Introspective Stories

The dead hand of history still grips the throat of the present. Three centuries after a meteor shower struck Earth, humanity is divided between the powered and the originals. One group changed. One did not. In the years that followed, a virus killed billions, twisted the natural world into something monstrous, and gave fear a shape to blame. The powered have carried that blame ever since. Collared, controlled, and sent beyond the city walls, they are forced to fight the mutations that roam the wilds while the originals stay safe behind the walls. Ezra, a doctor, refuses to accept the world's clean divisions. He treats anyone who needs him, believing every life has value, even in a city built on deciding otherwise. When one act of mercy toward a stranger pulls him into a hidden war, Ezra begins to uncover the truth buried beneath generations of fear. Tension between originals and powered reach a breaking point, and Ezra faces a choice that could alter the course of humanity. One where the line between saving and destroying becomes increasingly blurred.

Published on 4/5/20 In Neo's past life, he was a wicked person who sought to kill his little brother, the rightful heir of a Ducal House. His conspiracy led to his eventual demise. Then he was reborn into another world and became a successful medical researcher... ... Then he died again because he believed he was too good for the concept of sleep, and was sent back to the beginning, before his plans and cruel deeds led him down the path of no return. This second chance might be his salvation. . . It was said that the oldest Young Master of the Odum Family has become strange as of late. Was he perhaps trying to kill someone again? His younger brother better watch out, or else he might die this time. Everyone, duck and cover! Don't want to be in the crossfire! Edited by: bafflinghaze Cover by @Niveggo. Volume I Spring 1 - 40 Complete Volume II Summer 41 - ??? Obligatory Declaration (because it is now 2025): This story was made by a human author. In fact, all my stories were made by a human author. Do NOT feed more work into AI. I do not permit my works to be used in any way to train generative AI.

Kimira Disvinadiya has everything under control. As student council president, top student, and self-appointed guardian of schedules, deadlines, and proper procedure, his life runs with military precision. Wake up. Go to school. Finish paperwork. Repeat. Then one morning, he wakes up as a girl. Naturally, Kimi's first concern isn't the impossible transformation. It's the paperwork. Determined to keep his life from falling apart, Kimi throws himself even harder into routine. Meetings still need to be held. Reports still need to be signed. The student council won't run itself. But no amount of planning can stop the changes creeping into his life. As friendships shift, relationships become complicated, and the person staring back from the mirror feels less and less familiar, Kimi is forced to confront a question he has spent years avoiding: Is he actually living? Or has he only been existing according to a schedule someone else wrote for him?

Story by Ziindra & Artwork by matchseia ₊ . ⊹ ݁ ₊‧ . ‿⊱༻✶༺⊰‿ . ‧₊ ݁ ⊹ . ₊ . ⊹ ݁ ₊‧ . ‿⊱༻✶༺⊰‿ . ‧₊ ݁ ⊹ . ₊ When overworked engineer Norma dies, she wakes up as Caelia Ardent, the villainess who has an ill fate in a romance novel. Along with Cassian Welsh, the head engineer at the palace, they go around the kingdom doing many projects- helping people and hearing their stories- all while navigating loneliness, identity, and what it means to be alive... Also finding and healing each other in the process. TW: Strong Language, Very Dark Themes including: S**cide, DV, A**se Also available on RoyalRoad, tapas, & HoneyFeed! Entered in thewatty2026 awards!!

Seven ways to disappear. One reason to stay. This is not a guide anyone should follow. It starts quietly- with shrinking, with silence, with learning how to take up less space until no one notices when you're gone. Step by step, this collection traces the slow art of becoming invisible- of being almost gone. But not completely. Because somewhere between leaving and disappearing, something interrupts. A pause. A thought. A choice. Stay.

No theme. No rules. Just words born from passing thoughts and sudden inspiration. A collection of quiet moments, hidden feelings, and fragments of imagination. Written whenever the silence had something to say.

An arranged marriage. Two strangers. One home. It should have been simple. It wasn't. Not because of betrayal. Not because of tragedy. But because some truths take years to recognize.

We spend our whole lives begging strangers to handle us with gentle hands. We write grand rules for how we want to be loved, yet we never stop to ask the only thing that actually matters: "When was the last time you were gentle with yourself?" This is not a story about finding your other half. It is a sharp, surgical look at the quiet execution we mistake for romance: the decision to carve away your own landscape just to purchase an hour of quiet in someone else's shadow. Stop starving yourself to feed a stone.

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Vol. I: Introspective Emotions flow like seasons, and seasons mirror our emotions-their beauty found in the depth, their rhythm shaped by time. A collection of poems tracing the quiet storms within. Volume I dives into reflection, memory, and the emotions that shift us from the inside out. A story unfolding through lyrical prose. e.s [© Esmé. All Rights Reserved. This applies to all of my published works. Redistribution, translation, or upload outside Wattpad is prohibited. I actively pursue unauthorized copies on duplicate sites. Don't test my pen or my patience.]

