Traumafiction Stories

Will Graham wakes after four months in a coma-and nothing is where he left it. Not the case. Not the people. Not himself. And whatever he's starting to understand... he may not survive knowing it Music is highly encouraged to enhance the experience. Some scenes were written with this playing in the background. Book One of The Silence Series. A fan-created continuation inspired by Hannibal. I do not own the original characters.

Addiction was cured. No alcohol. No drugs. No escape. When people start dying at 11:11, Iris Vale realizes the truth: pain doesn't disappear when you remove its exits-it mutates. In a world where nothing numbs, memory becomes a door.

They're too young to feel this old. In the forgotten town of Graveton, five teenagers cling to each other like cigarette smoke-aimless, angry, and already halfway broken. Ash doesn't talk much, but their art says everything. Milo writes poetry he never shows. Roe lives between couches and alleyways. Jules has a voice like a blade and nowhere to put it. And Zeph? Zeph's been burning out for years. Set in the grey, rain-slicked haze of the early 2000s, Cracked Teeth & Cigarettes is a raw, slow-burning coming-of-age about queer kids, bad habits, and the ghosts we carry when no one's watching.

Three lives. One collision. No way back. Lydia has survived a year behind locked doors for a crime she didn't commit. Aeryn has returned home after disappearing into a world she swore she'd escaped. Lex has built his life on control - and he'll burn everything before he lets it go. Their paths should have stayed separate. But in the shadows of quiet towns and whispered therapy sessions, the threads begin to knot - red, frayed, and impossible to untangle. When the truth finally breaks through the glass, no one will leave unshattered. 🌒 Dark Literary YA | Trauma | Found Family | Slow-Burn Tension

She listens to the tick of the pendulum like it's a war drum echoing inside her chest. Everyone thinks she's made of ice-but even ice remembers fire. A poetic descent into a woman's fragmented mind as she chases silence, memory, and the freedom only blood seems to promise. For readers of lyrical fiction, dark poetry, and inner monologues laced with myth and madness.

> A boy wakes up in a world without life, hunted by shadows and haunted by a memory he can't remember. In this dark psychological tale of sorrow, identity, and the decay of hope - what happens when the only thing left to feel is pain?

"Fields of Mercy" is a slow-burning horror story about a young couple who move into a newly built home on a quiet stretch of rural land. What begins as an ordinary fresh start quickly turns unsettling as strange dreams, disturbing discoveries, and unexplained phenomena start to unravel the truth beneath the soil. Told through fragments of a recovered journal, the story weaves together the present and the past, revealing how the land remembers - and some things refuse to stay buried.

Elliot doesn't cry. He creates. Some say he's broken. Others say he's cursed. But one thing is certain: You should never call him innocent. (Completed)

***On Christmas night, 19-year-old Kai returns home with her family-warm, safe, and full of holiday memories. But when she finds a strange book hidden behind a wall in the basement, everything begins to unravel. The moment she reads from its pages, something ancient and inhuman is unleashed. Now hunted by a creature that shouldn't exist, Kai must uncover the truth behind the book before reality slips away-and the shadows take her for good.***

Genre: Crime • Psychological Thriller • Faith • Mystery Some wounds don't bleed. They stay silent - buried in memory, faith, and bone. She grew up learning how to survive, not how to believe. Blood doesn't lie. Evidence doesn't pray. But when silence begins to speak louder than facts, she's forced to face a truth she buried long ago. Some crimes are written on bodies. Some are written on the soul. The Silence Between Bloodstains - where faith, trauma, and truth collide.

He didn't fall in love with her words. He fell in love with the silence she never explained. Khushali Sharma survived by learning when not to speak. At sixteen, a night she refuses to remember changed everything. Years later, she is calm, distant, and in control-until an arranged marriage brings Vedang Kapoor into her life. Vedang doesn't demand her story. He doesn't try to save her. He listens. And somehow, that makes all the difference. But the past isn't done with Khusi. Old wounds reopen. A grieving family wants answers. A powerful man watches closely. And the silence that once kept her safe begins to feel like a trap. Some truths can't stay buried forever. And when Khusi finally speaks, it may change more than just her life. The Sound of Staying is a slow-burn romantic drama about quiet love, hidden scars, and the cost of staying silent for too long.

