Bluecollar Stories

The dashboard says GREEN. The system says ON TRACK. The camera says you're safe. But the man in front of you just got denied breakfast. In the frozen mud of the South Loop Data Campus, the "ShiftGrid" algorithm controls everything: your access, your pay, and your next meal. Ethan "Volt" Mercer is an electrician who knows how to fix broken circuits. But when a polite AI voice tells his foreman [PENDING REVIEW], Ethan realizes this isn't a glitch in the wiring. It's a feature. The system hasn't failed. It is quietly selecting who gets to eat and who gets to starve, all while the status bars stay perfectly green. Caught between a superintendent who refuses to file a report and a workforce terrified of being flagged, Ethan has to decide: Do you trust the green light? Or do you trust the hunger in the yard?

At nineteen, Blake Hale isn't chasing freedom, parties, or travel plans. He's raising his daughter, Issie - the bright, curly-haired toddler who owns his heart. Their life together is fragile but steady, built on bedtime routines and construction-site paychecks. Then the past comes knocking. Someone Blake thought was gone for good returns, threatening the family he's worked so hard to protect. With everything on the line, Blake must face his deepest fears and discover whether his love for Issie will be enough to keep her safe. The world sees a boy. She sees her dad. And for her, he'll always be enough.

I've paired people in movies, and most of them ended up marrying each other. It felt like I was cupid, matching people here and there. Ironically speaking I'm single despite having to pair half of the married celebrities my age. But unlike Eros a.k.a Cupid that almost lost his one chance in love, found his but me. I'm losing it. The excitement and hope of one day, finding my "the one." faded. In today's generation being in your thirties unmarried is hard and even so, not earning a six digit salary, you're deemed incompetent, mediocre, lacking and worse, ugly.

Can anything go right when a relationship begins with a case of mistaken identity? When Nate Whitmore picks up an abandoned car to be towed, he doesn’t expect to find a woman passed out in the back seat. Joanne Johnson tried to forget about her cheating ex-fiancé at her best friend’s bachelorette party and ends up mistaking the sexy tow truck driver for a male stripper. For Nate, giving the embarrassed woman a ride home seems easy enough, until one mishap after another throws them in each other’s paths time and again. As if maid-of-honor duties and jealous ex-lovers aren’t enough to deal with, Joanne must decide if Nate can be more than just a rebound.

The story of two best friends, Taylor and Anthony, working blue collar jobs while chasing their true dreams of racing and hunting. Read and follow along on their journey.

Rose O'Connor is a simple farmhand in the southwest hills of Ireland. She travels into town one day and hears of a very strange person referred to as Yankee. Little does she know that this person might just change her life in more ways than just one.

Getting warped into a world of the supernatural, even if she believes in it, is what really takes it far for Mehwish "Mavis" Ansari. A holiday trip to Romania turns this foul-mouthed, God-fearing girl's world upside down when she is betrayed into captivity of the 15th century Transylvanian prince, the infamous Vlad the Impaler, dracul of Walachia, a very powerful vampire- and very much still alive. She's mad, she's furious, and she's exactly what's needed. We all know the story of the Lord Impaler, and his enmity with the Ottoman Empire. Taking an indebted elite's unwanted offspring away may not have been different from most of his heinous deeds, but little does he know that he picked on the wrong girl. 'Old meets New' on a whole other level in this high-power adventure epic. Inspired by Beauty and the Beast. READ, YE WHO DARE: Hardcore cussing, detailed gore and violence. Please, don't expect historical accuracy from this book, it's for entertainment purposes only. Sorry in advance if I get any Romanian or Turkish dialogue wrong, I'm not really familiar with those languages. Finally, this is not an Islamic or spiritual book, so while the protagonist is a practicing female Muslim she doesn't represent anything or any views.

Tom can't remember what he did last night

From a small-town Saskatchewan, Canada comes Kayde. A female Bull Rider destined to give her all to either make it or die trying. Her life consists of rodeos all over Canada and the USA, complete with cowboys, and belt buckles, straight-forward and consistent. Till she doce-doed her way across the path of a boy, wild to the core, but blessed with charm. This Cowboy has got her more turned round and rattled up than the bulls she deals with daily. *currently undergoing a majorrr face lift*

"Tomorrow, he'd pay a visit to the Bronx. The people there have already torn through his lies anyway, no point in pretending."

The love of a cat. A letter of deception. And a trip to London. That was all it took to twist Zoran's life forever. But maybe after closing his heart to the world, this is exactly what he needed most to truly find redemption. (updates Thursday & Sunday)

Im doing this more like a blog, I'll explain some parts of my life and some details of my relationship and how me and my fiancé are dealing with being long distance for the next six months, while I'm also trying to plan our wedding as well.

John's been the evening custodian at St Eden's Elementary for a couple of years. Each night in solitude is the same, expect for tonight. The night before he heads off for Christmas break/his 30th birthday. He starts hearing nosies that send him onto a journey where he must face his worst nightmare-confinement. Whispers of Confinement is part fictional and part reality. I'm excited to share my first short story that is inspired by my job as a custodian and bringing you into part of my imagination.

This is a complete work of Fiction. Oliva I'm running for my life, thankfully that led me to meet Danny. He has shown more me kindness in days than I've gotten in years. When my past comes knocking he has my back through it all. Danny I'm the type of man that protects the ones I love to the end. As soon as I seen Oliva I fell in love, and when her past comes around I'll defend and protect her.

Maverick is just trying to get by in his life. Parker is trying to finally start living hers. © Copyright 2023 Alyssa VandenAkker (@Fromjaded)

This is the story that started Wake and Cody, off a prompt for a Goodreads m/m event. I was given a picture of a buff and kind of muddy guy, and a paragraph about two best friends and a hunting trip. This is what I ended up with.

How we look at the roles we play in the going-ons around us can make all the difference to what we see. A man with an ordinary job in an extraordinary place might just be the happiest person alive.

My novella is a fictionalized portrait of a small town and its inhabitants, part comedy, part drama. Although based on a real town and real people, the story is fiction. The time period is not really important. Numerous characters are introduced over the course of the story. Scene One begins with the character of the town itself.