Swimmer Stories

"Breathe. Kick. Survive." Those three words got 16-year-old Nora Kaufman through the 500-yard freestyle. They won her a state championship, earned her a spot on the prestigious Gold Medal Swim Club, and secured her a future swimming for the University of Michigan. Her life was lane lines, 5 AM practices, and the deafening silence of the underwater world. But on June 13, 2026, the water turned against her. The ROES Virus-Rapid Onset Encephalitis Syndrome-doesn't just kill. It rewires the brain. Within hours, the infected lose all humanity, becoming twitching, relentless predators driven by a single urge: to feed. The outbreak spreads faster than society can react, and Arizona's desert heat becomes a furnace of chaos. Now, the pool that gave Nora her speed is her only sanctuary. Her teammates are scattered. Her city is a wasteland. Her family is fractured-and her sister Maya's buried resentments threaten to drown them all. Alongside her boyfriend Ben, Nora must navigate a world where the infected feel no pain, and where every shadow hides a monster wearing a familiar face. But the most dangerous threat isn't the virus. It's the darkness creeping into her own mind. Can a champion who thrived on structure survive a world without walls? Or will she, like the rest of civilization, finally drown in the dark?

At Ashbourne University, everyone knows where the lines are drawn. Between power and privilege. Between ambition and obsession. Between the people you're expected to be and the person you actually are. Aarohi Oberoi knows how to win-until she doesn't. Mihir Malhotra has spent his entire life being untouchable. They were never supposed to become anything more than rivals. But somewhere between Sunday dinners, crowded university corridors, and the silence of the swimming lanes, the lines begin to blur. And once you cross one... There may be no going back.

In 2024, she raced for gold. In 2025, she races for her life. Chloe Liew was supposed to be enjoying her summer after freshman year of college. Instead, she's watching the world collapse. The TSJ virus has no cure. No warning. No mercy. Her best friend Victoria is stranded in New York. Gracyn is trapped in Berkeley. And somewhere between the ruins of California and the memory of chlorine-scented locker rooms, Chloe has to find them. Before the infected do. The apocalypse is just the beginning. The real story is who you survive for. Dive in.

Sea was a national gold medalist. The pride of his country. The last hope of his father. Until the water that made him a champion became the same water that took his brother away. Three years later, he's an actor. Keen was his biggest fan. Now, he's his co-star. Sunshine, loud, and annoyingly persistent. He lives for the sea. For the waves. For the freedom Sea lost. One is terrified of water. The other can't live without it. What happens when the person who save you from your teenage days need the saving right now?

​Sky Wongravee is a gold-medal professional swimmer known for his perfect physique, handsome face, and a heart as cold as ice. He only feels alive in the water. But when a jealous rival sabotages his car, Sky plunges off a cliff into the raging ocean. He should have died-until a breathtaking stranger pulls him from the wreckage and miraculously cures his fatal wounds with sea-magic. Sky opens his eyes to a face so beautiful it leaves his entire system blanked, before the mysterious savior vanishes into the deep. ​The boy from the water is Nani Hirunkit, a gentle, pure-hearted merman and the heir to the Ocean Kingdom. Trapped beneath the waves, Nani's heart won't stop throbbing for the human he saved. When his father, the ruthless Ocean King, commands him to enter a loveless political marriage, Nani chooses defiance. With the help of his brother Dew, Nani sacrifices his tail for human legs and flees to the surface. ​When a searching Sky finds a shivering, disoriented Nani washed up on his private beach, the ice around his heart completely shatters. ​Building a life together is their greatest challenge. Nani has a kind, simple heart but no idea how to navigate human clothes, food, or walk on clumsy new legs. Sky becomes his fierce protector, teaching him how to survive on land while Nani's warmth melts Sky's cold exterior. ​But their paradise is on a countdown. Furious at the treason, the Ocean King unleashes monstrous storms and a catastrophic tidal wave to drag his heir back. To save the man he loves, Nani must make a heartbreaking sacrifice. Now, a mortal swimmer must push his physical limits to the absolute edge, dive into the terrifying abyss of the coral palace, and prove to the King of the Sea that the ocean and the sky belong together.

Arabella Lennox has spent her whole life being easy to define. Math prodigy. Perfect student. Responsible daughter. But advanced art class was never supposed to complicate things; especially not when she's paired with Samuel Sato again, the boy who's always looked at her with so much hidden emotion. The problem is: Arabella already has someone. Mason Levine is calm where the rest of the world feels loud. Her boyfriend. Samuel's best friend. The person who has never once made her question being loved. But somewhere between late-night sketch sessions, shared apartments, swim practices, and the quiet intimacy of being known too well, the lines between friendship and something much more dangerous begin to blur. And love becomes a lot harder to solve when there's a third variable involved. ✦ slow burn ✦ emotional tension ✦ college romance ✦ friends-to-lovers ✦ poly romance ✦ spicy romance ✦ femdom romance +weekly updates

For all of those lovely swimmers out there. Have fun reading. :)

Olivia joins the hardest swim team in the state. Everyday she prays that she won't die during one of the practices. Hard practices isn't the only thing that bothers Olivia. Olivia gets caught up in all the intense drama that's happening in her group. Will the drama affect her training and her success in swimming?

