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33 Stories

  • Hollow Mirror by LIA12WREN
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    I am just a teen trying to discover human emotions ......🎀❤️ Learning about people, pain, and the invisible battles we all carry....
  • THE SHAPE OF STAYING by GaryJones5
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    THE SHAPE OF STAYING is a psychological marriage thriller about control disguised as love-and the quiet power it takes to reclaim yourself. Clementine Thompson believed she had married safety. Her husband, Thompson, is calm, meticulous, and quietly powerful. Their life is orderly, successful, and private-everything a marriage should look like from the outside. But when Clementine discovers evidence that her husband has been monitoring her life and leveraging her family for professional gain, she realizes her marriage was never a refuge. It was a structure designed to contain her. As Clementine leaves, the danger does not announce itself with violence or rage. Instead, it watches. Calculates. Waits. What follows is not a story of escape through chaos, but a psychological reckoning-one where silence is weaponized, devotion is redefined, and love becomes something that must be unlearned before it can be chosen again. When Clementine begins a new relationship with a man who neither rescues nor controls her, she faces an unexpected challenge: how to love without surrendering herself. As her husband's carefully constructed world begins to collapse, Clementine must decide what forgiveness really means-and whether independence and intimacy can exist together. THE SHAPE OF STAYING is a restrained, emotionally powerful novel about emotional coercion, marriage, and the courage it takes to stay-this time, by choice.
  • Don't blink back tears by josesShervin
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    Don't Blink Back Tears is not your typical comfort story. It doesn't come wrapped in soft words or sugarcoated advice. It's raw. Warped. Honest. This is the voice inside your head when the world goes silent. The moment when smiling feels like betrayal, when your own reflection starts looking like a stranger. But beneath the chaos, this story whispers: You're still here. Even if you're cracked, you're not broken. Don't Blink Back Tears isn't here to fix you- it's here to sit with you in the dark, hold your hand through the storm, and remind you that surviving is a form of rebellion. For every soul battling quietly- this is your mirror, your madness, your medicine.
  • Walking in 23 by Lilog224ever
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    "Walking in 23-through the valleys, through the shadows, with no fear of evil. Every step carries legacy, every move honors purpose. From the courts of basketball legends to the paths we walk in life, 23 is more than a number-it's strength, resilience, and awakening."
  • BROKEN PIECES: LETTERS TO GOD by yeshuasdaniii
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    This is a collection of fictional, inspired by true events, letters TO GOD.
  • Silent Chaos  by SunburntChaos
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    Silent Chaos is where my pain finds its voice. A quiet sanctuary of poetry and prose shaped by chronic illness, survival, and the storm beneath the surface. Sometimes, all I have are words - bleeding quietly from wounds no one can see. Welcome to my journey - I'm still writing the ending with every breath I take.
  • Shattered Sanctuary  by Titanspen
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    Title: Shadows Beneath the Sun Amara's life was a fragile balance of hope and despair, held together by the strength of her mother's love and her dream of a better future. But when her world is shattered by an unspeakable betrayal, she is thrust into a battle she never chose-a fight for justice, survival, and her voice. In the heart of a society quick to judge and slow to protect, Amara's journey becomes one of resilience. She finds herself surrounded by unexpected allies, bound together by shared pain and defiance. Together, they navigate the shadows of their past, discovering courage in their scars and light in their unity. Shadows Beneath the Sun is a gripping tale of strength, redemption, and the unyielding fight against silence. Will Amara rise above her pain, or will the darkness consume her? Trigger Warning: This story contains themes of sexual violence, trauma, and emotional abuse.
  • No CoUnTrY fOr YoUnG mEn by Advanz1
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    The story that I would like to share with you is an account of my personal experience. It is about the risks and hazards associated with traveling by road in search of better opportunities. The story highlights the importance of staying cautious and alert while traveling on long journeys, especially when it is for the sake of our future.
