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When her therapy app accidentally sends Riley's private confessions to a random British expat - and his to her - what began as a glitch quickly evolves into the kind of intimacy that can only exist between strangers. A slow-burn contemporary romance full of sexual tension, yearning, and feet-kickingly good banter. * * * When a company health initiative forces Riley Markle to download a trendy mental health app, she fills out the onboarding survey without much thought, expecting to get paired with a virtual gym buddy who'll send thumbs-up emojis twice a week. Instead, she gets paired with Joe, a lonely British expat whose wellness concern of Compulsive Behaviors is flagged by the AI system as a perfect match for Riley. Riley resolves to complete her month of check-ins and be done with it - until a glitch in the app sends both her and Joe's embarrassing therapy videos to each other instead of their therapist. Soon, Riley and Joe are talking late into the night, exchanging thirst-trap videos of their weekend routines by day, and thinking about each other constantly. Both are smitten, both are broken, and neither of them knows how to do this without destroying each other. The plan: Limit all communication to the app until after Day 30, then see where things go. But plans change. * * * 🏆 High Rankings: #1 in LITERARY #1 in QUICKREAD #1 in NEWENGLAND #3 in EPISTOLARY #14 in SHORTCHAPTERS (out of 38,000 stories) #87 in ROMCOM (out of 35,000 stories) #147 in ROMANTIC (out of 86,000 stories) Updated November 2025

Cathy Earnshaw is engaged to a decent and thoroughly respectable man. The party at his family's South Carolina estate is everything she's dreamed of - champagne glasses glinting under string lights, Spanish moss drifting in the sultry breeze - until Heathcliff shows up. Four years he's been gone. They used to run wild in the woods behind her family home, drawing blood and making promises no one else would understand. Now he's returned to her hardened and hollow. When he ruptures the smooth surface of her genteel world, Edgar and his friends don't know how to handle him. But Cathy does. A Southern gothic reimagining of Wuthering Heights. (I haven't read this book in over fifteen years, so if you're unfamiliar with the original, no worries. The story should give you all the context you need.)

At Highclyffe, debt is paid in devotion and secrets are kept in the dark. When a routine medical visit to a war hero's estate ends in a 'death by misadventure,' Dr. Aris must perform a psychological autopsy on a family held together by pity-and a tragedy that feels far too precise. (still under works)

The Vasentia were built to endure, to preserve, to remember, to outlast humanity itself. They back up their memories and restore themselves from death, unchanging across centuries. But every gap between backup and damage is lost forever. And you never know what you've lost until it's too late. Eîra has lived alone in the ruins for over a thousand years, carrying something precious that no one else knows exists. When Sâel arrives to document the decay, their encounter is brief. Something happens. Something neither of them understands. One of them will forget. One of them will remember. And neither will ever be the same. A story about what we carry, what we lose, and the spaces between memory and truth. When you can lose everything, what becomes worth keeping?

Every generation, the moor gives birth to the same love. Not gentle. Not kind. A love that devours before it learns how to live. Two souls meet again in new bodies, carrying a history they do not remember but cannot escape. Rage feels familiar. Longing feels inherited. The land watches, waiting for the cycle to repeat. This time, the story is not told by lovers or ghosts. It is told by the moor itself. And this time, the ending may finally refuse destiny.

What I Saw is a collection of poems about love, loss, silence, and the small moments that stay with us. These pieces move through quiet rooms, busy streets, and the spaces in between, noticing how people connect, how they miss one another, and how meaning can be found in the things we almost say. This book isn't about having answers - it's about paying attention. This is what I saw.

11x featured wattpad story. Before everything, it's assumed there was nothing, but what if there was no real difference between the two? Just two extreme philosophies from the first conflict. The planet Huom has been under observation for longer than should technically be possible. The primary watcher, a bitter black hole, is excited to see that there is finally a proverbial Darkness at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, on the planet, in the freezing mountains of Empris, Lyeasrakardsul, the oldest living sorcerer, suffers from devastating nightmares. At the same time, far away in the sandstone desert of Zenon, Herschel, a man filled to the brim with weird ideas is escaping a prison filled with strange old men. What does all this have to do with arsehole Gods, hairy Dwarfs, frustrated Afreets, curious Knomes, lizard-women, and nude Áettar? Perhaps Nothing, perhaps Everything... but why can't it be both?

