Diversityinlit Stories

Leilani Chen is a black cat in human form: unbothered, cool, and effortlessly elegant. She's the complete opposite of Sebastian Prince, her best friend whose goofy smile shines a little brighter when she's around. When he drags her into his exciting world of tire tracks and camaraderie, Leilani starts to realise that the greatest thrill of life isn't the journey itself, but the person she's riding with.

Casual sex is harder than it seems. In order to keep it safe, both emotionally and physically, Jake comes up with a set of rules.

"Hello, Miss Akira, welcome to the most confusing road trip you have ever encountered; life." // ongoing

"I was born peaceful and you were born wild, look where we are now" **** The story in which a boy who converted to Islam meets a girl who dreams of a world outside of it

Fews of the poems which I wrote. Hope you will like it :) Some words like a stranger Some words so familiar Some words mine, some words yours Some straight from soul... kuch shabdh anjaane kuch shabdh jaane pehchane kuch mere kuch tere kuch dil se......... Poems translated by : @paintlife_az Cover by : @thelead Happy Reading Shru :) #82 poetry 20/05/2015 #70 poetry 29/05/2015

Travelling through Asia with her best friends is the greatest gift Ash could ask for. What she isn't prepared for, is the tag-along European who has made it his mission to get under her skin. It's the summer before university starts and Ash can smell change in the air.

Mamés has just one year. One year to get his life together. One year to finally make a decision. To stay or to leave. Rochford can't contain his dreams of music but the problem is it contains just about everything else-his child-like mother, the love of his life, and all his friends. He needs to make a change. And that change comes in the form of Ana Wang, a nineteen-year-old film director. She is in Rochford to film a movie but somehow ends up falling in love with Mamés music. After that, she is determined to do whatever it takes to turn Mamés into a star.

No longer in control, her hands instinctively gripped the fabric of her seat, her shoulder blades hit the back of her seat, and her eyes opened again as she felt the bus start to move. It was an escape, but she was fearful. // the unknowns ; extended summary inside ; copyright © junxluna 2021 #8 in asiansinlit [14 jan 21] #15 in diveristy [14 jan 21] #66 in talkthepoc [13 jan 21]

a girl and boy stuck in a snowstorm together

"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

"Alis Propiis Volat", She flies with her own wings. My Name is Cleo Omari, and I like being alone, there's just something about being able to be in touch with myself and knowing who I really am without interference from anyone else, that's just breathtaking, otherworldly almost. --- Cleo thinks she know herself in every aspect, but what happens when the inevitable meeting of a certain someone, flips her world upside down? What happens when Cleo finds out who and what she really is? Continue reading to find out ; ) ****This Is An Original Story****

❝You can't spell "haram" without the "ha" in Hannah.❞ ❝Just like how you can't spell "Zohan" without the "han" in Hannah?❞ ❝...❞ ❝Didn't think that far, huh?❞ ❝Yes. And I think I need a new name.❞ ------------------------------------------ Hannah Holden isn't a fan of Christmas. Zohan Muhammad is a Muslim. They really don't like each other. Just because they bicker (flirt) in and out of the lecture hall doesn't mean anything. And yet, here they are at the local mart, stuck under a mistletoe with a significantly large audience shouting at them to "just make out already!" ...And people wonder why they think Christmas sucks. ----------------------------------------- a/n: wonderful cover by vividly_dreaming.

Think Jenny Hans THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY but with West African characters and a dash of Netflix NEVER HAVE I EVER. Oze Ighodalo always was the sheltered child being the only female among three boys. She chose boarding school on school days and indoors during holidays because she hated the overly watchful eyes of her brothers. This holiday however, all of the Ighodalo boys had graduated which meant an opportunity to do everything she always wanted, especially get close to her long time crush and best friends step brother at the prestigious summer school. But there's a new boy in town and sooner than expected there are more boy drama in her life than any of her brothers would approve of, coupled with constant letters from a secret admirer who promises to reveal himself at the end of August.

[@WATTPAD READING LIST - AMPLIFYING ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER VOICES - MAY 2021] [@WATTPADASIANFICTION READING LIST - FROM ME TO YOU - FEBRUARY 2023] [@AMBASSADORS] READING LIST - AMBASSADORS READS - MARCH 2025] A mix of crazy, stupid, hormonal adults that are thrown into life with a sprinkle of swearing, a dash of witty humor, and a heaping cup of love from yours truly. ----- When Azar gets laid off from her position as a head pastry chef, in anticipation of the bakery's demolishment date, she finds herself with no other choice but to succumb to her mother's wishes: to be engaged to a man she's never met. Except what they don't know, is that the eligible suitor is already knee-deep in his own engagement, ready to be whisked off to another girl in a month. This requires East Han, the second eldest son, to call off the engagement with the Seo family. Determined to earn his parents' trust back, he agrees to follow through with this task. Up until he meets Azar herself, glowing in all her beauty and witty remarks that he knows he'll never get enough of. So other than not telling them the news, he does the one thing he wasn't planning on doing: he falls for her. UNEDITED VERSION COVER BY @qixing #1 | asianinlit #1 | baking #4 | diverstyinlit #5 | korean #8 | asiansinlit #19 | talkthepoc #397 | #summer

because there are too many people out there for your characters all to look the same

⭐️ 2016 Watty Award Winner ⭐️ Willa Grainger is your average twenty-four-year old with one exception - she never left her university. A year after she graduated she still remains employed with Professor Paige Grimsby, acclaimed author of the popular Simeon Lee series. Her struggles to find a boyfriend, find a job, and write the next bestseller seem like a walk in the park when it comes to her volatile on-again, off-again relationship with her friend Cynthia Smoak, one-third of their best friend trio. But Cynthia's always been competing against Willa in a game Willa didn't even know she was playing. When she does something unforgivable, Willa's forced to examine her life and her friendships, leading her to a new romance with an unlikely young man - a former student who's convinced Paige stole his undergraduate novel idea. Willa's never been comfortable with change and the experiences she's encountered during her extended internship with Paige makes her question who she is and what happens when the people you're friends with aren't the people you like.

Lila Pham works at one of the busiest nail salons in the city; with business booming out of proportion and her fear of her friends and fellow classmates discovering her location of work is at bay, all seems to be going well. Except for the fact that on one fateful day, some random kid named Kenji Nakamura happened to stumble upon her nail salon with a grin and goofy smile. And was it mentioned that he happens to be one of the players on her high school's star soccer team?

a list of face claims~

| WATTPAD EDITOR'S CHOICE | Major Aula Reed is a Canadian fighter pilot, veteran astronaut, and closeted bisexual. She's stationed on the second International Lunar Base or ILUB-2 with seven other crewmates. To be separated from Earth means facing radiation, meteorites, and equipment failure while under constant public scrutiny. For Aula, it also means struggling with memories of ILUB-1: the worst disaster in space exploration since the shuttle era. While she tries not to let her first mission overshadow her second, the Moon is an unforgiving place. It only takes one mistake, no matter how small, for history to repeat itself. This is a story of the near future informed by the lives of today's astronauts, whose triumphs and tragedies are immortalized in the public eye.

In which former best friends Drew Tyler and Eli Forrester desperately try to ignore the fact that their both in love with one another all the while living together. copyright © jessica. may twenty-nineteen.