Multicultural Stories

After discovering she's a descendant of Hades, Avery must find a way to escape those hunting her and ultimately choose between her two opposing soulmates. ***** Once Avery Stavros kissed her best friend's older brother Vladimir, she knew there was no turning back. But as the only living Stavros left, she needs to make a careful decision between him and Adrian despite being able to read both of their minds - something that should only be possible between her and her one soulmate. Love or life? Which one is more important? Loving someone or saving your own life? When the Greek gods and goddesses start meddling with the life of humans, everything's doomed to crash and burn. What will Avery do to protect the one - or ones - she loves? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] [[ Wattpad Picks: Saturn Needs Sequels]] [[ Paid Stories 2018-2022]]

[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

A heartbroken fashion designer escapes to Tokyo to be an assistant on a movie set, only to get caught up in an illicit, whirlwind romance with the lead actor. ***** After discovering her fiance is cheating on her, heiress and fashion designer Lily Porter is whisked away to Tokyo to help a production company adapt one of her great-aunt's novels. She isn't thrilled about lying about being her aunt's assistant until it throws her into the path of the movie's lead actor, who is enough of a distraction to keep her mind off her ex for good. But can there really be a future for them when their relationship is built on lies, false identities, and a secret engagement? [[Wattys' Longlisted]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

*Excerpt. Full Story Available only on Inkitt.* Camry Saldana, a 27-year-old housewife, is trying to move on with her life after her husband, Carlos Saldana, leaves her without notice. Camry is left to pick up the pieces of a life she never planned. She decides to pursue her dreams of fashion design and owning her own boutique in an attempt to distract herself from the man that she loves but hates the most. When her dreams seem impossible to accomplish, Terry Gates, an aerospace mogul, gives her a helping hand out of the kindness of his heart. They develop a great business partnership and friendship which is often confused as something more by their friends and family, perhaps themselves too. Camry is adjusting well to her new life, friendships, and success until her estranged husband decides to come back, hoping he can salvage what's left of their marriage. She isn't sure of his motives and finds it difficult to let go of all the pain he caused her. As Camry tries to do the right thing, she learns a hard lesson about resentment, forgiveness, and love. Intended Audience: Adult (18+) ⚠️Mature themes⚠️

This story is like slow food. If you don't enjoy slow-cooked meals, you might want to move on to another story. But if that's not the case... Second, set between Barcelona and Seoul, follows Cheong Sara, a Korean engineer raised in Spain who has spent her entire life feeling like she doesn't fully belong anywhere. At thirty, successful but emotionally detached, she returns to South Korea for the first time in a decade, hoping to reconnect with the roots she lost. But Seoul doesn't give her the answers she expects. Instead, she meets Nari, a woman who has rejected the life Sara's parents once fled... and Seon-woo, a reserved publishing CEO whose perfect life hides a quiet emptiness. What begins as a search for identity slowly turns into something deeper-an unexpected journey of love, memory, and second chances. As Sara moves between Barcelona and Seoul, she is forced to confront the parts of herself she has long avoided. Through her relationships and the lives of those around her-each struggling with ambition, illness, intimacy, and family-she begins to understand that becoming someone new often means facing who you used to be. Second is a contemporary emotional romance about identity, distance, and the fragile process of rebuilding yourself in your thirties. It is a story about second chances, quiet resilience, and the invisible threads that tie us to the places and people we try to leave behind.

One childhood wish. Two lives forever intertwined. ​Seven-year-old Park Jeong-min lives in the high-pressure shadow of Busan, while across the world, Kimya survives the rising violence of war in Congo DRC. Through a pen-pal exchange involving a pair of sneakers and a wax bracelet, the two form a unique bond and share a secret: they periodically swap bodies. As the years pass, they navigate each other's worldsㅡone a sanctuary of safety but suffocating expectations, the other breathtaking but scarred by relentless violence. At fifteen, a spiritual intervention severs their psychic link, trapping one in isolation, the other in constant peril. Years later, still haunted by Kimya's fate, Jeong-min becomes a doctor and volunteers in the DRC, risking his life to find her. Meanwhile, Kimya, now alone in a foreign country, battles unfamiliar customs as she searches for him in Korea. ​No longer children dreaming of escape, they are survivors seeking the only person who truly knows their souls.