NOT QUITE HERE Psychological Horror / Thriller Gabrielle Sinclair learned early that staying meant suffering At six, she watched her father hang himself in a house that never stopped screaming. At eight, she learned what silence could cost when her mother chose denial over protection. By the time she was old enough to understand blame, it had already been assigned to her. So at seventeen, Gabrielle ran. She followed a man who promised escape and delivered something else entirely violence disguised as love, control disguised as freedom. When he was finished with her, he disappeared, leaving Gabrielle with a final lesson: trust was just another way people took what they wanted By the time her mother died, Gabrielle was already practiced at leaving herself behind. Now confined to a psychiatric ward, she is diagnosed with derealisation a condition that makes the world feel distant, artificial, unreal. Doctors believe her mind fractured under prolonged abuse. They believe the numbness is damage. Gabrielle lets them believe it. As therapy pulls her past into the open the suicide, the gaslighting, the betrayal, the final quiet night when her mother never woke Gabrielle recounts everything with unnerving calm. No hysteria. No visible guilt. Just facts, arranged neatly, like evidence that belongs to someone else. Because Gabrielle didn't break.
She learned how to step back far enough that nothing could touch her again. Not Quite Here is a psychological horror thriller about derealisation as survival, trauma as conditioning, and the kind of violence that doesn't explode it settles. It asks a dangerous question: what happens when a child survives everything she shouldn't, and grows up without the part that was supposed to stop her?

This is a story about two teenagers trying to hold on to each other in a world that sinks deeper into indifference every day. Their encounter in 9th grade begins with conflict, misunderstanding, and judgment from classmates... but gradually, something real begins to grow between them. Each of them carries their own burden: others' expectations, family trauma, and a silence that screams louder than words. And even when it feels like everything is over, the echoes of meaningful conversations, places, and promises continue to live on. Because some stories don't end - they just change form. This is not a story about an ending. It's a story about trying not to break.

Marcus Lynn, is an faceless figure that decided to write about his life, detailing his privileged life, that hides an dark truth inside. TW: Abuse, trauma, mental disorder.

Arielle Eight-year-old Arielle Hanley learned to live quietly - to move without sound, to smile when it was expected, and to never, ever speak when the walls were thin. Her home is a museum of arguments, her mother's perfume masking something colder, and the memory of her brother Caleb still lingers like dust in the corners. By thirteen, Arielle's world has shrunk to the size of a school hallway - full of whispers, bruises that don't show, and the strange comfort of a boy who shouldn't care but does. As she grows, the lines between past and present begin to blur, and Arielle learns that pain doesn't disappear - it hides, waiting for the right silence to return. A haunting coming-of-age story about loss, loneliness, and the fragile light that survives inside broken homes. - (A character-driven drama for readers who loved It Ends With Us and Girl in Pieces.)

Months after the events of The Menendez Secret, Jersey has managed to keep some of the family's darkest truths out of public view-but the past refuses to stay buried. Lyric begins receiving cryptic messages from someone claiming to know "the real reason" behind the brothers' actions, and these messages suggest the existence of another set of tapes-ones that could dismantle what's left of their family's fragile trust.

They called her a traitor. The girl who stood beside legends. The girl who vanished when the industry turned its knives inward. They never asked what it cost her. In a world where idols are polished like diamonds, no one notices the blood beneath the shine. A hanging sentence postponed. A betrayal without explanation. A woman carrying secrets too heavy to survive. She didn't run. She didn't defend herself. She endured. And when the truth finally starts to crack the silence- Seven men realize the girl they hated may have paid the highest price to protect them. This is not a love story. This is not forgiveness. This is what happens when idols bleed-and the world finally looks.

[This fic contains elements of dissociative identity and violent tendencies; however, the emotional core and romantic relationship remain unchanged. The story is partially inspired by the original canon.] (You only get to trust someone when I say "stop," Isak.) (Until then-don't be stupid enough to get yourself killed.) Within the silence and control of their families, Isak and Even learn how to survive before they ever learn how to love.

Twelve years after losing his wife and daughter, a man known as Lucas Merrick hunts the people he believes destroyed his family. Guided by a voice he trusts more than his own memory, Lucas follows a list of names-each one tied to blood, guilt, and unfinished business. The killings feel justified. Necessary. Almost merciful. But grief distorts time. Memory lies. And some voices don't belong to anyone else. As the truth fractures, Lucas discovers that the past he's been running from isn't chasing him anymore-it's already inside him. The man he thought he was may never have existed at all. This isn't a revenge story. It's the echo of one. And once the truth speaks, it doesn't stop.

She woke up in a psychiatric ward with no memory, blood on her hands, and a girl whispering her name from behind a mirror. They say she killed someone. But what if the truth is even worse?