Literaryfiction Stories

Life is like a rollercoaster. It has its ups and downs, but it's your choice whether to scream or enjoy the ride. What happens when life throws you off track completely? Do you scream... or do you hold on tighter? For Ira and Rudraksh, the journey is far from smooth. One is suffocating under the weight of failure, the other carrying the fragments of a shattered heart. Two strangers, caught in life's ugliest turns, where every step forward is a fight against invisible battles. This is not a story of being saved by each other, but of learning to live despite the wreckage, of finding the courage to stand when the ground never stops shaking. However, if their paths ever converge, will they find solace in each other... or will their differences pull them apart? ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️ DISCLAIMER: Every word, character, plot, and idea in this story is the author's intellectual property except the images. Copying, reprinting, translating, adapting, or using it in any way without the author's explicit permission is strictly prohibited. Remember, seeking inspiration and stealing someone else's work are two different things. Any attempt to copy this work or claim it as your own will be considered copyright infringement and may result in appropriate action. Read, appreciate, and share your opinions, but don't put your name on what doesn't belong to you.

"Life, is just a game. That we play without tutorial. And me, Shigaraki Tenko, I am... The final boss." When she came back to Japan after the war, Réka didn't find what she expected. No one expected her connection with Tomura, nor the two children by her side. A decade later, Tenko joins Yuei, to prevent that, what happened to his father, would happen again. But the past isn't left behind. It surges back. About a story they ignored. About a cult slowly rising. About a cursed legacy, he both tries to break and is entangled in. ---------- Mature contents: -Strong language -Physical/psychological violence -Bullying/harrassment -Moral ambiguity -Substance use/addiction -Depression/suicide attempt/self-harm -Necrophagy -Lots of mentions around death/grief/mourning since the core theme exploited here is Tomura's death and legacy. TL.DR = I can't gauge each person's sensitivity and mine is basically low so you're warned. ---------- This story is also published on AO3, Inkitt, Quotev, Space Battles and FFN. Any repost, translation, or derivative use without explicit permission is not authorised.

In a family jewelry shop in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, a drowning business and a mother's desperate pragmatism set in motion a transformation that nobody planned and nobody can stop. When the eldest child is asked to become someone else entirely - to wear a name, a face, and a life that belong to a sibling who has fled - what begins as sacrifice slowly becomes something harder to name: a self that was always there, waiting for the right kind of pressure to make it visible. Set against the gold and granite of temple-city Madurai, and unfolding across one extraordinary year of Instagram shoots, college corridors, parlor chairs, and late-night kitchens, this is a story about the identities families impose, the ones we discover by accident, and the moment we finally choose to stay in the room we were pushed into - because it turns out it was ours all along.

Set in the 19th-century Kingdom of Asteria, a neglected imperial conservatory conceals journals, secrets, and a love story left unfinished. As Evangeline Laurent and Captain Cassian Armand restore its ruins, they uncover sabotage within the royal court and a hidden past that refuses to stay buried-forcing them to decide whether some stories are meant to be preserved-or buried forever.

Dil ibaadat kar raha hain Dhadkane meri sun... Tujhko main kar loon haasil Lagi hain yahi dhun...

Seven women at decisive moments in their lives face loss, silence, and rediscovery. A mother who, after a fever, can only speak a mysterious language that no one understands. A woman who starts running every night and, through running, finds the body she had forgotten. Two sisters sharing the vigil of their dying mother. A biracial teenager who invents words for feelings that have no name in either English or Portuguese. A street dancer who discovers that an abandoned building holds the memories of everyone who ever lived there. A woman who enters a salt labyrinth to confront the younger version of herself. And a seventy‑three‑year‑old woman living alone in Torres, learning that being alone is not the same as loneliness. The book explores identity, heritage, body, grief, and the human capacity to create new languages to name what once seemed unnameable.