In the neon-colored capital planet of Chigu, Karel enters the school believing she has to prove the worthiness of humans to the empire as a whole. However, just as we all think of ourselves as the "main character" of the universe, Karel is not the only new student dealing with this life changing transition. She is joined by Francis, a tall lanky alien dealing with the pressures of living up to his culture's high expectations for him. Also, Nichol, an artful and highly intelligent alien girl whose innate scientific skills fit well with her family's expectations, but conflict with her own personal aspirations. Finally, there is Kenny, the handsome athletic type alien whose flirty and confident exterior is hiding the dread he feels over the role he plays in his culture's competitive examination systems. Oh, and there is a space dog named... Space Dog. He was named by a bunch of 14 year-olds on their first day of school, so not too surprising. I heard one class named theirs "Pupper-nickle." While initially having very little in common, all four must band together to form a detective and mystery club in order to solve the case of Principal Hobbs' attempted assassination. Along the way, they learn how to deal with their own feelings of anxiety about their roles in society, relate to other cultures, understand the international relations of different peoples and civilizations, find love, and try to turn in their report on Earth history on time. Yes, even with an investigation going on, they still have homework to do. They are not raising slackers at this galactic imperial military high school, I will have you know.

In the bustling port city of Busan, seven-year-old Park Jeong-min is drowning in the silence of his father's death. Half a world away, in the emerald forests of the DRC, Kimya watches the horizon for the smoke of a civil war she is too young to understand. Linked by a simple pen-pal exchangeㅡ a pair of white sneakers for a wax cloth braceletㅡthe two children share a desperate, whispered wish: to be anyone else. ​Then, they wake up in each other's skin. ​The magical escape becomes a lifelong haunting. At seven, ten, and fourteen, the swap yanks them across continents into each other's trauma. Jeong-min learns survival in a war zone; Kimya navigates South Korea's academic pressures. ​When a violent spiritual intervention at age fifteen severs their connection. The swaps end. Jeong-min is left in Seoul, haunted by Kimya trapped in a conflict he can no longer see. ​Driven by a debt he cannot name, Jeong-min builds a life of cold, medical precision, hoping to find her through the very systems that keep them apart. From the high-stakes world of a Korean medical residency to the front lines of a global refugee crisis, he is looking for his phantom limb. ​Jeong Min doesn't know Kimya is searching for him, too. #onc 2026 main prompt: 29 prompt mix: 73 #blackhistory #history #koreanhistory #worldheritage

No one survives a fall like that... but Nadia did. The price? Her soul is now intertwined with Sammuramat, a millennia-old queen whose secrets run as deep as her power. As Nadia struggles to make sense of the strange abilities and fractured memories, both her own and those of the ancient entity dwelling within her, she is dragged into a world hidden from human eyes. There, a sinister and notorious religious order is hunting down girls just like her for a dark, hidden purpose. Hunted and with no one left to trust, Nadia fights back and eventually finding refuge among others known as "Vessels." Now, she must decide if her soul belongs to her alone, or to a destiny that transcends her.

When first love's flame flickers out, can it be rekindled? Set against the vibrant backdrop of South Africa, this heart-wrenching tale follows two souls who dared to love in the halls of high school, only to be torn apart by betrayal and heartbreak. But fate has a way of rewriting the past. A year later, they find themselves reunited on university grounds, their embers still glowing. Will their love rise from the ashes, or will the scars of the past forever define their future?

Thandie waits for a husband who vanishes on a business trip. As if an eggshell in her life's batter wasn't enough, she's served divorce papers, only to discover the trip masked a secret wedding in Lagos. With four children and a looming mortgage, Thandie reluctantly takes a second job. Life couldn't be sour until Thandie's sister enrolls her on Oppo, an app that only matches opposites without her consent. Of all possible matches, Oppo pairs Thandie with Callum, a local bakery owner. For Thandie, their connection feels like a glitch, but for Callum, secretly smitten with Thandie, it's a gift. Can the man who crafts sweet confections tempt the woman whose heart has forgotten desire? Let's see if they discover the perfect recipe. WARNING This story does not contain: - Mil/Billionaires - Fast cars - Hidden Prince - Sexy muscled whatever Characters are 30+ years old.

