Novelette Stories

As the gears of fate move like clockwork, who can turn back time? Even if it could be done, this would only postpone the inevitable. Destiny is said to drive everyone forward, but faith as small as a mustard seed can throw a clog in the machine. And when a young woman's future seems sealed, she'll stand on providence. Achievements~ 🏅Added to the Loving Life|Spiritual reading list by newlywrittenbooks 10/06/25 🏅Added to Novelettes reading list by ShortStory 01/04/26

At what point do scientific advancements become unethical? Is the opportunity for an easier life worth more than the one who gave it? The intelligence of the brain is a great strength, but the weakness of the heart is a person's biggest downfall. When grief clouds judgment, it threatens to drag many to the depths of hell. The apple of one young man's eye might be among the crowd, even against her will. Regardless of the odds, he won't rest until he sees her smile. Achievements~ 🏅 Added to Dystopocalypse reading list by @ScienceFiction 05/11/26 🏅Round three Ambys 2025 qualifier 🥇In the short story category for the 2025 Turtle Awards

When a viral podcast clip convinces millions of strangers that former co-hosts Kennedy Martin and Stella Montgomery were secretly in love, the ex-girlfriends reunite for a comeback episode. ***** Two years ago, Kennedy Martin lost both her girlfriend and her podcast in one fell swoop. Since then, she's avoided thinking about either. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans. When an old clip from Where Were You When goes viral and an article is posted, fans become obsessed all over again with the chemistry between Kennedy and her former co-host, Stella Montgomery. Everyone demands a reunion, including a digital media production company willing to pay for one last episode. Kennedy agrees--but definitely because she misses Stella. Why Stella is on board with it, though, is beyond her. As old memories resurface and late-night planning sessions become harder to avoid and even harder to end, Kennedy realizes that the story she's been telling herself about the demise of the relationship might not be true. While their relationship began with a misunderstanding, it might also have ended because of one. Now, with an impending reunion and rehashed feelings, Kennedy and Stella have one last chance to finally get it right. ***** © 2026 caterina george // all rights reserved

Sometimes, the strongest hearts are the hardest to understand. Shainah has never been one to follow the crowd. Fiercely independent, stubborn to a fault, and determined to live life on her own terms, she earned the nickname Sarfira-the girl who refuses to bend. When her elder sister's sudden disappearance throws her family into chaos, Shainah steps into a storm she never expected, setting off a chain of events that changes her life forever. What she never anticipated was Ahmad. A man once briefly involved with her elder sister-now standing before her with a proposal that shakes everything she thought she understood about love, loyalty, and family. His patience and sincerity slowly challenge her guarded heart... but his past with her sister becomes a shadow neither of them can ignore. Just when happiness begins to feel real, a misunderstanding on their introduction day shatters everything. Convinced she has been betrayed, Shainah walks away from the man who truly loves her-only to later discover that the truth was never what it seemed. Will she find the courage to trust again... or will the weight of the past and one painful mistake cost them the future they were meant to share? A story of love, family, sacrifice, forgiveness, and second chances.

Genevieve, Raoul and Christine's niece, and Philippe and La Sorelli's daughter, feels the restrictions placed on girls in Bourgeoisie society until Christine, against Raoul's wishes, takes six-year-old Genevieve to the Paris Opera Ballet, where she sees a Dancer En Travesty and feels an empathy, a powerful connection, which she doesn't put into words...