On a rain-lashed night in 2003, a signal failure halts every train passing through Kochi Junction. Among the stranded crowd, six strangers briefly cross paths - a disillusioned teacher, a young nurse bound for the Gulf, a returning architect, a restless journalist, a weary migrant mechanic, and an aspiring coder chasing her first job. None exchange names. Yet that night of shared waiting becomes the quiet axis of their lives. Over the next two decades, their stories flow outward - across Kerala's backwaters and India's cities, into deserts, boardrooms, and faraway apartments - tracing how ordinary people carry fragments of one another through distance, failure, and rediscovery. From night schools under railway bridges to floating hospices on the Alappuzha backwaters, Monsoon Junction maps the fragile beauty of human connection in a world always in transit. Lyrical and deeply human, this multi-voiced saga explores the lives of those who arrive, depart, and sometimes return - finding that the hardest journeys are not measured in miles, but in forgiveness.

The story continues as the mysterious warden of Zig-Zig is eventually informed about Herschel's escape. Against every principle of his precious Dalmicir school, Lyeasrakardsul submits and asks the Knomes for help before finally receiving the dreaded p-wyrd. Herschel is arrested as a chicken thief and brought to the town Stagna where he has been prejudged as a p-e-r-v-e-r-t by popular opinion, and where he will have some of the most significant encounters in his life.

Sometimes the truth is just too terrible to ever be guessed... Readers' comments: 'Excellent story', 'gripping page-turner', 'marvellous read', 'great writing', 'simply remarkable', 'a fabulously emotional ride', 'wow', 'what a great book!', 'had me engaged right to the end' Wattys award-winning author (The Painted Altar, literary fiction 2020) When two British brothers are reported missing whilst on holiday in southern Italy, the local carabinieri turn to retired detective Jim Jacks for help. Still pained by a recent divorce, he has started a new life for himself as a small-scale wine producer. Along with commander Nuzzo, he will slowly unravel a mystery which is even darker than it had first seemed... Genre: murder mystery Length: 75,000 words (300 novel pages) Target audience: adult, fans of crime fiction, anyone who likes mysteries full of twists and which are populated by three-dimensional characters Extract: I stayed there at the holiday bungalow with Sarah and Olivia for the rest of the afternoon and evening. Would return again the following morning. An analyst would no doubt conclude that my actions weren't entirely selfless; that as a lonely old divorcee I found a nostalgic comfort in female company. And yes, this might have been part of it. But there was a very practical reason too for my more or less continued presence in the house. I just didn't want to leave them to themselves I suppose, was afraid of what might happen. Yes, the thing I remember most about that forty-eight hour period is the silence. There was something brooding to it. Something ominous, almost delicate, like if it cracked you feared it would explode. An edgy, precarious silence stretching on and on, minute after minute, hour after hour... About the author: I'm a 47-year-old English teacher who has lived in Italy for the last 15 years. I have two other novels on the site, The Painted Altar and Kill Who You Want

He loved quietly. He waited. Sometimes, that's all love asks-and all it takes to break a heart.

This is not a story of perfection. It's a tale of messy truths, of thoughts I was too afraid to share or say out loud-until now.

When the ripped and ravaged corpse of a second young women is found along a rural hiking trail, the local police know that they have a serial killer on their hands. Initial leads all point in the same direction - an Indian immigrant named Shivay Gupta. Detective Sergeant Diane Shields has serious doubts however. Will she have the courage to rebel against her superior? The determination to unravel the mystery before another body is found? Readers' comments: 'Absolutely loved reading this', 'engaging and enlightening', 'amazing book by all standards' The novel is set in 1986 in the fictional English county of Wynmouthshire. Though primarily a twisty, page-turning thriller, the story also explores the themes of racial prejudice and gender inequality. Length: 100,000 words (350-400 standard novel pages) Style: suspenseful, psychological depth, semi-literary Target audience: adult About the author: Wattys award winner (The Painted Altar, 2020). The Trail Killer is my fifth full-length novel on the site.

