Realismo Stories

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

TARTARUS A Road Novel About the Hell We Carry Inside He bought a ticket to Nowhere. That was all. A tired station at 2:30 in the morning. One working ticket window. Damp asphalt. Cheap perfume. People hugging each other before the road took them away. Then he stepped onto the bus. The driver looked like a man who had seen too much of humanity and kept driving anyway. The route made no sense. The road kept changing. Passengers disappeared. Memories became places. Old guilt boarded without asking. And somewhere between rain, silence, bad coffee, strange stops, and a destination no one could explain, he began to understand the worst truth of all: Tartarus was not waiting at the end of the road. He had been carrying it inside himself for years. Darkly funny, strange, and painfully human, TARTARUS is an existential road novel about guilt, escape, self-deception, and the moment a man finally stops running from his own life.

A sick boy begins dreaming of a world where he can run, explore, and laugh without limits. There, he meets a cheerful boy who looks exactly like him-a version of himself untouched by illness. Together they travel across a beautiful dream world filled with wonder and adventure, becoming inseparable friends. But as the dreams grow longer and more vivid, the line between dream and reality begins to blur. While his dream life becomes brighter than ever, his real body grows weaker with every passing day. Eventually, he must face a choice: Wake up and return to the difficult reality he left behind... Or remain forever in the dream, where he can stay young, healthy, and free. The One Dreamer is a fantasy story about hope, friendship, and the courage to decide what makes a life truly worth living.

A mature man navigating loneliness, friendship, and the quiet absurdity of ordinary Sundays. Because adulthood turns out to be less dramatic than expected. Or does it?

Tengo 17 años y vivo solo en un pequeño piso en Salamanca. No tengo trabajo. No tengo dinero. Y cada día siento que estoy más cerca de perderlo todo. Todo empezó con algo tan absurdo como dos euros. No me llegaban ni para lo más básico, y aun así tenía que seguir adelante como fuera. Sin muchas opciones, decidí probar algo que nunca pensé hacer: empezar a hacer directos en internet. No esperaba nada. Solo quería sobrevivir un poco más. Pero lo que empezó como una idea desesperada se convirtió en algo mucho más grande. Dos espectadores. Después cinco. Luego comentarios. Gente que no me conocía empezando a seguirme, a verme, a hablar de mí. Mientras mi vida real se desmorona con la presión del dinero, el casero y la incertidumbre de no saber qué pasará conmigo, en internet parece que por fin estoy empezando a existir para alguien. Pero crecer en ese mundo no es tan fácil como parece.

When a quiet young woman returns to the mansion that once tried to claim her, she brings only a trembling Chihuahua and a watchful wolf. But the house remembers her-its walls shift, its shadows breathe, and its secrets pull her back into a past she tried to escape. To survive, she must face the truth the house has been waiting to reveal.

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.

Every night at exactly midnight, a train arrives at a station that doesn't exist on any map. Most people never see it. But when twenty-two-year-old Noah Hart loses his job, his future, and possibly the last chance to reconnect with the girl he never stopped loving, he accidentally boards the mysterious 00:00 Service. Inside, passengers aren't taken to different places. They're taken through their regrets. Each window reveals a life that could have been-a different choice, a different future, a different version of themselves. Some passengers see lost loves. Others see missed opportunities, broken families, and mistakes they've spent years trying to forget. Guided by a woman named Leah, who's been trapped aboard longer than she can remember, Noah discovers a terrifying truth: The train never stops moving through the lives people didn't live. And not everyone gets off. To escape, Noah must confront the one decision that has haunted him for years and choose whether to keep living in the past-or finally step into the future. Perfect for fans of emotional fantasy, magical realism, slow-burn mystery, and stories that ask the question: What if you could see the life you almost had?