It has been Chaitra's lifelong dream to spend her summer on a Mediterranean cruise with her family. That dream turns into a nightmare when Chaitra washes up in 1800s China after a tsunami floods the ship. And so begins a series of crazy, unexpected and life changing adventures. *** Written for the "Shiver Me Timbers" contest *** Cover by @raizelrose3

Eldan Rovalen, the youngest child in the prominent family of nature fairies, is the only one left without an innate ability manifesting. As the date for his passage grows near, pressures from all sides increase. What happens when an abandoned kitten appears and wreaks havoc―literally and figuratively―into Eldan's life that's already planned out? Spin-off made in celebration of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢's 5-Year Anniversary. Part of the AUXPR2023 cluster of works. ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2023 (First Edition) [10,000 - 15,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby]

What if the Princess... had to go save the knight? Ashber and Lavinia have been best friends since childhood... until their teen years, when they had to start focusing on their different duties to the kingdom, they started to grow apart. Now, Ashber as a knight and Lavinia as the Crown Princess, the two of them may as well be strangers. Ashber is promoted to a senior seargeant of the knight's brigades. Lavinia is training to become Queen of the kingdom once she comes of age. but they are both bored of their jobs, Ashber desperate for a break, and Lavinia thirsty for adventure. Until Ashber is taken hostage by an enemy. This presents adventure-crazy Lavinia with an opportunity. she decides to run off by herself - escape the kingdom and save her childhood friend. Now, the roles are reversed. Now the Princess has to save the knight. THE PRINCESS IN SHINING ARMOUR Cover image: from Pinterest

The Complex promised order. It promised survival. It promised to keep families together. Separated from her family after she is flagged for a medical issue, a woman crosses the ash-covered landscape of America to find her family and reunite with them. But as she draws closer, she begins to understand that unity comes at a price, and that sometimes getting what you want means losing the part of yourself that made it worth wanting. *** I hope you all enjoy this story. I have published this before, but after reading it through, I realized it needed a major overhaul. This story is about loss, longing, and the price one pays to get what they think they want, only to realize that circumstances have changed. -Aria

A Fictional Memoir of the tradition of a woman playing Peter Pan, which helped me think through my Gender. This NeroQueer Retellung is appropriate for readers 10 and up, because kids have the RIGHT to read Queer Literature! Since an "Actress" is assumed to be a woman, and Peter Pan is a boy, there is Misgendering in this fanfiction. It was in the tags, but I want to put a clear Trigger Waning. Also, Trigger Warning for the racial slur that calls Indigenous People "Red." I have thoughts... Credit for the Fairy Genders goes to J.M. Barrie My portrayal of Tiger Lily is Anti-Colonial Through a Disability Justice lens. To Sondra Lee, who played Tiger Lily, and saved my life To Lerisssa Fasthorse, who justly restored my lost dignity To Adolph Green, who taught me what makes a monter and what makes a man, is complicated To Jerome Robbins, who challenged my intellect and morality And of course to Mary Martin, who taught me about the "Unusal things you can do"

Rachel my dear, my angel died. She killed herself thinking I died. Now I hear her voice screaming at me, hallucinations of roses and blood. Will Fae and Fallon help me before I descend into my darkest thoughts! [WARNING: SUICIDE, DEATH, BLOOD, SUGGESTIVE THEMES(I think), MENTION OF CHILD ABUSE] And there is absolutely no swear words. This is one shot took me 6-7 hours from 6:30 pm to 4 am one shot no stop, not even dinner. I'm tired as heck. It's 7609 words.

This is a story about unconventional individuals. It might seem somewhat funny that a word whose root and etymology derive from "indivisible" ends with "dual". This reflects the very chaotic and uncertain nature of all things. The individuals depicted here often struggled to face, embrace, or accept their own duality. This is a story about travels. One could ask which story is not, and that would be a very fair question. So let me rephrase: this is a story about unexpected travels. The kind where the destination is unknown, the outcome unpredictable, and the events uncertain. It is also a story about flying away. Flying away deeper and further into the silky comfort of a blank yet doubtful future, which can only be better than the mistakes of the past. Why do people start travelling? There are as many answers as there are individuals, if not twice as much. A dichotomy between the various reasons easily emerges, even though they often combine into a weird blend: necessity or desire, compassion or revenge, regrets or hope. I often remember the story of my friend E. as he used to tell me, before he was driven away by his own obsessions. - Updated weekly

Andra knows better than to get caught up in Zach's games. He's charming, persistent, and far too dangerous for her heart. But the more she pushes him away, the harder he tries to pull her in. What starts as playful banter soon turns into something neither of them can ignore. Because when the chase turns reckless, one is bound to trip, and the other is bound to fall.