For fans of John Green and David Levithan. One suicide is tragic. Two is a pattern. Three is just negligent murder. Louis Lansing failed spectacularly at his own ending. Instead of dying, he wakes up inside Meadow Oaks Psychiatric, an underfunded treatment center where chemical restraints replace compassion, overworked staff struggle to maintain control, and survival often depends more on the other patients than the people paid to protect them. Louis plans to keep his head down until he's released. Then he meets Ike. Abby. Callum. As an unlikely family begins to form inside a place determined to break them, Louis is forced to confront the years leading to the devastating loss of his best friend, Thomas, and the guilt that convinced him his own life ended long before his suicide attempt. Told between the brutal reality of Meadow Oaks and the memories that haunt him, Beautifully Broken is a raw, darkly funny novel about survivor's guilt, found family, and learning to live in a world that has given you every reason not to. Can you build a future when your beginning is already ruined?

Lost between her past and an uncertain future, Hirakû arrives in Sumeru with a single obsession: to understand who she truly is. Her fragmented identity, painful memories, and scars hold her captive. But when she crosses paths with Alhaitham, a scribe as rational as he is inflexible, a new equation begins to take shape. Between silence, music, and whispered confidences, a strange dialogue unfolds where logic meets the irrational. In this world where every truth seems hidden behind libraries and numbers, Hirakû invents her own formula: the Phi Theorem. A theorem that could very well rewrite not only her story... but also Alhaitham's view of the world. ⚠️ Mature story, addressing sensitive themes surrounding infidelity and other psychological traumas. ⚠️ Writing began: September 22, 2025 Status: Completed on February 21, 2026 Special thanks to @Tix_Boo for translating the text.

A dystopian, YA, sci-fi novel set in NYC during the 2090s. After a mysterious storm, Valerie's mother sends her away to a strange facility. After a series of events, Valerie finds out the truth is much darker than she expected, now she must work hard to fix the country, figure out who and what she is, and get closure with her mother. Valerie Grace Sterling craves humanity more than anything, but she knows she needs lots of luck if she wants to prove herself human enough.

When Raghav Das receives an unexpected message from a woman he barely remembers from school, he assumes it is another coincidence life likes to arrange. It isn't. Ananya Mishra has carried one quiet certainty for twelve years: that some people change your life simply by being exactly themselves, even if they never know they did. Across government postings, lonely bungalows, spare rooms, unfinished stories, and the ordinary work of building a marriage, two people learn that love is not found in grand declarations, but in the rare courage of seeing another person without trying to change them. A quiet literary novel about memory, attention, ambition, and the lives we slowly write into one another.

We all will grow up. We all will walk on the same earth and see the same moon and breathe the same air, even though we might not look the same or speak the same language. A coconut tree starts his life as a coconut, held high above in his mothers arms. Throughout a natural process, he finds himself facing various changes in life as he learns the harsh reality of it all. A life where he has to stand for himself alone.

Some people wear masks. Others hide in plain sight. He doesn't lie about who he is. He does something far more unsettling-he tells the truth in fragments, scattering pieces of himself through stories, jokes, contradictions, and forgotten conversations. Everyone believes they've seen him. No one realizes how much is missing. But one person notices. Every contradiction becomes a clue. Every passing remark, every unfinished sentence, every forgotten thought is carefully collected and examined. What begins as simple curiosity slowly transforms into something far more dangerous: an obsession with understanding a man who seems determined to remain just beyond reach. The deeper the search goes, the less certain anything becomes. Is he deliberately hiding behind his own words? Or is the person studying him uncovering a truth no one else can see? Some mysteries aren't solved by finding answers. They're solved by asking the one question no one else thought to ask.

Nothing lasts forever.

Through small observations and gentle daydreams, ordinary moments become meditations on self awareness, gratitude, loneliness, empathy, and the quiet stories that surround us every day. Each story begins with something easily overlooked: a passing stranger, a changing light, a small detail; and follows wherever the imagination leads. None of these imagined lives may be true, but perhaps they don't have to be.

Beneath the Surface Dive into the depths of the human experience, where the lines between reality and introspection blur. This collection of poems is a journey of self-discovery, exploring the complexities of the human heart and the natural world. In the stillness of the night, where shadows dance and stars whisper secrets, we find the courage to confront our deepest fears and desires. It's a place where love and light entwine, illuminating the path forward: "In darkness, love is the spark that gleams, Guiding us home, where hope and light beam."

A collection of my most personal poetry from recent years as well as some creative exercises that I did to get my mind thinking differently.