Bipoc Stories

When a cursed bangle binds Sea Drifter Ninnette to a dangerous demon, she only has three days to break the curse before it claims her life. °:•.🪸.•:° Ninnette is a Sea Drifter with the power to command water, dredging shipwrecks, and salvaging lost treasure. When she braves a sunken ship no one else dares to dive, she finds a strange clockwork bangle that binds her to an ancient curse and to the infuriating Kazi, a demon who leaves destruction wherever he goes. The moment the bangle is activated, they are hunted by a secret order led by a relentless Priestess who believes the armlet is a key to something far greater than treasure. But the true danger isn't the order. It isn't the demon Kazi. It's the curse. When Ninnette puts on the bangle, a countdown begins. If she doesn't break the curse in three days, she will die like every wearer before her. °:•.🪸.•:° She commands the sea. He is a demon who has lived for centuries. They are both bound by a curse. Only three days to survive. °:•.🪸.•:° Set in a Maritime Steampunk world, and inspired by Filipino cultures, from Spanish influence to the seafaring Sama-Bajau. This story weaves dangerous magic, high stakes, and heart-aching romance. °:•.🪸.•:° ONC 2025 Honorable Mention Round 1 Winner Round 2 Ambassador Pick Round 3 Ambassador Pick °:•.🪸.•:° Romantasy High Fantasy Fantasy Adventure SciFi Steampunk Fantasci Young Adult

Genevieve still feels tortured by the sudden death of her first love. Time has passed, and she tries to move on, but her guilt doesn't let go of the trauma. She's finally graduating. After prom night, she will get to leave the place she hates most, school. That was her plan. However, prom night becomes the night she loses her best friend, herself, and the beginning of a new story with an unexpected, but not unfamiliar guy. When she wakes up from the accident of prom night. She finds out she's engaged, and her best friend is no longer alive. In the face of all these tragic events, she suddenly found out. Only one thing brings her peace: The memory of someone's voice. The voice that doesn't sound like her supposed fiancé, but like Jared. The unexpected, but not unfamiliar guy she left hanging.

She woke in the snow with no memory. No name. No past. Found beside a dead direwolf and adorned in gold no one can identify, Khava becomes the mystery of Winterfell-beautiful, foreign, and utterly alone. But when the game of thrones shatters the family who sheltered her, she makes a desperate vow: protect the Starks. Whatever it costs. She will kneel to monsters She will wear their colors. She will become their obsession. Because the blood of Old Valyria sleeps in her veinsand fire remembers what the snow tried to bury. First black oc

When her office burns down an editor must work together with the most infuriating man alive or risk the promotion she's been working her entire career for. **** Chielozonam 'Elo' Williams is doing great. All things considered. It doesn't matter that the job she loves as editor at PerfectRomance, the publishing imprint she's been working at for the past five years has started to feel more like a chore these days. It doesn't matter that her judgemental father might be right about her wasting her life away by not using her full potential. What really matters is getting her dream promotion and enjoying the prime years of her youth. That is until the unthinkable happens. After Elo's office building burns down overnight she's forced to share an office with the one person that makes her blood boil: Connor Price. Archenemies since their days at college Connor makes getting under her skin an art form. He's brash and rude and irritates her like nobody else can with his scathing looks and contemptible behavior. It's not long before they're locked in a battle of wits, neither willing to back down or give up. When they have to work together to acquire a potentially lucrative manuscript, they are forced to put aside their long-standing animosity for an adventure that will blur the line between hate and desire until neither of them can tell where the fighting ends and the falling begins. PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION meets ANYONE BUT YOU meets THE HATING GAME in this contemporary rom-com about resilience, self-discovery and two sworn enemies who can't tell the difference between wanting to kiss or kill each other. An ONC 2026 story inspired by prompt 40. THIS NOVEL IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD AND INKITT. IF YOU ARE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, PLEASE INFORM THE AUTHOR VIA WATTPAD, AS YOU MAY BE READING FROM A MIRROR SITE WHERE IT HAS BEEN PLAGIARIZED AND YOUR DEVICE MAY BE SUBJECTED TO A MALWARE ATTACK.

A sexy hate-to-love, forbidden bodyguard romance **When a paralegal is publicly claimed as the illegitimate daughter of a billionaire, she must survive her new family and a stalker, while falling for a bodyguard whose secret mission could break her heart.** Can be read as a Standalone. || Book 2 of Fatal Alliances Series ____________________________________________________ Cassandra "Cassie" Hernández wanted a quiet, ordinary life; finish her paralegal job, take the LSAT, and become a lawyer. But that future shatters when she's exposed as the secret daughter of Kingston & Co.'s billionaire founder. But her father doesn't want a relationship; he wants leverage to undermine his son, Xavier's leadership. He announces that Cassie will have an arranged marriage with the Caldwell's, designed to reclaim his control of the firm. Sidharth "Sid" Chopra is supposedly just an honest man between jobs. After Cassie narrowly escapes a stalker's attack, her brother Xavier recruits Sid as her bodyguard. Protecting a spoiled princess should've been easy money, until every stolen glance and accidental touch turns into something he can't walk away from. But Cassie has a sharp eye, and the more she falls for Sid, the more she begins to suspect he might not be who he claims to be. In a world of deception, deadly obsession, and twisted temptation... love might be the ultimate risk. **Cover Image By Freepik**