The world is ending, and Thea Jackson needs to head south before the Ice Age begins if she wants to survive, but she's trapped in her apartment under house arrest. If she tries to leave her apartment, the implant in her shoulder will make her heart explode, meaning she's trapped in a room that is about to become icebound. When her boyfriend, William Devlin appears to take her to safety, she has to choose between him and survival. William doesn't know she's a criminal, but if she wants to get out of here, she's going to have to admit to her crimes.

This is a book with short stories (about 2000-7500 words) it will be about everything that I literly can come up with. You can also leave requests if you want.

Some things lost in the giving can still be found again. Miriam Alderton has spent thirty-one years doing everything right: raising children, loving a husband, and tending a garden that is the finest in the county. Now, at fifty-eight, with the house quiet and her children grown and gone, she stands in her lavender field and asks herself a question she doesn't quite know how to answer: Who am I, outside of everything I have done and everyone I have loved? Saoirse is a single mother, a translator, and a woman who has traveled far to find a slower pace of life. She arrives in the little village of Hathwell with her daughter Nell, too many books, and the quiet exhaustion of someone who has poured every ounce of herself into one beloved person-and is only now realizing she has lost the thread of her own identity somewhere along the way. Together, amidst shared mornings, garden rows, and cups of tea gone slightly cold, two women who have both been quietly lost begin, at last, to find their way back to themselves. The Lavender Between Us is a gentle, luminous story about motherhood, friendship, and healing-and the beautiful truth that it is never too late to remember who you are, and who you are still becoming.

In a small town where the devil sets up shop, Mr. Lewis, makes a deal with a cost far darker than he imagined. As his family falls prey to an abomination, he must face the grotesque monster born of his guilt or risk losing them, and himself, forever. A chilling, Faustian gothic tale of obsession, sacrifice, and the horrors we invite when we seek to avoid our shadows.

James Blanchard, a talented yet introverted graphic designer, finds solace and inspiration in the online art community. One evening, he encounters Isabella Morton, a fellow artist whose shared passions and deep conversations reignite a spark in his life. As their virtual friendship blossoms into something more, James begins to open up, sharing both his creative visions and professional challenges. With each message, Isabella seems to understand James in a way no one else ever has, offering encouragement and support that motivates him to excel in his work. As James becomes increasingly vulnerable, he dreams of a future where their digital connection becomes a real-world relationship. In this compelling tale of love and self-discovery, James's journey highlights the profound connections that can form in the digital age. As secrets unfold and true intentions are revealed, James must navigate the delicate balance between trust and betrayal, all while confronting his own inner conflicts. "Digital Game" explores the hidden truths that lie beneath the surface of online interactions and the emotional rollercoaster of finding genuine connection in a virtual world. Will James find the courage to trust again, and can he overcome the challenges that threaten to shatter his newfound happiness?

Life is normal for Ruby in the pretty, rural jungle. She plays with her sister. She helps her mother cook. But her heart weighs heavy with grief when a deadly virus plagues her father, forcing her to go hunting without him. ​Hope seems lost, and Ruby shuns all beckons that Jesus is good, even when her sister finds a mysterious book about him. But when her father's condition worsens, she finds herself on a mission to find an American doctor abiding in a tree fort. The trek is difficult. Wildlife isn't helping. Ruby and her sister are chased by angry gorillas who seem to be upset she killed one of theirs. To make matters worse, a raging river and sucking mud is dividing them from their destination. Ruby's sister becomes her top priority when a deadly anaconda separates the two. And even though she tries to ignore it, someone seems to be watching them. Protecting them. Maybe her doubts about Jesus were wrong. And maybe she needs him more than she thinks. Especially, if he can help her survive the jungle and get the medicine back home.