Undiscovered Stories

A healer pursues a cure for the plague when her family falls ill. A dethroned princess navigates a coup against her. An operative with a stolen soul escapes a life of slavery. A scholar starts a mission for freedom, and a merchant deals with strange visions in search of her loved ones. A bounty hunter tied by debts takes on a harmless assignment in exchange for a high pay, and a silent outcast travels to ancient ruins to uncover the truth to his soul. When opposing sides, diverging political ideology, and unseen hands pulling strings clash, these paths will intersect in fateful ways, ushering them into conflicts brought about by brittle bonds and twisted fates. The depths call out in turmoil, and if they let it, there may be nothing left of Shehas Serin by dawn. In a continuation of the cherished high fantasy series, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢, delve into the underwater realm of Shehas Serin where power is not an end but a means to it, and fate is nothing but a pawn in a larger game of adventure, desire, and betrayal. Together, unveil what awaits us beyond the borders. AN INSTALLMENT OF BEYOND BORDERS ALTERNATES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• UPDATES WEEKLY ON FRIDAYS, 10:00 PM (GMT+8, SGT)/3:00 PM (GMT+1, CET) © 2025 (First Edition) [145,000 - 155,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] NOTE: Knowledge of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢 main series is not important for this series. However, all the books are completed and available in my profile, @Exequinne.

​Nam Min Joon is self-centered, demanding, and currently... homeless. After a disastrous mix of bad press and tax evasion rumors sends Nam Corp's stock into a tailspin, Min Joon is left penniless. ​Enter Bo Young, the assistant who knows his coffee order, his schedule, and now, his lack of a backup plan. Out of pity, she offers him a place to stay for seven days. But as "one week" stretches on, the corporate boundaries begin to blur. Bo Young is determined to restore Min Joon to his former glory just so she can finally have her apartment back and get some sleepㅡbut the more time they spend in close quarters, the more she realizes she might not want him to leave. #onc2026 prompt 48

Thandie waits for a husband who vanishes on a business trip. As if an eggshell in her life's batter wasn't enough, she's served divorce papers, only to discover the trip masked a secret wedding in Lagos. With four children and a looming mortgage, Thandie reluctantly takes a second job. Life couldn't be sour until Thandie's sister enrolls her on Oppo, an app that only matches opposites without her consent. Of all possible matches, Oppo pairs Thandie with Callum, a local bakery owner. For Thandie, their connection feels like a glitch, but for Callum, secretly smitten with Thandie, it's a gift. Can the man who crafts sweet confections tempt the woman whose heart has forgotten desire? Let's see if they discover the perfect recipe. WARNING This story does not contain: - Mil/Billionaires - Fast cars - Hidden Prince - Sexy muscled whatever Characters are 30+ years old.

​In the Kingdom of Oakhaven, the most dangerous predator isn't in the wild, he's on the throne. ​To the public, Tau Taipan is a devoted brother and a visionary leader. To his sister, Ahi Taipan, he is the master architect of a life she never asked for. Trapped in a world of velvet-lined rooms and "protective" shadows, Ahi's every move is tracked by private guards and stifled by Tau's chillingly calm manipulation. He calls it love; she calls it a sentence.

Perfection is a cage. Love is the key. But some doors are too dangerous to open. Elma Hartley has everything a girl could dream of-money, beauty, popularity, and parents who give her anything she wants. On her 18th birthday, they gift her a brand new Mercedes AMG, a symbol of the perfect life she's always been expected to live. But perfection comes with rules. As the only child of two powerful and ambitious parents, Elma has spent her entire life being molded into the daughter they never had the chance to be. Her grades must be flawless. Her image must be spotless. Her future must be exactly as planned. There's just one problem. Three days before her birthday party, a new girl walks into Brooklyn High. Xena Carter. Confident. Unpredictable. Different. Xena is used to living in the shadows of expectations too. With a Black American father, a British mother, and two overachieving older siblings who've already set impossible standards, she's always felt like the one struggling to keep up. Moving to the U.S. was supposed to be a fresh start. She never expected to find Elma. The quiet girl behind the perfect smile. The girl who looks at her like she's discovering something forbidden. One birthday party. One unexpected connection. One feeling neither of them were prepared for. Because liking girls was never part of the plan. Not for Elma, the school's golden girl. Not for Xena, whose parents already expect too much. But some feelings refuse to stay hidden. And when two hearts begin to fall in a world that demands perfection... the biggest question isn't do they love each other? It's do they dare? Or will their love remain exactly where everyone expects it to be- locked inside the closet.

