Torturedpoets Stories

Taylor never meant to fall for anyone in 2023. Not when she was raising a two-year-old entirely on her own, building a tour that swallowed continents, and trying to stitch her heart back together between soundchecks. Evie was her whole world - clingy, chaotic, brilliant, and hers in every possible way. Her father drifted out long before Evie learned to say "mama," and Taylor learned to stand on her own two feet because there was no one else to do it. Every stop on the first leg of the Eras Tour was a blur of glitter, exhaustion, and toddler snacks crushed into carpet. Days were for rehearsals; nights were for rocking Evie to sleep in hotel rooms lit only by the glow of the city outside. Kansas City was supposed to be just another stop. Another show. Another sleepless night. Then one night turned into fate. It wasn't planned. It wasn't logical. It definitely wasn't in her carefully guarded rulebook. But one chance encounter in Kansas City sparked something she hadn't felt in years - something warm, something steady, something that made her remember she wasn't just a mom and a performer... she was a woman who could still feel butterflies. He wasn't supposed to matter, but he made Evie laugh like they'd known each other for years. And when her daughter looked at him like he was the sun finally coming out, Taylor felt her walls shift. Now she's caught between the roar of stadium crowds and the quiet possibility of a future she never dared to imagine. Because some nights you perform. And some nights... you fall. Kansas City was just a tour stop. Until it wasn't.

Title says it all

2036. Amelie spent sixteen years avoiding the spotlight. Being Taylor's daughter already came with cameras, headlines, and people deciding who she was before she ever opened her mouth. Travis raised her as his own from the time she was little. To him, she was just Ame. Not a headline. Not a story. And definitely not the daughter of the man who walked away. So she kept her biggest secret hidden. Songs. Hundreds of them. Lyrics shoved into notebooks, melodies whispered behind locked bedroom doors, pieces of herself buried where nobody could touch them. Until one night Taylor accidentally finds them. And everything changes. Inviting Amelie to open Taylor's world tour was supposed to be a dream. Instead, it becomes the beginning of a storm. Friends turn into strangers. People accuse her of riding her mother's name. Dark threats begin appearing backstage. And when someone from a past she never wanted to know suddenly returns, Amelie starts asking questions no one wants answered. Because some people disappear for a reason. And some always come back.

Bitter truth gets to suffer...

Dear reader, The fates of Kitty and Betty intertwine across the eras in this hauntingly tragic dual timeline love story, told within 13 chapters, inspired by the lyrical lore and genius of Taylor Swift. When actress Kitty's quick rise to fame in 1960's Hollywood leads to her dream life, she becomes tormented by her mental illness while haunted by her past. Decades later, an ambitious but tortured writer Betty is living in London when she receives a wedding invitation from her old friend, Peter. Will Betty risk ruining the friendship and speak now to re-write her story? Or is she destined to share the fate of Ophelia? The Fate of Ophelia echoes Taylor's themes and imagery of love, loss, fame and betrayal. Every song has a story. Every story has its karma...

heartbreak is one thing my ego's another i beg you don't embarrass me like the others

And so I enter into evidence My tarnished coat of arms My muses acquired like bruises My talismans and charms The tick, tick, tick of love bombs My veins of pitch black ink All fair's in love and poetry... Sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department

""It started with imagery. Visuals that popped into my mind and piqued my curiosity. Stars drawn around scars. A cardigan that still bears the scent of loss twenty years later. Battleships sinking into the ocean, down, down, down. The tree swing in the woods of my childhood. Hushed tones of "let's run away" and never doing it. The sun drenched month of August, sipped away like a bottle of wine. A mirrored disco ball hovering above a dance floor. A whiskey bottle beckoning. Hands held through plastic. A single thread that, for better or for worse, ties you to your fate." Taylor Swift wrote folklore in 2020, an album she describes as twisting and turning reality and fantasy, blurred. In 2021, the album in my own mind began to cohere into one, linear, complex story. Welcome to folklore, the novel. Invisible strings can tie together, bind a wind, or make a puppet of us all. Betty, Jame, Inez, and Bill, all more deeply loveable and more deeply flawed than first glance. Welcome to their folklore.

𝘐𝘕 𝘞𝘏𝘐𝘊𝘏- 𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘵'𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳.. 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦. ! 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯, 𝘨𝘹𝘨, 𝘰𝘤 ! 𝘐 𝘈𝘔 𝘐𝘕 𝘕𝘖 𝘞𝘈𝘠 𝘞𝘏𝘈𝘛𝘚𝘖𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘈 𝘎𝘈𝘠𝘓𝘖𝘙.

Its my version of Tays Songs - In Short Storys. The chapters are sorted by the albums. Iˋd love, if you have requests :)

Moving day stirs up more than dust for Betty and her young daughter, Allison, when a forgotten box breaks open, revealing a worn scrapbook simply titled The Manuscript. As Allison peers inside, her curiosity grows, especially when she sees her mother's face in a faded Polaroid-with none other than Taylor Swift. Betty hadn't planned on diving into the memories locked away in that scrapbook, but Allison's excitement and questions pull her back in time. As they turn the pages together, each picture unearths a piece of Betty's past, one layered with long-buried dreams, hidden heartbreaks, and unanswered questions that still haunt her. Through the scrapbook, Betty shares tales of friendships that shaped her, loves that changed her, and choices that led her to this very moment. But as the past unfurls, Betty realizes that some memories don't just offer closure-they also reopen wounds she thought had healed. Enjoy this touching Novella about how looking backwards is often the only way to move forward.

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Here is a complete adaptation of my poetical works for the enjoyment of academia enthusiasts :)