Loss Stories

Eight years ago, I fell in love with a widower and the little boy who needed a mother. While everyone else saw Daniel rebuilding his life, I was the one holding it together. I dried Noah's tears, celebrated his birthdays, sat through his fevers, and loved him as if he had been born to me. Every time I asked about marriage, Daniel promised, "Soon." I believed him. Until the day I discovered he wasn't planning our wedding. He was planning his wedding to another woman. To make matters worse, the woman he was marrying had no idea I existed. She believed she was marrying a devoted single father, while the little boy who called me "Mom" had no idea his family was about to fall apart. Walking away should have been easy. Except Noah refused to let me go. A heartbreaking psychological romance about love, sacrifice, betrayal, healing, and discovering that sometimes the greatest love story begins the moment you stop begging someone else to choose you.

Leaving behind everything she's ever known, Emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes. The new freedom that comes with being a part of the Famoux is intoxicating, but behind the perfect image lies an ugly truth - being popular is a matter of life or death. ***** Out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of Delicatum emerged. Its most popular celebrities are the Famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality TV show called the Fishbowl. In a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. Sixteen-year-old Emilee Laurence is obsessed with the Famoux - they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. When she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she takes it. But soon she realizes that fame can be deadly... Content and trigger warning: This story depicts mental health issues and contains scenes of violence. [[word count: 350,000-400,000 words]]

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

After losing her mother, seventeen-year-old Elowen Parker aka Ellie discovers an unfinished bucket list in her mother's journal. The first line reads: "Don't let a single beautiful sunset go unwatched." Determined to complete the list before summer ends, she visits the beach every evening to photograph the sunset. That's where she meets a boy, Theo Brook, who never stays until the sun disappears below the horizon. He always leaves a few minutes early. Everyone thinks he's just quiet. The truth is he hasn't watched a full sunset since the day he lost his older brother in an accident. Reluctantly, he begins helping her complete the bucket list-learning to surf, camping under the stars, sneaking into an abandoned lighthouse, writing letters to their future selves, watching meteor showers, and chasing sunsets across different beaches. As summer passes, she learns to live with grief instead of running from it. He learns that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting. But the final item on the bucket list changes everything. "Watch one last sunset with the person you'll never want to say goodbye to." The only problem is that, by then, they're about to be separated by circumstances neither can control. #1 under Sunset - 05.07.2026

Arnav Singh Rajput had stopped believing in love the day his marriage shattered his world. Now, his life revolves around two things-his empire and his little son, Ayush. Emotions are a luxury he no longer allows himself. Paridhi Singhania had loved once-and lost everything. A widow holding onto her husband's last wish, she smiles through her pain, refusing to let her past break her. Love, for her, is a chapter that ended long ago. Two broken souls. Two different pasts. One unexpected bond. When destiny brings Arnav and Paridhi together, it isn't love that connects them, it's responsibility and a child who unknowingly becomes the thread tying their lives together. But somewhere between silent care, shared pain, and unspoken emotions, hearts begin to change. And when love comes knocking again. Will they answer it? Or will the past hold them back forever?

The Pride Lands, a land known for its peace, harmony, and determination to uphold the teachings and practices of the Circle of Life. However, in order to protect and maintain such peace, someone must carry the burden of the Pride Lands' dirty work...

Left completely alone after their parents tragically die within twenty-four hours, eight-year-old Rayhan, six-year-old Amin, and their newborn sister, Rufaidah, are stripped of their inheritance by greedy relatives and thrown onto the streets of Kaduna. Protected only by a penniless neighboring widow, these three innocent siblings must rely on each other and their faith to grow up, survive, and navigate a world that abandoned them.

She came to Chicago to disappear. After her older brother's sudden death, Katherine leaves behind the only life she's ever known, hoping distance will bury the past. But when a hidden box of letters begins to unravel everything she thought she knew about her family, her quiet new life starts to fracture. Then there's the man who visits her café every morning. He doesn't recognise her. She doesn't recognise him. But some connections are made long before two people ever meet.

Nabeel Maigori has perfected the art of appearing whole, a man whose life seems untouched by hardship. But behind closed doors, he is still living in the shadow of a loss that altered the course of his life, a man haunted by a tragedy he had never escaped. Then Nooriyyah, Gentle yet quietly resilient, never expected her life to become intertwined with a man carrying so much pain. What begins as an unexpected connection soon challenges everything they thought they knew about healing, trust, and love. As old scars reopen, Nabeel must confront the past he has spent years running from, while Nooriyyah must decide whether loving someone broken is worth the cost. 🌱 🌱 🌱 A Love Decreed is a heartfelt Muslim romance about grief, healing, second chances, and discovering that love is not always the cure but sometimes it is the reason we finally choose to heal. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 A/N: wrote this book as a teenager with no clue as to what it'll become , my first ever book here🥹 I'm so grateful to every single one of you that gave me a chance to share my super cliche story. I'm currently editing it to hopefully give it a more refined feel, direction and less cringey😂 Thank you so much for your love & support. Love , Maryam❤ Also Check out my new book : beyond the surface 💕 I'll continue writing it once i'm done fully editing and complete this book🍃 Find me on ig: @marymm.balaa

