Womanhood Stories

Thandie waits for a husband who vanishes on a business trip. As if an eggshell in her life's batter wasn't enough, she's served divorce papers, only to discover the trip masked a secret wedding in Lagos. With four children and a looming mortgage, Thandie reluctantly takes a second job. Life couldn't be sour until Thandie's sister enrolls her on Oppo, an app that only matches opposites without her consent. Of all possible matches, Oppo pairs Thandie with Callum, a local bakery owner. For Thandie, their connection feels like a glitch, but for Callum, secretly smitten with Thandie, it's a gift. Can the man who crafts sweet confections tempt the woman whose heart has forgotten desire? Let's see if they discover the perfect recipe. WARNING This story does not contain: - Mil/Billionaires - Fast cars - Hidden Prince - Sexy muscled whatever Characters are 30+ years old.

The Life of a Woman is an emotional and powerful journey through womanhood, self-discovery, heartbreak, healing, pressure, love, ambition, and growth. Told through raw storytelling and real-life emotions, the story explores what it truly feels like to grow into yourself while battling pain, expectations, insecurities, and the desire to become something greater. Through intimate moments, life lessons, relationships, and inner battles, the book reflects the many sides of being a woman - soft yet strong, broken yet evolving, lost yet determined. It speaks to women learning how to heal, find confidence, protect their peace, and rewrite their story despite everything they've been through. With a cinematic, relatable, and deeply emotional tone, The Life of a Woman is more than just a story - it's a reflection of survival, transformation, femininity, and becoming the woman you were always meant to be.

Knowing what is happening there is also happening here © Z. T. Corley, 2026 Cover: Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq, Dinner Table with Embroidered Cloth, 1974, oil on board, 170 x 120 cm

The women in my family were never soft enough for life to spare them. They survived things they rarely spoke about. Pain they carried quietly. Love that hurt them. Responsibilities that forced them to grow too early. Moments that changed them forever. And somehow... they still kept going. My mother. My aunts. My grandmother. Even us girls growing into women now. Different personalities. Different lives. Different wounds. But connected by one thing: Survival. We are not a perfect family. We argue. Drift apart. Misunderstand each other. Carry silent pain in different ways. But when life happens... real life.. we still find our way back to one another somehow. Because in families like ours, the love never fully leaves.

Ink, Grief, and Other Inheritances is a haunting collection of poems about love, loss, womanhood, trauma, longing, and survival. Through raw confessions and lyrical storytelling, JBD explores the wounds people carry, the tenderness the world often rejects, and the fragile ways we learn to keep living despite it all. These poems bleed with grief, ache with memory, and still reach for hope in the darkest corners of being human.

"A woman is taught to carry tradition long before she learns to carry herself." In the heart of a society built upon honor, ritual, and silence, women are worshipped as goddesses yet raised within invisible boundaries they are never meant to question. मर्यादा follows the lives of women who inherit obedience like heirlooms passed from mothers to daughters through lullabies, customs, and fear disguised as virtue. Beneath the beauty of sindoor, silk, temples, and sacred traditions lies a quieter truth: the weight of expectations carried for generations. Through poetic prose and emotionally layered storytelling, मर्यादा explores the fragile line between devotion and confinement, dignity and suppression, love and control. It is not merely a story about women suffering under patriarchy, it is about the ways society teaches them to romanticize their own sacrifice. Haunting, intimate, and deeply rooted in cultural reality, मर्यादा is a reflection of every silence inherited in the name of honor.

The Juris Files is a curated archive of poems - part confession, part indictment, part elegy. Each piece is a case file of the heart: cataloguing love, loss, betrayal, rage, ambition, and the slow, silent wars women wage against the world and themselves. This is a collection for the ones who feel too much, speak too little, and never stop noticing. I present to you, the reader, the evidence.

Random scribbles

Sometimes, I feel like I'm just a character wandering around in this giant world-just trying to get by while everything moves past me. Lily isn't just lost on the crowded city streets, watching the buses rush past. She's lost in her own life. As the daughter nobody wanted, she spends her days hoping to find a face that won't judge her for once, a place she can finally call home. Is she always going to feel like a stranger in her own story, or is she ready to meet the person she's been searching for all along-herself? I held onto these memories in silence for years. They're like shards of broken glass from my childhood-sharp and painful, but now I'm finally brave enough to pick them up.

Poem

a confession

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A poetic confessional in five books - Skin, Lust, Love, Liturgy, Sin - where desire becomes a sermon, the body a temple, and survival a scripture. She kneels, not to beg, but to breathe. She isn't looking for permission; she's writing her own absolution. Skin to Sin is my debut poetry collection - available in full on Amazon, published under the pen name Nico Tomas.

#1 in poetry {23rd May, 2021} "when all is said and done you'll believe god is a woman" { poetry collection } * lower case intended *

A thought that wonder's why us.........

Not April. Not him. But her. This is a story about the quiet, stubborn, real way a girl becomes someone new - not when something begins, but when something ends. It happened in April - the month when everything should've bloomed. But instead, something broke.

for the girls who are self-consciously aware they are used.

She was never taught how to be soft. Only how to survive. She Who Became Herself is a raw, intimate journey through self-worth, healing, and what it means to become the woman no one expected-but the one you always needed. This isn't a how-to guide. It's a mirror. A memoir. A reminder. For every woman who's lost herself in survival, in love, in expectations, this book is your call to come home to you. Written for the Black women who carry too much and question too often. For the ones breaking generational patterns with no blueprint. For the women learning to rest, to feel, to take up space again. It's not about becoming perfect. It's about becoming real.