Realism Stories

A young man seeking purpose has enlisted in an expedition towards the new world after his country discovers a foreign land of unknown beings, magical properties and an unrelenting undead army.

He lost the job. Lost the woman. Lost whatever used to keep him going. So one night, Artyom gets in his car and drives with no destination in mind. Somewhere on an empty highway, with the fuel light blinking and nowhere left to go, he finds a gas station that doesn't exist on any map. The rule is simple: Lie - and you stay. Tell the truth - and you move forward. Full Tank of Emptiness is a dark, atmospheric road novel about loneliness, bad choices, and the terrifying moment a man realizes he can't keep living the same way anymore.

Reversed retribution is a dark fantasy progression story set between two connected worlds: a modern Earth hiding supernatural forces, and Adreith's journey The story follows two boys walking completely different paths toward the same destiny. Adan is an ordinary student whose life collapses after a deadly school attack awakens a terrifying power hidden inside him. Thrown into a world of Death Magic, mana users, and beings hunting something unknown, he survives not through mastery, but through sheer will refusing to fall even when everything around him breaks. Far beyond his world, Adreith fights to find his family in a strange world. Armed with strange relics, rope based combat techniques, and an unyielding spirit, he battles to protect the last remnants of the Hillibrims while ncovering truths buried beneath the ashes of a dying civilization. As ancient powers awaken and the line between worlds begins to fracture, both boys are drawn toward a conflict far greater than themselves one tied to forgotten civilizations, living relics, Raiders, Ravens, and a mystery that has consumed the world for generations. At its core, reverse retribution is a story about survival, identity, sacrifice, and the terrifying weight of becoming something the world was never prepared for.

Erick acredita que o pensamento pode transformar uma vida. Rodrigo ensina que pensar também é um direito. Entre salas de aula, livros, cafés, ausências e afetos construídos lentamente, diferentes trajetórias se cruzam em uma universidade onde permanecer nem sempre depende apenas de esforço. Enquanto alguns tentam descobrir quem desejam se tornar, outros escondem mais do que parecem mostrar. Entre cuidado, poder, pertencimento e silêncio, resta uma pergunta: o que fez vocês ficarem?

Separated during childhood, reencountered during adulthood. Even though everything is different, you're still the same. Glad to meet you again. A fanfic of PhuphaTian, characters from the series A Tale of Thousands Stars. I do not own them, just the story. Pls enjoy the journey. Thank you. Note: I recommend this story to people who want to understand the illness, Narcolepsy. I've been interested and did some research.. so this story kinda shows you guys the point of view for the people has this illness. Emotionally, physically. When you think of it, it's a very scary illness. I apologize in advance if I offend anyone reading the story. Update every Friday, 8.30pm, Stay tuned.

Pleasant Valley, Arizona Territory, 1882. The land between the Mogollon Rim and the creek bottoms is beautiful the way a held breath is beautiful - still, charged, waiting. Nora Callan came west with a dead husband and a gift she does not name: a barometer's sensitivity to the invisible weight of what men are about to do. She did not come for trouble. But the valley has its own intentions. When two ranching families - the Tewksburys and the Grahams, friends once, now something else - begin their slow slide toward the bloodiest feud in the history of the American West, Nora finds herself caught between them: reading the weather, unable to stop the storm. The Rim Country is a story about what a place remembers. And what it refuses to forget.

How far can a few extra beers take you on a Friday night? For auto mechanic Davidson Butcher, they took him right across the US border to a park bench in Windsor, Canada. Back home, he has nothing but debt and severe burnout. Here, on a cold Canadian street, he gets a hot cup of espresso from a stranger who happens to be a private detective. Marcus Vance offers him a deal: a roof over his head in exchange for help solving shady transport-related cases. Davidson decides to risk it. After all, free wheeling through life is way better than changing oil in minivan engines day after day.

One pair of boots. Two introverts. One borrowed afternoon in Seoul. Max is a pragmatic designer with only twenty-four hours left in South Korea and a life built on rigid, unbreakable rules. Kros is a soft-spoken observer with a steady presence and an intense, unblinking gaze that seems to peel back her carefully maintained exterior. When a casual swipe brings them to the banks of the Han River, they find something rarer than a tourist's souvenir: a perfect, silent alignment. From the rhythmic strike of combat boots on Seoul's pavement to the heavy weight of their contrasting realities, they navigate a city built for couples while knowing their time is already running out. In a world of fleeting connections, what happens when something real appears at exactly the wrong time, and neither of them is willing to break the life they've built to follow it?