The dream of almost every young girl. The dream to become one of the idols you always see everywhere, on your phones, billboards, music shows, and lots more. This dream has been the only one in the mind of Jang Wonyoung a k-pop trainee at Hybe Entertainment. Along with over fifty other girls, they all race to the finish line making sure to do their ultimate best to debut. The starting line for their lives was debuting, nothing else matters. Not even their blistered feet or aching heads or empty stomach or mental health. All that mattered was proving that they deserve to be one of those idols. But the road to this dream is more intense than it seems, the road to becoming a k-pop sensation takes more than their bodies can give. But Wonyoung won't stop until she reaches her starting line. Follow her on her journey to reach that line and get past the scary execs, scandals, secrets, and lots more. This is the perfect k-pop fan fiction we've all been waiting for.

Sunny is an optimistic girl, a real ray of sunshine for those who know her. She doesn't swim, nor does Matsumoto Shota, a popular basketball player in her class. Together, they spend countless hours on the bench during swimming class. What more do you need to start a story? A story where hearts flutter and float, swaying to the sweet pulse of teen romance. Soon, they are rocked by violent tides, caught in the Kuroshio, and left shipwrecked on the seabed. Matsumoto Shota San is kind. Matsumoto Shota Kun is gentle. Shota Kun loves me. Shota bleeds. Shota screams. Shota has secrets. Shota, who are you really? The title of the story in Japanese is KUROSHIO.

In the bustling port city of Busan, seven-year-old Park Jeong-min is drowning in the silence of his father's death. Half a world away, in the emerald forests of the DRC, Kimya watches the horizon for the smoke of a civil war she is too young to understand. Linked by a simple pen-pal exchangeㅡ a pair of white sneakers for a wax cloth braceletㅡthe two children share a desperate, whispered wish: to be anyone else. ​Then, they wake up in each other's skin. ​The magical escape becomes a lifelong haunting. At seven, ten, and fourteen, the swap yanks them across continents into each other's trauma. Jeong-min learns survival in a war zone; Kimya navigates South Korea's academic pressures. ​When a violent spiritual intervention at age fifteen severs their connection. The swaps end. Jeong-min is left in Seoul, haunted by Kimya trapped in a conflict he can no longer see. ​Driven by a debt he cannot name, Jeong-min builds a life of cold, medical precision, hoping to find her through the very systems that keep them apart. From the high-stakes world of a Korean medical residency to the front lines of a global refugee crisis, he is looking for his phantom limb. ​Jeong Min doesn't know Kimya is searching for him, too. #onc 2026 main prompt: 29 prompt mix: 73 #blackhistory #history #koreanhistory #worldheritage

An agent tackles two challenging cases of theft, revealing dangers underneath. A scholar uncovers the soul's secrets to save his city from havoc. An orphan sneaks under the government's senses, nursing a deadly secret. An information broker loses everything and seeks revenge. When a faceless threat steals the spotlight from a recently imprisoned crime tycoon, these paths will weave together, leading into a death-defying race for forgotten mysteries bridging ideals and reality. Truth governs every inch of Olsa Reon, but under the pressure of greed and sin, it may not last long. In a continuation of the cherished high fantasy series, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢, delve into the region of Olsa Reon, where power is not an end but a means to it, and fate is nothing but a pawn in a larger game of adventure, desire, and betrayal. Together, unveil what awaits us beyond the borders. AN INSTALLMENT OF BEYOND BORDERS ALTERNATES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• UPDATES WEEKLY ON THURSDAYS, 10:00 PM (GMT+8, SGT)/3:00 PM (GMT+1, CET) © 2024 (First Edition) [110,000 - 120,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] NOTE: Knowledge of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢 main series is not important for this series. However, all the books are completed and available in my profile, @Exequinne.

Jia's life toppled upside down in a scream of twisting metal and shattered glass. Now, scarred by self-harm and drowning in a depression she can't outrun, she journeys to Seoul to find the one thing she hasn't lost: The scene of the crime. ​Kim Tae Won lives for one thing: retribution. He is hunting a monster, unaware that he's just invited her in. In a city where secrets are buried deep, Jia and Tae Won form an impossible bond built on a foundation of deception. But while lies move fast, the truth is patient. And when they finally meet at the top, the cost of the climb might be more than either can pay.