Disruption hits Ely's peaceful life when she starts seeing her best friend Peniel's ghost. With an unfulfilled bucket list, they'll work together to help Peniel cross the rainbow bridge. _________________________________ Eloise (Ely) wakes up one day with the newfound ability to see her dead best friend Peniel's ghost. This new ability means a lot of changes in her actual life, and Ely hates changes. But Peniel is stuck here, unable to move on and unsure about what is keeping her in the realm of the living, and Ely might be the only person who can help her. With a peculiar bucket list of things Peniel might have left undone when she died and the help of Melchior, Peniel's fiancé, Ely will do everything she can to help Peniel cross the bridge of the afterlife. But along the way, Ely will have to confront her own life's demons, demons she didn't expect to face ever again. ______________________________ Cover made by the amazing @ElleJNior👏✨ She does not take requests, that was special treatment 😝

Amahle "Lele" Dlamini left Johannesburg to escape dead-end texts and a life that felt like a group chat she didn't belong in. A cousin's traditional wedding in Newcastle, KZN was supposed to be a quick trip: attend, eat, leave. She didn't plan on her heels sinking into the grass. She didn't plan on Yanda - the soft-spoken Zulu man on parking duty who hands her a cold Stoney and tells her the land is saying hello. He's tradition, family, and quiet strength. She's Joburg edges and trust issues. Between umgcagco dances, lobola negotiations, disapproving gogos, and long drives between the city and the rural hills, Amahle has to decide if love is worth unlearning her defenses for. Because when the ancestors want to bless you, they don't send money. They send a person in dusty shoes who teaches your spirit to answer back. _I Fell Inlove with a Zulu Man_ is a slow-burn, heart-healing romance about culture, belonging, and finding home in a person who never asked you to be anything but yourself.

They say knowing is half the battle. But sometimes it takes more than acknowledged love to turn a friendship into something more. Being lovestruck and unable or unwilling to do anything about it is a special kind of hurt. Can childhood friends, Calvin and Ian, get over their own individual hangups and finally take that plunge?

Neha's life is amazing, at least somewhat, and she loves almost everything about it. Nothing could go wrong in her eyes but when she finds out that her boyfriend isn't who he once was, her life starts to slowly break down. From difficulties with understanding herself and the people around her, Neha is lost in life. However, a mysterious individual may offer what she needs to learn how to become better than she ever was.

Alice is a Viking. All she has ever wanted to do was kill dragons. But one night, she sneaks out to hunt the legendary, one of a kind dragon she has been longing to claim the head of for years, the oblivious Thunder Roar. but Alice gets separated from her Village that very night, and has to fight her way back, and maybe make an unlikely friend.

A comprehensive list of faceclaim ideas for applyfics, characters, character design references, and whatever you could dream of. Except for weird things. Don't use these people for weird things... cover painting by Snehal Pendurkar⁠

She felt like she was drowning, the desperation to reach the top but heavy weights on her feet not allowing so. She didn't know what happened after she gave up, everything went black, and the last thing she heard after the beeping went away were the screams of the people around her. How can everything go wrong in a mere second? one second she was chatting with her friends, and next she was being eaten by this ugly-looking zombie. Yes, that's what they were, zombies. Everything used to be fine.

When Faye Morgan left for Camp Lexington and never came back, Vienna Palmer swore that she'd get to the bottom of her best friend's disappearance. She had a game plan: 1. Transform her look 2. Transform her wardrobe 3. Transform herself See, Camp Lexington is only for the filthy rich and insanely stylish, two things Vienna has never been. She knew better than to expect campfire songs or dingy cabins, but she could have never prepared for the true glitz and glamour that awaited at Camp Lex. Here, secrets are wrapped in silk, power plays passed off as tradition. And there's a hierarchy so brutal, maintaining it is a sport. Worst of all, there's a new fad this summer. The other campers call it The Worth Game. Vienna didn't come to play it. But she might not have a choice. UPDATES EACH TUESDAY & FRIDAY AT 12PM EST started: may 23, 2025 finished: -

A normal girl with a terrible past, and a reaper who was out to experience a normal life. Little did they know that their paths would cross, and in the most unlikely of places... middle school. {The Watty Awards 2025 submission *fingers crossed*} This story is written in first-person and has mentions or depictions of triggering topics so please read with discretion. (FINALLY COMPLETED!!!) Dedicated to my best friend since middle school, Jaida.♡ Note: (♪) means to play the tune.

"I didn't expect anyone to actually text me." "You wrote your number on the men's bathroom stall. What did you expect?" Áurea Nikiforov Reyes always knew the story behind her parent's everlasting love. A simple text at three in the morning. Since she was a little girl, Áurea dreamed of having a fairytale romance like her parents. Now she's entering her second year of college with all hope for her fairytale ending gone. With summer approaching, Áurea decides last minute to study abroad in Japan. One drunken mistake in a nightclub might have changed her life for the better. A spin-off of Sailor's Moon. Takes place five years after the epilogue. You do not have to read it, but a little background might help. traditional writing + texting format #14 in Phones #2 in Dialogue book #170 in Messages © sapphire nyström 2021. cover by @sereneur

A story my sibling wrote on Google Docs about people at their school.

Weird /wird/ adjective of strangle or extraordinary character. The girl from the front of the class meets the guy from the back of the class. People say he's weird but weirdness is in the eye of the beholder.

{Completed} A collection of 28 poems about love, life, and being a university student This is a collection of some of River's more recent work, it explores different styles and topics like love, relationships, sexuality, self view and expression, ordinary things seen magical, emotional abuse, mental health, queerness and what its like to be a white passing bipoc.

The pages of history are about to be stained with the horrendous betrayal of my pet.

Sam forces Bucky to go out to a club where he meets Gwen, a software engineer with a troubled past. His trauma gets in the way, but Gwen still wants him.