Loss Stories

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]]

Aria Callahan already survived the worst day of her life. Three years ago, the Army knocked on her door and told her her husband was gone and that he had been killed in action. The love of her life was reduced to a folded flag and condolences that never felt real. Everyone told her to move on. She didn't. Instead, she built a career as a nurse. She learned how to save strangers while quietly carrying a grief no one could touch. Chase was more than her husband. He was the boy who chose her when the world didn't. The man who promised forever before war stole him away. Then the impossible happens. Chase is found alive in New Zealand. But he isn't the man who left. Now he's Will. He has no memory of Aria. No memory of their life. And he's married to the woman who helped him heal after escaping unspeakable captivity. As pieces of his past begin to surface, three hearts are caught in a battle between memory and love, loyalty and choice. Aria must decide if she can survive watching her husband love someone else. Will must face the truth of who he was... and who he has become. Because sometimes love doesn't die. It waits. And this time, losing him again might destroy her for good.

In the Montgomery household, nights are never truly quiet. Four brothers, William, Jamie, Aidan, and Grayson, hold together a family stitched from loss, love, and second chances. Between school fights, whispered secrets, and the chaos of growing up, their children stumble through the trials of adolescence under the watchful eyes of fathers who are still learning, themselves, how to heal. And when the day finally ends, after every argument, every stolen glance of defiance or tenderness, the house settles into a fragile peace. Quiet is the night now, but never truly still, because every heart inside it is learning how to beat as one.

✨Revenge is a dish best served silently. Machelle Richards has a beautiful home, a thriving career as a therapist, and a husband she's loved since she was sixteen. Until the night of their Valentine's Day party, when she catches him in the laundry room with their neighbor. In the shattering aftermath of his betrayal, Machelle makes a chilling choice: she doesn't confront him. Instead, she smiles, plays the part of the devoted, oblivious wife, and secretly hires a shark of a divorce lawyer to systematically dismantle his life. But carrying out her calculated exit strategy becomes a psychological torment when Brian, sensing a distance he can't quite pinpoint, suddenly transforms back into the perfect, attentive husband she always wanted. Completely unaware of the executioner's blade dangling above his neck, Brian fights to save their marriage with grand romantic gestures and vows of absolute devotion. As the lines between her cold-blooded performance and her lingering, heartbreaking love begin to blur, Machelle finds herself trapped in a devastating game of cat and mouse. Can she truly destroy the only man she's ever loved, or will the explosive secrets buried in their affluent neighborhood destroy them both first?✨

A sacred bond of togetherness, compassion and love. Completed with the symbols of their love. Likin kaha jata hain na bura waqt rehta hain... Na achha waqt . . . Shivaay and Anika had 2 kids, were married 8 years... and divorced for 7. What caused the two Ishqbaaz whose love was exemplified to separate? How were they living their own lives that are still intertwined? How were they parenting and what was the lives of their kids like? Where did their love get lost? More importantly, can Shivaay and Anika become ShivIka once again? Dive in to find the answers Note: This story is set in the real universe (not redux)

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?

Leah's life is divided into before and after, though no one ever tells you when the line is being drawn. One moment she is a wife, a parent, a person with a future she understands. The next, she is learning how to hold her family together while everything familiar slips out of reach. With young children depending on her, Leah has no choice but to keep moving. To make breakfasts she doesn't taste. To answer questions she doesn't know how to explain. The world hasn't ended, it's simply asked her to survive it.

Some runways are too narrow to take off freely. And yet, we still try to land. Between shared cups of chai in Vadodara and Delhi, airport departures, mountain silences, and the fragile lives they are still responsible for, two people discover that love is not always freedom. Sometimes it is restraint. Sometimes it is waiting. Sometimes it is the impossible desire to belong somewhere you cannot stay. Narrow Runways is a story of love, memory, guilt, healing, and the quiet ways people continue to live inside each other. ✨ What readers are saying: "You write this story in a way that has me on the edge of my seat with emotions, always" - @nikszabo, author of Falling Sideways "This chapter is heavy. Not the kind of heavy you read and move on from - it lingers. That's the dangerous kind" - @_Jane_D_O_E, author of Obsession (on chapter, The Seventh House) ✨

What happens to two people when a sudden child death happens? Do they manage to cope or not? Meet Dixie West. A perfectionist, top lawyer, and blunt person who'd be willing to call out your imperfections but slow to your emotions. Meet Cameron West (AKA Cam) a kind soul, and head of the fire department. While putting out fires might be easy, he can't put out the ones with his wife. Do they stay together, or get a divorce? Read to find out!

3 Days SF Thriller For struggling filmmaker Andie McKenna, life could be better. Her fledgling film company is on the rocks. She's seventy-two hours away from being kicked out of her rent-by-the-week shoe box of an apartment in the dodgiest part of San Francisco, and her marriage is on life support. And if things couldn't get worse, she receives a cryptic telegram from the Mexican orphanage where she grew up: "Come quick, your father is dying." Interesting, since she's an orphan. Andie rushes to the orphanage where she grew up to find Father Pakal Ramirez, the priest who raised her, alive and well. He's going into the jungle after a lethal parasite, and he wants to see her one last time in case he doesn't return. When Andie is accidentally exposed to the parasite, Pakal draws her blood and gives her an anti-parasitic. She reacts to the medication and passes out. When she wakes, Pakal is gone. Furious beyond words, Andie returns to San Francisco to find the Bay Area plunged into chaos. Something fell from the sky and crashed north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Something not made by humans. And then there's the frozen, long-forgotten vial of blood, padlocked in a metal box and buried in the orphanage's freezer. Blood that will impact Andie's life irrevocably and shatter the illusion that we are alone in the universe.

