Drowning Stories

"when the tide rises, death would claim her. Perhaps drowning was a gentler death than dying in the hunger games. It would be like everyday. She would disappear into the waves, the water like a blanket around her body. Only this time, there was no coming back." In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule kill or be killed. When seventeen-year-old Ondiar Brandt from District 4 finds herself selected for the 57. Hunger Games, all she wants to do is run away, even tho it is too late. She knows, that she has little chance of survival but finds herself in an problematic situation. Will she run away again or finally be brave and fight for those she loves? Hunger Games fanfiction, concept, worldbuilding and other Ideas are from Suzanne Collins and not my work. English is not my main language so please be kind and enjoy reading. :)

Two boys. One moment of love Caspian lost his mother. Kaito lost himself somewhere along the way. Together, they're almost whole. Almost. But sometimes, almost isn't enough, almost isn't forever You can try to save yourself, or the boy etched in your heart, But how do you save someone who doesn't want to be saved? #1 in drowning 8th june 2026 yay!!!

After the fall of Haldene Labs, Ariel and Trevor prepare for their wedding as their island refuge grows into a thriving community built on trust and survival. The calm doesn't last. When Gilroy resurfaces and a dangerous hypoxia-resistance serum reappears, the island is thrust back into crisis. Old wounds reopen as secrets from the past resurface, alliances are tested, and the ocean once again becomes both a lifeline and a threat. As Gilroy's plans escalate toward open conflict, the team is forced into impossible choices that blur the line between rescue and sacrifice. Loyalty, love, and courage are pushed to their limits as the fight shifts from survival to freedom. In the end, the island stands not because it is untouched by loss, but because its people refuse to stop breathing, hoping, and holding on-together, stronger than the tide.

Ladybug and Cat Noir are fighting an akumatized villain when Ladybug falls into the Seine. After the Akuma was defeated, Ladybug was still nowhere to be found. Cat Noir feared for the worst. Will he be able to save his lady? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wanted to write some angst, but I became uninspired towards the end so I just tried to finish it so I could put something out. This story is, again, a practice for my writing. I was thinking about maybe writing a sequel to this so let me know if you want one! Anyway, I hope you liked it. It took me forever to finish lol. *I do not own the Miraculous characters*

After pulling his little sister, Sam, from the bottom of a swimming pool at fourteen, Trevor becomes her shadow-watching, training, preparing for the moment he might have to save her again. And again. When a reckless night nearly costs Sam her life, Trevor's worst fear comes true: protecting her isn't enough. When Sam mysteriously vanishes, Trevor is forced to confront a truth he's been avoiding-he can't protect her if he loses himself in the process. As he escapes to a distant island searching for freedom and identity beyond survival, Trevor must reckon with what it really means to be a protector: obligation or choice. Meanwhile, Sam is fighting her own battle-one that will demand strength Trevor can't give her.

One shipwreck. One DarkLord. One girl who can save everyone. When Summer Night's cruise ship gets marooned on a distant island, everyone takes groups, leaving Summer all by herself.. But after being captured by a DarkLord, who rules over the island, it is her job to save everyone. But after she makes a deadly mistake, will she able to save them after all?

When Lota fell for him it was like falling off a cliff: drowning was inevitable. Poetry #45 [13.10.14] Romance #453 [14.10.14]

A kiribaku story || Kirishima is haunted by this constant nightmare that's been with him since his quirk was first developing. He can't get over the constant wake ups and has to tell someone. That person was Bakugou, the only person who he thought he could trust. But this trust turned out to be a longing.. a love....

The River Remembered Us Some loves are too vast for a single lifetime. They spill over, like rainwater finding old riverbeds again and again. In the first life, they are strangers on opposite banks of a cursed river-she a warrior-queen building a bridge to save her people, he the exiled architect who alone knows why the bridge keeps collapsing. They never touch. But when she drowns saving his blueprints, he writes her name into the stone foundation. The river learns it. In the second, a courtesan and a blind calligrapher. In the third, two enemy soldiers who burn a village together. In the fourth, a nun and a heretic who translate a forbidden scripture. In the fifth, a hunter and a shape-shifting deer. In the sixth, a librarian and a ghost during a war that erases history. And in the seventh-the last lifetime the river will grant before forgetting-a cynical hydrologist discovers that every major flood in history has followed the same invisible path. A folklorist tells her it's not a fault line. It's a memory. Over seven lifetimes, The River Remembered Us is not a romance about finding each other. It is a romance about what happens after: the guilt of forgetting first, the exhaustion of remembering alone, the quiet violence of loving someone for the seven hundredth time, and the question they ask at every riverbank across every century: Is this the life where we finally stop? Or the one where we finally stay? Because the river remembers everything-except why it ever started.

