Bluecollar Stories

Kester Skreets is the kind of girl people think they understand. She works full time at a small town hardware store. Drinks too much coffee. Shows up covered in bruises. Calls out of work far more than she should. Most people assume she's irresponsible. Some assume she's on drugs. Denni Carter assumes something is wrong. A former Navy serviceman with a habit of sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, Denni starts noticing patterns. The injuries. The lies. The way she disappears and always comes back looking worse. Then one night, he follows her. What he finds hidden in the dark changes everything. Two years ago, Kester survived an attack that should have killed her. Now she's trapped between two worlds, A normal life she can barely hold together and a secret world of trackers, monsters, and ancient things that hide in the shadows. And some secrets were never meant to be found.

A blue collar man receives an unexpected Surprise, how will he handle it and where will it take him.

A sizzling contemporary romance featuring irresistible tension, protective blue-collar hero energy, a fiercely independent NICU nurse, electric chemistry, emotional depth, unforgettable banter, and a happily ever after you'll never want to leave.

At twenty-four, Elara Vance is a "dinosaur" in the Elite Mechanical Engineering fast-track program. After six years of pulling double shifts at a diner to pay off her father's medical debts, she's finally trading her apron for a torque wrench. But the program is cutthroat, the "prodigies" are nineteen and cruel, and her TA-a brilliant, cynical twenty-two-year-old named Julian-thinks she's just a hobbyist. Elara has one semester to prove that a late start doesn't mean a finished race.

JT, a mechanic and former high school football star, accepted long ago that he wasn't the main character in the game of life. Those dreams faded when his father died, leaving JT to care for his grieving mother and carry on his father's legacy. But when a beautiful single mother and her awkward teenage son move in across the hall, things begin to change. Reluctantly, JT becomes a friend, then a mentor, and, if his mother is to be believed, maybe something more. As the fragile bonds between them deepen, JT must decide how far he's willing to go to protect the accidental family he's come to love, even as the tragedies of the past threaten to destroy the future they're building together.

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.

Dakota Adkins spent ten years convincing herself she made the right choice when she left town. And most days, she believed it. The job was good. The apartment was nice. The life she'd built for herself looked exactly like the one she'd always wanted when she was eighteen and desperate to get out of the mountains. Then her grandmother died. Now she's back in the house she grew up in, sleeping beneath a roof full of memories she isn't sure she wants and counting down the days until she can leave again. That was the plan anyway. Then she walked into Old Red's and saw Jack Bennett. The same Jack Bennett she spent an entire summer trying not to fall in love with. The same Jack Bennett she left behind. Only somewhere along the way, the town troublemaker became a man. One with roots planted deep, a crooked grin that still makes her nervous, and a life she can't stop looking at. The longer Dakota stays, the more things stop making sense. Because Jack Bennett was never supposed to be happy here. And she was never supposed to miss this place. Most of all, she was never supposed to wonder what would've happened if she'd stayed.

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

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.

Hard work isn't always noticed or appreciated but it can still bring satisfaction.

Kirsten Hughes is the little sister of the Hughes brothers she doesn't play hockey she plays softball in the spring cheer in the fall she's dating her school blue collar Lane Campbell

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*

Richmond, Virgina- 1984 Sara Brooks is a 24 year old graduate student. She's almost a year and half away from finishing her PhD in English Literature. Standing near adulthood, she toes the line between leading a life she chooses versus the one that's been planned for her. She's always been the responsible one, the one who plans, who drives, and this weekend the maid of honor for her best friend Janie. The night before the wedding brings them to a bar, Lester's, an establishment their friend group used to haunt in their college days. That's where she meets him. Rough around the edges, quiet, looks straight out of a Springsteen song. I Can Take You Higher is a romance about the smaller details and choosing someone. The story navigates class, female friendships, found family, and a slight age gap, all set to the scene of the mid 1980's in the south. Loosely inspired by the song and music video for I'm On Fire, the story contains a lot of iconic 80's music some explicitly mentioned, others in the title of the chapter, feel free to listen as you read.

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.

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.

This a story looking in at a simple office scene with the death of a coworker looming over them.

The need for blue-collar jobs is expected to rise greatly all over Europe. Here are few points: Integrating technology: The demand for skilled blue-collar workers in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and other industries will rise because automation and digital tools increase efficiency. An aging workforce: European retirements will create labor shortages, giving younger professionals a chance to fill bigger gaps. Sustainability thinking: Green industries such as renewable energy and sustainable housing are creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs. Skill Development: As training levels increase, professionals will be better able to handle complex tasks, thus requiring skilled workers. By 2030, professionalism will not only play a central role in the European economy but will also determine its future. Recruitment strategies need to be adapted to meet this growing demand by HR professionals. Read this article for more information.

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?

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.