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118 Stories

  • 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫  by Drssch
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    𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ💌𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ ୨୧ ❝ किसी दिलवाली ने... किसी मतवाली ने... ❞ ❀༉‧₊˚. हमें ख़त लिखा है कि हमसे पूछा है... ☾⋆⁺₊✧ 𖹭 के घर कब आओगे... ✧˖° लिखो कब आओगे... 𓂃♡𓂃 ⋆༺𓆩☾𓆪༻⋆ "𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭." He says it like a rule almost like a prayer like something carved into bone. 𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒ And she nods... even when her heart wants to ask,"And me?" ❀༉‧₊˚. This is not a love story that begins with stolen glances. It begins with family decisions. Horoscopes matched and Steel trunks packed. A wedding under the weight of olive green. ⋆ ˚。⋆୨୧˚ The Nineties. Landline calls that end too soon. Handwritten letters that smell like ink and longing. Army quarters where wives learn the sound of boots before they learn the rhythm of their husband's breathing. ☾𖤓 They were strangers when the sindoor was placed. Strangers when the regiment called his name louder than she ever could. Strangers... who slowly started choosing each other in the quiet after the bugle call. 𓂃𓂂𓏸♡ He belongs to the nation and She belongs to the vow. And somewhere between salutes and suppressed desires love begins to bloom... not loudly, not rebelliously but devotionally. ❦ This is a story of officers who will always choose the border over the bed. Of wives who will fold their loneliness like a neatly pressed uniform. Of couples who do not fall in love at first sight... but kneel into it, day by day like prayer. 𓇢𓆸 ୨♡୧ Some will fight their own hearts. Some will almost break. Some will whisper, ❝ Stay. ❞ even when they know he will leave at dawn. ✧༺♥༻∞ Because here desire burns. But duty wins. 𓂃☾𓂃 And yet... love does not lose. 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 It transforms. It waits and It worships. 𓆩
  • What Heaven Denied Us [天所不予] by tjcheng
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    Han Jue came to Tianzhu Sect with a forgettable name, a spiritual root assessment that clears scrutiny because he designed it to, and three sects' worth of fabricated lineage. Four months of careful performance. Mediocre. Wandering. Dull enough to discourage notice. The plan was working. Then he sat across a desk from a senior disciple who closes books with both hands and watches faces instead of pages, and the man read him a poem about a tree out of season, and looked up, and did not look away. Mosheng Peak is not what he thought he was infiltrating. The thirteen-year-old in the upper courtyard has a laugh that hurts to hear. The senior with the jade cord under his collar has lost someone he never speaks about. The orthodox cultivation world Han Jue came to dismantle has people in it. He had not planned for that. A literary danmei xianxia about hidden identity, slow-burn devotion, and the cost of finding people worth saving when you came to burn the place down.
  • The Last Light Bookshop by Robin6891
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    When Nina unlocks the door to the Last Light Bookshop, she isn't just opening a store - she's stepping into the life she almost chose. The shelves hum with memory, the air carries the faint chill of a ghost who never quite left, and the stories whisper to her in ways she can't explain. Edmund is one of those whispers - a man caught between worlds, tethered by love and regret. Together, they learn that some hauntings aren't curses at all, but invitations to live again. In the quiet glow of the shop's last light, Nina discovers that peace isn't found by holding on, but by learning how to let go.
  • The Shadows She Walks In by theytellastory
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    She came to Elmridge with a past no one dares ask about. But in a school built on secrets, Raya Sen isn't just another mystery - she's the storm they never saw coming.
  • Sea Of Broken Convenants by ElaraVanc3
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    Leif Arvidsson is a quiet storm on New York's professional rugby pitch. Broad-shouldered, unyielding, and carrying the silent knowledge that every tackle brings him closer to the day his body will finally refuse. Reserved and intense, he treats the game like a brutal conversation with the universe itself. Sigrid Voss, a sharp and introspective journalist with Faroese roots, arrives in the city to shadow him for an in-depth profile. Cool, independent, and unafraid of silence, she expects facts and strategy. What she finds instead are late-night conversations that drift from the violence of scrums and concussions to the fragility of existence. From hidden scars to the cold, beautiful indifference of the stars above the city lights. Set against the relentless pulse of New York, their connection builds slowly through stolen words in dim bars. Rain-soaked walks after matches. And moments where the line between interviewer and intimate witness disappears. It is a story of two guarded souls navigating the ache of being human. Where physical pain meets existential wonder. And the question lingers. Can any collision leave something lasting behind.