The River Remembered Us Some loves are too vast for a single lifetime. They spill over, like rainwater finding old riverbeds again and again. In the first life, they are strangers on opposite banks of a cursed river-she a warrior-queen building a bridge to save her people, he the exiled architect who alone knows why the bridge keeps collapsing. They never touch. But when she drowns saving his blueprints, he writes her name into the stone foundation. The river learns it. In the second, a courtesan and a blind calligrapher. In the third, two enemy soldiers who burn a village together. In the fourth, a nun and a heretic who translate a forbidden scripture. In the fifth, a hunter and a shape-shifting deer. In the sixth, a librarian and a ghost during a war that erases history. And in the seventh-the last lifetime the river will grant before forgetting-a cynical hydrologist discovers that every major flood in history has followed the same invisible path. A folklorist tells her it's not a fault line. It's a memory. Over seven lifetimes, The River Remembered Us is not a romance about finding each other. It is a romance about what happens after: the guilt of forgetting first, the exhaustion of remembering alone, the quiet violence of loving someone for the seven hundredth time, and the question they ask at every riverbank across every century: Is this the life where we finally stop? Or the one where we finally stay? Because the river remembers everything-except why it ever started.

It starts with a rustle in the hedges... and a gardener shocked into silence. When a girl senses something stalking her garden at dusk, fear is the only thing that makes sense. But as a shadowed figure lingers at the edges of her world - and her silent gardener leaves cryptic warnings - she follows the trail toward the sea and the ruins of a village long claimed by time. There, among broken walls and moonlit stones, she uncovers a past steeped in tragedy and threaded with her own forgotten story. Something is calling her back - something she once knew, something she once loved - if only she can remember what was lost. As the mysteries of then and now collide, she must choose: run from the unknown... or step toward the truth waiting in the dark. The Silent Gardener is a haunting, tender supernatural mystery about fear transcended by curiosity, danger that becomes connection, and a girl brave enough to follow the unknown into the place where she truly belongs.

The age of the Roaring Twenties is marred by the outcome of the Civil War. The victory of the South marked the beginning of a new political regime: slavery is thriving, and the judge needs but one thing-the 'Slave Theory'-in order to deprive an innocent man of all rights of property, and to condemn him to penal servitude. John Laurens, a disgraced abolitionist and convicted criminal, finds himself in the very heart of a vast political conspiracy, while trying to unravel the dark mystery surrounding his newfound owner. - [LAMS] CHECK OUT KOTIK's ANIMATIC BASED ON THIS FIC! Fanart, news and more - @theory_of_shit (inst) Includes heavy OOC. Cover art - sagistra (special illustration) Story - Hamilkovsky Inspired by Rogueangelll's "Not a Slave" series.

Arnav never believed in love at first sight. But obsession? That was different. What begins as a harmless curiosity soon turns into something far deeper when a mysterious girl known only as "Subspace" enters his life. He knows neither her face nor her real name, yet her presence lingers in his thoughts long after every conversation ends. Meanwhile, Akshita, a 25-year-old UPSC aspirant, is determined to achieve her dream. Focused, ambitious, and independent, she has no time for distractions-especially not a man whose intense gaze seems to hide countless secrets. As their paths slowly cross, emotions grow stronger, truths become harder to hide, and a hidden connection threatens to change everything. With one heart chasing a dream, another chasing a mystery, and a secret girl standing between them, the line between love and obsession begins to blur. Some secrets are meant to stay buried. Some obsessions refuse to let go.