In a narrow lane in Taipei, a family dumpling shop hums through summer: boiling water, cicadas, rain on metal awnings, scooters slipping past on wet streets. Wei Muyu has grown up inside this rhythm, her life shaped by steam, schedules, and the expectation that she will always be there. When childhood friend Yang Zhifeng drifts back into her days - helmet under his arm, rain on his sleeves - old memories surface alongside new silences. Between late-night rides, shared meals, and a lantern released into the sky, the city becomes a witness to everything they don't quite say.

When a man wakes up with no memory of who he is, he assumes he has simply been forgotten by the world. He doesn't yet realize the forgetting was intentional. As fragments of his past surface through disturbing dreams, unseen forces debate his worth in rooms he will never enter. Their language is calm. Their logic is merciful. And their decisions are final. Echoes of Silence: The Mercy Equation is a slow-burn psychological science-fiction novel about memory, moral justification, and the quiet systems that decide which lives matter-and which are allowed to disappear.

A story about four people, who make a deal with the devil, and end up with the power of God. This is "Walking Dollar Bills" Forget becoming a millionaire or even a billionaire. Jeff who? What happens when your wealth doesn't come from assets or skills, but your body? No. Not what the body does, but what it becomes. This isn't a rags to riches story because the poor don't get money...they are money. Cover made by: xtrawww https://www.wattpad.com/story/187202501-catching-fire Completed: 6/20/2020 Milestones: Ranked Number # 1 in Capitalism (8/4/2021)

What if it came to the starkest of all choices: kill, or else suffer the loss of a loved one? Readers' comments: 'simply the best', 'one of the best books I've read', 'loved it', 'amazing', 'great reading', 'stumped me to the very end' and others Plot: When a pregnant doctor is brutally murdered in her own kitchen, the husband claims to have some weeks earlier received an anonymous and darkly menacing letter. For the small town of Ravensby, it's just the start of a living nightmare - one in which nobody is spared from the murderous cross hairs, and which will drive Detective Inspector Kubič to the edge of his own sanity... Genre: suspense/thriller Status: completed Length: 70,000 words (approx. 275 standard novel pages) Target readership: Though aimed primarily at adults, the novel features several teenage characters and so may also appeal to a younger audience Extract: "Warn you sir, not a pretty sight in there." Kubič took a deep, preparatory breath, his footsteps slow and leaden as he moved towards the kitchen door. Not for the first time over the years, he found himself wishing he'd chosen an entirely different sort of career. Paper-pushing, something out of doors. Anything at all. He'd always been reasonable enough at woodwork back at school, he recalled. Why hadn't he done that, he thought? Become a cabinet maker or some damn thing. A reluctant hand pushed open the door... "Oh dear Christ." The words escaped his mouth forcefully, involuntarily, like blood gushing from an open wound

Josh Alves recently became a father. The only issue with that is that he is gay and never went to an adoption agency. Caleb somehow turned into a five-year-old and now goes by the name, Kyle, unaware of his traumatic past and who he was prior. Now Josh must cope with the grief while trying to raise Kyle in order to give him a happier life than Caleb could have ever had. Open Novella Contest 2020 entry

Grief-stricken and struggling with addiction, writer Michael Simon retreats to an isolated mountain castle to find the clarity he's lost. In the estate's forgotten garden, he discovers an impossible light-and a connection to someone who shouldn't exist.

She loved him. Quietly. Completely. Hopelessly. But he never knew. She carried that love in silence, watched from the shadows. Some hearts are meant to beat in secret, some truths never spoken. This is the story of a heart that loved in silence, of words left unsaid, and of the quiet ache that never truly fades. A story of sacrifice, obsession, and love that is both beautiful and impossible.