  • The Spirit who was once a good man by Joratas
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    She had her life calculated to the last decimal. SHE DELA CRUZ: top of her class, architect of her future, engineer of her heart. Emotions were variables to be controlled. Love was a risk to be assessed. Then he died. And the equation broke. MARCUS RAMOS - the misunderstood boy from the wrong side of perception, dressed in the armor of a "bad boy" to hide a soul too vast for this world - did not leave. He became a condition of her reality. A ghost visible only to her. Not a shadow to fear, but a truth she could no longer ignore. This is not a ghost story. This is an autopsy of a misunderstanding. A film ready novel where every silence is a line of dialogue, every glance is a revolution, and the most haunting love affair begins after the last heartbeat. Witness a love that defies time, a regret that rebuilds a soul, and the terrifying beauty of being truly seen by the one person you never took the time to see back. Prepare for absolute cinema.
  • Sunday Dinners by sbk001
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    Every Sunday, Aliya crossed the creek for dinner - laughter, family, and the boy who was never supposed to matter. Years later, she returns home to find that some feelings don't fade with distance, and some goodbyes never learned how to stick. Sunday Dinners is a story about love, belonging, and the quiet ache of finding your way back-to the people and places that never truly let you go.
  • The Space He Left Unnamed by NumericArmy
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    ~a love story without recognition Elara Hawthorne leaves home searching for healing, unaware that distance would lead her back into love-and forgetting. In a foreign country, she seeks escape and the hope that leaving might soften her wounds. Somewhere along the way, she finds herself again. And she finds someone who shows her the world with gentleness, someone who makes her believe that pain can fade with time. Until he pushes her back into a fall she never expected to survive. She gathers herself through tears, waiting-believing-that he will return. Only to realize that to him, she was never something to remember. Stabbed by forgetting rather than goodbye, Elara is left with a choice: Will she open the same book and read it again, or finally close the chapter that never learned her name? by N&A
  • The Road Not Taken by aaravbhcwrites
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    Two people in the same room, watching each other from opposite ends, waiting for something neither of them knew how to start. Aarav and Rhea meet in a project room at university. They share chai at the campus tapri. They walk the same road at night. They sit in silence that feels fuller than any conversation. And then, in a corridor, something breaks - a moment of hesitation that neither of them ever learns to un-break. The years that follow take them to different cities. Bangalore and Mumbai. New jobs, new people, new routines designed to fill the space where something almost happened. They build competent lives and seal the gap. They move on. Or they perform moving on, which is not the same thing. When a message finally arrives - years later, from one city to another - it asks nothing and means everything. What follows is a reunion that doesn't pretend to heal anything, a conversation that only confirms what they already knew, and a night that changes nothing and everything at once.
  • Matilda by SolentWriter
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    Six years. One island. A life shaped by necessity. In the late summer of 1913, Matilda arrives in Cowes believing she has stepped into a quieter, more generous world. After years marked by illness and responsibility, the island feels open and permissive - a place where days are orderly, futures are legible, and freedom appears effortless. Regatta Week confirms it: the harbour glitters, society is confident, and Edward Harrington's careful courtship offers affection, status, and a life that fits perfectly. But Cowes runs on more than display. Beneath the surface lies the work that keeps the island moving - its railways, its harbour, its industries - and the people who understand how fragile that balance really is. When Matilda briefly encounters Tom Mercer, whose family engineering firm underpins the island's functioning, she senses a different kind of recognition: not admiration, but understanding. As war arrives and necessity replaces certainty, Matilda is drawn steadily into the invisible labour that holds Cowes together. While men leave and are celebrated, those who remain become indispensable. Through crisis, coordination, and quiet problem-solving, Matilda discovers the difference between being permitted and being required - and between a future that is approved and one that is chosen. Spanning 1913 to 1919, Matilda traces how a woman learns not to escape her world, but to see it clearly - and to claim a place within it that cannot be withdrawn when the emergency ends.
