Diversityinlit Stories

Fiona Bartley has never had the luxury of being anything but perfect. With a fashion mogul for a mother and a family name everyone recognizes, her life has always belonged to someone else. Carlos Garcia has never cared about fitting in. He's the black sheep, the family disappointment, and the one person who refuses to play by the rules. She is everything he's spent his life trying to escape. He is everything she's been taught to stay away from. In a world where reputation is gold and wealth is currency, what happens when a simple arrangement becomes something neither of them can handle?

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.

Memories of him, but he's not really dead.

Reid's an idiot and Rose's an idiot with a car.

You think that there is nothing more to the universe than what you see but in fact, there are forces behind the scenes that are protecting the universe and can destroy it. Meet Lux - a 14-year-old girl living at the beginning of the 20th century. She thinks her world is safe when she travels to London with her dad but the city becomes plagued by an invasion of vampires. It is there in London she makes a startling discovery that will change her life forever.

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?

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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 •

Jane Park or Jae-in as her grandparents call her is your average Asian-American, struggling with college. She has avoided drama all her life, until her life becomes one itself. Rekindling old friendship and getting on good terms with her ex-boyfriend couldn't possibly hurt anyone would it? Could a trip to Paris together change things? After all, it's the city of love. "Of course it wouldn't. We're just friends." Jane would say. But it's hard to tell, when her one hell of a gorgeous ex keeps tugging on her heartstrings. 201018 - #1 in asiansinlit 040818 - #8 in yaromance 150318 - #112 in general fiction 010719 - #6 in diversityinlit

“I’m Jermain, an eighteen year old boy from Portsmouth with three A-Levels and one BTEC, a boy with a clean criminal record, a loving family, a driving license, a job in a local fast food shop. I’m a guitarist, a songwriter, a tennis player, a writer, a bookworm, a photographer. I’m ordinary, regular, plain. I’m plain Jermain.” The one in which a girl is overly racist towards another student. For DiversityInLit's oneshot contest.

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❝I bleed gold and you bleed nothing.❞ In an alternate modern-day world where bored gods, vengeful werewolf hunters, cannibalistic werewolves, soul-sucking monsters, and clueless humans coexist, the world is in a chaotic routine of war and death. ...But Cupid still has arrows to shoot and love stories to create. Ronan Darragh is a broken-hearted Alpha. Hillary Crawford is a love struck werewolf. Wednesday Blue is a free-spirited human with a secret weapon. And Cupid must be the winged devil wearing white skinny jeans because this love story isn't going to end well. --•-- a/n: pretty cover is by @Neontouch. on hold till i can get it together.

Quinn never thought she would be knocking on Jesse's door at two in the morning, and neither did he.

Deanna Rhodes came to Northbend Prep for a new start. She wan't expecting to immediately be roped into a plan to take down the most popular kids in school: the Beau Monde. With the promise of money and popularity (two things she's never had an abundance of), Deanna agrees to weave her way into the Beau Monde, all with the help of two new friends and a lot of high school movies. Deanna thought it would be fun, an easy shot to the top of the food chain, and all the expensive clothes she could dream of. The only thing she had to do was knock some rich kids down a few pegs. She didn't think she would get attached to the one she had to ruin the most

| Murphy law was conned on her life story | Meet EVANGELINE INGRAM, 18 years old and the live definition of cursed. As far back as she can remember, Evangeline has always been unlucky but when she misses the one in a lifetime opportunity to get in the best college of the country with a scholarship, she decides to take a much needed break in her life and takes on an au-pair job offer in France! But, as always, things don't go as planned for Evangeline and between a hopeless French crush and a troublesome genie, the au-pair job turns out to be more life-changing than she would have thought. // update every saturday // © 2017 LAURA RAY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

//❝ He looked dangerous before, strong and wild, but now his face showed a deadly expression. It was in that moment she knew the monster in him awakened❞// A tragic incident forces Jordan into a foster family alongside with her new sister, Laura, a vivacious but emotionally damaged 10 year old. The picture perfect Dempsey family welcomes them with open arms. However, as the weeks go on, uneasiness and tension arises in the household and she slowly comes to know that they are not what they seem. When a terrible murder occurs and secrets are exposed, Jordan finds out what it means to be family.

She sells serenity. He peddles rage. They're both lying. ***** Nepo-baby socialite Catherine Earnshaw (@HeatherOnThoseHills) and crypto-bro podcaster Heathcliff (@OutAndOuter) weren't always mortal enemies. Once upon a time, they were inseparable childhood friends, thick as thieves and loyal to no other. Years after a messy fallout in college (don't ask), Catherine and Heathcliff now just stalk each other's social media profiles, date celebrities in completely separate circles, and pretend like they don't miss each other. Forced to share a stage at a swanky brand trip, Catherine and Heathcliff must suddenly address their painful past and mutual obsession before their very private rivalry destroys their very public internet careers forever. Can these two soulmates be normal in front of a camera long enough to pull this off? No, of course not. They're ridiculous people. ★ An entry or the #wutheringheightsmovie Reimagined Contest

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the baddest of them all? That would be Stefan Chase, the ultimate bad boy that had ever lived. Why? Oh, not because he rode a motorbike, wore a leather jacket or smoked a cigarette - nope, this guy was much worse than your typical bad boy. It's because he killed his own brother... Or so the rumours claimed. And everyone knew about it. Well, everyone except me that is. But who can blame me anyway? I'm just an ordinary Indian girl belonging to a traditional Indian family, and I'm too busy sticking my nose into textbooks all day in order to maintain my number one rank in the entire school. ... Well, that's until a certain bad boy takes my place. Oh if only I knew that he was the baddest bad boy sooner, maybe then I wouldn't have ever conversed with him, and gone on the most extraordinary ride of my life! This bad boy had added the most biggest dash of spice in my Indian life. Go ahead and read to get a taste of it. •••• [ PREVIOUSLY TITLED: "The Bad Boy Stole My Heart"] © COPYRIGHT Navycoffee on wattpad. All rights reserved.

Myka Chu just wants to find a little bit of happiness. But it's hard to seek solace anywhere nowadays when her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend start work at her favorite cafe, her dad just left for good, her mother has shut herself up in the bedroom and Myka's managed to single-handedly destroy the one friendship she had with kind, queen bee of Calligan High. Things look bleak for Myka, and she's about to give it all up and surrender to skies above when fate puts a stop to this: Elliot Ramsey, the boy who sat next to her, hung himself, two days before his birthday. Just like that, Myka is terrified of death. And just like that, Elliot's best friend, Jae Appleton saunters into her life, claiming that Elliot instructed him to be her friend. Is fate giving her a second-chance, in the form of her very own 'how-to : happy' book, Jae? Or is Myka Chu HIS key to happiness? All rights reserved. 2015 saakichan [wattpad]