Standalone Stories

Standalone #2 "Ganu'n ka ba kahirap mahalin? Hindi naman ah...duwag lang kasi sila." . . . They say that the happiest person they've ever met hides the deepest pain and heartbreak they experienced. For Raze Almario, he struggled on how to fit in society where every person he knows has a complete family. Despite the jealousy and madness in him, Dax Mallardo managed to find his way to climb his high and thick walls despite hating each other for years. For Dax, nothing is impossible when it comes to Raye; to fight for the truth that he was too tired and exhausted to hide anymore; to fight for the love he denied for too long.

**Black and Blue** When Melissa Crawford's father dies, the last person she expects to see at his grave is Zephrif. A wanted criminal from her past and a man she never intends to forgive. Now, through a promise made before his death, Zephrif has become her bodyguard. Melissa is certain he is hiding something. Zephrif refuses to explain himself. As the two are forced to work together, old wounds resurface and uncomfortable questions begin to emerge. The more Melissa searches for answers surrounding her father's death, the more she realizes the truth may be far different from what she has always believed. Between corporate responsibilities, family secrets, dangerous discoveries, and a growing bond neither of them wanted, Melissa must decide whether to cling to her anger or confront the reality standing in front of her. Some scars are left by betrayal. Others are left by the truth. **Black and Blue** is a story of grief, redemption, faith, forgiveness, and learning that the people we judge most harshly are sometimes the ones fighting hardest to protect us.

Samir Batra has a simple plan. Gain the favour of his project manager and secure a promotion. It's an easy enough task. He has the advantage of being the most likeable person in the office. Surely, his charming self would be enough to melt the Ice Lady? But things are not as easy as he assumes them to be. As the project progresses to completion, something else begins to bloom. Icy exteriors melt and pretence withers away. Left behind is the genuine affection and respectful intimacy. Kashish Roy shifts from being the tough grump everyone knows to the soft hearted sweetheart he comes to know. This is unexpected. Uncharted territory. Untested waters. So, here's the question. What happens when his goals and feelings become tangled? Boundaries blur, and Samir is left wondering. When did Mission Promotion turn into something...more? - an office romcom - Tropes: • romantic comedy • reverse grumpy x sunshine • colleagues to lovers • oblivious ml x obvious fl • chalant ml x nonchalant fl • golden retriever ml x black cat fl • happy ending Updates every Saturday Early updates on Rowllr every Wednesday and Saturday.

"For those who thinks love is nothing but a fvcking distraction." ----- Aryan Rathore, Second name in the whole undunderworld everyone fears him. He is a Mafia who never feared anyone until she crashed in his life- or rather- in his car. Every single person fears his anger even him. But he...?? Well, he feared his 5'4 feet jaana- The one and only one- Anisha Sharma. She is a Cardiologist for everyone because after the sun set, she's a name in the Mafia. He has the power to bring the world to her feets but what she asks him is to bring free ka dhaniya and butterscotch ice cream... And guess what...?? He brings everything she says... A proud Joru Ka Gulam written by me. ------ Then come this mf. Akhil Rathore. He's a hacker, working with her brother in Mafia and for the world, He's a COO. He fell for the Green House Captain- Aradhya Mehra in their college time and become a couple but a misunderstanding happened because Author can't let them happy na 😚. She's currently a hacker, working with Anisha. "He can hack the world, but when it comes to her, He always fails." ------ And last but not least, This man- Shourya Malhotra. He's a well known CEO of Malhotra Empire fell for his biggest college Rival- Abhira Rathore. She's a proud Photographer and A diva. They are college rivals bound in a Contract Marriage. "He breaks bone while she breaks his ego." Well, get ready to dive in their stories...

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.

