Literary Stories

Ziri Meziani does not want friends. Born to an unremarkable town in southern England, Ziri spends most of his time in his head. His parents and his therapist tell him that he "shouldn't spend so much time alone", but to Ziri, other people are an inconvenience at best and a threat at worst. Unfortunately, Miles Hoàng is committed to getting on his nerves. GENRE: coming of age, teen bxb romance TROPES: the boy next door, reluctant lovers, tutoring COMP TITLES: The Perks of Being A Wallflower, The Black Flamingo featured in Wattpad: BxB Pride Spotlight featured in Wattpad: Written With Pride 2023 AMBY AWARDS WINNER in teen fiction featured in Ambassadors: Rainbow Fiction featured in Teen Fiction: LGBTQIAP+ Teens featured in lgbtq: BoyxBoy (YA) featured in FreeTheLGBT: Diverse Literature featured in StoriesUndiscovered: Tales Of The Heart featured in YaRomance: Unforgettable Firsts

If you were given the chance to become a bystander in your favorite Harbinger's life, how would you react? Even if it meant becoming his test subject first...

Volume I - The First Rain On a rainy evening in Kyoto, freelance photographer Ren Aoyama steps into a quiet café called Tsuki no Akari to escape the weather. There, he meets Akiko Tsukishiro, the café's gentle owner whose warm smile hides an old grief and a life carefully kept behind closed doors. What begins as coffee, photographs, and quiet conversations slowly turns into something stranger when Ren notices that the café is being watched - and that Akiko's past has not forgotten her. A slow-burn supernatural romance and healing café mystery about rain, memory, grief, and the quiet warmth people leave behind.

A poetry collection based on hardships, heartbreaks, and clinging to that small light of hope in life.

Han Jue came to Tianzhu Sect with a forgettable name, a spiritual root assessment that clears scrutiny because he designed it to, and three sects' worth of fabricated lineage. Four months of careful performance. Mediocre. Wandering. Dull enough to discourage notice. The plan was working. Then he sat across a desk from a senior disciple who closes books with both hands and watches faces instead of pages, and the man read him a poem about a tree out of season, and looked up, and did not look away. Mosheng Peak is not what he thought he was infiltrating. The thirteen-year-old in the upper courtyard has a laugh that hurts to hear. The senior with the jade cord under his collar has lost someone he never speaks about. The orthodox cultivation world Han Jue came to dismantle has people in it. He had not planned for that. A literary danmei xianxia about hidden identity, slow-burn devotion, and the cost of finding people worth saving when you came to burn the place down.

TARTARUS A Road Novel About the Hell We Carry Inside He bought a ticket to Nowhere. That was all. A tired station at 2:30 in the morning. One working ticket window. Damp asphalt. Cheap perfume. People hugging each other before the road took them away. Then he stepped onto the bus. The driver looked like a man who had seen too much of humanity and kept driving anyway. The route made no sense. The road kept changing. Passengers disappeared. Memories became places. Old guilt boarded without asking. And somewhere between rain, silence, bad coffee, strange stops, and a destination no one could explain, he began to understand the worst truth of all: Tartarus was not waiting at the end of the road. He had been carrying it inside himself for years. Darkly funny, strange, and painfully human, TARTARUS is an existential road novel about guilt, escape, self-deception, and the moment a man finally stops running from his own life.

Before books were written. Before history was carved in stone. Before humanity built cities, crossed oceans, or reached for the stars, people gathered around a fire and listened. In a world still young, an ancient storyteller shares lessons carried by the earth itself-through fire, rivers, wind, and the lives of those who came before. As generations pass and civilizations rise and fall, the tradition of storytelling continues, guiding humanity through its greatest questions about courage, patience, loss, hope, and belonging. Blending myth, history, nature, and reflection, A Journey Through Time: The Storyteller's Fire invites readers into a circle that has existed since the beginning of human memory. Step closer to the fire. Listen to the stories. Rediscover the wisdom that has been waiting for you all along.

Some houses have ghosts. This one has a god who laughs. Liriel Sanzari has nothing but her name, her hands, and eyes too green for a servant. When she's brought into the household of Ca'Thessana, she finds a world of silk, ritual, and a devotion so beautiful it barely feels like danger. She will learn otherwise. Just not in time. Daevil's Bells is the opening volume of The Laughing God, a dark, lush, unflinching story about what belief costs when it's dressed as love.

A deadly heat wave coupled with a power outage in a rural Appalachian town leads to a series of tragic deaths; an HVAC repairman must get to the safety of his home with an old woman whom he has kidnapped. Also, there's a deadly wildfire. Also, God has forsaken him.

From high above the world, a bird watches a species unlike any other. They build, they destroy, they love, they grieve, they gather, and they scatter. Unable to understand the contradictions of the creatures below, the bird begins a lifelong search for the meaning hidden within humanity's fractured flock.

Cade was forced to watch his older sisters witch trail whom he believes cursed his entire village to death. He is has to start elsewhere in a new town with new social expectations for what it means for a boy to become a man. The social expectations being: find a fiancé, career or buy a property. He feels the pressure to become man as he senses his sister haunting him and pressuring him to be a strong and good man. Along the way Cade meets Mariaya who is charismatic and also meets a honest bartender not afraid to challenge him.

What happens when you meet someone who brings out the worst in you? And what happens when you love the worst more than the best? Tatianna Sinclair is the heiress to one of Russia's biggest medicine empires, but also the only heiress to the French crime syndicate. But that part's a secret to everyone, including her. Right now? She's just a 17-year-old disappointment to her father with endless funds and no desire to know where they come from. British mafia prince Henry Devlin came to Manhattan with one goal. Find her and use her for revenge. But the more time he spends with her, the more he realizes she knows nothing, and the more that happens, the faster his heart melts. But he knows better than anyone it melted the first time he laid his eyes on her. And for a man who swore he'd never be in love, his worst fear becomes reality.