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for a contest (; --------------- Dean falls in a pool and Castiel swims to save the day. #destielfanficrec started 2016 completed 2016

Danica Green has one rule for her final season with the Surrey Sharks: no distractions. Especially not Lycus Anderson, the golden-boy co-captain whose betrayal two years ago shattered their friendship. Her teammate, Iris "Flower" Wang is trying to savor every last moment with her best friend, Fraser. But after a hug that crosses an unspoken line, Iris uncovers her freshman-year journal and a truth she's been running from: she's always been in love with him. Now, with graduation looming, staying quiet feels like its own kind of lie. For Danica and Iris, the hardest race won't be in the pool; it's the one against time to mend a broken friendship and confess a hidden love, or watch as their chances disappear into the deep end.

SV #1: soon a novel Zeneia Love Del Valle never expected that a scholarship would lead her to a world far beyond the one she knew. At Sanctuary Vale University, she finds herself surrounded by unfamiliar faces, endless expectations, and a future she has always worked hard to reach. Then she meets Sylas Ace Gomez - a student-athlete scholar whose determination mirrors her own. A fisherman's son with a passion for swimming, Sylas understands what it means to fight for every opportunity and chase a future bigger than his circumstances. In a place where dreams are chased and sacrifices are made, Zeneia and Sylas find a love that grows not from having everything, but from understanding what it means to have little and still dream of more. But when two hearts carry dreams, responsibilities, and the weight of their own worlds, they must learn that loving someone is not always as simple as holding on. Because sometimes, the heaviest thing we carry is the love we are afraid to lose. start:

25 year old Adeline Blanc decides to go on a solo trip to France to see her parents home country. The thing is she knows 0 French. One day she meets a kind man who helps her by translating. That man happenes to be Pierre Gasly the famous Alpine F1 driver.

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They came to California to escape their lives. They never expected to run for them. Brooke Gonzales doesn't talk about her father leaving. She doesn't talk about her mother working double shifts. She doesn't talk at all - not really. She swims. The water is the only place her brain goes quiet. Sophia Lewandowski is the state champion everyone expects to succeed. Her Polish-American family has her future mapped out: pre-med, then medical school, then a respectable career. But Sophia has a secret. She doesn't want to save lives. She wants to live them. They meet at a California swim camp. They start to think that maybe - just maybe - they've found someone who understands. Then the ground opens. The tripods rise from the earth. Not from the sky. From beneath. Buried for centuries. And they are hungry. Now two girls who were just trying to survive high school must survive something much worse. Los Angeles burns behind them. The 405 is a graveyard. The ocean is red. And the only thing standing between them and death is a friendship forged in the deep end.

Justin Mercer came home from college expecting one last carefree summer before starting his dream job as an architect. What he didn't expect? Falling for his little brother's best friend. Colin Harper has been hopelessly in love with Justin for years. The problem is Justin has always been older, cooler, untouchable - and completely oblivious. But when Justin moves back home after graduation, suddenly Colin is everywhere. Late-night kitchen talks. Poolside teasing. Movie nights. Swim meets. Flirting that feels a little too real. And the worst part? Justin starts falling too. Now stuck between friendship, bad timing, growing up, and feelings neither of them know what to do with, Justin and Colin are about to discover that some people slowly become your favorite part of life before you even realize it's happening. A soft and addictive summer romance filled with: ☀️ California vibes 🏊 Swim team chaos 🏡 Forced proximity 💬 Flirting & banter ❤️ Brother's best friend 🎓 Post-college uncertainty 🥺 Mutual pining 🔥 Tension, kisses & emotional damage ✨ Golden retriever boyfriend energy Sometimes the person you're meant to love has been standing right in front of you all along. ✅ Fully written | Updates every Fri, Sat & Sun 19:00 CEST Ranked #1 poolside Ranked #1 hopelesslyinlove Ranked #1 collegegraduate Ranked #1 softboys Ranked #1 swimmer

Reyna Blaine has been swimming before she could walk and wearing bathing suits instead of t-shirts as a toddler. Needless to say, her life revolved around swimming. Senior year is her chance to win the state swimming competition for the last time, and to solidify a Stanford athletic scholarship. Her plan is to be the best Girls Swimming Captain her school's ever seen, and show the boys that you don't need a penis to be an athlete. But things take a turn when a terrible event ruins her family forever, and now she and her twin brother are shipped off to live at a family friend's house. Which, coincidentally is her brother's best friend, Conner Donovan. Two team captains under the same roof is never a good combination, especially if they're playing the same sport. Both are hotheaded, fluent in sarcasm, and more stubborn than mules. Can Reyna survive, or would she drown herself in the Waterhouses' backyard pool? Cover Credit: breelinson

Rhys is back in America. After 15 years of living at the other side of the world, she's finally back to tackle her senior year of high school.

❝ We're all in the same game; just different levels. Dealing with the same hell; just with different devils.❞ cover ☜ turdiform trailer ☜ Roguehopes

fears float above, whether to drown in them should be a choice right?