Calumscottinspired Stories

When twenty-nine-year-old Edgar Conner's band collapses and his life stalls in the wreckage, he ends up behind the bar at a dim little place called The Lighthouse. One late night, while wiping down empty glasses and nursing a bruised ego, he meets Mia Presley - a freelance photographer with a quiet intensity and a camera bag full of secrets. Their connection sparks in fragments - coffee after shifts, late walks by the waterfront, shared exhaustion and half-meant laughter. But beneath the growing closeness runs the ache of two people who have learned to protect themselves more than they've ever learned to love. When old fears resurface, Mia pulls away, leaving Edgar to face the silence he's always tried to outrun. Music becomes his only language again - raw, stripped down, painfully honest. His songs reach her before his words do, and soon both realize what they had wasn't dependency; it was balance. Months later, they find each other again - older in quiet ways, steadier in fragile ones. Through art and sound, they rebuild something not perfect, but real: a love that doesn't rescue or consume, only holds steady through the weight of living. Set in a modern cityscape of rain-soaked nights, dim bars, and unspoken apologies, Unsteady is a story about learning that being broken isn't failure - it's human. And sometimes, the bravest thing two people can do is stand side by side, unsteady, but together.

Cyril Andrews has stopped trying to hold himself together. The apartment is silent, the coffee cold, and the days blur into one another. Grief has hollowed him out until even breathing feels like surrender. But one rain-drenched night on a bridge changes everything. A stranger's voice - unexpected, steady, human - pulls him back from the edge and begins a slow unraveling of his silence. What follows is not an easy redemption, but a quiet rebuilding: nights of writing, small acts of kindness, and the gradual return of light into the spaces he thought were lost forever. Through fleeting connections and a love that asks nothing of him but presence, Cyril learns that survival isn't sudden - it's something we choose, one breath, one bridge, one day at a time. Inspired by Calum Scott's song "Bridges," this story explores the fragile grace of second chances and the courage it takes to keep crossing toward life.

Romantic Comedy · New Adult · Slow Burn Andy Pearce can't stop seeing Maddie Rodriguez - not on purpose, just always in the corner of his eye. She's everywhere: the café, the office, the park. He tells himself it's a coincidence. It's not. Maddie swears she doesn't believe in "love at first sight," but somehow Andy keeps showing up - in her photos, her playlists, even her thoughts. When their near-misses turn into moments they can't ignore, both have to decide whether to stop pretending it's just a coincidence. Because sometimes love doesn't start in focus. Sometimes it sneaks in from the edges - until it's all you can see.