♥ Artbook in English / en Français. Fully translated / traduit entièrement ♥ Drawings from / dessins datant de : [Feb 2019 - today / aujourd'hui] ♠ Eng ♠ Hey guys! Welcome back and thank you for coming over to artbook number 4! Like the last ones, this'll be full of my drawings, mainly of my ocs, and hopefully some fun stuff for you to enjoy :3 there'll be manga, semi realism, some realism, digital and traditional art, drawings and paintings, so hopefully something will catch your eye! Note: all drawings, with some rare exceptions (such as showing references or promoting other artists) which will be explicitly highlighted as such as they occur, are my creations. Please ask me permission first if you want to screenshot my drawings and use them for profile pics or book covers. I don't bite :3 it's just polite. ♠ Fr ♠ Salut tout le monde ! Bienvenue et merci d'être venus voir mon artbook numéro 4 ! Comme les précédents, il sera rempli de mes dessins, principalement de mes personnages, et j'espère des choses sympa que vous apprécierez :3 il y aura du manga, du semi réalisme, un peu de réalisme, de l'art numérique et traditionnel, des dessins et peintures, alors j'espère qu'il y aura quelque chose pour toi ! Note : tous les dessins, hors des cas très particuliers (tels que montrer mes références ou la promotion de d'autres artistes) qui seront clairement signalés comme tels au moment de leur apparition, sont mes créations. À ce titre s'il vous plaît demandez-moi la permission en mp ou en commentaire si vous voulez les prendre en screenshot pour vous en servir comme couverture ou photo de profil ou quoi. Je ne mords pas :3 c'est juste de la politesse (c'est mieux en anglais parce que ça rime :p) [Commissions Closed]

Siete historias con un único protagonista; un árbol que se niega a perecer.

When nineteen-year-old Noah Bennett discovers an ancient brass lamp hidden in his late grandfather's attic, he expects dust and old memories. Instead, he releases Kairo, a powerful genie who has spent centuries bound to grant the wishes of others while never being allowed to choose his own destiny. Noah is given three wishes. But as the two grow closer, what begins as curiosity turns into something neither of them expected. Kairo is bound by an ancient law: genies may grant love, wealth, and miracles to others-but they are forbidden from falling in love themselves. With each wish, their connection deepens, and the magic holding Kairo together begins to unravel. As powerful forces move to separate them, Noah must decide whether to use his final wish to change his own life-or to set Kairo free, even if it means losing the one person who has captured his heart. Some wishes are meant to change destiny. Some loves are worth wishing for.

Tras la muerte de su madre, Blyke Bonavena se cuestiona muchas cosas de sí. El apoyo de sus vecinas es clave y una sencilla pregunta sobre la fuerza cambia todo el panorama para él. Decidido a hacer algo, Blyke retoma el legado de su padre: Un documental sobre Prosnutsk. "𝘊𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘻 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘰 𝘷𝘦𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘴" - at Eternity's Gate.

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮‑𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘥. 𝘌𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦: FL350. With a mysterious receipt intact, she's pulled into a secret she never asked for. Chasing dreams that soar across the skyー until they crash‑land into reality. Who is he, and what is his connection to the airport that shouldn't exist? ...And why does he know her? Spiraling into academic chaos, betrayal echoes, and flight records that contradict, the truth is yet to unfold... painfully. No fantasies. No magic. Just emotional altitude plummeting in an unstable manner. ⊱ ────── {.⋅ ✈ ⋅.} ────── ⊰ Author : : @zY08006 Status : : ONGOING ⊳| This story was a little challenge I gave myself to write, not in my usual style. ⊳| Stow your belongings, fasten your seatbelt, and let the engines roar!

UNTOLD LOVE by Melwyn Jason Two people. One love. No words. Ethan and Clara share a bond built in silence glances, moments, and feelings never spoken. Afraid of changing what they already have, they choose quiet over confession. Life moves on. Love remains. Untold Love is a story about what happens when love is real but never said. And how the hardest goodbyes are the ones that come without a single word.

When eighteen-year-old Evelyn Hart inherits an antique snow globe from her grandmother, she thinks it is only a beautiful keepsake. But on the first snowfall of winter, the globe begins to glow. With one gentle shake, Evelyn is transported to a breathtaking kingdom of ice and starlight world of frozen forests, crystal bridges, and a magnificent castle hidden beneath the northern lights. There, she meets Prince Adrian, the quiet and guarded heir to a realm trapped in an endless winter. As Evelyn and Adrian grow closer, she uncovers an ancient secret: the magic sustaining the kingdom is fading, and the world inside the snow globe is beginning to disappear. To save the kingdom, Evelyn must make an impossible choice between the life she has always known and the love she never expected to find. Some worlds are hidden in plain sight. Some hearts are worth crossing worlds for.

Some of my favorite quotes by Jane Austen. You'll find everything from love to wise words.