Diversityinlit Stories

Twenty-one year old Elysse Eze is on the verge of completing her final year at university. She's ready to leave her past behind and focus on her future-planning for the best year of her life with friends, independence, and the anticipation of graduation. But life has other plans. When Hasani, her ex-boyfriend-the boy who once held her heart but broke it when he went to prison-suddenly reappears, her carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Elysse is torn between her memories of the boy she once loved and the man he has become after his time away. He is determined to win her back, but Elysse isn't sure she's ready to trust him again. Not after everything he put her through. Elysse's heart wrestles with the weight of old wounds and new possibilities. As her past collides with her present, Elysse must decide if love is worth risking the stability she's worked so hard to build. Set against the gritty and vibrant backdrop of East London, this is a story about love, loss, and the difficult choices we make as we try to move forward without leaving too much of ourselves behind.

An essay by yours truly.

"Time changes all things, but those changes may be too subtle to notice, and one's greatest treasures may only be discovered as they slip through seemingly empty hands." She hates him and the rest of her racist third grade class. He fears her because she enjoys beating him up to teach him a lesson. But when they each find someone they like, they have no one else to whom they could turn for help. If only they could find a way to get along...

"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****

Nahla Campbell spent her first year of college partying rather than studying. Fresh from a summer at home, she's promised her parents to buckle down this year, but her best friend, Peyton awaits back in their dorm room, and her love interest is just across the hall. When two new additions to the dorm threaten to disrupt their happy home, Nahla suddenly finds herself more interested in their drama rather than studying. After all, one is after her boyfriend, and one is playing dangerous games with a professor. Will Nahla manage to keep her promise to her parents, or will she find herself ruining her future?

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

Amadin Nehi always dreams of being a superhero, the go-to-sleep and see things kind of 'dream', especially after she binge watches or re-reads every superhero classic she manges to collect. But what she never saw is having the opportunity, literally, handed to her and ending up being the only one, with her two buddies of course, who can save the city of Lagos.

Once there lived a King who was heartless, who left a trail of broken hearts and he found a gem, a concubine who was adamant to prove that she could entertain him without touching him. And so she began, "Once upon a time..."

after over a century, a group of clever archaeologists and undaunted soldiers decide to explore germany in order to reveal deepest secrets of man-eating giants. however, from the place of modern era, they don't expect to stumble upon a civilization which takes place in 19th century; where ideas of classical utopia are rising massively in their raw minds.

Commitment-phobe Mandy is the last person you would expect to be penning The Greatest Black Love Stories. Especially because she's just been dumped and it doesn't help that her two best friends are getting married. But what else could she do but go be the "Maid of Best person" ? Whatever that was. Now faced with planning bachelor(ette) parties and bridal showers, dealing with ex-con strippers, pain in the ass in-laws that aren't even hers, Mandy also has to refrain from murdering one of the groomsmen. Her ex. Or in her words, the leader of the unnecessary species of fuckboys. Now all Mandy has to do is to survive the wedding by not losing her mind, morals or panties AND finish her book in time. No one said it would be easy. But that's what tequilla is for.

✮ A collection of poems ✮ From my sea of thoughts, I present some waves for you. ©Gravity Clevercross 2020

Alex Anderson is a 16 year old teen who's lived the last ten years of her life hating everyone in it. The only person she finds tolerable is herself, when she finally decides she can't take life anymore she makes an evil suicide plan so before she ends it all everyone will feel as shitty as her life has been. She runs into the Aussie bad boy, Luke and thinks she has him wrapped around her finger. But it turns out Luke has a few tricks of his own. But one thing neither of them see coming: falling in love.

#4| SS 140417 #93| TF 250717 WINNER OF BEST TEEN FICTION & BEST OVERALL STORY IN TFA2017 Get your own official published and edited version with some bonus content here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2J3JWJM ❝They will screw over anyone and everyone as long as they get what they want.❞ Highland High has been known for many things. But nothing has ever made the school's name more famous than The Shameless Virginity Games, created by a group of four extremely determined fuckboys, who wouldn't hesitate to do whatever it takes to benefit them, regardless of who they screw over. But Aspen Cornwell has had enough of their player manners. Which is exactly why she decides to take them down one by one. What she doesn't realize, however, is what happens when she starts falling for someone she originally planned to destroy. [8.1.17]©moonchildnessa all rights reserved.

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It's a story about a man who always brings camera in his pocket but doesn't know how to use it; there are no pictures in it. And Ezra Zima is there to show him the world.

Remiya Siu is just trying to get through her senior year in one piece. Between writing articles for the school's newspaper, her part-time job at a local diner, and the piles of assignments she has to plow through for her AP classes, she barely has time to breathe. The pressure will be worth it, though. Because ultimately, it's going to help her get into Harvard--the college of her dreams. Except it doesn't. She's deferred, and she's crushed. By a stroke of pure luck, an opportunity arises when the annual Grand Achievement award is up for grabs for the first time ever, and she's one of two eligible students. This is what she needs to win so she can (finally) get off Harvard's waitlist once and for all. There's only one problem: competition comes in the form of Blaise Yang, her childhood nemesis, and he refuses to back down.

Liyah's breath hitched in her throat. The sandy desert stretched for miles and miles, without end. She looked at the two in front of her with an exasperated expression etched on her face, "Tell me this gets easier." Rayan smirked, "Careful, habibti. A fool off his guard could fall, and fall hard, out there on the dunes." موجَز Liyah Mahmoud travels to her estranged native lands of Almasahra when she learns that her grandmother is terminally ill. Thrown into a mysterious battle by the princess and her royal guard, she has no choice but to leave behind a world she thought she once knew. What seems like an innocent trip to the desert country soon becomes a quest to defeat an unknown force of evil. • inspired by one thousand and one nights + aladdin •

mellie simon is broken and certain that it will stay that way. derek lim is certain to change that. extended summary inside started 29/3/20