  • My Love Language? by hmm_justarandomguy
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    This is a love story. A story about how love became the mirror that forced me to confront the fractures in my soul. When your past is a haunted house-echoing with the whispers of abandonment, the shadows of betrayal, and the ghosts of wounds you've buried-falling in love feels less like a fairy tale and more like a reckoning. Your love story is a collision of tender first kisses and panic attacks in the dark, of hands that promise forever but trigger memories of those who left. Through fragmented chapters of heartache and hope, you unravel how trauma taught you to love like a storm: fiercely, destructively, always waiting for the sky to fall. But as your relationship teeters between salvation and collapse, you begin to trace the patterns-how every argument, every flinch at intimacy, every midnight confession is a thread leading back to the child who learned to survive, not to trust. This is a story of unbecoming-of peeling back the layers of fear, anger, and shame armor-plated around your heart. It's about the nights you sobbed into your partner's shirt, the mornings you woke up ready to run, and the slow, aching realization that healing isn't erasing the past, but stitching a future from its scraps. With haunting suspense, you'll ask: Can love rewrite the DNA of a broken heart? The answer lies in the quiet moments-the handwritten apology notes slipped under doors, the vulnerability of saying "I'm scared," and the courage to finally face the reflection in the mirror: not a victim, but a warrior, flawed and still fighting. Raw, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest, this memoir is for anyone who's ever wondered if they're too damaged to be loved... and dared to believe they're not.
  • Call me Victoria by Ataiesara
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    In the heart of a war-torn Middle Eastern village, amidst the chaos and destruction, a newborn girl lay swaddled in makeshift blankets. Her cries mingled with the distant echoes of conflict, yet she survived against all odds. This was the beginning of Victoria's story-a tale of resilience and transformation.
  • Still Breathing In A World That Wants Me Gone  by Lilog224ever
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    I've been drowning in a world that feels like it doesn't see me. Days blur together in pain, anxiety, and depression so heavy I can barely breathe. I've watched life slip through my hands, fought battles inside myself that nobody else even notices, and carried burdens that feel impossible to put down. I've been misdiagnosed, medicated into near nothingness, spiraled into darkness that almost claimed me, and yet here I am - still breathing. I've felt the pull of pills, substances, and moments so raw that every breath felt like a fight. I've been alone in small apartments, on blow-up mattresses, barely eating, barely moving, barely surviving. I've watched the system fail me, friends drift away, family stay distant, and yet still I fight. Every panic, every cry, every sleepless night - I've carried it all, and I write it down because someone has to see it. Someone has to feel it. This is a story of survival in silence, of battling inner demons nobody else sees, of raw, unfiltered truth. No edits. No sugarcoating. Just pain, struggle, hope, and the fight to exist in a world that feels like it wants me gone. If you've ever felt unseen, unheard, or broken, this is for you.
  • Regret. Horror. Panic. Pain. by _hailey_morgan_
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    This is not a gentle poem. It's a knife - slow, silent, and unforgiving. A descent into the mind of someone who was drowning long before they ever touched the water. Every line bleeds with the kind of pain that's too quiet to be noticed until it's too late. It's about the final moment - not of death, but of realization. The regret. The horror. The scream that comes when no one is left to hear it. If you've ever felt invisible, if you've ever wanted someone to ask if you're okay and mean it - this poem is for you. Or maybe it's already about you. Now available in: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, and German. Requests for more translations are open - message me your language, and I'll make it happen. All rights reserved. © 2025 by _hailey_morgan_ No part of this poem may be copied, reposted, or reproduced without permission.
  • When the Body Remembers 🕯️🕷️💔🌙 by Lilog224ever
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    Some nights you fall asleep. Other nights your body remembers. After years of living in survival mode, sleep is no longer peaceful. It becomes a place where the nervous system releases everything the mind has tried to bury. One moment of exhaustion turns into a vivid dream where fear takes control before the mind understands what is happening. A small moment triggers a powerful response. The body freezes. Breathing becomes heavy. Hands curl inward as the nervous system reacts to a danger that may no longer exist. Voices try to pull someone back to reality, but trauma does not release its grip easily. Then a voice speaks a name. And everything changes. This story explores what it means to live with complex PTSD, panic responses, and a nervous system that refuses to forget. Through dreams, reflection, and emotional honesty, it reveals how trauma can live inside the body long after the moment has passed. Sometimes the body is not broken. Sometimes it is simply remembering how to survive.
