Notes Between Hunger
- Reads 9
- Votes 0
- Parts 2
Ongoing6m
Last published Fri, Aug 29, 2025
Lexi has always dreamed of standing on a stage, her voice filling the silence she carries inside. But silence has sharp edges, and hers is carved from fear, hunger, and the shadows of an eating disorder that won't let go.
When an old friend from music school reappears, Lexi sees a flicker of the life she once imagined, a life built on melodies instead of counting calories, on dreams instead of survival. Together, they begin to chase the music again.
But dreams come with their own battles. To reach hers, Lexi will have to face the hardest truth of all: you can't sing if you can't breathe. And you can't live if you're only surviving.
A raw and hopeful story about friendship, recovery, and the courage it takes to find your voice.
- Please keep in mind, this book contains mental health triggers!
All Rights Reserved
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
What Are the Odds?
Noah destroys every life he touches. Taking his first life with his own first breath, his path of destruction only spirals from there. Consumed by guilt and reminded every day of all that he's done, he makes a terrible decision- and ends up with the only thing he's ever wanted in life. Now he's faced with a choice- lie and be happy, or tell the truth and risk losing the one person who's saved his life time and time again. The odds that all of this could happen to one person? Slim to none. But then again, they've always been stacked against him. **trigger warning for content: suicide, trauma, physical/emotional abuse** **Mature- strong language, some sexual content** My cover was created using a free stock photo I found online and the website Canva- I do not own the picture! Text copyright by Amanda Klein (AmandaCastro711) ™️ ©️2012-2020 The moral rights of the author have been asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non commercial uses permitted by copyright law. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.Complete
The Patchworks of being alive: a book of short stories
This is not one story, but many. A patchwork of voices and moments stitched together - some soft as a whisper, some sharp enough to leave a mark. Inside these pages, you'll find sadness that lingers like smoke, flashes of surreal wonder that bend reality at its edges, and quiet truths that feel almost too honest to say aloud. There are stories that wander into the strange, poems that breathe between the lines, and a handful of pieces that may stir old shadows. It is a collection for anyone who has ever felt both the weight and the wonder of being alive - the laughter that comes out sideways, the grief that hums in your bones, the beauty that arrives without warning. Weird, light, aching, honest - all of it belongs here.
'Midnight Crows'. The Chronicles.
Lexi is just an ordinary girl with an impossible dream. She loves to sing - really sing - but no one knows it, because the stage fright keeps her silent. She has a bright wish burning in her soul, and this wish is to perform with Midnight Crows, a wildly popular teen band she's adored for years. The night before her seventeenth birthday, Lexi ends up at their concert. After the show, she stumbles upon a quiet back room, finds a lonely standing, left by someone microphone... and sings her heart out, believing no one is listening. But someone is. And after that evening everything becomes a mess for 'Midnight Crows' and the girl herself. Dreams begin to blur with reality, and a single concert may change everything... __________________________________________________________________________________ 'G-guys, I think we've got a problem.' He stammered looking absolutely lost and in shock. 'What happened?' 'The main thing is that we're alive, everything else doesn't matter right now. Stop worrying so mu...' Jeremy started, but at this moment Liam answered my question by trying to open the car door, but... His hand... It went right through it. 'The problem is I'm not sure if we *are* alive...' _______________________________________________________________________________ PS: This is my first time publishing something, so I really hope you'll like my story :) Please, let me know what you think in the comments, it is very important for me to get your feedback ;) Note: This story contains a small amount of mild language, but no other mature content.Complete
Not All Bridges Burn
Wren Calloway and Dakota Ashby have grown up in each other's lives whether they liked it or not. Their parents have been best friends since college. Somewhere along the way, the friendship between Wren and Dakota splintered into something tense and unspoken, with sharp remarks and practiced indifference hiding whatever used to be there. Wren isn't an outcast - she's smart, kind, a kind of lowkey student at Willowridge High - but she keeps most people at a distance. Her real world lives in her songwriting notebook and late-night piano sessions, where she can safely say all the things she won't out loud. She's good at hiding how out of control she sometimes feels. Dakota is the school's golden boy - charismatic, athletic, always in control - or at least that's what everyone thinks. But behind the perfect image is a guy under pressure to live up to expectations he's not sure he wants. And the one person who never bought into his perfect act? Wren Taylor. When a group project at school - followed by an unexpected family arrangement - forces Dakota and Wren to spend real time together again, the walls they've both carefully built start to crack. Through late-night conversations, old jokes that still land, and the quiet pull of two people who've known each other forever, something new begins to take shape. Something real. But just as they start to unravel the truth of who they are - and who they might be to each other - the past resurfaces, and old wounds threaten to break them before they really begin. Set against the backdrop of senior year, this is a story about letting your guard down, rewriting what you thought you knew, and falling in love with the person who saw through you all along. *** TW - This book contains depictions of eating disorder behaviours such as body dysmorphia and purging. Chapters referencing these behaviours will have their own trigger warning. Please take care whilst reading.Complete
DREAMS IN THE SKY
What are you willing to sacrifice for your dreams? We all have a goal, a dream or just something that we constantly look forward to, something that drives us to become a better person. Whatever it may be, it can-and with much effort-will come true. In this teenage fiction; Emily constantly day dreams of exploring the world, making her talent recognized and useful, dreams and fantasies of getting famous, living the Rockstar life, getting on magazine covers and doing everything a literal celebrity would do. Though being a minor in a small limiting town might be a huge barrier, she is determined to do whatever it takes to make her dreams come true. Enjoy reading this teen-fiction that opens the mind to the real world, the world where success and everything is attainable, it all depends on how bad you really want it, and how far you are willing to go. Focus on the future, because clinging to the past {which in reality you can't do anything about} will only make you sick and leave you second-guessing yourself. Literally! DREAMS IN THE SKY.Complete
