Drowning Stories

"She's a medical emergency. He's a system failure. Together, they're a beautiful disaster." One is fighting to save lives. The other is playing for extra ones. Felicity Maureen Miranda is a MedTech student living on caffeine and compassion. Her life is a meticulously planned roadmap toward a white coat and a pediatric clinic. She's the girl who cares too much, works too hard, and carries the weight of everyone's expectations on her shoulders. But when the pressure of the medical track starts to overflow, her perfect life begins to feel like a sinking ship. Michael Darwin Mariano is the quiet in the middle of her storm. A Computer Science major with a "not my problem" attitude, he views the world through the cold logic of code and the strategic distance of a high-ranked gamer. He's nonchalant to a fault, preferring the predictable glitches of a program to the messy, unpredictable emotions of real life.

The River Remembered Us Some loves are too vast for a single lifetime. They spill over, like rainwater finding old riverbeds again and again. In the first life, they are strangers on opposite banks of a cursed river-she a warrior-queen building a bridge to save her people, he the exiled architect who alone knows why the bridge keeps collapsing. They never touch. But when she drowns saving his blueprints, he writes her name into the stone foundation. The river learns it. In the second, a courtesan and a blind calligrapher. In the third, two enemy soldiers who burn a village together. In the fourth, a nun and a heretic who translate a forbidden scripture. In the fifth, a hunter and a shape-shifting deer. In the sixth, a librarian and a ghost during a war that erases history. And in the seventh-the last lifetime the river will grant before forgetting-a cynical hydrologist discovers that every major flood in history has followed the same invisible path. A folklorist tells her it's not a fault line. It's a memory. Over seven lifetimes, The River Remembered Us is not a romance about finding each other. It is a romance about what happens after: the guilt of forgetting first, the exhaustion of remembering alone, the quiet violence of loving someone for the seven hundredth time, and the question they ask at every riverbank across every century: Is this the life where we finally stop? Or the one where we finally stay? Because the river remembers everything-except why it ever started.

Love is never meant to start , but to return.

Staff Sergeant Hogan had devoted his entire adult life to the United States Marine Corps. He put off finding a girl, getting married, and starting a family so that he could focus on his career. Now he regretted it. He had twelve weeks, four hundred and eighty hours of leave time to spend with his mother, who was dying of cancer. Margaret Bailey had spent the majority of her life after her parents passing in Seaton Bay, anxious to get out and explore a city with a population grander then six hundred and twelve. She chose a big school in a big city and expected to stay there long after graduation. However, her plans changed drastically when her brother was discharged from the Marine Corps after losing his arm in combat. Although he never asked, she packed up her bags and the life she had made for herself in the city in order to care for him back in Seaton Bay. The last thing either ever expected to find in their separate seas of misery was happiness in one another. But can it last after Landon's four hundred and eighty hours are up?

Rhylee Cameron unwillingly finds herself sucked into the world of swimmers, swim meets and trials, all under the watchful eye of a hotheaded Coach. But when Rhylee's world crumbles around her, it's Luke Taylor that is there to pick up the pieces and put her back together again....

Some loves don't fade - they echo. Ava Fisher and Eli Goldman were bound by friendship, undone by timing, and separated by silence. Years pass, but the tide has a way of carrying old memories back to shore. When forgotten letters resurface, the truth they never spoke begins to ripple through everything they thought they'd left behind. Treading Water is a quiet, aching story about love, loss, and the kind of connection that refuses to drown.

This is the story of how I almost died. It really happened. So, enjoy!

Confined. Trapped. Watched. There is no escape. No escape from the guards, no escape from the Asylum, and no escape from Life. Chained. Broken. Insane. Naleene prays for justice. But how can she find peace when the guards' one priority is her life, and her justice is her death.

"Don't go near the water." Thirty years ago, teenager Ellen Harper fell prey to the roiling rapids of her town's only river. And yet still she roams the sight of her passing, neither dead nor alive. "Don't listen to the whispers." Played off as a terrible tragedy, no one ever believed that Ellen's death might not have been an accident. Because Ellen didn't just fall into the river that night- she was pushed. "Don't believe what they tell you." What Ellen didn't know at the time was that she was just one more victim in a deadly cycle. A cycle that she is now a key part of. A cycle that will make sure another girl follows in Ellen's footsteps, willingly or not. "Don't ever leave the house at night." And now it's Ellen's turn to keep the pattern going... "Who knows what might be out there?"

Grishaverse / The Little Mermaid AU / Fusion Why not merge my favourite Disney movie with my favourite TV show? Aleksander returns from a fruitless sea whip hunting trip from the Bone Road when his ship sinks and he is saved by a mermaid by the name of Alina. What is she willing to sacrifice to be with him? Story will be updated regularly. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. <3 Fills my BadThingsHappenBingo prompt: Trying to wake them up Insta: bendarkling_fiction

He was supposed to come home. The plan was simple: dig a hole with his friends, take a picture, and go home.

Isabella, a 17 year old girl, moves to London with her friend hoping to find a job and school. But she bumps into the one and only Zayn Malik after having a huge fight with her boyfriend. After they break up, Zayn gives his word to Isabella. But what happens when he gets drunk one night? Can that change a relationship forever? Well, it kind of does, doesn't it? Rose, her sister, and Alejandra, a close friend, fall for two of the other band mates. But will they confess to each other? Summary sucks but I promise story will get better as you keep reading (:

Mia and her friends wake up a restless spirit, who comes back from the waters of death to give them the entertainment that they wanted.... or didn't want.

Julee's intentions were always clear: to protect the swimmers along her stretch of beach. Yet, a disquieting pattern began to emerge with each life she saved. The rescued vanished, leaving behind only whispers and unanswered questions. Was it merely coincidence that these individuals, each a fleeting presence in her past, found themselves in mortal danger? As the tide of strange occurrences rises, the plot weaves a tangled web, drawing these figures back into Julee's orbit, each brush with the water seemingly orchestrated by an unseen hand. What force connects these near-drowning incidents? And why does a familiar shadow linger at the edge of Julee's vision, hinting at a truth far more complex and perilous than a simple act of heroism?

a yandere dude kidnaps dude Plz let me know if I made any gammer mistake ,so I can fix them later ,thank you!

Death isn't as sweet as it seems

The winding Swallow River claimed many lives. Can an aging librarian stop it?

Her voice had nowhere to go, hidden underneath the suffocation that consumed her. The fear was overwhelming. She broke into a panic, desperately using all her energy to sneak a breath. Her life flashed before her eyes, memories escaping as quickly as they came. She was on the edge of death... The water seeped into her lungs, slowly ending her.

Will be read by Shelby Scott on her podcast Scare You to Sleep!

Let the whispers of the sea lure you into its warm embrace like home. Disclaimer ⚠ This story contains the topic of drowning. If this triggers you please do not read this story. © All Rights Reserved