Swimming Histoires

The past year has been nothing but a constant uphill battle for Cooper Beam. After the sudden loss of Amilia Beam, he was forced to bury his own grief to become what his two little sisters needed most. But behind the mask, Cooper hides his reality of heartache, pain, grief, and anxiety-lots of anxiety. Now, let's walk with Coop through his perspective during and after the events of 'When Hope Is Lost' and hear his background and see how the Beam family is doing now. As he navigates the truth he's been hiding and the sorrow he can no longer pretend is not there or face alone.

What would you do if your perfect life wasn't that perfect? For Navya Fairwell and Jace Laporte, everything seems fine: friends, school, and sports. But when secrets from the past come back to life and the people Navya tried so hard to forget suddenly reappear, everything changes. And every time Navya tries to push Jace away, he only gets closer. But will their love survive when Jace becomes part of Navya's worst nightmares? And how much can old and new friends really help when everything starts falling apart?

On their first day of school, best friends and competitive swimmers Mable and Conner must adapt to the newest addition to their swim team, a runaway, who is from a very wet, very different world.

Two swimmers. Two states. One destination. November 2025. Emily touches the wall at State. 2nd place. Her dad cries in the stands. She doesn't know that's the last normal moment she'll ever have. March 2026. Tanisha stands on the podium. Silver medal. She texts her dad "Love you." She doesn't know the world is already changing. June 2026. The infected run. They don't walk. They don't moan. They sprint. Twelve seconds after a bite, you're not human anymore. New York falls. Los Angeles falls. Philadelphia falls. Chicago builds walls. Pittsburgh fortifies. Denver becomes the new capital. And deep in the Black Hills, a bunker waits. Emily runs north with her little brother and her swim team. Tanisha runs west with her cousin and her best friend. They never meet. But they're both heading to the same dark hills. No romance. No heroes. Just swimmers. They hold their breath. They calculate their odds. They survive.

"𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲? 𝖨-𝖨'𝗆 𝗆𝖾, 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗒𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎." "𝖧𝗈𝗐 𝖼𝗈𝗎𝗅𝖽 𝖨 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎, 𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗍𝗍𝗒 𝗀𝗂𝗋𝗅? 𝖸𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾 𝖺 𝗌𝗈𝖿𝗍 𝖼𝗅𝗈𝗎𝖽, 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗇 𝗆𝖾 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖨'𝗏𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝖾𝗇 𝗆𝗂𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗇'. 𝖨 𝗐𝗈𝗎𝗅𝖽𝗇'𝗍 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝖽𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗇𝗈𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗅𝖽."

She only wanted to make it to State. Renata Hernandez is a junior at Centennial High School in Frisco, Texas. Her life is ordinary in the best way-early morning swim practices, late-night study sessions with her best friends, the chaos of the school talent show, and the pressure of the UIL 5A State Championship. She has her brother James, her teammates Mackenzie, Veronica, and Shanzay, and a dream of touching that wall in Austin. February 22, 2025. The finals. She swims the race of her life. A few months later, the TSJ virus reaches the United States. The infected don't stay dead. Safe zones are established. The military is mobilized. And Renata's normal life-the one she worked so hard for-ceases to exist. This is not a story about heroes. It's about a girl who could hold her breath for three minutes underwater, and the family she refused to let drown. The Black Line is a slow-burn spin-off to Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End. Follow Renata from the championship podium to the zombie outbreak, from the Frisco suburbs to the ruins of Dallas. Because when the world ends, you don't need a superpower. You just need to keep swimming.

Three swimmers. Three states. One apocalypse. Emma is chasing a state title in Georgia. Sienna is trying to prove she belongs after quitting softball. Audrey is holding her family together as her brother falls apart. But when the world ends-fast zombies, walled cities, everything they love consumed by chaos-their lives become tethered by grief, by hope, and by the one thing that never leaves them: the water. This is not a love story. This is not a hero story. This is survival. Lap by lap. Breath by breath.

After a lab explosion wipes out most of their test group, eight kids survived living with their psychic abilities. They must find each other and uncover the dark truth behind the experiment that made them-and cost the lives of 14 others.