Charlie Rivera, 21, is a college student and unapologetic hopeless romantic who annotates romance novels and believes in soulmates despite never being kissed. One lonely night after her best friend cancels plans, she receives a sketchy DM with a link. Against better judgment, she clicks it and finds a polished website called Rent-A-Girlfriend offering overnight delivery of a "Perfect Match" with a free first order. Treating it as a 2 AM joke, Charlie fills out the compatibility form - requesting someone who listens, hates cilantro, and calls her "love" unironically - enters her address, confirms the free trial, then immediately regrets it and goes to sleep convinced she's been hacked. At 6:30 AM, running late for class, Charlie opens her door to find a massive, human-sized box with a pink ribbon addressed to her from "Your Perfect Match." She drags it inside and cuts it open to discover a real woman nestled in tissue paper, asleep and breathing. Panicked, Charlie considers trafficking or a prank, checks for a pulse, and finds a note instructing her to say the wake word. After an hour of spiraling, googling, and failed attempts to rouse the woman, Charlie finally whispers the word. The woman opens her eyes, focuses on Charlie, and smiles with quiet recognition. The impossible delivery marks the start of Charlie's unraveling as her fictional ideas of romance collide with a very real, very mysterious stranger who seems built for her. Free trial, overnight delivery Not guaranteed soulmate. WRITEMYHEARYFORYOU™ © AILEENNARAG 2026

She refused nine proposals. She could not refuse the tenth - because he never made one. He simply showed up every day and fixed things and knew the right proportion, and eventually she ran out of reasons not to love him.

He has been gone five years. Song Mingzhu was seventeen when she married a garrison soldier and twenty when he left for a three-year posting that became five. She has received four of his letters. She does not know if he is alive. She runs the household, teaches the lane children to read, tends the apricot trees, and keeps the account book in the back of which she records the date of every letter received and every letter not received. Then the corridor runner arrives without a letter, and stays longer than the route requires, and something shifts in the geometry of the waiting. This is the Tang dynasty, where the emperor rides in gold palanquins and neglects his empire for the love of Yang Guifei, and the frontier garrisons hold the Silk Road open, and the women in the garrison towns make their lives from what the road leaves them. This is not a poem about a soldier's longing. This is the story of the woman by the lamp. She has a name. She has a life. She has been becoming.

In the mysterious town of Windfield, Sophia Parker has always loved art, stars, and the stories surrounding Windfield Lake. But when her father mysteriously disappears during a boat ride on the lake, Sophia begins noticing impossible things happening around her. Paintings change on their own, glowing blue water appears where it shouldn't, and strange connections begin forming between the lake, the museum, and her family's past. As Sophia searches for answers, she discovers that the beautiful art museum in her town is secretly connected to another world filled with living artwork, floating music, magical creatures, hidden rooms, and mysterious disappearances. Guided by a glowing deer named Autumn and the constellations her mother once taught her to follow, Sophia is pulled deeper into the secrets of Windfield Lake and the magic hidden beneath its waters. Filled with mystery, emotion, imagination, grief, and fantasy, The Lake of Guidance is a magical coming-of-age story about family, loss, hope, and finding light even in the darkest places.

Everyone wants to know if they end up together. Yes. That was never the question. The question was always what together would cost - and whether two people who had already survived one loss could choose, every morning, to be worth each other.

Akarith se está pudriendo lentamente. Las rutas comerciales desaparecen, las ciudades comienzan a caer desde dentro y el hambre empieza a reemplazar al honor. Kael Varrek, un antiguo estratega militar, vive escondido en un pequeño pueblo fronterizo intentando olvidar las guerras que ayudó a construir bajo las órdenes del temido Marek Rhun. Pero el colapso del continente ya comenzó cuando cadáveres desconocidos aparecen cerca del bosque y las rutas de alimento son cortadas silenciosamente, el pueblo queda atrapado en una lenta agonía de paranoia, violencia y hambre. Mientras las personas comienzan a perder la confianza unas en otras, Kael descubre algo peor: "la verdadera guerra no busca conquistar territorios, busca destruir la identidad de quienes sobreviven." Una novela de fantasía oscura, filosófica y brutal sobre memoria, miedo y supervivencia.

In a world filled with pressure, noise, emotional chaos, and people constantly searching for comfort, Precious P moves through Jersey nights trying to bring peace wherever she goes. Whether through conversations, quiet support, or simply her presence, she becomes a light for people carrying invisible struggles. But constantly healing others comes with a cost. As the night unfolds through stairwells, phone calls, house visits, late-night drives, and emotional encounters, Precious slowly realizes that protecting her own peace is just as important as giving it away. Set inside the emotionally interconnected world of Orbit, Book 2 explores healing, emotional exhaustion, balance, and the quiet weight carried by people everyone depends on.