  • The Notes We Leave Behind by Robin6891
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    In 2023, Tom moves into a small flat in Bethnal Green and finds something wedged beneath a loose floorboard - a rental agreement signed forty years earlier by a woman named Sarah Harper. Then he finds her note. And then another. Across decades, through scraps of paper and the quiet of an old wooden floor, two lonely people begin to speak to each other. Sarah in 1983. Tom in 2023. Both convinced they are invisible. Both certain no one will ever really see them. But the notes they leave behind say otherwise. A story about time, tenderness, and the unexpected ways we are found.
  • Before You Forget Us by JLANGELO2120
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    When Ethan is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at 34, he calls the one person he swore he'd let go: Mara, the woman he once loved and quietly abandoned. Now, with time slipping away, he asks her to help him remember what they were-before the forgetting erases them entirely. Told in fragments of memory, journal entries, and quiet rooftop dinners, this is a love story not about holding on forever... but about letting go, one heartbeat at a time.
  • Master of Cocktails Chapter Three (novel) by Trytobefair
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    The Master of Cocktails Lucky, a Sri Lankan dreamer and drifter, is kidnapped by the Americans as an al Qaeda suspect after the 9/11 attack. After realising their mistake, they have two options - to kill him, or free him. Curtis, who's in charge of this operation, sets him free with a new identity in the U.S., on the condition that he remains incognito and tell no one of his experience. While hiking in a national park, he chances upon Sandra, tied up and brutalised by her demented husband. He frees her and they escape. But their happiness ends abruptly when Sandra is killed by a rampaging gunman. Heartbroken, Lucky becomes a recluse. Sandra appears to him in a dream one night and tells him to go to Mexico, where something exciting will happen to him. Wandering in the Mexican desert, Lucky hears a cactus talking to him. Trapped within the cactus is Corazon, a young woman cursed by Don Ramon, a sorcerer. Lucky frees her, and they confront Don Ramon. He dies soon after, and Lucky leaves for Africa. He arrives in the war-torn Republic of Bongo. Rebel general Jean-Claude Matanga takes him prisoner, but appoints him his official cocktail maker Lucky decides to make a magic cocktail which can transform power hungry people into altruistic sorts. Corazon arrives to help him. The magic cocktails turns all warlords and mining company CEOs into good men. Bill, the bullish American ambassador, quits his job and starts making a movie. Marie-Claire Matanga, Jean-Claude's niece, arrives from France with her Aston-Martin car. Kidnapped by the notorious brigand Jonas, Lucky and Corazon transform him into a midget with a cocktail. Bill's movie flops, but he becomes a successful porn film maker, and plans to become the next American president.
  • "Love's Unwritten Chapter" by Nickibarbie14
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    "Nneoma, a talented writer, finds love in unexpected places when she meets Obinna, a charming entrepreneur. As they navigate life's ups and downs, their romance blossoms, inspiring Nneoma's writing and filling her life with joy and purpose."
  • The Remains of the day! by Neel183
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    **In 1960, the perfect wife is built the same way the perfect house is built - with invisible walls and silent foundations.** Evelyn Sterling has spent ten years mastering the art of disappearing in plain sight. She wears the emerald silk her husband chooses, smiles at the right moments, and keeps her voice soft enough not to disturb the men discussing empires over cigars. Arthur Sterling is building a legacy - a five-hundred-acre estate that will make the valley bow. Evelyn is simply expected to arrange the furniture once the roof is on. Then Julian Vance arrives. He is young, rough-edged, and dangerously honest. The architect Arthur hires to design his monument doesn't believe in Doric columns or impressive facades. He believes a house should breathe. That it should let the light in. That silence can be designed. While Arthur demands columns that project power, Julian and Evelyn begin building something else entirely - hidden in the blueprints, tucked behind library walls, sealed inside dead space that doesn't exist on any permit. A room where the world stops. Where her husband's voice cannot reach. As the Blackwood estate rises from the earth, so does the dangerous, electric understanding between the architect and the woman he was never supposed to see. Every stolen conversation over curling blueprint paper, every measured glance across the ridge, every secret they carve into the stone together pulls them deeper into a love that cannot be permitted to exist. Because Arthur Sterling always wins. And the house he is building is meant to last forever. In a world of load-bearing lies and hidden voids, how long can two people keep something this real... invisible?