A cop A doctor A killer Only a psychopath can catch another. In a Seoul stripped of its glitz, the air is thick with a collective, suffocating dread. This city has lived in the shadow of Stein Son for over two decades. After a haunting, ten-year cooling-off period that many hoped would be the end, the monster has resurfaced, reclaiming the streets as his personal abattoir. ​Inspector Seong-woo is the only one willing to stare into the abyss. To catch a ghost, he enlists Dr. Noh, a brilliant psychiatrist with a fractured psyche. Seong-woo seeks her insight to navigate the mind of a killer, unaware that she herself harbors a violent, blacked-out identity.

Lee Sa Rang has a year to live. She divorces her husband and chooses to live as though there is a future, despite knowing her time is limited. She throws herself into excess, partying and testing her limits. One reckless night, Ji Seong rescues her from a drunken clubber. Sa Rang assumes their encounter was fleeting and returns to her routine as an exacting, despicable surgeon. Until the universe proves otherwise when Ji Seong turns out to be one of her hospital's new interns. Just as she tries to adjust, things take another turn: for her 40th birthday, a colleague gifts her with an escort serviceㅡand her surprise grows when she recognizes Ji Seong as the escort. Their lives become entangled in a strange relationship where boundaries blur, and feelings erupt. Who is truly in control? This is the story of a woman with too little time to live and a man who has too much love to give.

It started as a battle, for freedom, against tyranny. And became something greater, it broke so many. There was never peace, it was just an illusion. You let me suffer, yet then you loved like no other. I guess we were too naïve to see, how broken this place can be. The sun is rising on the meadows, her colours remind me of fire. How in the wind, the flames blow, we were enemies just prior. The eyes of evergreen, belonged to the villain. Now they're soothing me, 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧. 📌 Poem/Description written by: Netheriea 📌 Written in 2020

Ray and Aaron get stood up by their dates. They end up talking at the bar and realize being ditched is the best thing that ever happened to them. They meet two nights in a row and promise to see each other the third night, but Ray doesn't show up. Aaron doesn't understand and can't find her. All her social media accounts disappear within a day. The man can't imagine Ray had an accident that night and supposes she stood him up. When Ray meets a mysterious woman named Hilary, who claims to have particular abilities, she faces a choice that could change the course of her life. EXTENDED SUMMARY INSIDE

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ONGOING Riley Stevens has no one. No friends, no one to care for her. Then she meets him. Kai Brooks. He's cute, funny, smart and most of all, seems to care about her a bit too much. When Riley finds out how life can truly be when you have people who love you, she feels unstoppable. But living in this world comes with too many struggles to count. Can she make it out alive? Will she be able to live the life she's always wanted? Will Kai be able to see her for her? TRIGGER WARNINGS: self harm, eating disorders, death, su!cide, drugs, underage alcohol consumption.

[AMBYS 2023 Top picks in humor novellas ✨️] Lee Cook is heartbroken; his wife left him for another woman after twelve years of marriage. He vows to never fall in love again until his dying day. Sana Gulati is befuddled; her boyfriend left her for a woman ten years younger than her. She vows nothing; she's just pissed and consoling herself with anything sweet and comestible. He lives in London, she in Paris. They've met once; one walked out after drenching the other's face with beer. Since the two only see each other virtually on the Zoom meetings, their company loves to schedule every two days. When Sana replies to Lee's offensive PM, an odd stalking game begins between the two. Before they know it, they connect. Here's a simple story of Woman meets Man where Wifi is key, and where some vows are hard to keep. @ContemporaryLit Fall Awards 2021 longlister.

Al has lived in isolation for as long as he can remember. All he's known are books and his dear friend. One day, he's set free, but at her expense. Can he save her before it's too late? Currently revising! Updates every Sunday

A war survivor navigates a world born from conquest and prevents empires from falling. An outcast escapes prison and finds death and destruction outside it along with an orphaned child. A detective investigates a series of strange murders near bodies of water, and a soldier searches for a missing monarch with no leads. When a violent conqueror threatens the kingdoms of Esana Talos, these paths will meet, herding them into a ruin they may never recover from. Blood stains the grass of Azora Avia, and if they don't stop the conqueror's plans, it will not be long before it coats the rest of the continent as well. In a continuation of the cherished high fantasy series, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢, delve into the continent, Esana Talos, where power is not an end but a means to it, and fate is nothing but a pawn in a larger game of adventure, desire, and betrayal. Together, unveil what awaits us beyond the borders. AN INSTALLMENT OF BEYOND BORDERS ALTERNATES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• UPDATES WEEKLY ON WEDNESDAYS, 10:00 PM (GMT+8, SGT)/3:00 PM (GMT+1, CET) © 2025 (First Edition) [135,000 - 145,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] NOTE: Knowledge of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢 main series is not important for this series. However, all the books are completed and available in my profile, @Exequinne.