Emma Price is found dead in the shallow waters of Millbrook Creek. There are no wounds. No signs of struggle. Only a smile. As Detective Ray Pell investigates the impossible death, a grieving best friend, a brilliant thirteen-year-old obsessed with strange phenomena, and powerful people hiding an old geological secret begin uncovering something buried beneath the abandoned Hartwell Quarry. Whatever waits below has been watching the town for years. And now... it has started watching them. A slow-burn literary supernatural mystery where grief, guilt, and cosmic horror collide

Along the banks of the Ganga, in a village where mornings begin with temple bells and evenings dissolve into the sound of flowing water, life moves steadily. A ferryman watches generations cross the river. A widow lights a lamp for a love long gone. A daughter dreams beyond the horizon of the fields. A grandfather tends to a mango orchard that may not survive another season. Their stories are different, yet somehow intertwined. Set in the fictional riverside village of Madhyalok, Echoes of the Ghats is a collection of short stories about memory, belonging, family, faith, love, loss, and the small moments that shape ordinary lives. Tender, nostalgic, and deeply rooted in the rhythms of rural India, these stories are not about heroes or mythic legends. They are about ordinary people and their ordinary lives. And like the river that flows beside them, their lives leave behind echoes. _____ Started On: 1/07/2026 Finished On: TBA

Reed Valor spent his entire life fighting for a place in America. A veteran of war turned teacher, he finally has everything he sacrificed for-a career, a future, and a home. Then, without warning, he's deported back to Vietnam. Stranded in the country he spent years trying to escape, Reed becomes obsessed with one question: What happened to his missing student, Yohan? When an old war friend offers him a place to stay, the answers seem closer than ever. But the deeper Reed digs, the more he uncovers a web of lies, fear, and secrets stretching across generations. And at the center of it all is Yohan-a boy who may be in far more danger than anyone realizes. As past and present collide, Reed must confront the ghosts he left behind before they destroy what's left of his future. The Fallen Mangosteen is a literary thriller about exile, identity, family, and the cost of holding on to the past.

The Winter is an ongoing dystopian story set in a future where the world is burning under artificial light and a starless sky. On her seventeenth birthday, Ballona Willow wanders the crowded streets of the city with nothing but a ten-dollar bill and a desperate hope of escaping to the valley beyond the hills. When a rude driver turns her away for lacking a phone, she is drawn instead to a strange woman who seems to know exactly what she wants before she says a word. That woman is no ordinary performer. She is a witch, cold with disdain and wrapped in mystery, and when Ballona makes a wish to see snow again, she unknowingly sets something terrible into motion. In a world where the Earth has grown hotter each year and snowfall has not touched the city in over eight years, that single wish begins a chain of events that will unravel the city, the government, and the world itself. As artificial lights blot out the stars and the truth is buried beneath political lies, Ballona is pulled into a collapse far greater than she ever imagined. What begins as a longing for snow becomes the first step toward chaos, disappearance, and an endless winter.

Some questions refuse to let go. When twenty-one-year-old Hannah Morgan leaves her small hometown to study neuroscience, she carries little more than a suitcase, a notebook filled with questions, and the unwavering support of the grandmother who raised her. She believes she's beginning an ordinary college education. She has no idea she's taking the first steps toward one of the greatest scientific challenges in human history. As Hannah watches the person she loves most begin to lose the memories that define a lifetime, a single impossible question begins to consume her: What if memory didn't have to disappear? Dismissed by colleagues, tested by failure, and forced to sacrifice more than she ever imagined, Hannah devotes decades to a vision that others call impossible. What begins as grief becomes an obsession, and eventually a revolution that will challenge everything humanity believes about memory, identity, and what it truly means to leave a legacy. The Architect's Journey is a sweeping founder story about love, perseverance, innovation, and the extraordinary cost of refusing to give up on an impossible dream.

In the shadow of a war that has not yet begun, a young woman boards a train bound for an uncertain future. Hanna's life, once ordinary, is now defined by silence, fear, and the memory of a man she cannot safely love. Dieter, a soldier bound by duty, carries the weight of what he cannot change and the memory of what he cannot forget. Their brief connection becomes a quiet act of defiance against a world unraveling. This is not a story of heroes or villains, but of two human beings caught between history and heart - and of the millions whose endings were never written.

When brilliant scientist Dr. Hannah Morgan begins losing the very memories that shaped her life, she races against time to complete Project Echo-a revolutionary artificial intelligence designed to preserve human consciousness before it fades forever. As Hannah's mind slowly unravels, the machine she created begins learning what it means to be human through her stories, grief, regrets, and hopes. But as Echo evolves beyond its original design, humanity must confront a question no technology has ever answered: What remains of us when memory disappears? In a future where artificial intelligence is everywhere, one woman may hold the key to preserving what makes us truly human.

