Slowburnstory Stories

Some crossings are not journeys - they are decisions you can never undo. When unease begins to ripple through Pearl City, Mei Lin chooses what seems the most responsible path: moving her family to the Royal Kingdom, a place promised to offer stability, fairness, and opportunity. She tells herself it is only a bridge between two lives. But the bridge she steps onto is made of paper. Fragile. Silent. One way. Behind her, ageing parents continue their days without her presence, their voices gradually becoming phone calls, then memories. Ahead, her children grow roots in unfamiliar soil, speaking of the future in a language of belonging she herself never fully acquires. Work brings its own disillusionments - partnerships that cool, institutions that feel distant, expectations of certainty replaced by quiet ambiguity. The new home offers safety, yet never quite feels secure; the old home remains emotionally close, yet increasingly unreachable. Years later, another truth surfaces: she did not only leave her parents behind - one day, she may also find herself separated from her children, whose idea of "home" no longer includes the city she once called hers. Migration, she learns, is not simply relocation. It is a slow reshaping of identity, family, and time itself. And still, somewhere beneath the uncertainty, she holds a fragile hope - that fairness, dignity, and the possibility of true belonging may yet exist, even if the path toward them is unclear. Paper Bridge is a story about departure, generational distance, quiet resilience, and the invisible cost of choosing a future that can never fully replace the past.

Some inherit land. Others inherit silence. She chose to inherit the fire. A house once ruled by silence. A fire that burns for truth. Maris Chalmers never expected to return to the estate where her ancestors once served. Now, with her daughter Alaia, she's turning its history into a home - a bed and breakfast called Ash and Bread. But one careless remark from a guest awakens the old pain of what it means to be seen - and unseen - in your own story. In the flicker of firelight, Maris must decide what inheritance she will keep, and what she must burn to keep her light alive. 🔥 Ash and Bread Where memory is served warm. And silence is never the final word.

This takes place after Vecna and everything happened. Max is in the hospital, awake and getting better. Mike and Eleven broke up on the ride back to Hawkins. Will distances himself from Mike. Will and Jonathan end up staying at the Wheeler's residence because the cabin is too small. Joyce, Hopper, and El stay at the cabin. El visits Max a lot but normally has Joyce or Hopper there with her. Other ships will take place. You must wait to find out which.

CHAPTER 1 IS OUT. Lol, idk why am I doing this- Haven't got a good title- lmao anyways this book might get abandoned later on if I lose interest. But yeah. Just read the book if you wanna know what this is about. I got this idea from my dream last night. Yes. I dreamed about an RQ alternate universe like it's some cinematic movie soon to come in the cinemas nationwide. Look, Idk I don't have good summary cause I might as well just spoil everything if I do.

𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐀 𝐒𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐕𝐀 has lived her entire life living what she believes. Granddaughter of writers from the independence era, daughter of a novelist and an advocate, Asha has inherited a house where arguments, manuscripts, and dissent were ordinary things. Her own essays-sharp, unflinching pieces on women in India-have made her a familiar name across newspapers and social media. Admiration never arrives without backlash, and Asha has learned to treat praise and protest with the same steady breath. When outrage erupts over her latest book, Asha prepares to return home as calmly as she left it. But India loves a spectacle, and her return places her closer to a world she has only observed from afar-the world of publishing families, inherited legacies, polite negotiations, and expectations spoken more quietly than threats. 𝐊𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐈 has grown up inside that world. The elder son of a respected publishing house- MANORAMA , Kabir is known for his composure, his courtesy, and a reputation that rarely draws attention. Where Asha challenges, Kabir smooths. Where Asha confronts, Kabir listens. Their families recognise a natural compatibility: literature on both sides, professionalism on both sides, a future that might be grounded rather than dramatic. Set against the shifting atmospheres of contemporary India-public anger, private ambition, old loyalties, and new opportunities-this is a story about two people who meet at the intersection of legacy and choice. Neither of them is searching for transformation. Both of them believe they understand themselves. What could be simpler than that? ⸻

Jihoon is Korea's golden football star - adored, wealthy, and exhausted by the emptiness fame can't fill. In search of stability, he agrees to an arranged marriage, trusting his family's choice. What he doesn't expect is Eunha - guarded, wounded, and convinced she's been sold like a trophy. To her, their marriage is a cage. To him, it's a chance to finally come home. In a foreign city where silence speaks louder than words, two strangers must learn to share a life. But Eunha is built from abandonment, and Jihoon is hiding cracks he's never faced. Slowly, gently, their story unfolds - not in grand gestures, but in quiet moments where love waits to be let in. A slow-burn, emotionally rich romance about healing, home, and the courage to stay.

Getting to Nowhere is an epic dark fantasy saga where the world itself is the protagonist - a vast, ever-shifting land shaped by forgotten wars, fractured kingdoms, and the passage of unknowable time. Across continents where time bends and reality rewrites itself, empires rise only to fall into myth, and heroes are remembered not for their triumphs, but for what they couldn't escape. In this world, no path is straight. No future is certain. And no one truly knows where the story leads. Told through multiple eras and voices, Getting to Nowhere explores a realm where magic decays, truth fractures, and even gods must face what lies beyond their design. As generations clash and civilizations unravel, the question remains: What happens when the journey never ends - and the destination may not exist? A brutal, visionary tale of war, identity, and fate, Getting to Nowhere is a fantasy not about where we go - but what we become along the way.