𝐈𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐤𝐞 𝐤𝐨 𝐤𝐨𝐢 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐣𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐞 𝐏𝐲𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐚 𝐣𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐤𝐲𝐮 𝐲𝐞 𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞? ༘ ̊⋆𐙚. ⋆𖦹. ✧ ̊ 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐌 - 𝐂𝐎𝐌 What if a chant ladki meets a bhondu ladka where she just says anything that comes on her mind and always creates trouble and a bhondu ladka takes one hour just to reply to one word and save her from every problem ‧₊ᵎᵎ🍒⋅°✮ "Oye chikne" "Haan pretty nuisance" 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐤𝐲𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐢? ✩°𓏲⋆🌿. ⋆⸜ 🍵✮˚ 𝘏𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴. So opposite attracts? Not maybe, definitely. Dive in the book to find out her endless rant and annoying him for no reason and see how he fell for her harder than he thought when he was too hopeless to fall in love

My father missed twenty-four of my birthdays. Then he mailed me an apology and a cursed thing. It looks like a Magic 8 Ball. It isn't. There's no seam in it. The die inside has too many faces. And the instruction slip folded under the packing straw says it does not predict the future - it decides it. ⚫ Twenty answers. No more, no less. ⚫ One question each, at the hour you were born. ⚫ Every answer must be paid for. My assistant asked it one careless question on a Thursday evening. By Friday he was in a coma, and the little window read: IT IS ALREADY DONE. My father worked out how it collects. It isn't money. It isn't years. It reaches down the shortest line between you and whatever would hurt most - and takes that. Which makes a lonely person almost safe. And me? I have a friend in a hospital bed, a father I haven't forgiven, and a man down at the harbor I've never once let myself want out loud. I'm a very good battery. There are nineteen marks cut around its shell. Two answers have been spent and the number hasn't moved. It isn't counting what it's given. It's counting what it's owed. ⚠️ Slow-burn horror romance. Updates daily. ⚠️ CW: grief, hospitals, parental death, brief body horror.

A companion sequel to Across the Driveway, but can be read as a standalone. Lara Jay has always believed that some things can't be stitched back together. Trust. Family. Love. Jax Ravi was never supposed to become one of them. Ten days before freshman year, one argument destroyed everything they had spent months building. Now they're both starting over at UC Davis. Or at least, they try to. Instead, they discover their apartment doors are directly across the hallway from each other. Close enough to hear every goodbye. Close enough to avoid every hello. Walking away would be easy... ...if they hadn't already signed a contract that forces them to play UC Davis's newest power couple. Smile for the cameras. Hold hands for the brand. Pretend nothing happened in August. But the longer they fake a relationship they already lost, the harder it becomes to ignore the past. Because maybe the hardest part of losing your first love... ...is living twenty feet away from them.

Cassandra is a simple girl with a simple life with her loving parents and siblings. Wala kang maipipintas sa pagka tao nya. Dahil hindi lang sya mabait, matulungin, malalahanin, siya ay mapagmahal na anak at ate. Isang napakagandang dalaga na lumaki sa mundo ng mga tao. Magbabago kaya ang mga katangiang meron siya kapag nalaman niya na isa siyang ampon at malaman ang totoong pagkatao. Will she really change or not. Will she believe that she has a powers or magic. And will she accept the truth that she is...... The Lost Princess Of Crystalia. Will she accept the prophecy or will she run? Let's find out and come to her journey. Her story is now begin...

Cynthia Antonette Velasquez, a young adult province girl. She is one of the one who creates distance. She doesn't like closure. She creates trouble to be hated, blamed herself for everything. That was her entire life after losing someone important and cherished. She lived in the shadows of her twin brother's life after his death. After a tragic took him away from them. She turned cold, guarded but trapped. Then she met him, Achilles Andromeda, a guy she called Kuya for every reason at school, a guy she was supposed to be simply enemies with at school. ~~~ What will happen if her locked feelings start blooming open? Ma fa-fall ba siya kay Kuya niya?

