Quiet Stories

Liliana James is a confident soul with a gentle smile-but don't mistake her softness for fragility. Life hasn't been soft-her mother's endless shifts and sacrifices have shaped Liliana into someone who moves through life with steady self-assurance and quiet command. She doesn't need to raise her voice to take up space. With her best friend at her side and a strong sense of who she is, she's learned to find light in life's overlooked corners-and to be that light when there is none. Caden Smith is a guarded ex-soldier turned reluctant bodyguard, currently working for a spoiled client who treats his team more like staff than security. In his line of work, boundaries are survival-but Liliana blurs those lines with a presence he can't ignore. Though he prefers to stay under the radar, his striking features and uncommon genes have always drawn attention he never asked for, leaving him even more reluctant to let anyone close. Liliana, however, is different-something in her feels like exhale. This is a tender, slow-burning story about two misfits whose paths quietly intertwine. As they navigate unspoken grief, growing pains, and the hush of becoming, Liliana and Caden discover a love that doesn't scream to be seen-but settles in like roots: steady, grounding, and deeply felt. Their souls weren't broken or incomplete. But together, for the first time, they begin to feel whole.

Olivia Harper has spent her entire life surviving. As a child, she learned how to disappear before anyone noticed she was hurting. She learned how to smile through fear, carry burdens alone, and keep moving no matter what. Even after escaping a traumatic childhood and becoming a police officer with the LAPD, some habits are hard to break. Especially the habit of believing she has to face everything by herself. Quiet, stubborn, and secretly soft-hearted, Olivia is the kind of person who leaves coffee on your desk without taking credit, helps strangers without being asked, and would risk her life for someone else without a second thought. But letting people help her? That's another story. Fortunately-or unfortunately-she's surrounded by people who refuse to let her disappear anymore. Her fiercely protective half-sister Nyla Harper. Her lifelong friends Nolan and Angela. An entire police station determined to meddle in her personal life. And one frustratingly loyal training officer named Tim Bradford. As old wounds resurface and a dangerous chapter from Olivia's past threatens her hard-won peace, she finds herself learning a lesson she's avoided her whole life: Sometimes courage isn't surviving alone. Sometimes courage is letting people stay. Filled with found family, quiet faith, healing, laughter, relationship conspiracy boards, and a romance so obvious that everyone notices except the two people involved, The One Who Stayed is a heartfelt story about trust, resilience, and discovering that home isn't a place-it's the people who refuse to leave.

CANCELLED Please read the last chapter for info, thanks. Heather is eleven, the youngest of a large family of eight. Treated like a baby by relatives and ignored at home, she soon learns that no one can be certain of the future. No matter how bland it seems.

Silt and Silence is a lyrical fantasy novel about a sixteen-year-old boy who unearths an ancient cursed bottle in his family's ancestral valley and makes three wishes to save the people he loves - not realizing the price is his own existence. As he slowly fades from the world over seven days, his childhood friend Lena refuses to let him disappear quietly, and the spirit trapped inside the bottle - a King imprisoned for 3,000 years - turns out to be something neither of them expected. It's a story about the arrogance of trying to fix things for people without asking what they want, and about what it means to be truly seen by someone who won't look away.

All I ever wanted was to feel safe. Then I met Lucas. He became my shield, my secret, and maybe... something more. But the closer we got, the harder it became to keep our world from breaking apart.

UNSCRIPTED Some stories aren't planned. When Zoe Lin wins a reality acting contest, she expects fame, not self‑discovery. Between the bright lights and whispered rivalries, she meets Terry - steady, kind, and quietly brilliant - and Jax Montgomery, her rival who sees too much. As the cameras fade, Zoe learns that becoming someone worth watching means first becoming someone worth being. A story about ambition, vulnerability, and the quiet kind of love that changes everything.

"and I'm so sick of seventeen, wheres my fucking teenage dream?" in which you'll have to read to find out! cover by: @IamAnnabethchase2

After escaping an abusive relationship that left her with PTSD and a fear of rejection, Lilian Miller, a young transgender woman in a small town, has largely withdrawn from dating and emotional intimacy. While working in the local bookstore that has become her refuge, she meets Isaiah Bennett, a recently divorced history teacher, whose quiet kindness slowly breaks through the walls she has built around herself. As their relationship deepens, she must decide whether she can risk trusting someone again.

I hadn't seen him in years. Not since the summer before I moved away. Back then, he was my best friend. My first crush. My first everything. Even if I was only 12. I kind of forgot about him, but deep inside I still remembered him. I thought he forgot. I moved back, back to my home town, I was the quiet girl, the new girl, the shy girl. I didn't speak unless I needed to. Which worked out well, for a while. Achievements 🏆 1st in nervous 5th in different

Logan is a little autistic. Logan has been in love with his best friend Chris for years, even if he never fully admitted it to himself. Their friendship goes all the way back to high school, where Chris came in when Logan needed it when he was crying in the bathroom. Since then, they've been close in a way that's always felt like more, even if neither of them said it out loud. As adults, their relationship only grows. There are small moments. Late nights, soft touches, lingering looks-that blur the line of friendship. When Chris breaks up with his girlfriend, the tension between them grows stronger, especially after a night of drinking leads to even more feelings rising. Danny, their mutual friend, complicates things further. He likes Logan, and is even a bit manipulative. Eventually, everything comes to a head when Logan and Chris finally kiss, crossing something they can't come back from. They fall into something they can't quite define yet-friends but more than friends. How will Logan handle this?