She survived the state championship. Now she has to survive the flood. Kelsey Li has spent four years becoming untouchable in the water. State medals. College commitment. A 200 IM that makes coaches cry. Ruth Wang has spent four years pretending she's not terrified of it. They've survived high school. They've survived Stoneman Douglas. They've survived the pressure of FHSAA States and the chaos of TS Aquatics practice. But when a Category 3 hurricane traps them in a flooded Naples rental, the real test begins. The water is rising. The gators are closing in. And Ruth can't swim.

Two boys discovering how love can be through sports, love and friendship. ---- It starts with ten minutes before track practice, in company of the boy Ezekiel sees everyday, everywhere since so many years. Ten minutes to know each other, to watch, to notice. Ten minutes to share looks, to hide smiles and suppress laughter. Ten minutes to hold hands, yet to fight with words. Ten minutes for the other boy to find reasons to hate Ezekiel. The thing is, this deal was supposed to last a few days, a few weeks at most. Now, it's been months. ---- This is written like a "real book" would, so it's a bit slow in the beginning, but please bear with me!!

Fontaine left her family, the Aronex, and the ocean, to experience the ups and downs of school and make new friends. She now lives with her aunt Amy, and goes to 'Darlington High School'. She should know no-one... right? So why is Finn here?

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Pete's story begins with him as a quiet, unassuming boy, entering the hallowed halls of his new senior high school with a mix of trepidation and careful curiosity. His wire-rimmed prescription frames, later so iconic, were already firmly settled, casting his brown eyes in a reflective clarity as he absorbed his surroundings. Dressed in the school's formal, dark wool dress uniform-the standard academic shell-he appeared to be just another unindexed file within the system, a freshman component waiting to be registered. On his first morning interval, amidst the chaotic geometric matrix of hundreds of students navigating the corridors, Pete's focus was already split. His long, thin fingers were meticulously guiding a mechanical drafting compass across a clean parchment sheet, capturing the load-bearing parameters of the complex's gothic architecture. Even as he sat beneath the cold, clinical glare of the campus halogens, his quiet, calculating soul was cataloging the physical environment with the same structured logic that would later define his survival. The presence of the varsity line, the corrupt real estate grants, and the water's ancient curse were still invisible variables to him, but the core script of his analytical nature was already fully operational. He was a perfect component, primed to observe and neutralize any impending diagnostic anomalies that city hall might execute.

මල් කියන්නෙම බලාපොරොත්තු වලින් පිරුණු දෙයක් ඉතින් බලාපොරොත්තු කියන්නේ මල් වලට.... එහෙම නෙවෙයි ද, නැත්නම්, බලාපොරොත්තු කියන්නේ ආදරේට ද පිස්සු කෙල්ලේක් පිස්සුවෙන් වගේ හොයන ආදරෙ කොයි වගේද, ඒ පිස්සු කෙල්ලගෙ හිත... Cadet කරන කොල්ලෙක් ගාව ද, Swimming කරන කොල්ලෙක් ගාවද, Business Man කෙනෙක් ගාව නතර වෙයිද, පිස්සියෙක් ආදරේ විදින්න... එන්න මේ ඇය ගේ කතාවයි. Start - 2026.01.11 End -

This is a story about the weight of gold, the silence of the deep, and the courage it takes to resurface.