On a humid summer night in Jersey, a routine stop at a 24/7 store quietly connects a group of emotionally fractured strangers moving through life in different ways. As conversations drift through parking lots, city blocks, and empty basketball courts, J.Dot struggles with pressure, loneliness, and the feeling of falling behind while navigating another ordinary night that slowly becomes emotionally unforgettable. What starts as a simple late-night wandering through the city becomes the beginning of something much deeper: an interconnected universe where strangers unknowingly shape each other's lives. Atmospheric, emotional, and grounded in realism, ORBIT explores the silence between people, the weight hidden behind everyday conversations, and the feeling of trying to survive your own thoughts while the world keeps moving around you.

Si a los seis años alguien me hubiera preguntado qué quería ser de grande, habría respondido que princesa. Soñaba con palacios, zapatillas de cristal y un príncipe azul surcando el horizonte. (Inserte aquí un suspiro). Sí, ahora parece tonto, pero de niños lo imposible parece posible. ​Pero creces, y descubres el secreto mejor guardado de la realeza: las princesas no se hacen responsables de NADA. Si les va mal, es culpa de una bruja; si se salvan, es por un príncipe. Qué cómodo, ¿no? ​El problema es cuando el hechizo se rompe y se ven obligadas a enfrentar el mundo real. ​Aquí no hay hadas madrinas ni finales preescritos. Están solas. Por primera vez, cada decisión y cada factura corre por su cuenta. En un mundo cínico y sin magia, tendrán que descubrir si ser dueñas de sus actos las convertirá en las heroínas de su vida... o si la cruda realidad las empujará a convertirse en las verdaderas brujas del cuento.

Two underground creatives move through another restless Jersey night chasing inspiration, motion, and opportunity. From late-night bus rides to crowded Clifton pool halls, Turb and Meech begin realizing how dangerous ambition can become when desperation enters the room. As strange promises of fast money and mysterious after-hours shows begin surrounding them, instincts matter more than dreams. While the city keeps moving around them, the two friends are forced to recognize that not every opportunity is meant to be trusted. Set inside humid Jersey nights filled with buses, music, pool halls, smoke, and conversations that feel too real, After Hours explores survival, intuition, underground artistry, and the pressure creatives face while trying to make something of themselves. Not every door should be opened. Sometimes surviving the night is the real success.

Across humid Jersey nights filled with liquor spots, diners, glowing parking lots, and late-night conversations, G.Vlone moves through the city carrying an image everybody seems to admire. Confident. Stylish. Untouchable. But underneath the attention and perception, exhaustion quietly grows. After linking with Staii Winning at a quiet Lodi liquor bar, the night pulls G through familiar Orbit locations: 24, Lexington Diner, parking lot conversations, and moments of reflection that slowly force him to confront something uncomfortable- people know the version of him he presents, but barely anyone knows who he really is underneath it. Alongside Evol's grounded philosophy and TJ's emotionally observant presence, G begins realizing how dangerous constant performance can become when a person forgets how to exist without being perceived. Set inside glowing Jersey nights filled with realism, silence, movement, and emotional tension, EGO explores identity, pressure, attention, loneliness, and the quiet exhaustion of trying to become somebody. Sometimes the hardest person to recognize is yourself.

On April 24, 2004, an impossible archway opened on the South Lawn of the White House. What followed wasn't a clean invasion or a neat first contact; it was chaos, confusion, and a brutal fight for survival as soldiers faced enemies that shouldn't exist and weapons that didn't obey familiar rules. Staff Sergeant Michael Alvarez, a D.C. National Guard MP, survives Day Zero by performing his trained duty: maintaining the line. But when the smoke clears, the gate doesn't close, and the world doesn't get answers. As the U.S. government locks down the truth and builds a permanent foothold around the anomaly, something becomes clear: the Gate is not a temporary crisis. It's a new geographic fact of reality, linking Earth to a ruined capital in another world that fears the Gate as much as humanity does. No heroes. No prophecy. No effortless victories. The White House Event is a grounded, military-focused first-contact story about uncertainty, institutional pressure, and what happens when humanity realizes that the unknown and themselves are permanent. Chapters are released weekly at 12:00 p.m. CST Occasionally, updates will be made to the previous chapters. Updates: 9 April 2026: chapters 1-10 and interludes 1&2 28 April 2026: all chapters and interludes