He said he wouldn't hurt me. So I never learned how to protect myself from him. This is a story about love, trust, and the kind of betrayal you don't see coming until it's too late. I stood by him. I protected him. I believed in him. This is my story- raw, real, and exactly how it happened. - between snow and rain

Aarohi Malhotra survived the accident that shattered her world - but surviving was never the same as living. Behind her cold silence and carefully built walls hides a girl haunted by forgotten memories, trauma, fear, and emotions she no longer knows how to face. To the world, she appears strong, intelligent, and untouchable. But beneath that control lives a loneliness she quietly carries every day. Then Arjun Sharma enters her life. What begins with misunderstandings and hatred slowly turns into something far deeper - a love built on patience, understanding, and staying beside someone even when they are falling apart. Because sometimes healing does not come from fixing a person. Sometimes, it comes from simply having someone who refuses to leave. But the past Aarohi buried long ago refuses to stay hidden. As forgotten memories slowly begin to surface, her life turns into a dangerous psychological maze filled with secrets, manipulation, obsession, betrayal, emotional conflicts, and truths powerful enough to destroy everything around her. Yet this story is not only about Aarohi. Every character carries their own fears, wounds, insecurities, coping mechanisms, and silent battles. Through different relationships and perspectives, the story explores trauma, healing, attachment, emotional struggles, and the complicated reality of human emotions - because people are rarely simply "right" or "wrong." Sometimes, they are just trying to survive life in the only way they know how to.

Mercy is easier when the world isn't starving. if survival demands cruelty everytime, then what actually survives? The world did not end with fire. It ended with petals that can pierce flesh. Power does not corrupt the heart, it merely removes the the curtains hiding it Even the purest flower drinks from graves beneath its soil. Do everything can be a miracle gifted by the nature? Or merely a curse? Hope is a candle that survives by teaching itself how to burn slowly. Let us ponder in a world where a garden does not ask permission before it devours the ruin beneath it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [ IMPORTANT NOTICE: Some parts of this story is written in a poetic and philosophical style. Some dialogues, symbols, and meanings may not be immediately understood, as they are to be felt as much as they are read. The world within these pages speaks in silence, metaphors, and emotion. Interpretations may differ from person to person - and that is part of the story itself. Read slowly. The garden does not bloom for hurried eyes] ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Warning: This story contains violence, grief, and moments of human cruelty. Not all wounds in this world are made by monsters.] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Author's Note: This story was born from silence, ruin, and the strange beauty of survival. Thank you for stepping into the garden. -----------------------------------------------------------------

They did not erase the truth. They made forgetting easier. Theia was never meant to remember. Once, she was part of the system that records reality-where every name, every event, every loss is written, sealed, and preserved. But when the record begins to fracture, she becomes something the archive was never designed to hold: a discrepancy. Now, the Council wants her corrected. Because somewhere deep within the archive, a truth has surfaced-one that was never supposed to remain. A name that should have stayed buried. A version of events that does not match what the world was taught to remember. And Theia is the only one who can see it. As the system closes in, the cost becomes clear: Memory is not neutral. Truth is not permanent. And some stories are rewritten for a reason. But if the archive decides what remains, what happens to the ones it tries to erase? ✦ A story about memory, control, and the quiet violence of being rewritten.

"A bird is meant to spread her wings and fly, not wither away inside of a cage." "And yet... How will the bird fly when her wings are broken?" A story of an amiable elven woman and her dutiful mute son who encounter a surprising challenge once they awaken inside of a forgotten and deserted fortress which is claimed by a hard-hearted frost drake.

Sakura is on a team with two strong shinobi who tend to annoy her a lot. She loves them dearly but while they argue about useless matters, she studies medical textbooks to achieve her dream of becoming a medic nin. One day she stumbles upon an entry in the history of medics that turns her world upside down. Will she be able to keep up with her dreams while conflicting decisions drop on her shoulders like boulders?

Ouijdane Based on a true story Some people carry the weight of everyone around them - and no one notices until they stop. Ouijdane is many things at once. A daughter who lost her world. A sister who became a guardian. A woman who worked hard in a world that rarely honors that. Someone who loved, and lost, and still got up the next morning. This is a story about what happens when the person who was supposed to protect you is gone - and you realize you were already protecting everyone else. About parents who stay, and parents who leave. About love that doesn't fit neatly into a category. About a generation carrying wounds no one talks about. Based on real events - written by the person who lived every word. Updated every week

Cassie Brooks lives in a world where the dead have risen and are after one thing: human flesh. Cassie has become separated from her brother, who is two years older than her, during all of this and is looking for him. She stumbles upon a group with children and joins them, finding a family with whom she fights the walkers while continuing to search for her brother. But the further she goes, the more dangerous everything becomes and the more loss she suffers within the group itself. Cassie does not know if she is prepared to lose even more people, so she puts everything on the line to defend her newly found family tooth and nail, hoping to find her brother amidst all this chaos. Even through all the raging chaos around her, she also finds love within the group she stumbled upon and realizes that with the right people around you, things might not always have to be so bad. S1-S5 of the walking dead

Malik never expected a chance encounter in the streets of Mombasa to change his life forever. Then he met Sana. A girl with sad eyes, a beautiful smile, and a parrot that seemed to know secrets nobody else did. As love grows between them, Malik begins to realize Sana is hiding something. She talks like she's running out of time. She asks questions that sound like goodbyes. And every time happiness finds her, fear follows close behind. When Sana suddenly disappears, Malik is left with only memories, voice notes, a mysterious cassette tape, and a parrot that refuses to let her be forgotten. Some people leave because they stop loving you. Others leave because they love you too much. A heartbreaking story of love, loss, and the echoes we leave behind. "If you knew what loving me comes with... you would run before it's too late."