their friends, turning the house upside down...where does that leave the two deprived friends who so wish to have benefits