The novel tells the story of a Muslim girl who lives among the painful memories of her deceased father, until her mother decides to change their place of residence to a neighborhood where a Christian family lives. There, she becomes acquainted with a Christian boy who is completely opposite to her in behavior and thinking. The turning point of the story begins with a school project, in which they decide to search for common ground between their religions instead of the differences. The story is a long journey of the pain of separation, changing beliefs, and the struggle to achieve dreams, until they finally meet again by chance after many years as two doctors.

When a cursed bangle binds Sea Drifter Ninnette to a dangerous demon, she only has three days to break the curse before it claims her life. °:•.🪸.•:° Ninnette is a Sea Drifter with the power to command water, dredging shipwrecks, and salvaging lost treasure. When she braves a sunken ship no one else dares to dive, she finds a strange clockwork bangle that binds her to an ancient curse and to the infuriating Kazi, a demon who leaves destruction wherever he goes. The moment the bangle is activated, they are hunted by a secret order led by a relentless Priestess who believes the armlet is a key to something far greater than treasure. But the true danger isn't the order. It isn't the demon Kazi. It's the curse. When Ninnette puts on the bangle, a countdown begins. If she doesn't break the curse in three days, she will die like every wearer before her. °:•.🪸.•:° She commands the sea. He is a demon who has lived for centuries. They are both bound by a curse. Only three days to survive. °:•.🪸.•:° Set in a Maritime Steampunk world, and inspired by Filipino cultures, from Spanish influence to the seafaring Sama-Bajau. This story weaves dangerous magic, high stakes, and heart-aching romance. °:•.🪸.•:° ONC 2025 Honorable Mention Round 1 Winner Round 2 Ambassador Pick Round 3 Ambassador Pick °:•.🪸.•:° Romantasy High Fantasy Fantasy Adventure SciFi Steampunk Fantasci Young Adult

UPDATES WEEKLY!! ___________________________________________ (cue soft piano melody...) 13 different girls... 13 different personalities... 1 shared destiny... When fate brings thirteen of them together under the shabby roof of the old, two-storey building, a place held together by cracked walls, borrowed dreams, and hope taped back up with stubborn belief, no one expects history to forge there. It wasn't meant to be a palace... It wasn't meant to be perfect... But within those narrow rooms echoed laughter too loud, dreams too big, and hearts too bruised to give up. They came with different languages, different scars, different reasons for staying... And yet, every night, beneath flickering lights and unfinished ceilings, they learned the same lesson... "Dreams don't need grandeur to grow... They only need warrior souls willing to fight for them..." (piano melody speeds up...) This is not a story about instant success. It's about scraped knees, ripped trousers, missed notes, silent tears, and unstoppable resilience. It's about turning chaos into harmony, struggle into strength, and thirteen broken paths into one unshakable, unstoppable road. (melody reaches its peak...) From that forgotten building, rose a rebellion... Not loud at first... Not perfect... But undeniable... This is the story of REB13TH... This is the story about REBIRTH... But, before we begin, let me warn y'all... This story won't make your heart flutter in love... It will wrench your guts out, flood your apartment with tears, but by the end, will feed you home-cooked meals, and wrap you in warm blankets... So, keep the tissues handy, cause it's REB13TH TIME!!! (melody fades away... slowly... softly...)

