Manhattan Stories

After turning 18, Luna gets tickets to move to New York, her dream place. Though she has to face the stress and anxiety of what the real world is. She later meets two people who introduce her to two more, they all become good friends with her, even if she doesn't believe it. They try to help her learn New York ways, maybe even move there, but it's her choice, to stay or leave.

Lyra Ashford knows one thing about love: If it doesn't hurt, it isn't real. As a Creative Director in Manhattan, she can command multi-million-dollar brands with a single presentation- but she has never been able to command her own heart. Callum Reed is different. A therapist with too much patience. A man who doesn't get jealous. A man who never answers anger with anger. A man who stays. And that is exactly why Lyra wants to run. Because what if gentle love isn't a gift- but a test she was never taught how to pass? When a past filled with fire comes roaring back into her life, Lyra is forced to choose: Return to the kind of love that makes her feel gloriously, destructively alive- or hold on to the man who might be too gentle for a brutal world. But there is one thing she doesn't realize. Gentle love does not mean it cannot leave. And when Callum finally stops chasing her- Lyra may already be too late to learn how to love without destroying everything in her path.

A blood-stained necklace, a lethal protector with a dark past, and a secret that could collapse the world. Lena and Adam must run from the shadows of Manhattan to the peaks of the Alps to survive the Morano Legacy

The novel traces the quiet unraveling of a man who appears to have everything. Mike Stevens leaves behind four years of happiness in Denver when his partner, Rachel, moves to Buenos Aires. He chooses not to follow her, believing he is protecting his identity, his friendships, his life. The breakup is calm, rational - and devastating. Determined to rebuild, he relocates to Manhattan, where success comes quickly. He earns prestige, admiration, and the attention of powerful figures like Elizabeth Garden. To the outside world, he becomes one of the most desirable men in the city. But ambition cannot anesthetize grief. Behind his charm and composure, Mike struggles with unresolved loss, guilt over emotional compromises, and a growing sense of inner dislocation. He feels fraudulent in a life that rewards him but does not heal him. Rather than collapse publicly, he vanishes - boarding a cargo ship bound for Cape Town without properly saying goodbye. At sea, surrounded by 27 sailors and endless horizon, he finds temporary relief in anonymity and simplicity. The ship's seasoned captain recognizes in him not weakness, but a wounded man fighting to stay afloat. Meanwhile, in New York, Daniel Whitaker - mentor, investigator, and friend - refuses to accept silence as an answer. His concern is not professional but deeply human: he knows that men like Mike can smile by day and unravel by night. When Mike and Daniel finally speak across the Atlantic, their conversation is not dramatic but profoundly honest. No one tries to force a return. No one demands explanations. The novel lingers instead in the fragile space between depression and hope, escape and healing, freedom and unfinished ties. It is a story about grief without spectacle, success without fulfillment, and the dangerous illusion that distance alone can mend a broken heart.

One debt. A stolen identity. A world of luxury built on lies. When her brother loses a shipment he can't afford, Catalina Rodríguez is taken as collateral. Rebranded as a billionaire heiress, she's sent to a Manhattan boarding school to sell to the elite. The clothes are designer. The life is a dream. The secret is fatal.

A Wicked Column Novel - The Warlock Edition Writing about powerful men is easy. Dating them? Hard pass. Thea Blackwell is a first-generation witch with zero patience for founding-house egos. As the anonymous author of Wicked Column, she exposes magical Manhattan's worst behavior - especially when it comes wrapped in a designer suit. Her latest target? Callum Mordrake. Warlock. CEO. Walking contract clause. Two days after her article goes viral... he hires her agency. Now she has to pitch brand strategy to the very man she publicly humiliated - and he looks way too entertained for comfort. He says she has excellent instincts. He says she should trust them. That would be easier if her instincts weren't telling her he knows exactly who she is. Welcome to magical Manhattan. Where witches have ambition, warlocks have power, and love comes with legally binding consequences.

Spot Conlon is the King of Brooklyn, feared by all Newsies in New York. But what the other newsboys don't know until the strike, is that tough Spot Conlon has a little sister, Stella Conlon. Stella is to be feared just like Spot, but with her sweet heart, she starts to fall for a certain Manhattan newsboy: Jack Kelly. Her heart is shattered when she finds out that he loves the news reporter, Katherine Plumber, the daughter of Joe Pulitzer. But what happens when she confesses her love to Jack days after the strike has been won? What happens when Jack starts to go after Stella, but she won't listen? I don't own Newsies, or the characters! The only think I own is my OC Stella Conlon, and the changes of the story!

Nobody knew that Olivia had twin Girl and Boy, When Olivia found out she left and never came back, the twins are 14. William Lewis raped and Murder Olivia while the twins were at there friends place.

New York becomes heartbreak city for playgirl Charlotte Everhart. ⋆☆⋆ Like playing hopscotch with the stars, Charlotte Everhart has mastered the art of conquering the hearts of princes - all except for one ; her childhood best friend, Jasper Scott. So when he comes home from his residency in Seattle, she's determined to win him over once and for all. But her golden boy soon becomes silver poison when he comes home with a fiancè - and in need of a favour from her : Being his best man. ⋆☆⋆ [ glassheart chronicles : #1.2] [ ONC 2026 | PROMPT 24] [© ataliass 2026 ]

I'm basically just designing cool anime pictures and writing their back stories . Feel free to give more suggestions for pictures in the comments.