"Her eyes." He replied when the interviewer asked, "What's your favorite thing to watch when you're not doing anything?" "Apna sab kuchh chhor aaya tha, par mera sab kuchh yahin mil gaya." He said, admiring her with devotion. ♡ 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗩𝗜𝗞 𝗞𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗔 A global superstar famous for his golden voice. Kind, handsome, funny, and known for giving the best concerts. To the world, he was sunshine in human form. But behind the fame was a man who had stopped believing in himself long ago, carrying the weight of his past and struggling with depression. When a false scandal destroyed the image he had spent years building, Rishvik ran away from the world, disappearing to hurt himself, only to end up as a teacher in a small village school. "I only sing love, I don't do love." ♡ 𝗩𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥 A pahadi girl and a gold medalist in English Literature who left Mumbai after graduation, never telling anyone the reason why. After losing her parents at a young age, she stopped letting herself get attached to people. She runs a bookstore café in Shimla, teaches at her grandparents' school, and secretly writes love stories on Wattpad. She believes in love enough to write about it, but not enough to expect it for herself. And she absolutely hated the new teacher, not knowing who he really was. "Will I ever find the kind of love I write about?" ♡ The kind of love you see in old Bollywood movies. (Ramaiya Vastavaiya, Jab We Met coded <3) If Maula Mere Maula song was a book, it's be Healing The Star. Possible sad ending? Maybe. (NO SMUT)

Somewhere between sleep and reality, there is a boy who has no face. Only light. I don't know who he is, or why I keep finding him in places that don't exist. But every time I wake up, I remember him.

Fiction vs. Reality · Reader-to-Reader Confessions · Fiction-Obsessed · Short Standalone Read Hey, fellow reader-ah, thank God you saw this. I could use a reader friend to talk to. A cozy little pause for readers who are tired of rushing from plot to plot. Sometimes you don't want another twist. Another secret. Another emotional roller coaster demanding that you turn the next page. Sometimes you just want to sit somewhere quiet for a while. Talk about books. Laugh about fictional men. Admit that a book has completely ruined your standards. Maybe recognize a little bit of yourself in someone else's thoughts. That is what Belle's Note is. A few cozy pages with a hopeless romantic who reads too much, dreams too much, and has a rather complicated relationship with reality. You don't need to read this to follow the series. You can simply sit with Belle for a while. Read. Relate. Laugh. Disagree. Or quietly think, Oh my God. I thought I was the only one. Belle's Note is a short, standalone character piece-a cozy little pause from the rush of plots, twists, and emotional roller coasters. You don't need to solve anything. Just settle in with Belle, let your own thoughts wander, and enjoy the feeling of being understood. And if you happen to finish it wondering what happens when Belle's own story finally begins, there's more waiting for you in the forthcoming 'Novella- Ritual & Make Believe.'

The sinful sisters series is about 5 christian sisters experiencing and battling different sins - and yes they each have their own book. Question is..will their sin define them or just their sinful addiction?

For ten years, Nora Merrick was Desmond Griffin's wife in name only - the woman his mother called on to sign consent forms, give blood, and stay quiet while his mistress's medical bills came first. The night her mother died in a fight the family called an accident, Nora stopped asking permission to leave. She kept her signatures. She kept the recordings. And she built the one thing they never gave her back - a name of her own. A Marriage revenge romance about the wife who was never asked, and the blood she refused to keep giving. 🔥 Only the first chapters are here. Uncover the full story - every twist, every payback - and start reading for free on 👉 NovelHour

Cesar, a man begging for love and appreciation has finally met the woman of his dreams, Leonora. A sweet, understanding, and beautiful lady with the face and voice of a goddess. But then, one day, the love they thought was strong and endless came to an end. The love that made Cesar's heart whole has broken it. Ang pag-ibig na inakalang paraiso ay ang siya ring pag-ibig na sisira sa puso't isipan ni Cesar. The love that gave color to his world is the same love that will destroy his life.

