Texas Stories

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** When the biker gang calls in a Jake Bryant's debt, he has no choice but to hunt down an old friend by any means necessary and retrieve their stolen drugs, even if it cost him the woman he loves. ***** Time has run out for Jake Bryant. The Devil's Hand motorcycle gang has cashed in the debt he owes them. Jake must hunt down his old friend, Rick, to retrieve the million dollars worth of heroin he stole from the gang. Soon, Jake finds himself double-crossing both Rick and the Devil's Hand, but his true loyalties will be tested when his girlfriend becomes a bargaining chip. After failing the other women in his life, will Jake finally be able to save someone he loves? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Zoe is a teenage girl convicted of a murder she didn't commit, but that doesn't matter in the Arena of Justice. You either win your fights, or you die. ***** Seventeen-year-old Zoe never expected to find herself on the wrong side of the law, but when she's convicted of a murder she didn't commit, she's sentenced to the Arena of Justice - the home of gladiator matches where murderers fight murderers, and every fight ends with a death. Zoe's plan for surviving is simple: ignore the other inmates and fly under the radar until it's time to fight, but that's easier said than done. As hard as she tries to hate those she must kill, Zoe soon befriends the other inmates and falls in love - a deadly proposition when a moment's hesitation can prove fatal. It's up to Zoe to save her life, no matter how hard the system is trying to kill her. [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]

𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻', 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗳𝘄𝘂

At the age of sixteen Elizabeth Olsen had a baby girl, she gave her up though to a loving family. However in the adoption agreement she made it clear that if anything happens to the adoptive parents at any time that the child would be put back into her care. Now that baby is a fourteen year old young woman who just lost her parents in a fatal boating accident. Now Sarah Blake is grieving the loss of her parents and going through the process of learning that she'll be moving to LA of all places to live with her birth mother.

(Previously this story was known as Long Lost Sister) Ariana Parker was raised in love, but shaped by the shadows. Taken from the mafia famiglia as a child, she grew up with a kind family of professors-who give her a life of warmth, books, and unconditional love. But she has secrets. 18 years later, she is reunited with the truth of her birth: she is the lost daughter of a powerful mafia boss, the sister whose disappearance shaped an empire-and six brothers who never stopped searching for her. Her return does not tear her world apart-it expands it. They have secrets too. Her adoptive parents remain her parents. Her blood family becomes her protection. Her father, a feared don to the world, is simply Papa to her-softened, devoted, and learning how to be a father again. Surrounded by six brothers who would burn the world for her, she discovers that family does not have to be chosen over blood. Some hearts are strong enough to hold two worlds. And she is the famiglia's heart. Let's dive into the story to find out how she meets her family and adapts to it and what was the reason for her separation. #mafia #family love #brothers #siblings #cute moments #love

Marshall was there for the football game, but left with so much more after meeting the granddaughter of the Jones' family. I do not own any pictures used in the story. This story is fictional, but it does follow Eminem's timeline of events as best as possible.

"Cause it's like you're my mirror"

𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 ❝ nights like this when i need your love❞ 𝐨𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧²⁰²⁵

Loralie Crosswell moved to Valley View for her eighth grade year. While there she meets a boy who's oddly good at skateboarding. Colby Madden has lived in Valley View for a year already. His friends convince him to go to school and he meets a girl who's good with baking.

This is the story of how Wilbran came to be their childhood story how brandos inner homophobia came to be and Wilson's side of the story if this gets a lot attention then I'll work on one with brandos pov!! Enjoy

Christopher Laurence Marquez understands systems better than he understands people. As an engineering student newly arriving in Texas, he trusts timing, structure, and observable patterns. Most things can be explained if examined carefully enough. Systems stabilize. Adjustments happen. Life continues. Then orientation week changes direction. What begins as ordinary proximity with Brandon and Blake Hayes - identical twins at the center of Texas football culture - gradually becomes something Christopher cannot fully organize into logic. Brandon moves through the world with immediate momentum. Blake with quiet precision. One expands the atmosphere around him. The other steadies it. Somewhere between them, Christopher finds himself answering faster, staying longer, and noticing them before he means to. The connection does not arrive dramatically. It builds through repetition: shared routines, recognition patterns, quiet reassurance, late-night conversations, and the growing realization that some people begin to feel emotionally familiar before you fully understand why. As football visibility expands across campus and beyond it, Christopher struggles to balance overstimulation, attention, and the terrifying possibility of becoming emotionally reachable inside a world that never seems to slow down. Because Christopher has spent most of his life preparing for eventual distance. But Brandon and Blake keep returning. Again. And again. And again.

All Diane Curtis ever wanted was a sister. Growing up in a house ruled by three loud, impossible brothers, that didn't seem like too much to ask. She found her almost-sister in Sandy, her best friend. But now there are whispers. Closed-door talks. Adults making "important decisions." And suddenly, Sandy's being sent to Florida. Diane doesn't know the whole story, just that it has something to do with Soda, and that no one will look her in the eye when she asks. As if losing Sandy wasn't enough, Dallas Winston keeps hanging around. Diane's world is changing. And no one bothered to ask if she was ready.