  • "Drowning in Plain Sight"  by Lilog224ever
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    I stood there, watching life and death blur together in a room full of silence. Four girls, cutting into their own arms like it was just another day. Their blood fresh, sharp, raw - and nobody around them noticing. Their mother, a shadow of a woman, moving through the world like she's already dead. Eyes vacant, slow steps, a heart seemingly frozen by numbness. At one point, I said, "I know that's your baby," and she smiled - a small, broken smile showing the gaps where her teeth used to be. For a second I saw she cared. I told her, "Keep your daughter close. This is urgent." She looked like a ghost, like a nurse who's seen too much, like she'd forgotten how to feel. And I felt the weight of the system failing, the adults failing, the world failing them. There I was, drowning in the depth of my own anxiety and depression, standing as the only lifeline I could offer. I've never seen anything like it - kids showing their cuts like trophies, like normal, like nobody cares. A young girl hugged me like I was hope itself. Another told me her friend overdosed, and it shook me to the core. This is a story of pain and raw reality. Of a world that ignores its own children. Of survival in silence. Of seeing things no one else can see. Brace yourself. Feel it. Every drop of it.
  • Carousel of Destruction - II: The Pullback by CP2PRODUCTIONS
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    There's a moment in recovery when everything goes quiet- your hands steady, the floor stops tilting, and the reflection in the mirror finally looks survivable again. That's when the past pulls hardest. "The Pullback" is a haunting look into the gravity of relapse temptation- friends who didn't make it, memories that won't let go, and the dangerous comfort of the life you walked away from. A brutally honest entry in Barbed Wire Psalms about resisting the orbit of addiction and choosing life, even when the pull feels impossible to escape.
  • THE SILENCE THAT SPEAKS  by Abby_clem1234
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    The Silence That Speaks by Abby Wren This is a book about the things we don't always say out loud. About pain, love, memory, and finding yourself again. Each poem is a piece of my journey - through silence, through sorrow, through strength. Maybe you'll see a bit of yourself in these pages. Maybe they'll help you feel a little less alone.
  • Second Chances #9: 404 File Not Found by RobinKers
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    Second Chances #9: 404: Page Not Found is a hauntingly modern tale of digital loss and unexpected connection. When Mara, a quiet archivist of forgotten websites, stumbles upon a long-lost blog post never meant to be seen, it triggers a chain of events that saves a life-and redefines her own. A story about memory, survival, and the power of words that almost vanished.
  • Left The Circle by CP2PRODUCTIONS
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    Leaving the drinkers was the first brutal step, not towards healing, not towards clarity, but toward staying alive long enough to have a chance. This is the opening piece of *Carousel of Destruction*, a prequel cycle to *Barbed Wire Psalms* about the gravity of addiction, the people who kept spinning, and the moment you stepped off the ride.
  • Reborn by theacheloisx
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    This isn't just a poetry book. It's every moment I broke. Every time I stayed silent. Every battle I fought when no one was watching. It's my healing raw, honest, and unfiltered. REBORN is for the silenced, the surviving, and the ones still finding their way home to themselves. It's a collection of grief, love, trauma, truth, and strength. It's for the girl who stayed too long. The woman who had to rebuild herself. The soul who still believes there's light in the dark. Every word in this book was written with the hope that you feel less alone. Every line is a piece of me and maybe, a piece of you too. While I originally wrote it almost 4-5 years ago to raise money for survivors of domestic violence, today I thought to share it with who might need it. Thank you for reading. Thank you for believing. You are not alone. 🌙🖤
  • This Is Not Your Fault: Insights for Healing and Awarness by bluepepsiheart
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    This book exposes the often-hidden truths about male behavior in relationships: infidelity, pornography, emotional manipulation, and cycles of betrayal. It examines how societal norms, cultural conditioning, and male desire contribute to deception and relational harm, while emphasizing that women are never to blame for these actions. Through chapters on pornography and male lust, emotional cheating, manipulation, narcissism, and societal hypocrisy, the book reveals the patterns that undermine trust, security, and emotional well-being. It also addresses global issues of sexual violence, highlighting the structural forces that perpetuate male misconduct. Finally, This is Not Your Fault offers women reassurance, insight, and empowerment, affirming that they are not responsible for male deviance and providing tools to reclaim their strength, confidence, and emotional freedom.