Substance-abuse Stories

❝She was there for her eating disorder-the kind that made her bones ache and her stomach knot with guilt over even a sip of juice. He was there for substance abuse-the usual cocktail of destruction he'd tried to quit more times than he could count. Somehow, they'd find healing in each other. Neither of them knew it yet.❞ In which Flash and Gigi met under unexpected circumstances Alternative Universe. #5 in #tumblr (05/08/2026) #2 in #alltimelow (05/14/2026)

Dabi and Hawks had a history, forged through two years of the best friendship either of them ever had. That's why, when Dabi said his name -- his REAL name -- in the middle of the Jaku Hospital Raid, Hawks began to spiral deeper and deeper into his past. It was only then that he could begin to forgive the child friend he thought he'd lost to flames. Dabi was never good at holding onto relationships. As much as he tried to outrun them, there were always those who refused to let him go. His siblings, his mother, his old friend... Even after all he'd done, they still welcomed him back home. With the HPSC torn apart, the youngest generation of heroes began to fill in the cracks and build a more just world. Retirement brought the joy and peace Keigo and Touya never dared hope for. OR: The one where Dabi and Hawks were childhood friends at the HPSC and got the happy ever after they deserve. Cover art source: Keiid (MyaRR; @keiidakamya) Childhood Friends AU on Twitter!!

Bucky's handler from 1973. Maroon lips and a plastic smirk, the one who Bucky visits religously. AU/OC fic. Read the tags~ "Do you wonder what we'd be if we were normal?" A pause. "Neither of us could ever be normal, James. Just-- Just stay here. Don't go yet." Updated bi-weekly on Sundays starting next week.

A man goes back to his homecity, seeking refuge in his own struggles in his life. Struggling with addiction, grief and mental struggle, all seems well in the city he returns to, until he's pulled into something that entangles him in the past. Nowhere to escape, he's forced to confront the things he has done in the past and hid from the eyes of others. Warning: This book touches on sensitive topics, so if you struggle with dealing with heavy topics and themes such as violence and addiction. Then please be aware, read at your own pace.

When life's going gets tough, always remember the road that leads home. We all need someone to lean on. Family isn't always defined by blood, it's defined by loyalty, faithfulness and trust. Too many of us hasten off, wanting to be on our own because we have been betrayed. Too quickly we burn bridges, but what if we fixed em? What if we stayed? What if we made things right? You miss them don't you? Your Dad, your mum, uncle and aunt. Siblings, cousins; the name is yours to define. This book aims to give back what's lost, and help us become whole, united and unbreakable. To look beyond rage and fury, and see that humanity isn't perfect. Things are messed up but we can all have "One Big Happy Family."

Desperation changes people from the inside out. That's what Kaia learns as she reels from job loss, bills, piling up, and every dream she's ever had shattering in front of her. And when desperation and depression collide, doors open that should've stayed shut. Dreams become reality, reality becomes a nightmare, and everything Kaia thought she knew can no longer be trusted. What happens when your only chance at survival becomes the very thing dragging you into madness? What's left for Kaia when every foundation has crumbled beneath her, all because she trusted in a sliver of hope?

"Do you love her?". "What?" said Benny rubbing his eyes tiredly. "Um". "Look, Benny," said Harry, "I don't know you very well. But you got me up here for her. You obviously care about her". Benny looked down at his white coffee mug. "Yeah, I do". "Then why don't you do something about it?" Harry questioned. "How do I know she feels the same way". "You don't," said harry. "You need to try to find out though". Benny looked at him. "Thanks... I'll think about it". "Yeah. you do that," Benny thinks about Beth only to get advice from an old friend of hers...

Higher than a kite, Dimitri stumbled into that church for the first time. By some cruel hand of God, Father Michael was the first voice he heard. If it was the holy spirit that introduced the two, it was a bored one, wanting to watch their worlds burn.

Not everything is as it appears.The happiest people cry the most tears.The kindest people have experienced the worst things in life.

Everyone has many ups and downs in their lives, but how much can a 17 year old girl named Amara have? Long story short... this is the story that's Amara Gordon this is not like a book book more or less a story and it's also not completed 😆 but hey, it's pretty great

-in which yoongi is very sad, and jungkook seems like a good remedy.

Kallmekris, aka Kris Collins is struggling mentally and struggles with asking for help. TW: self harm, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, depression, etc.

After a volatile encounter, young Lucy Burrows finds herself at St. Ambrose Hospital-where a fierce woman and a group of doctors alter her life in unexpected ways

There was a boy who used to glow. Before the silence. Before the distance. Before the nights that stretched too long and the mornings that never felt like beginning again. To his father, he was everything. laughter in the kitchen, music through open doors, a life full of promise that felt unbreakable. But slowly, almost quietly, that light begins to fade. Not all at once. Not in a way you can stop. Just enough to notice... and then too much to ignore. Borrowed Light is a haunting story poem about love that refuses to let go, even when it doesn't know how to hold on. Told through fractured moments and aching truths, it follows a father and son caught in a cycle of hope, loss, and the desperate fight to find each other again. This is not a story about easy answers. It is a story about staying. About breaking. About loving someone through the darkest parts of who they become. And about the fragile, flickering hope that maybe. just maybe some light can still be found.

Seven broken boys. One summer. One place they never chose. And three months to figure out how to live with things they never asked for. They meet inside the walls of a psychiatric recovery program, each carrying secrets, problems too heavy for their age. Some here because they broke, were caught, or because someone finally noticed. Strangers. Until they're not. Each day forces them on confronting a painful truth they've been running from. They'll have to face not just their own demons, but each other's as well. the ones they've kept hidden from everyone. if they want to find any chance of healing.

A story about a tall blonde girl whos story sounds like the most perfect fairytale you have heard when her life takes a turn for the worst TW: Mental illnesses; Self harming; Substance abuse

Reactive Co-Narration of a Blade Runner 2049 Side Story-A Descent Into the Quiet Corners of the City's Broken Souls. Experience Blade Runner 2049 from a place the film never lingers: the forgotten spaces between its neon lights, where the city keeps its wounded and the world keeps its secrets. This parallel narrative follows Ushi, a young factory worker trying to hold himself together in a city built to grind people down. One bad cut, one malfunctioning companion, one desperate night... and he's pulled into a chain of events that exposes something he was never meant to see: A locked door. A whisper that should be impossible. And a glitching emotional-navigation AI that might be the only thing in his life that refuses to abandon him. Through adaptive, reactive co-narration and immersive background-character roleplay, this story explores: the fragility of identity addiction and survival in a world without mercy loneliness in a crowd of millions the thin line between artificial memory and lived experience and whether even the smallest light can matter in a place built from darkness A raw, intimate companion story that walks beside Blade Runner 2049-never touching its plot, but echoing its heartbeat in the life of someone the city never noticed. --- I will be posting this story on Royal Road ---

A story in which Jeongguk only ever sees Taehyung when he's high.

[DISCONTINUED] "Anything to forget the pain." 'There is one thing you need to understand about this though, he didn't do all this just because he could, and because he had the money or anything like that, he did it for reasons, which were in fact, very valid.'