"Where every law has a cost... and every cost has a name." Fynn Balagtas thought graduation day would be the end of something ordinary. Instead, it became the beginning of something he was never meant to notice. An acceptance email arrives - clean, precise, almost too quiet for something that claims to be from a prestigious academy. No interviews. No warnings. No explanation. Just an invitation. To the Hall of the Nine Seals. A school hidden within Kuzura - an isolated modern kingdom where ritual is law, magic is structure, and reality bends under rules most people never learn exist. There, students are divided into the Fivefold Path: Offense. Defense. Mobility. Life. Entertainment. And something else... something that is not spoken of. Shūshiki. The forbidden art no one officially acknowledges -but everyone quietly avoids. Fynn enters thinking it is just an elite institution with impossible standards. But the academy doesn't choose students. It recognizes them. And something in Fynn... doesn't behave like the rest. Alongside him are others: Asmi Wijaya, who trusts only control - because losing it once cost her too much. Cheon Ji-won, who believes everything in the world can be solved if properly defined. And countless others who will either become allies... or consequences. At the center of it all stands the Hall itself. Nine laws. Nine Sealbearers. Nine truths that hold reality together. And one Headmistress who is addressed not by name - but by authority alone. Her Authority. Tokoyaki Theuri. She does not guide students openly. She does not intervene without reason. And she certainly does not tolerate ignorance of the rules. Because in Kuzura, even knowledge has a price. And every exam is more than a test. It is a judgment. "Follow the laws. Understand the seals. And whatever you do... do not ask about Shūshiki."

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.

For Noor-ul-Ayn, high school is a movie she's not starring in. Content being a 10th-grade introvert with average grades, she secretly crushes on the confidently popular head boy, Hamdan-the real protagonist. She's fine watching his story from the sidelines. But her script flips when Hamdan notices her. Suddenly thrust into the spotlight, Noor finds herself caught between Hamdan's methodical pursuit and Omer Hussain, a brilliant goofy transfer student with a carefree charm. A quiet rivalry ignites, challenging everything Hamdan values and forcing Noor to step out of the shadows. "You were the defining moment of my teenage years-bitter, but undeniably sweet." This is a story about that first, breathless crush, the sweet ache of first love, and the devastating, beautiful mistakes that shape us. But as hidden traumas and a ruthless family ultimatum emerge, the 'found family' they built begins to fracture. In a world of devastated souls, will their bond be the anchor that saves them-or the storm that breaks them? Dive into their tangled lives and find out. (❁'◡'❁)Come lets goooo...............

Bayek Patterson turns sixteen under the same gray Aberdeen sky he's known his whole life. Youngest of four brothers, drummer in a rock band, colorblind, loud, loyal, and impossible to keep out of trouble, Bayek has never had much interest in being quiet. His house is always full of noise: brothers arguing, Uncle Finch appearing without warning, his dad grading art projects at the kitchen table, his mom trying to keep everyone alive, and rain tapping steadily against the windows. Bayek knows who he is. Mostly. He knows he loves music. He knows Grub, his pet rat, is the only creature in the house with any real sense. He knows his brothers would torment him, defend him, embarrass him, and spoil him all in the same hour. He knows Aberdeen is small, wet, familiar, and impossible to escape even when he wants to. But sixteen has a way of making everything feel louder. The future. Family. Music. Love. The parts of yourself you inherit, and the parts you have to make on your own. For Bayek Patterson, growing up doesn't arrive like a revelation. It arrives like rain. And probably with someone yelling downstairs.

Five years ago, Hitesh traded the golden sunsets of Newport Beach for a suitcase and a dream, leaving behind a shattered heart and a strained relationship with his mother. Now, the beautiful game is calling him home. Hitesh is about to sign his first professional contract with Newport Blaze, and while the stadium lights are bright, the ghosts of his past are a little brighter. This isn't just about the 90 minutes on the pitch; it's about the life he left in the midfield. The playbook for a new beginning was set in motion. Every sprint and every goal for the Newport Blaze is a step closer to his ultimate north star, playing under the lights at Anfield for Liverpool FC. On the home front, with no more oceans between them, Hitesh is ready to sub back into his mother's life, trading long-distance static for Sunday dinners and much-needed healing. And returning to Newport Beach makes one thing clear, it's only a matter of time before he crosses paths with the girl who once broke his heart. So will it be a red card moment, or the start of a legendary comeback? With a whistle in his ear and the Southern California breeze at his back, Hitesh is realizing that sometimes you have to return to where you started to finally move forward. It's going to be a season of high stakes, beachside banter, and the kind of goals that happen off the scoreboard.

It's been 500 years since the last tsunami. The next one is 300 years overdue. No way it's my fault, right?