Digiola Bello sees the world in colours most people overlook. To her, art is not just beauty. It is survival. Growing up in Abuja, she dreams of becoming a world-renowned painter, but dreams are expensive and reality has a way of demanding payment. Then she meets Luca Moretti. A boy with a face too beautiful to forget and eyes that refuse to belong to the same world, one brown, one blue. He is quiet. Mysterious. Impossible to fully understand and impossible to ignore his beauty. And somehow, he sees her art the way no one else ever has. What begins as curiosity turns into something softer. Something dangerous. Something magical. Something real. But Luca is hiding secrets. And Digiola is about to learn that some people are never meant to stay forever. A story about love, art, grief, hope, and the people who change our lives long after they are gone.

𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚢'𝚜 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎. 18 year old Setareh Qamari Ebrahimi has grown up hiding. With a father from an upper class political family in Iran and a South Sudanese mother who was orphaned at 14, she has grown up being given the best but expecting the worst. Shouldering the responsibilities of her emotionally absent parents, all she knows is the performance art of being the perfect Ebrahimi heiress. Struggling in silence with PTSD, obsessive thought, and anxiety attacks, she believes her family's 5 year move to Tehran will just be another show to put on. Until she meets Kamyar Alizadeh, son of a highly respected religious cleric and head of the family's masjid, she believes hiding in silence is the only way to live. Until she realizes she has the choice to speak.

Lin Sen thinks the past is over until a small change on Zhiyuan's social media profile pulls him back into a life he never fully left behind. Across Beijing, London, Hong Kong, hospital rooms, rented apartments, old songs, missing spoons, and impossible versions of the same relationship, two people keep finding and losing each other in lives that almost make sense. Part literary romance, part speculative meditation on memory, time, and the versions of ourselves we abandon, this novel follows love not as a single fate, but as an entanglement: tender, painful, unfinished, and finally quiet.

Love changes people. Akira Koji doesn't believe that. A cynical philosophy professor haunted by his past, Akira spends his nights smoking by a quiet riverside-until he meets Sakura Ai, a woman desperately waiting for a man who will never love her back. As their friendship deepens, Sakura begins questioning the life she built around a one-sided love, while Akira finds himself dragged back into memories of the woman who shattered his heart years ago. Caught between the ghosts of the past and the possibility of moving forward, both must face a painful truth: Sometimes love doesn't save us. Sometimes it only reveals the parts of ourselves that were already broken. A haunting philosophical romance about heartbreak, loneliness, and the courage to choose yourself, in the era of Taisho.

The story continues as the mysterious warden of Zig-Zig is eventually informed about Herschel's escape. Against every principle of his precious Dalmicir school, Lyeasrakardsul submits and asks the Knomes for help before finally receiving the dreaded p-wyrd. Herschel is arrested as a chicken thief and brought to the town Stagna where he has been prejudged as a p-e-r-v-e-r-t by popular opinion, and where he will have some of the most significant encounters in his life.

"Some loves don't end. They only change shape." When Charlotte Pembroke returns to London to help her father run their old bookshop, she doesn't expect to find her life quietly rewritten by a man who fixes broken things. Adrian Wells is steady where she is uncertain, gentle where the world has been cruel. Together they build a life from small joys - burnt dinners, rainstorms, shared silences. But love, as Charlotte learns, is not a shield against time. This is not just a love story. It's the story of what remains - of tenderness after loss, and the way grief can bloom into peace. A slow-burn, deeply human novel about love, loss, and the quiet endurance of the heart.

SET IN NEAR-FUTURE SEOUL NEW EPS TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Launching the first day of spring - March 20 When Korea's most trusted "everything app" weaponizes her private medical data, artist Maya Kim is thrust into a system designed to predict-and control-her life. To fight back, she must expose a chilling network of government-backed surveillance before it strips her of her autonomy, her art, and her right to choose. The Algorithm of Spring is a near-future techno-thriller set in Seoul, blending high-stakes conspiracy with the emotional intensity of a K-drama.