Literaryfiction Stories

Life is like a rollercoaster. It has its ups and downs, but it's your choice whether to scream or enjoy the ride. What happens when life throws you off track completely? Do you scream... or do you hold on tighter? For Ira and Rudraksh, the journey is far from smooth. One is suffocating under the weight of failure, the other carrying the fragments of a shattered heart. Two strangers, caught in life's ugliest turns, where every step forward is a fight against invisible battles. This is not a story of being saved by each other, but of learning to live despite the wreckage, of finding the courage to stand when the ground never stops shaking. However, if their paths ever converge, will they find solace in each other... or will their differences pull them apart? ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️ This is a character-driven literary fiction set in a contemporary world, where every character breathes fully and every emotion unfolds in its own time. It is the kind of story that feels less like something you read and more like something you live beside, watching the characters grow, falter, heal, and discover themselves at their own pace. If you have a moment, and a heart willing to feel deeply and quietly, I invite you into this universe of mine. And if you wish to know more, simply explore the tags. They hold the essence of what awaits you here... with a little something extra, like a cherry on top. Copyright © 2026 Jambudweep. This content is protected under applicable international copyright laws. Unauthorized reproduction, adaptation, translation, or redistribution on any platform without the author's explicit written permission is prohibited. Original publication: Wattpad.

About My Short Stories This is an ongoing collection of short stories-each one inspired by the people who've left a mark on my life. Family, friends, coworkers, and even passing acquaintances all have their own stories, and here you'll find them captured in snapshots. Some are funny, some bittersweet, some unforgettable-but all of them are real moments seen through my eyes. A celebration of the characters we meet along the way, and the ways they shape who we become.

Florence, 1991. A widow finds a newborn in a basket on the Arno - unaware that a pact signed in 1300 has bound forty‑three souls to the river ever since. For thirty years she will protect him. But the truth always returns to the water. 🕯️ A gothic literary story of cursed bloodlines, trapped souls, and Italian cities where the past refuses to stay buried. For readers of Zafón, Tartt, Setterfield. New chapter every Sunday. Print edition available in Italian. English edition coming 2026.

A Little Girl Named Sana ."Sana cannot see the colors of the sunset, but she can hear the rhythm of the river and smell the arrival of the rain. This is the world as she weaves it."

Essex, 1948. Chiedozie Nwosu is a brilliant young African engineering student with a flawless future ahead of him. Elara Whittemore is the daughter of a desperate, debt-ridden British Lord, trapped by the expectations of her class. When a malicious lie places Chiedozie's life and freedom at the mercy of the local constabulary, a brutal bargain is struck in the dark. To buy his silence and unlock a hidden family fortune, Lord Arthur forces an impossible union: Chiedozie must marry Elara, becoming a prisoner to the estate, or face a life behind bars. Bound together by a cold contract and a shared betrayal, two solitary souls must navigate the sharp frost of post-war England. Can love grow from the soil of coercion, or are they merely collateral damage in a nobleman's game? AUTHOR'S NOTE "I wanted to write a story that felt like a lost classic-where the prose is as heavy as the Essex mud and as sharp as a Lagos sun. This is for the dreamers who found themselves in a world that wasn't built for them. Expect chapters that breathe, settings that bleed, and a romance that earns every single spark."

Paris, born with the supernatural ability called Soul Perception, grew up within the walls of Saint Marianne's Orphanage carrying emotions that were never truly hers. Through every loneliness and hardship, Jae Won remained by her side, becoming the only person who ever made her feel safe. But everything changed when Paris was adopted by the wealthy Henry family and introduced to a life far removed from the orphanage she once called home. Years later, after turning eighteen, Paris secretly brought Jae Won back into her life and used her adoptive parents' money behind their backs to fund his education, a decision that slowly led her into financial conflict. During her second year of university, she met her new philosophy professor, the widowed Matthew Grayson, whose quiet grief drew her closer until comfort slowly turned into something forbidden. Unknown to everyone around her, Paris also worked as a midnight dancer in a downtown lounge to continue supporting Jae Won without him ever finding out. But the fragile balance of her life begins to collapse the night Victor Henry witnesses her dancing alone beneath the stage lights. What starts as admiration soon turns into dangerous obsession, pulling Paris into a web of love, secrecy, and emotional ruin she can no longer escape.

Julien is twenty-five and going nowhere in particular. He loads trucks, eats cereal at 9pm, and replaces his dead fish without grief. He isn't unhappy. He just isn't alive. Then Aurelia moves into the ground floor with her chaotic houseplants, her loud opinions, and her uncanny ability to adk exactly the questions you've been avoiding. She doesn't try to fix him. she just lives fully that something in him can't help but follow. The Weight of Wings is a story about a friend who shows you the window. And what happens when you lose her before you finished learning how to see

When world-famous pianist Marina Bellandi freezes mid-performance in New York, she says only one sentence before walking offstage: "There is smoke in the trees." Hours later, she returns to her childhood home in Calabria, Italy, to bury her mother - and finds the once-beautiful Bellandi citrus estate dying beneath the hills. The trees are blackened. The villa is crumbling. Her father has vanished. And in the music room, waiting for her, is a cedar box filled with letters, photographs, and a red scarf Marina thought had disappeared decades ago. As a child, Marina was told her older sister Lucia ran away and destroyed the family. But Lucia did not simply vanish. She was erased. The deeper Marina digs, the more she discovers that her own brilliant career may have been built on another girl's silence - and that the family who shaped her into something extraordinary may have sacrificed the daughter who wanted only to live freely. In a village where everyone remembers but no one speaks, Marina must uncover what happened the night the orchard burned, why the citrus trees began to die, and what her mother was trying to confess before death claimed her. A haunting story of sisterhood, forbidden love, family secrets, buried crimes, and the terrible cost of becoming exceptional. Some truths do not stay buried. Some trees die because the land remembers.