Graham Travis Lincoln built his life around systems that made sense. As Westbridge University's starting quarterback and the nation's leading Heisman candidate, consistency had always been his advantage. Read the defense correctly. Trust the structure. Deliver under pressure. Repeat. Then Elena Marisol Reyes enters his routine quietly enough that Graham almost misses the shift entirely. A Filipina-American journalism student assigned to profile Westbridge football, Elena sees through performance faster than most people can maintain it. Around her, Graham finds something he did not realize he had been searching for: silence without expectation, conversation without strategy, and a version of himself untouched by stadium lights and public mythology. What begins as habit slowly becomes dependence. But emotional certainty arrives long before Graham understands what it means for the life built around him. Because loving Elena does not only threaten reputation. It challenges the identity system that shaped him long before he ever stepped onto a football field. And Elena already knows what happens when someone chooses you privately but hesitates publicly. As football pressure intensifies, media attention sharpens, and future expectations close in around them, Graham is forced to confront a truth more destabilizing than any defense he has ever faced: The relationship was never the unstable part. The unstable part was everything surrounding it.

In the small coastal Texas town of Harlow, Nora Callette has built exactly the life she intended. At thirty‑eight, she runs Calloway Crest, a luxury pet resort where the town's wealthiest residents trust her with the animals they love more than most people. She is quiet, capable, and precise. She notices everything and says very little. Her life is peaceful by design. Then her younger sister Gemma moves in. Gemma brings two impeccably dressed dogs, an opinionated parakeet, a pet bakery, and enough warmth and chaos to disrupt eleven weeks of carefully maintained routine. She also brings the one person Nora trusts completely into the middle of everything that is about to go wrong. Because something is going wrong in Harlow. Three of Nora's wealthiest clients have quietly rewritten their wills within the same six‑month window. Nora only knows because people talk freely in front of the woman holding their dog's leash. Two of those clients are already dead. Their deaths were ruled accidents. Nora does not believe in coincidences, and she has read enough estate documents in her former life as an attorney to know exactly what a rewritten will means. The third client is still alive. Nobody is looking for a pattern except Nora. Into this walks Callum Hayes, the new town veterinarian-steady, unhurried, and entirely too perceptive for Nora's comfort. And Allen Michaels, a former army sniper turned small‑town detective who tells Nora to stay out of it and cannot seem to stop her. While Nora quietly dismantles a conspiracy built on old money and older jealousy, she is also navigating her first IVF cycle alone, her first real friendship with a man who might become something more, and the chaos of loving a sister who says out loud everything Nora keeps inside. Some secrets get buried. Nora Callette digs them up.

A Texas homicide detective and a former small-town sheriff from Rhode Island become partners in the fight against crime. When a series of murders begins to unfold in Dallas-murders that, at first glance, seem completely unrelated-they are assigned to the case. The only thing linking the victims is a bullet to the head..., and a killer who always stays one step ahead.

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You know, they say life is like a wildflower, blooming wherever beauty is needed. That's at least she used to say, but I don't think any wildflowers will be seen here anymore. Beauty is not what my world has blooming, but rather something ugly like a weed. Olivia is just a twenty-seven-year-old young woman left to figure out the aftermath of losing her mother after years of battling with cancer. She is angry. She is lost. She is mentally a mess. Incomes Briggs, someone who makes her angry in a different way, but is that really what she feels towards him? Will time be on their side?

─ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐄𝐑 " 𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜. 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡. 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ. " Book One ©𝘒𝘺𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘚. 2024 Completed- Started- Aug 29, 2022 •Word Count•

I'll just pour all my random stories here about them states. This varies from incorrect quotes, to shitposts, to songfics, then to one shots. there will probably be a lot w/ ny in it. And I do accept requests too!

Charlotte crosses the country chasing the promise of a fresh start-wide skies, quiet roads, a life small enough to breathe inside. Texas gives her routine, independence, and just enough distance from the past to believe she's finally steady. Then she meets Matthew. He's everything she said she didn't want: a ranch hand with dirt under his nails, a beat-up truck, and a life that pulls him toward rodeos, long nights, and roads that never stay still. Their connection builds slowly-through accidental meetings, borrowed time, and conversations that never quite say enough. He teaches her to drive stick. She watches his dog. They circle each other carefully, both afraid of wanting more than they can keep. When timing finally feels right, everything falls apart. Matthew leaves without explanation. Charlotte loses the one person who anchored her to the world. Grief hollows her out until even survival feels negotiable. And just when she thinks she's been forgotten completely, the past crashes back into her life-broken, regretful, and asking for forgiveness she doesn't know how to give. As Charlotte learns how to live again, she must decide whether love is something you wait for... or something you choose, even when it hurts. Set against the backroads of Texas and the relentless pull of the rodeo circuit, this is a slow-burn romance about timing, loss, and the kind of love that doesn't rescue you-but walks beside you while you save yourself.