A short story depicting a person silenced or more dismissed from childhood which resulted in trauma and fear of rejection. As the time goes by it took the form of walls and stucked feelings and words that soon were normalised even forgotten. After a coincidence or more a question, something in that person starts to change.

Adrian Vale exists in the quiet spaces between expectations and exhaustion. The boy everyone relies on, but no one truly knows. He smiles when it's required, shows up when he's needed, and keeps his pain tucked away where no one thinks to look. Then there is Mason Carter, his best friend of six years, who is chaos, laughter, and noise wrapped in loyalty and Isla Monroe, who somehow sees too much and not enough at the same time. High school was supposed to be temporary, Ordinary and forgettable until it wasn't because some bonds don't break cleanly, some truths don't arrive gently and some lives don't wait for permission before they start falling apart.

Mira collects small things because small things remember: a bent coin, a torn photograph, an unsent letter folded into the town's margins. When one letter refuses to stay buried, the hush that has protected her riverside town begins to crack. A stranger arrives with a warm smile and guarded eyes, and the river starts returning memories to shore. Quiet choices ripple into loud consequences. If you love slow‑burn romance wrapped in literary mystery and moments that linger, walk the river with Mira.

(AuauSave, NorthOtto AU) Save has always lived in the quiet places of life - where nothing asks to be felt too deeply, and nothing demands to change. Days pass in soft repetition, accompanied only by North's steady presence, as if existence itself has agreed not to disturb him. Then Otto arrives - too bright, too open, too willing to stay - followed by Auau, calm and unreadable, looking at him like something already half-known. And slowly, almost imperceptibly, the life Save has been surviving begins to shift into something he was never prepared for: not chaos, not rescue... but the unsettling possibility of actually living.

Some people enter your life quietly... and leave behind a version of you that never really changes. Five years later, Shreevika still writes poetry she once used to laugh at. And Ahaan still paints places that feel strangely like memories. Maybe some people are not meant to stay forever. Maybe they simply become a part of you!!!

"The blur" is the collection of poems. For those emotions left unsaid, Untouched. For something you wished for and still lost. For scars that weren't your fault. For love you saw but never got. The space where things exist, But still don't. The soft ache for something that was never yours. Anyone who has experienced it will understand it. For all of those who loved quietly with hope.

Aou Thanaboon, Chulalongkorn University's most notorious rugby player and serial dater, makes a cocky bet with his teammates that he can seduce Boom Tharatorn-the quiet, bookish literature major who spends more time with classic novels than people. But when Aou's fake romance, built on quotes from Boom's favorite books, starts to feel more real than any of his past flings, he must choose between winning the bet and winning the heart of the first person who saw past his player persona. Disclaimer: This is a real-person-fiction (RPF). All the plot and content of the story do not connect with the real person at all.

Leona Turner never believed her life would be sold for a price. When her father's debt to billionaire Adrian Cole reaches three million dollars, she becomes the payment. Cold. Ruthless. Beautiful. Adrian doesn't want love - he wants control. But Leona refuses to break easily. In a world built on contracts and secrets, she must survive the man who owns her name... and maybe, her heart.

Fantasy drama sett in a futuristic present tense where main character goes on a revealing voyage at the end of which they are betrayed by a close friend and thrown off course.

I gasped startled, my heart jumping. I felt two arms snaking around my waist from behind, tingles and electricity erupted from my waist. Mate? Oh no... It wrapped its arm around my waist, pulling me close to a chest behind me. I stumbled back a little bit. I felt their breath breathing on my neck, it's warmth suffusing onto my bare skin. I pushed it's arms, but it only gripped onto me. "Mate." It whispered loudly into my ears. Loud and clear. I pulled his arms off me but he didn't budge. My heart beating swiftly, my hands clammy.... ******************** Pearl Shellmare, the daughter of Frank Shellmare, the alpha of Dark Forest Pack. Pearl is a shy, introverted girl, some say she is sweet and caring, some say she is horrible and moody. Pearl is a sweet, sometimes moody, caring towards her love ones and extremely shy. James Walter, Ruthless Alpha of Dark Moon Pack. James is ruthless, cold and mysterious. Everyone fears him as he has the strongest pack and was known for being merciless and does brutal stuff behind the borders of Dark Moon Pack. When Pearl meets James, would she go to him in her open arms? Or would she run? Or reject him? Discoveries are discovered, tears will be shed, secrets will be revealed, pain and love will be felt. Betrayals and sadness will befall on them all. Oh yeah, and she's deaf. --------------- 🏅 #1 in Deafness 🏅 #1 in Deafgirl 🏅 #21 in Quiet DO NOT copy my book.