The solar system is not a collection of rocks and gas. It is a court. Ancient. Immortal. And built around a secret that everyone knows except the one person it concerns. For four billion years, Jove - the largest force in the solar court - has been pulling every asteroid, every comet, every threat away from the third orbit. Away from Terra. Not because she asked. Not because anyone told him to. Because the moment the third orbit began trying to become something, he could not bring himself to let anything stop it. Terra has lived her entire existence inside a dome of protection she never knew existed. And Jove has spent four billion years in love with someone who didn't know he was there. Until now. Because she felt it. All those quiet evenings when the light turned gold and everything went still - that was him. She just didn't have a name for it. A story about the cost of loving without being asked. About protection and possession. About what happens when the most powerful force in the universe finally learns to open his hands.

SET IN NEAR-FUTURE SEOUL NEW EPS TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Launching the first day of spring - March 20 When Korea's most trusted "everything app" weaponizes her private medical data, artist Maya Kim is thrust into a system designed to predict-and control-her life. To fight back, she must expose a chilling network of government-backed surveillance before it strips her of her autonomy, her art, and her right to choose. The Algorithm of Spring is a near-future techno-thriller set in Seoul, blending high-stakes conspiracy with the emotional intensity of a K-drama.

What comes after the main event? Neither a collapse nor a rebrand. A quiet choosing. Of a life that is yours. After years under the spotlight, Kim Seokjin leaves Seoul for London to start over quietly-far from the stage, the cameras, and the life that once defined him. In a new city, he builds a different kind of routine: working at a small Korean restaurant, getting lost in unfamiliar streets, and learning how to belong to himself again. But the past doesn't stay still. Old friendships, shared history, and the people who still know him best continue to find their way back. Background is a soft, emotional post-fame fiction about healing, distance, home, and the love that remains when everything else changes. (An ongoing novel.)

Set in The St.Michael Orphanage

The Brennans don't do quiet! Five children. Two parents. One Bedford house that holds them all, and the kind of love that doesn't always find the right words, but always finds the room. Uncomplicated is a collection of slice-of-life vignettes from inside the Brennan family. The kitchens. The cars. The late-night conversations that don't end the world but quietly shape it. The moments between the seasons of a family's life; the ones that don't make the headlines but somehow hold everything together. These aren't the stories that break the Brennans. These are the ones that hold them. A companion collection to the Brennan Family Saga - Choice, Storm, Wanting... No prior reading required, these stand on their own. Contains adult content. Intended for mature readers.

Archie only meant to play one game. Then Chris logged in. What begins as late-night matches and routine conversations slowly becomes something harder to name - a friendship built in loading screens, Discord calls, and the quiet intimacy of always being there. But some people only meet you in the hours between loneliness and sleep. And some almosts are harder to survive than endings.

A collection of emotional short stories filled with love, loss, family, regret, healing, and hope. From silent heartbreaks to unexpected second chances, each story captures the fragile emotions that make us human and the quiet moments that stay with us forever.

Sloane Mercer came to Seoul to study architecture, not to become someone else's unfinished project. Guarded, observant, and fluent in leaving before anyone gets too close, she knows how to survive in the spaces between things: between languages, between countries, between wanting and pretending not to. Then she meets Yuri, a café owner with warm hands, a careful smile, and a life that already has someone else in it. What begins as quiet familiarity turns into something neither of them names. A friendship. A mistake. A language neither of them knows how to speak. Years later, Sloane tries to remember it clearly: the rain, the staircases, the cigarettes, the things Yuri said, the things she didn't. But memory is an unfinished structure too. Some rooms stay dark no matter how long you stand inside them.

A collection of short stories varying from different themes. Joy to sadness. Grief to love. Twice a week- a new story. Estimate: Monday and Thursday (Under 200 words)

In which two university students learn that love can disappear long before people do.

LOVE in no man's Land: Volume 1 Silence was her only survival. Now, AddBox will be her weapon. Vânia has lived through a nameless hell. Trapped in a human trafficking syndicate that stripped her of her identity and dignity, she thought she was lost to the world. But amidst the horror, a miracle was born: **Vitória**. Her daughter became the spark of light that gave her the strength to do the impossible-escape. Deported back to Portugal, Vânia seeks refuge between the frozen peaks of Covilhã and the cherry orchards of Fundão. But peace is a fragile illusion. With her past hunting her down in the form of the relentless Raj and the treacherous Fatma, Vânia realizes that hiding is no longer an option. **To protect her child, she must fight back.** With the help of Rafael, a tech genius who sees the soul behind the code, AddBox is born: a digital sanctuary for anonymous reporting that promises to give a voice to the shadows. From Portugal to Brazil, the silenced are finally beginning to rise. But the truth carries a deadly price. Caught between elite secrets, unexpected betrayals, and a confession letter that could shatter everything, Vânia must decide: How far is she willing to go to secure her daughter's future and destroy, once and for all, the monsters lurking in the "No Man's Land"? sees the soul behind the code, **AddBox** is born: a digital sanctuary for anonymous reporting that promises to give a voice to the shadows. From Portugal to Brazil, the silenced are finally beginning to rise. But the truth carries a deadly price. Caught between elite secrets, unexpected betrayals, and a confession letter that could shatter everything, Vânia must decide: How far is she willing to go to secure?