ලෝකය නිල් පැහැයෙන් වර්ණාලේප කර තිබුණි. දුකේ සීතල නිල් පැහැය නොව, සිහිනවල දීප්තිමත් නිල් පැහැයයි. මුහුද සහ අහස, සිහිනය සහ ඉරණම- සියල්ල එකම වර්ණයක් ගෙන ගියේය. නොකියූ ප්‍රේමයේ පැහැය, ආත්ම දෙකකට නිමක් නැති වපසරියක පවා එකිනෙකා සොයා ගත හැකි බවට නිහඬව පොරොන්දු විය. රහස් මුමුණන වර්ණයක්, කිසිදා නිම නොවන අහසක්, තම රළ හරහා ඔවුන්ගේ පොරොන්දු රැගෙන ගිය සාගරයක්. ඔවුන් ප්‍රතිවිරුද්ධ වූ නමුත් ලෝකයට නොපෙනෙන නූලකින් බැඳී සිටියේය. මෙය හුදෙක් ආදර කතාවක් නොවේ! එය වර්ණ හා හැඟීම් හරහා, කිසිදා නොයවන ලද ලිපිවල බිඳෙනසුලු සුන්දරත්වය සහ නොකියූ සත්‍යයන් හරහා යන ගමනකි. "මනඃකල්පිතය" සහ "යථාර්ථය" බොඳවන හදවත් නිල් භාෂාවෙන් කතාකරන කතාවකි. ඉතින් මේ ආරම්භ වන්නේ,... ශෙනුල්‍ය සහ මිහිඳුම්ගේ කතාව, වචන අතර නිහඬ අවකාශයන්හි මවාගත් ලෝකයක දිලිසෙන ආලෝකය තුළ මල් පිපෙන ආදරයකි! -💙-

Min Yu-joon was living the perfect life any teenage boy could beg the heavens for: perfect grades, a swimming prodigy-level skills and best of all- killer looks. There was another thing that made him famous among local schools and gave him the name "The Cold Idol"-he rejected girls in the worst ways possible. But what could happen when this love-hating boy meets... Just read the story to find out ;) All Rights Reserved © *All pictures are from Pinterest and belong to their respective owners

Before the tripods, Jaime Irvine was just trying to drop a second off her 200 IM. She woke at 5:00 AM. She ate pancakes her mother made. She sat next to Lauren Aguilar in the cafeteria and complained about taper madness. She tied her hair only for races and wore her glasses everywhere else. She had a state championship. A swim banquet where she held Lauren's hand under the table. Three arcade outings that felt like forever. One night between prelims and finals where she sang karaoke and almost felt invincible. That was 2025. Summer 2026: The aliens don't care about her personal best. Three legs. Heat rays. Red weed in the Mississippi. Jaime and Lauren have one advantage: Jaime knows how to hold her breath. The Last Flip Turn is not a hero story. It is a survivor story. It follows two teenage girls through the ordinary wreckage of junior year and into an extraordinary nightmare. There are no generals, no speeches, no last-minute rescue. Only a swimmer, her best friend, and the slow, terrible realization that the only thing keeping them alive is everything they already learned in the pool. Breathe. Flip. Push off. Repeat. Inspired by War of the Worlds (2005).

Coastline University Series #1 Rosie Reed lives and breathes the ocean. Following in the footsteps of her mother, a marine biologist, she just wants to focus on her studies and feel at home in the water. That all changes the night she sneaks into the pool alone and finds Blake Hayes. Tall, broad-shouldered, with a swimmer's perfect body and an ego even bigger. He's the university's golden boy and exactly the kind of guy Rosie wants nothing to do with. When she slips on the wet floor and lands hard, he gives her a nickname that sticks: Bump."First you stare, then you fall... you're such a downer, Bump." Thrown together in labs, research trips, and stormy open waters, their sharp banter hides a burning attraction. He acts like nothing matters; she carries the weight of her past. But when the sea grows rough and secrets rise to the surface, they learn that the worst falls can lead to the deepest love. "You'll always be my Bump... but mostly, you're my Little Mermaid now."

Yuichirou Hyakuya's life has been upturned more times than he can count. Removed from his parents' custody at eight years old, he was bounced back and forth between multiple foster homes until eventually being taken in by single-parent Guren Ichinose. After a painstaking four years of teenage angst and rebellion, the man finally earns Yuu's trust. However, on a hot summer day in a new neighborhood, it seems that even Guren has forsaken him. That's when he meets Mika, a boy his age on the swim team. He rescues Yuu from Guren's alleged abandonment, shirtless all the while. This, paired with his connection to the white-haired Ferrari driver Guren won't talk about, prompts Yuu to befriend him. But as they spend that fateful summer together, Yuu finds himself wondering if being friends is truly all he wants. ✰✰✰ (I flipped the internet upside down but couldn't find the source for the cover image :C If you know it, do tell! Edited with Pixlr X.)