Once Upon a Human Heart "We are all just stories, written in stardust." They say every life begins with a heartbeat and ends with a memory. If, in the end, we all dissolve into stardust-our names forgotten, our voices silenced, our stories scattered across the universe-then why do we spend a lifetime searching for meaning? Why do we love, grieve, hope, forgive, and dream as though any of it could outlive us? Perhaps the answer has always lived inside the human heart. This is not one story, but many. A collection of poems that wanders through the quiet landscapes of being human-through the Beginning, the Withering, the Becoming, and the Blooming. It lingers in first loves and final goodbyes, in loneliness and belonging, in the questions we are too afraid to ask and the answers that only time can whisper. Not every poem offers certainty. Some exist simply to sit beside you in the silence. Because maybe life was never about finding a reason for every joy, every wound, or every goodbye. Maybe it was about feeling them. And perhaps, when the last page is turned and our stories finally return to the stars, we'll discover that the greatest answer was never hidden in the universe- it was beating inside us all along.

Sometimes the greatest act of kindness isn't changing someone's life. It's refusing to look away while they gather the strength to change it themselves-even if it's only for one night.

He was the President of France. I was just a boy from San Telmo. One night changed everything. Weeks later, I found myself in Paris, living in a beautiful apartment that was not mine, sleeping in sheets too soft for someone like me, waiting for a man who could change my life with a single phone call and ruin it just as easily. He gave me flowers, silence, expensive rooms, and a city I could not yet speak. He gave me everything except a name for what I was to him. In Paris, I am kept, hidden, desired, and left alone too often. And the more I fall in love with him, the more I begin to understand that being chosen is not the same as being free.

In 1915 an unsuspecting passenger ship sails through treacherous waters toward a doom that was ordered from the highest authorities. For Jacob Blankfield, a thirteen-year-old boy dependent on leg braces and crutches, coming of age will come early, aboard a ship on its final voyage across the Atlantic, amidst explosions and torpedoes, battling forces unleashed by Great Powers in a Great War. After witnessing a murder, Jacob is thrust into the center of a conspiracy that threatens his own life and that of two thousand passengers. Forming alliances with friends and enemies, he digs to uncover the expansive details of a plot and the coconspirators before it is too late, standing in the way of secret plans and nefarious men, ultimately pushed to overcome his fear and handicaps to take matters into his own hands. As the ship approaches its destiny, Jacob closes in on a final duel of arms against an experienced and sinister opponent, learning that even his friends can be enemies. An introduction to arms, action and courage that promise to change his life forever and permanently forge his character, for better or for worse.

A story about loving someone who was only trying. About holding onto a ghost. About realizing everything you believed in was never real.

Grief once carried Iris Vollenberg away from Lindenheim. Her chronic illness brings her back. Halric Stein spends his months attempting to atone for a mistake he cannot undo. · · ─ ·✶· ─ · · Her whole life, Iris Vollenberg carried one belief her late mother gave her: she was more capable than her illness wanted her to be. Determined to prove it, Iris became a diplomat of New Astra despite her father's relentless worry and her brother's insistence that she settle down and become a housewife of his close friend instead. But when declining health forces her to return to her hometown - Lindenheim, she finds herself entangled with Halric Stein, the mysterious Herbkeeper whose benevolence is rivaled by his guilt. Halric has spent months carrying the consequences of a mistake which harmed Lindenheim more than it benefited it. He knows better. Every apology feels inadequate. Every attempt to help seems to deepen old wounds. When Iris begins involving herself in his affairs, Halric does everything he can to keep his distance. Unfortunately for him, Iris Vollenberg has never known when to walk away. · · ─ ·✶· ─ · · UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY + SATURDAY • Cozy fantasy setting • Slowburn romance • Character-driven story

The Last Harvest Some love stories are written in letters. Others are written in a lifetime of sacrifices. After graduating with a degree in Accountancy, Neir Nevaeh M. Pisiac returns to her grandparents' quiet provincial home, hoping to spend a year away from the rush of city life. But the season she comes home is harvest season-a time when golden rice fields promise both hope and livelihood to the farming community. While her grandmother manages the endless work of the harvest, Neir Nevaeh M. Pisiac devotes herself to caring for her bedridden grandfather, Feodor. Day after day, she feeds him, changes his clothes, listens to his stories, and stays beside him through long, silent nights. Though an accident has stolen much of his memory, Feodor remembers one thing with remarkable clarity: the life he lived before old age claimed his body. He remembers a childhood shaped by poverty in the rice fields of Bohol. He remembers the father who healed with faith instead of medicine. He remembers the stubborn boy who refused to let hardship bury his dreams. He remembers leaving home in search of an education, working tirelessly to build a better future, and meeting the woman who would become the love of his life-Miracle. As forgotten memories slowly return through heartfelt conversations, Neir discovers that every wrinkle on her grandfather's face hides a story worth preserving, every harvest carries the weight of countless sacrifices, and every lifetime leaves behind seeds for the next generation. The Last Harvest is a moving novel about family, resilience, enduring love, and the quiet heroes whose greatest achievements are not written in history books but live on in the hearts of those they leave behind.

she remembers places the way tides remember the shore. not all at once, and never in perfect detail. a mountain wrapped in cold mornings. a house where the sea waited across the highway. islands that came and went before she could truly belong to them. years later, she would begin gathering those fragments into words, hoping memory might reveal what distance never could. perhaps home was never a place she was meant to keep. perhaps it was quietly waiting for her to find it in the stories she carried.