The Bad Boy and the Piano Girl (Book #1)
Every high school girl's dream is to be the best dressed, have a perfect boyfriend and be the next prom queen. Well that is everyone except Heidi... Heidi Thompson is a seventeen year old teenager whose life revolves solely around her piano and getting to Julliard- the best music school in the country. With her best friends and brother by her side, surviving the year will be a piece of cake- or will it? Enter Landon Knight. After spending two years in boarding school, the school's star basketball player is back. His attitude and magnetic charm pull all girls towards him except Heidi who has no idea as to who Landon is. What Heidi didn't know is that Landon, the boy she never knew existed, would change her world so quickly. But maybe we all need some change once in a while. All Rights Reserved- ©simplywonders seriously if you copy this book you'll be in deep shit so don't risk it! :)Complete
Rascals
A story of a runaway heartbeat and the found family it dragged along. They move from place to place-half-lost, half-chosen-chasing quiet, hiding from the noise. It started with one girl trying to outrun the truth her family fed her, and grew into a mismatched group of escapees: her best friend, a boyfriend, two internet ghosts, and later, the ones who took the place of those who left. But people don't always stay. Sometimes they leave with a note. Sometimes they don't say anything at all. And sometimes... they come back. What happens when someone you loved left you for what they thought was your good-only to return when the damage's been done? What happens when grief makes room for someone new? And how do you know when the road you're running is finally home? --- Content Warning: •Themes of death, grief, abandonment •Found family & trauma bonding •Emotional and psychological triggers •Intimate/suggestive scenes (light smut)Complete
Aria's Story
Background: I have an older brother named Chris, and a younger sister named Reagan. My parents picked our names last minute because they didn't really care about what they were going to name us. My family lives in a huge house in Texas. My dad is a doctor and my mom is a lawyer so our family is pretty much rich. My parents rarely pay attention to any of us because they never wanted us. They give us money every month so that we won't have to bother them when we need money for something. I could probably be happy about that if my life was actually good and not a living hell. My brother is 23 years old so he doesn't live with us anymore. He's really smart and he's been at Yale since he was 19. He's majoring in music. My little sister is 15 years old and she's super friendly. She's also really smart, but she doesn't act like it because she doesn't want to be judged. She's one of the most popular girls at our school and she loves to be center of attention. That's how it all starts.Complete
empty ~ kurotsuki
"the secret is to just be empty." his reflection looms over him as if it were a giant wave waiting to devour him. he feels the noose of his subconscious grow tighter, suffocating him with the voices of dysmorphia. as it tightens, his control begins to slip. "you can trust me...they don't know what you need...this is what will satisfy you." in his mind, he is healthy and this is normal to want to be thin. he has to be the spitting image of a national-playing athlete. he has to be for his boyfriend; who would want to date someone this ugly? he has to be for his family; he can't fail their expectations. this is normal. kei is stubborn. too stubborn for his own good. "you're beautiful." lair. "you're perfect just the way you are." shut up. "i love you." why? it may be too late for kei to realize that he is no longer himself. he is nothing but a hollow shell living in foreign skin. inside, he is empty. *** this story is inspired by jaidenanimations and BoyInABand's song "Empty". i do not own the song, nor do i take any credit for the lyrics. i do not own haikyuu or any of the characters. these characters belong to Haruichi Furudate. this story covers mature topics that may be triggering to some individuals. viewer discretion is advised. lowercase intended.Complete
Roommates
Meet Kiara: Kiara O'pry... a girl whose the guitar didn't left her side. She's dreaming of doing concerts and songs, and as a first step of that she's studying in a music school and she's willing to do anything just to stay close to that school even living in her high school foyer after her parents left the town because they were rebuilding their house. Kiara had no choice but to live in one of the high school's foyer. She can't leave with her parents. She doesn't want to. Someday, a new guy walks in her guitar class and steal every thing she always had... she always was the favorite student, she was the best. But when this new guy takes her place, the hate rise in her heart and she only knew one thing at that moment ... Revenge. But what she could do when she finds out that her roommate at the foyer is actually him... the new guy. Meet Dylan: Dylan Shroof, he's the son of the richest family in town but he doesn't want any of this. He wants to be a rock-star. But what he'll do if his family doesn't agree with his dreams? Two persons with same dreams... in the same room... between hate... then revenge... then Love?Complete
Noah destroys every life he touches. Taking his first life with his own first breath, his path of destruction only spirals from there. Consumed by guilt and reminded every day of all that he's done, he makes a terrible decision- and ends up with the only thing he's ever wanted in life. Now he's faced with a choice- lie and be happy, or tell the truth and risk losing the one person who's saved his life time and time again. The odds that all of this could happen to one person? Slim to none. But then again, they've always been stacked against him. **trigger warning for content: suicide, trauma, physical/emotional abuse** **Mature- strong language, some sexual content** My cover was created using a free stock photo I found online and the website Canva- I do not own the picture! Text copyright by Amanda Klein (AmandaCastro711) ™️ ©️2012-2020 The moral rights of the author have been asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non commercial uses permitted by copyright law. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.
More detailsContent Guidelines