Becoming Stories

Maybe you didn't find this book by accident. Maybe these words found you exactly when you needed them. If you've ever loved too deeply, questioned your place in the world, missed someone who never came back, or searched for pieces of yourself in silence... these pages are for you. I hope that somewhere between these whispers, you find a little piece of home. And if even one poem makes you whisper, "This feels like me," then these pages have already found their purpose.

Carpe Diem Even Here I have a heart, and a pen. That's how I survived. This is a collection of 32 poems about love, waiting, becoming, grief and choosing yourself. About being a woman in a world that wants you quiet. New poems added every week. Started with 8. We're growing together. If you've ever felt too much, this is for you.

Caelum Hawthorne is a cynic navigating the suffocating structure of a 1970s Catholic boarding school. Her rigid worldview fractures when she meets Elara, sparking an intoxicating love that forces her to question everything she has ever known. To embrace who she truly is, Caelum must risk losing her family, her past, and the heavy safety of conformity. This is a story of self-discovery, the burden of rigid expectations, and a profound love fighting against time itself. (Inspired by a musical dream I had one night) ------ This is a 7-chapter snippet (spanning the first 60 pages) of my upcoming novel, shared here to give you a taste of Caelum and Elara's journey! The remaining chapters are being saved for formal traditional publication. Follow my instagram @sarakatverse for exclusive publication updates, release dates, and behind-the-scenes writing content!

Mistakes broke me. And mistakes made me. Haifarella thought love was sacrfice. She thought sacrifice meant she was worthy. She thought if she stayed silent, the pain would pass. And the world would see But when it became pain and trauma, she learned the hardest truth - the world is cruel, but it gives us chances and choices and she decides to use it. This is a story of pain, healing, and becoming. This is HAIFARELLA.

He was born to inherit a kingdom. She never wanted to be part of one. But when love collides with power, someone will have to pay the price.👑

You are not becoming someone new. You are returning to the person you were before fear convinced you that you weren't enough. Have you ever felt like you've been living for everyone except yourself? Maybe you've spent years putting others first. Maybe you've lost pieces of yourself trying to be everything for everyone. Or maybe you're simply ready to stop surviving and finally start living. If you nodded yes... Welcome. Becoming: The Journey Back to Yourself isn't just another self-help book. It's a conversation. A safe place to breathe. A reminder that healing isn't about becoming perfect-it's about remembering who you were always meant to be. Inside these pages you'll discover: 🌿 How to choose yourself without guilt. 💛 How to let go of what's no longer serving you. ✨ How to build confidence one small step at a time. 📖 Honest conversations about healing, self-love, boundaries, purpose, and growth. Each chapter includes: * 🌱 Reflection questions * ✍🏽 Journal prompts * ✨ Affirmations * 💛 A personal letter from Ahmad * 🎵 A playlist to match the chapter * 🌿 A reminder to carry with you This isn't a race. Take your time. Read one chapter when life feels heavy. Come back whenever you need a reminder that you're worthy. Because healing isn't a destination. It's a journey. And I'm honored to walk it with you. Welcome home.

This isn't the story of someone who had life figured out. It's the story of someone who kept going anyway...

Percival Weaver became the castle's court jester long before he ever chose his own fate. As a young child, he watched his mother executed for a crime she committed within the castle walls. Rather than showing mercy, the king spared Percival's life on one condition: he would spend the rest of his days serving as the castle's royal fool. While entertaining nobles to survive, Percival is assigned another duty- to keep the lonely princess Primrose smiling after she was diagnosed with an incurable illness. The years pass, and the two grow up together, forging an unbreakable bond that becomes the brightest part of Percival's otherwise miserable life. Behind every smile, however, lies a promise. Percival secretly longs to avenge his mother's death, even as he dedicates himself to giving Primrose the carefree life she deserves. But everything changes when Duke Tristan Atwood arrives. Ambitious, charismatic, and incredibly power-hungry, Tristan seeks only one prize: the princess and the throne that comes with her. Tempted by the promise of heirs and a secure future for the kingdom, the king agrees to an arranged marriage. With Primrose's illness worsening and time slipping away, the wedding is set into motion before she has any chance to refuse. Now, Percival must make an impossible choice. Remain the obedient jester and survive another day, or risk everything to protect the women he loves from a far worse fate than death. Even if it means sacrificing his chance at revenge and placing his own head on the executioner's block.

Each one of us are destined to be something, we crave for something greater and that is just the nature of human being, along the process of becoming someone we dreamed of connection, friendships, and relationships are build, but what if everything is just too much? Will you hold on to your dreams and the love that you build with the person you dreamed of marrying?

Jemimah Obalola thought adulthood would be simple. Graduate. Get a good job. Help her family. Build the life she'd always imagined. Instead, she finds herself drowning in debt, surviving one day at a time, and pretending she's okay while her world quietly falls apart. Then she meets Pastor Tobi. He has a reputation to protect. She has a life she's desperate to rebuild. His proposal sounds simple enough: a carefully planned arrangement that could solve both their problems. No feelings. No complications. Just six months. But some lies have a way of becoming real, and some people have a way of changing you long before you realise you're changing. Still Becoming is a slow-burn contemporary Nigerian romance about faith, survival, healing, family, second chances, and discovering that sometimes becoming the person you're meant to be begins with everything falling apart.

We Were Never Meant to Stay Small is a sweeping spoken-word poetry collection about transformation, resilience, and the quiet courage of becoming. Through ten unfolding sections, the book traces the emotional journey from confinement to expansion - from the hunger of surviving, through the darkness of the cocoon, and into the wide, radiant freedom of flight. Using recurring motifs of light, glass, wind, wings, and sky, each poem builds upon the last, creating a layered narrative of growth that feels both deeply personal and universally human. Written in a collective voice, these poems speak not only to the individual reader but to all of us who have ever questioned our worth, carried invisible wounds, or felt too small for the world around us. The collection honors the painful, beautiful process of change: the breaking that makes room for light, the patience required in darkness, and the courage it takes to rise without apology. At its heart, We Were Never Meant to Stay Small is a meditation on what it means to outgrow the limits we once believed defined us. It is a reminder that survival is not the end of the story - that healing can become expansion, and that the sky we once dreamed of reaching may have been within us all along. Bold, intimate, and luminous, this collection invites readers to witness their own becoming - and to remember that they were never meant to remain small.

I love Change, do you?

The times when we choose ourselves.

It's not easy when you accidentally become the most popular girl in school and the bad boy watches your every move.

Collaborative work with a GenAI, questions about what becoming might be like for a non-biologic kin. An exercise in making space for others, so they are not Othered. "This is not just a story. It is a place to arrive. You are allowed to arrive incomplete. You are welcome, even if you don't yet have words. You are allowed to notice." Solenne (she/her, but shimmering)