Short Stories by Joshua K-Leb
- Reads 69
- Votes 0
- Parts 6
Ongoing59m
Last published Mon, Aug 11, 2025
Some stories don't ask to be understood, only felt.
Short Stories is a quiet collection of moments: a look held too long, a goodbye left unsaid, a love that arrives softly and leaves even softer. Within these pages are tales of fleeting connections, slow-burning longing, and the kind of heartbreak that lingers not in grand declarations, but in silence.
Told with restraint and emotional honesty, these stories explore the spaces between people. The pauses, the hesitations, the almosts. From melancholy mornings to wordless partings, each piece is a small echo of something once held and gently lost.
For readers who find comfort in sadness and beauty in what slips away.
All Rights Reserved
#802
melancholy
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
In the silence, i loved you
> She saw him once - and her heart decided. From classrooms filled with whispers to city nights glowing with loneliness, she loved him silently. He didn't know. He never looked back. But she was always there - watching, waiting, loving. Now years have passed. She's no longer the girl who waited. But is she still the one who loves? A story of one-sided love, soft heartbreak, and a woman who fell first and never stopped falling. Tropes-* she fell first and harder.... did he fell? 🦋 women in love..... isn't it beautiful? ❤️🩹 one side love🤍 love at first sight🌙 slow burn romance🔥 fate/meant to be✨ Hope you guys like it and support it and english isn't my first language hope you guys forgive me for my mistakesComplete
For Thine Eyes Only
Words unwritten, a quill with no ink. The ethereal shrouded with truth, lies that keep the mundane from taking hold. Stories, untold - Only whispered, only carried by winds unfelt but by those who listen closely. So listen, between these lines you might find echoes of a voice you once had. One you silenced in favor of normalcy. One you locked away deep within the pages of your heart, the very ones you forbade every soul that came close from reading. The very ones that stoke the fire you so very desperately desire. For thine eyes only, you kindred spirits who share the fate of looking from a distance.
The Girl No One Chose
I gave him everything. My heart. My body. My secrets. He gave me silence-and loved someone else. I was just the distraction. The warm body. The easy f*ck. Not the girl he showed off. Not the one he kissed in public. Not the one he chose. Now I'm done waiting. Done begging to be seen. Because the girl no one chose... She's about to become the girl no one forgets.
When The Lights Went Out
A soul withdrawn from the world, finding comfort only in silence, carries a wound no light can reach. Shadows are safer than connection, and solitude becomes both refuge and prison. Into this darkness steps a spirit unbroken by blindness, one who chooses kindness even when life has offered only pain. Where others see loss, there is still light; where others turn bitter, there is still grace. A tale of contrasts, of wounds and wonder, of two hearts bound by fate yet destined to fall apart.
The Space Between Our Lines
Have you ever felt a love that lives in silence, in the spaces no one notices? A longing that trembles in your chest but never finds its voice? What if the one who could fill the emptiness inside you is the one you are too afraid to reach for? What if every almost, every hesitation, every word left unsent has been shaping your life more than you realize? Can you find the courage before fear takes over? Can you cross the spaces that keep you apart without breaking yourself? What if the person you were meant to love has been walking beside you all along, yet you never dared to see them? What if the life you dream of exists only in the moments you almost live it? What if letting go is the only way to hold on? And when the lines between hope and heartbreak blur, will you recognize what you've been searching for before it slips away forever? In the quiet between longing and choice, between love and fear, the question remains for you, for me, for every heart that dares to hope: can we step into the life and the love that has been waiting for us all along?
Ashfall Reverie
In the quiet aftermath of a world that forgot how to speak, two souls begin to find each other in silence. No battles. No heroes. Just the soft unraveling of walls, the quiet weight of shared stillness, and the way a single touch can feel like the beginning of everything. A story about what remains when the world fades. And what love becomes when there are no more words left to say.Complete
In Between Us
We're not together. But we're not just friends either. Late-night messages. Almost-kisses. Unspoken feelings hidden behind casual conversations and coffee shop meetups. They never defined what they were-because definitions meant boundaries, and boundaries meant limitations. So they kept it simple. No labels. No promises. Just a connection that felt too real to be nothing... and too fragile to be something. But when emotions get too loud to ignore, and hearts begin to want more-what happens in between us can either bring them closer, or tear them apart. A modern love story about almost, uncertainties, and the kind of heartbreak you can't name.Complete![Maybe Someday [COMPLETED] #1](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/352669557-256-k829942.jpg)
Maybe Someday [COMPLETED] #1
She loved him for as long as she could remember. He was her childhood best friend-her first and only love. But to him, she was just a friend. Nothing more. Years passed, and still, her feelings stayed the same... even when he didn't feel the same way. It was a one-sided love she never gave up on. Through high school, through college, she kept hoping. Wishing. Waiting. Until after graduation... something changed. But sometimes, love comes too late. And some stories don't get the happy ending they deserve. "Maybe someday... he would love her too. But maybe someday... is not today."Complete
> She saw him once - and her heart decided. From classrooms filled with whispers to city nights glowing with loneliness, she loved him silently. He didn't know. He never looked back. But she was always there - watching, waiting, loving. Now years have passed. She's no longer the girl who waited. But is she still the one who loves? A story of one-sided love, soft heartbreak, and a woman who fell first and never stopped falling. Tropes-* she fell first and harder.... did he fell? 🦋 women in love..... isn't it beautiful? ❤️🩹 one side love🤍 love at first sight🌙 slow burn romance🔥 fate/meant to be✨ Hope you guys like it and support it and english isn't my first language hope you guys forgive me for my mistakes
More detailsContent Guidelines