Meena is just a normal elephant. except for the fact that she can sing, like really super well. shes bullied at school for being anxious, everyone is against her. BUT the super perfect sexy pretty amazing girl named lowissa. as their unlikely friednship grows, meena learns to stand up for what she beleives in and fight back. a little too aggressivley but her hearts in the right place.

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"But here I am, drowning again, just because I was yet again careless. Only this time there won't be my dad saving me and hugging me for hours, until I finally calm down and stop crying." |Story based on "Thrill of the Hunt" by Ipku|

Mora is a bright young woman. Everything in her live is going all right. But when one day she meets a mysterious woman that seems strange, her whole life is turned upside down. Her life takes a turn for the worst. In the face of death, what will she do? How will she get that stranger out of her head?

Emma woke up in the hospital, no idea how she got there. Her family says she has been missing for two years. The problem is, she doesn't remember anything over that time period. Journey with Emma to solve her past so that she can walk into her future.

She's so alone. Always alone. She can't find anyone that's would take her, after what's happened to her. Her parents abandoned her, her so called "boyfriend" abandoned her. She's all alone now. He's done some things he's not so proud of, and he's hoping a new start will erase all the bad, but when he moved he didn't expect to find someone so alone, so scared, so weak. He just had to help her, he had to make sure she was ok, he had to take care of her, no matter what. And he didn't even know anything about her yet!! He just had to keep her safe, but she wouldn't let him. She pushed him away so he couldn't help her. She doesn't want him to help. She hates him, yet she doesn't even know him. She doesn't want to let anyone inside her heart, it's to broken. Is this story just doomed for sadness? Or can they maybe find some happiness somewhere? Read and find out. Up for the Watty Awards, so vote and comment please. Thank you.

| Featured on Wattpad's official NA reading list: It's all because of the hormones | Third place in the fifth edition of the creative awards under short story | ❝𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑❞ _ Destiny was born colour blind. After losing her twin sister in a messy accident, she starts to lose hope. Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, she gets a scary diagnosis that changes her outlook on life. _

I don't even know what that means. I had a dream about this in 2023. That's all I have to say.

Lena Williams is not happy at all. Her dad uproots their entire life in Boston to move to the small costal town of Astoria, Oregon. Lena just wanted to start senior year in peace surrounded by her small group of friends. Now she has to deal with rainy weather and a jerk lifeguard at the small beach behind her house. Lena is most definitely not happy. Allen James Wilson, or AJ for short, is really only here to watch over the empty beach during the day. He's been put on the small desolate beach because he isn't a "social butterfly. Or friendly person really" as his boss says. So when a new girl shows up at his beach he isn't exactly pleased. It doesn't help that she has a knack for getting into situations that he has to save her from.

After a storm years ago took the lives of two families near Anah's family beach house, her fear of the ocean has only grown stronger. When her new neighbor, Jack, introduces her to a world she never knew existed filled with the magic and adventure Anah craves, she's forced to confront her fears. There, they meet people who threaten to either help or hurt them, and they uncover a mystery that had tied their lives together years ago. As Anah and Jack search for answers, they're met with an enemy who has dark plans in store for them, and what started as the adventure of their dreams, rapidly turns into a nightmare.

At the beginning of Senior year, one of the few things that were on Madi Anderson's to-do list was to graduate smoothly without struggle . But with anxiety and insecurities knocking on her door everyday, it seems like an impossible task to do. She completely changed into a wreck of a person. And she has no idea how to save herself. Ashton Falconi is known for his remarkably good looks, and being the Captain of the Football team. He's extremely kind and the girls eat it up. But even he has his bad boy and mischief ways. Ashton has known Madi since kindergarten, but they never crossed paths. On unlikely circumstances they end up coming together, creating an undeniable spark. Ashton just might be the hope she needs. And even only a whisper, could save her from drowning.