𝙏𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙢𝙮, 𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙣. 𝙏𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙨𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙. 𝙈𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧 𝙍𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙝 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚 doesn't make mistakes, he doesn't break protocols. So when he married the daughter of his retired senior, 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙡 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙖, the cantonment whispered. Was it a scandal? A debt? Or a cold, calculated move for promotion? 🥀 𝙄𝙧𝙖 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙖 💅✨is a landslide in a world of his rigid boundaries. She is the trouble he was never trained to handle- a sharp-tounged patola. 𝙐𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙖 𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙙. With realization that his heart might already be occupied by love that died-but remained. In a world of 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘦 is the rule, she wonders if she even makes the top three. "𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘺𝘢𝘢𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘢, 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘩... 𝘪𝘲𝘳𝘢𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘢. 𝘛𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘴..."She whispered. 𝘻𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘪 𝘢𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘩 𝘭𝘰, 𝘐𝘳𝘢. 𝘒𝘺𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘪 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪 𝘥𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘰 𝘬𝘪 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘮 𝘫𝘢𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘬𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘪 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙝𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝🇮🇳❤‍🔥

Have you ever wondered the origins of the wise, powerful, and occasionally lighthearted cosmic couple? The guardians of the universe. The adoptive parents of the Lumas. Here's their origins story. A story of friendship, family, happiness, expectations, and class divides. Which eventually spirals into crisis and dependence. Loss, pain, and depression. Even the threat of human extinction. But we all know how the story ultimately ends. Everyone's familiar with Mario, Luigi, and Peach. The Mushroom Kingdom lives on today, bustling with Toads. Though, there aren't many humans... I wonder why? (Rosalina, The Mushroom Kingdom, and all other Mario references are owned by Nintendo. I have no rights or ownership of any characters, locations, and power-ups except for my own.)

This is about the sense of feeling lost and when no one notices, or seems to care

Noah and Elias grew up believing they had all the time in the world. From shared school days and long walks home to first kisses, college, dreams, and promises beneath the stars, they built a future neither of them ever imagined living without. But some memories are harder to face than others. A year later, Noah is haunted by the same nightmares-a dark road, rain against the windows, broken glass, and a voice calling his name. With every dream, pieces of a past he cannot fully remember begin to return. And somewhere between the memories of falling in love and the truth Noah has spent a year trying to survive, he realizes that some people can leave this world without ever truly leaving your heart. "God, I miss you every single day, and now you're so far away, 'cause I don't know how to love someone else." Some promises are impossible to keep. A story about first love, growing up, memories, grief, and the person you can never stop loving-even when they're so far away.

THE CRIMSON CRIME Aura Kia Thomas has always been the girl behind the smile. To everyone around her, she is cheerful, loving, and almost impossible to break. But behind those smiles are wounds she refuses to speak about-and a secret buried so deeply that no one knows it exists. Raised under the strict control of her parents, Aura has spent years living behind closed doors. Her world changes when she crosses paths with Royce Rider Christopher, a quiet and dangerous man whose life exists in the shadows of the criminal world. Royce has secrets of his own. Secrets involving an underground world, dangerous enemies, and a family whose truth has never been revealed. As Aura's hidden past begins colliding with Royce's dangerous present, friendships are tested, families begin to crack, and buried secrets slowly rise to the surface. There are crimes that can be forgotten. There are wounds that can heal. And then there is the crimson crime-the one that connects them all. A story of secrets, betrayal, trauma, tragedy, danger, and a love that may survive the truth. But when the truth finally comes out... Who will be left standing?

Clara's life changes when she is assigned a mentor to help her control her powers. In the chaos of stopping the goddess of death and the mad titan, Thanos, three Asgardians try to fight to provide a future where Clara can grow up and have a normal life...if that's possible. Disclaimer: This is a fanfic. The only characters I own are Clara, Dragnar, Veneen, Helmian, Welimire and a few others.

This is a work of fiction inspired by true events-a story about love, life, and loss, and about finding your way through each phase of life, with a hint of romance, mystery, and hope.

INDIA MARCIA O'HARA is 22. She has curly hair, freckles and glasses she never takes off. she's not vocal about her feelings so she starts writing them down. She does not have a favorite color.She has her family but she feels like she has no one. Her father passed away when she was 12, so she sometimes thinks her father is the one that got a happy ending because he's now numb. He does not feel anything and he does not exist anymore. She lives everyday trying to figure out what is wrong with her and as she tries to find herself and have some hope. IT'S ALWAYS FALL INSIDE HER UNTIL IT ISN'T

Nicholas Johnson is an extraordinary young doctor who finishes medical school at just twenty. To the shock of his parents, he accepts a position at St Aidan's in Elsemby. But Nicholas quickly discovers that his intelligence doesn't mean people will take him seriously. Patients mistake him for a student, while the older doctors question whether someone so young can really be trusted with their care. Determined to prove himself, Nicholas throws himself into his work, slowly showing the staff at St Aidan's that, despite his age, he may be one of the most talented doctors they've ever had.

She never expected to fall in love with him. And he never thought he had enough time to love her back. When she meets him, she notices the rose first- a beautiful, impossible rose that seems to lose one petal each day. Then she learns the truth... Each fallen petal marks another day gone. And when the final petal falls so will he.