The Birth of the Current: The Flight of the Crow follows Admiral Asher Hartwell as he moves between ordinary life in Manhattan and command of distant worlds, carrying the quiet weight of love, loss, and sovereignty reclaimed. Through a living telepathic bond with Victoria, the story weaves intimacy, memory, ritual, and cosmic duty into a single current flowing across time, space, and consciousness. The crow-witness, guardian, and guide-marks each crossing, as old wounds are surfaced and released and cleared ground replaces long-held overgrowth. Angels, dragons, blood moons, and grounded human moments coexist, not as fantasy, but as lived reality layered beneath the everyday. This is a story of embodiment, devotion, and the flight that begins when energy is no longer carried in silence, but finally set free.

It all started with a dare. Alessio Fabriano used to be the bad boy of Eleanore High, but since a sudden realization that there is a life beyond high school, and that if he doesn't straighten up, he's going to lose his one way ticket to a successful career. Upset that he's become a kill joy, his so-called friends dare him to date the girl from his uncle's pizzeria... Until Christmas. Jamie Roux has never had much luck with being noticed. She's invisible to everyone in her life until suddenly she's noticed by the schools bad boy, Alessio Fabriano. Will they be able to work it out or will it be a complete disaster?

«Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others.» Manhattan. Modern times. Thalia recently lost her sister. She has reasons to believe she was murdered and is in search for clues she might've left her. Aiden is a newly graduated investigator. He needs a bit of action in his life and finds Thalia's mysteries worth exploring. While one counts on the elegance and charm of her demon, Adam, who so gallantly offered his help, the other believes in the immeasurable powers of his angel, Orianna, who's fiercely determined to put a stop to Adam's games. And while each one of them is in need of answers, a shocking truth is still buried beneath it all.

Nikki was 25 and lived in Manhattan. She was like any 25 year old woman with three best friends, an apartment on the Upper East Side, and a loving boyfriend. But she had a secret that would destroy her.

Race furrowed his eyebrows. "Conlon. . ." He muttered to himself quietly. "No, no it can't." "What can't?" Blink asked, chewing lazily on the end of a cigar. "Conlon's a common last name, right?" Race asked. "Right?"

Six stories of love, lust and deception develop across New York City, one fateful night in 1923.

This story is the rough draft I wrote during the NaNoWriMo event. I ended up with 32,285 words by the end of November. This is just some of it. I don't know if I'm going to put it all up yet. It doesn't have a great cover right now, sorry. Nothing exciting seems to happen in Seattle. That's Maisie Aura's thought. She's just waiting for something interesting to happen. Having every boy in her school in love with her gets pretty annoying pretty quickly, she's discovered. When she sees a mysterious person appear to her one day, she's completely confused and left questioning everything. Who was it, and why would it happen to her, of all people? Paxton Hodges has never been one to be social. He likes to keep his distance and keep his mouth shut. Everyone has so much to say about him already, why help them out? His usual mute self is challenged when he's practically forced to work things out with someone he doesn't even know.

Whispers of a true revolution and the increasing power of an ambitious politico send our young spy into the heart of a rebuilt city. Her mission is to infiltrate and dismantle a counter-movement backed by an elusive billionaire. Torn between remaining faithful to a chairwoman's vision and an emerging loyalty to the rebels she's vowed to destroy, Isidore will be forced to confront and dismantle her programming as she pursues her destiny.

The Newsie Strike from Brooklyn's perspective.

Leave it to Alan Menken and Jack Feldman to outdo themselves as they adapt the 1992 classic Newsies into a Broadway musical. During their brainstorming of changes to be made to the show, they decided that both Jack Kelly and Davey Jacobs needed a love interest and what better twist than to make them the daughters of printing powerhouse Joseph Pulitzer. Broadway newcomer Neva Kelly is over the moon when she is cast as Elizabeth Pulitzer. Coming from a military environment, there was never the best opportunities for theater but Neva never faltered; her dream had always Broadway. And off Broadway ain't too shabby! Watch as Neva learns the ways of the bright stage alongside costars Kara Lindsay, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Jeremy Jordan, and Ben Fankhauser. *** In the world of the conservative late 19th century New York City, it was unacceptable for a woman to pursue a career, much less two in one family. Enter Elizabeth Pulitzer, the younger sister of Katherine "Plumber" or so her byline says. Elizabeth is put to the test when her morals go against everything she was raised to believe by her overbearing father Joseph Pulitzer, the entrepreneur behind the popular New York newspaper The World. When a chance encounter makes her entire belief system come crashing down upon the young redhead, Elizabeth must decide to either stay with her normal standards or follow her heart. *** This story will go back and forth between the play and the behind the scenes with the actors. It will center around the actors but there will be an occasional chapter with the play so you can understand how Elizabeth plays into the plot. When the chapter is about the play, there will be asterisks around the chapter title. Just, FYI! Hope you enjoy! Caseyquigley