"Eternity means nothing to me if it means that I have to carry the guilt of destroying you." ----------------- Wylie Moore, a Reaper who clings to morality in the absence of life, has made a fatal choice. She's abandoned her oath, and neglected to collect a soul when its fated time came. When an unlikely ally joins her side-Finn Halstead, her silent sworn rival-a timeline is severed, and a soul spared. But the afterlife isn't what it seems, and their act of generosity is deemed a crime, pitting them against the commanding powers themselves for judgement. With a guilty verdict on their hands, it is decided that the two of them will be punished in the worst way possible for a Reaper: Resurrection. Thrust into the rural hometown Wylie grew up in, with her murderer still running free and her memory of her death severed, the two Reapers must navigate a twisting world of lies, ominous shadows with pointed teeth, a forced friendship, and their own growing feelings for one another. But Wylie's murderer remembers. They want her dead again-for good this time-and will stop at nothing to see it come to fruition, even if it costs the lives of others. A Reaper's greatest temptation is revenge. To succumb is to be destroyed. To Refuse is to suffer. Wylie will do anything to get back at her killer. Finn will do anything to atone for past mistakes. Even if it means destroying what he was sent to protect. Book One in the Between Eternity Duology (Can be read as a standalone)

What if a boring vacation turns out to be the beggining of everything. Romina, a gentle and fragile young lady who lives in the quiet and far from the chaos of the city , Sa paraang ito nakasisiguro ang kaniyang mga magulang at kapatid na s'ya ay mapapangalagaan ng mabuti. She grew up without knowing the chaos of city, lumaki s'yang walang mga kaibigan. Sapat na sa dalaga ang maupo sa gilid ng malaking bintana at pagmasdan ang ganda ng paligid and her fingers only held books and paint brushes. Her innocence and gentle demeanor attract a lot of attention lalong lalo na ang mga banyaga. Ninais pa nga ng mga itong hingin ang kamay niya para sa kasal ngunit hindi ito naging madali. Bukod sa sobrang pangangalaga sakan'ya ay pihikan din s'ya sa mga lalaki. Para sakan'ya kung mamarapatin ay ayaw na lamang niyang magpakasal at lisanin ang tahanang kinagisnan niya. And there he is, Zane Elijah Sandoval, Isang lalaking taga syudad. He was an graduating Engeneering with a heart of city. Fun, chaos, troubles; That was his life cycle. He was adventurer, ika nga ng marami isa s'yang certified troublemaker. He seek chaos because he believes it fuels his soul. Ika nga niya walang permanente sa mundong ito miske ang sarili niyang buhay, kaya nanaisin niyang piliin ang maging masaya. But what would be happen if this carefree guy suddenly caught a glimpse of the young lady, that has a opposite demeanor?

Where The Hours Bloom is a poignant and beautifully written slow-burn romantic comedy that explores the fragile dance between love and healing across time zones and continents. Luna Fortalejo is a 21-year-old working student in the University of the Philippines, juggling her Medical Technology degree and late-night shifts at McDonald's. Independent, cocky, and fiercely self-sufficient, Luna hides deep-seated anxiety and unresolved trauma behind her smirks and sarcasm. Ever since her parents' divorce, she's built walls to survive-but never to connect. On the other side of the world, Akari Yamada is a half-Japanese, half-Filipina psych student living a quiet life in Chicago. Bright, open-hearted, and undeniably warm, Akari stumbles into Luna's life through a queer Discord server for girls who love girls. Their first chat is innocent. Friendly. But something blooms in the cracks of time zones, voice messages, and late-night calls. What follows is a journey of banter and bonding, emotional confusion and quiet longing. While Akari offers steady warmth, Luna grapples with the storm inside her-pushing, pulling, disappearing. Healing is not a straight line, and neither is love. Set between the humid streets of Manila and the chilly breeze of Chicago, Where The Hours Bloom is a celebration of messy emotions, deep friendship, growing pains, and the kind of love that doesn't rush-but chooses to stay. A romantic comedy for the brokenhearted and the brave, this is not just a love story between two women-it's a story of becoming whole. [ON-GOING]

No matter how much time you spend with someone, sometimes there's things you just don't know about them. This is by far not my best work (Not that I ever post any of it) but I digress. I do hope you enjoy this one shot my darlings <3