  • Chandini by Bahuma
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    Abhiram and Chandini were inseparable, childhood sweethearts whose love blossomed as naturally as the sunrise. They shared dreams, hopes, and promises, believing their bond could weather any storm. When Abhiram left for his studies, they vowed to remain devoted, sustaining their love through letters filled with longing and unshakable belief in their future together. However, fate dealt a cruel hand. Chandini, against her will, was forced into a loveless marriage, a future she could never imagine without Abhiram by her side. On the day of her wedding, her heart-too full of unspoken love for Abhiram-gave way, leaving behind only grief. Abhiram returned, expecting to find the love of his life waiting for him, only to discover that she was gone. Devastated, he chose to live his life in her memory, never marrying, and pouring his energy into helping others. Though Chandini was no longer with him, her spirit lived on in his heart, guiding him every step of the way. A timeless story of eternal love, loss, and devotion, Chandini is a poignant tale of a man whose heart beats only for the woman who will forever hold his soul captive.
  • He Never Had a Name by rimatoinks
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    This is not a love story in the traditional sense. It is a story about almosts - about the kind of connection that never quite lands, yet leaves a permanent imprint. About sweetness that arrives without warning, longing that grows without permission, and a heart that learns, slowly and painfully, the difference between being wanted and being chosen. At its core, this novel is about waiting - and what waiting does to a person. How it sharpens desire, distorts reality, and teaches hard lessons about self-worth, boundaries, and the quiet courage it takes to let go. The man in this story has no name. He is not meant to be one person, but many - a symbol of the ones who come into our lives briefly, intensely, and leave us changed. This is Amira's story.
  • When Nobody Loved Out Loud by silenceinpen1
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    He lived in silence, far from home, writing letters he never expected to be read. She lived in the spotlight, surrounded by noise, yet unheard. They never spoke. They never met. They fell in love through songs, pauses, and words that were never meant to reach. This is not a loud love story. There are no grand gestures. No dramatic confessions. Only letters. Silence. Distance. And two souls listening to the same song from different parts of the world. When Nobody Loved Out Loud is a slow-burn, emotionally intimate romance about anonymity, longing, and the kind of love that exists quietly-until it refuses to stay silent. Sometimes, the deepest love stories are written where no one is watching.
  • Only Once, Entirely by GogoGogo927
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    Paris, 1878. One evening. Two souls. No promises - only truth. In the gilded hush of a Parisian ballroom lit by crystal and candlelight, a German Duke and a Swedish Countess meet as strangers. Both are too well-mannered to speak openly and too experienced to play games. Yet over the course of a single evening, through carefully chosen words and deliberate silences, they come to know one another with an intimacy that transcends touch. Surrounded by music, mirrors, and the watching eyes of a world built on restraint, they engage in a quiet, exquisite duel of language and longing - bound not by time, but by what they choose to say before it ends. Only Once, Entirely is a story of elegance and emotional precision, where love is not declared, but understood. A novella for anyone who has ever longed to be seen - just once - completely.
  • Where Fire Leaves Ashes by Bleeding_Whispers62
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    A poet's soul fell in love with a man made of blueprints and silence. He built bridges. She painted ruins. He loved with restraint. She loved like she was bleeding. Callum was an engineer-made of structure, order, and lines that never dared to curve. Evelyn was an artist-messy, loud-hearted, and always a little too much for the world to hold. They met in the hush of a library, between books and breaths. They loved in quiet chaos-notes left in pockets, shared coffee, stolen glances in the rain. But some fires don't warm. Some fires consume. As love grew louder, the silence between them began to scream. Dreams pulled them in different directions. Words stopped arriving in time. Now, they are two ghosts walking through a life they almost had- remembering the heat, living with the ash. 💔 For readers who believe the quietest heartbreaks echo the loudest. 🌒 A literary slow-burn. A love story that doesn't end, it lingers. ✎ A girl who sees in color. A boy who builds in grayscale. 🔥 What do you do when the one you love becomes the one you let go?