Survivor Stories

When a deadly disease ravages the town of Holmsley, Frankie and her friends find themselves trapped inside a military-blockaded quarantine zone. ***** A story that was first published in 2014 and feels more relevant than ever. Fifteen-year-old Frankie and her friends must find their way out of quarantine if they want to survive. As the body count rises, Frankie realizes that this is no ordinary quarantine and no one is coming to help. Once infected, the sick become crazed and violent, while fear turns other survivors to savages. And who or what are the mysterious figures Frankie keeps seeing around town? It seems she'll have to unravel the dark truth behind it all if she wants to get out alive... Content and/or trigger warning: This story describes disease outbreaks and contains scenes of violence, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

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She swears she hates him. He's convinced he hates her more. But when secrets, lies, and late-night whispers begin to blur the line between enemies and something they wouldn't even consider, neither of them is ready for what's coming. *** Aliana is loud, impulsive, and dangerously unpredictable. She lies when she's scared, smiles when she's breaking, and keeps everyone away with her endless sarcasm and sharp tongue. She doesn't need anyone. Especially not him. Ali is silent storms and cold stares. The boy with the bad reputation, a past no one talks about, and a temper that makes people flinch. He wants nothing to do with drama, especially when it wears red lipstick and calls him names. They can't stand each other. So why do they keep ending up alone in the same room? Why does every fight feel like foreplay? And why does hating him hurt more than it should? ~~~~~~ He kisses me, again and again, raw and consuming, and then pulls away; I can feel his green eyes piercing my soul. "What you told me last time, say it again," he whimpers breathlessly. "What?" I manage to ask, confused, and reel him in again for another kiss. He pulls back again, his breath hot against my skin. "That you hate me, tell me that you hate me." "I hate you," I tell him almost instantly, the lie burning on my tongue. He kisses me harder and more hungrily, and the words slip out again from my tongue: "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." His murmurs deepen into groans, and at this exact moment, I ask myself how I'm still standing, still breathing, still present. ~~~~~~

Xenia has spent her whole life chasing one dream: standing on the biggest stage in the world, an Oscar in her hands. But before the fame, before the spotlight, there was a moment that changed everything. Years later, as she finally gets closer to the life she always wanted, Xenia begins to realise something she never expected maybe the dream she's been chasing... isn't the one that matters most. ----------- !disclaimer! This story unfolds in two intertwined realities later on, so don't get confused!

Pieces of Me: A Collection of True Stories By Makeida Williams Some testimonies are shouted from the pulpit. Mine were whispered through tears. Pieces of Me is a collection of true stories about the moments that changed my life forever. These aren't perfect endings-they're raw conversations between me and God during my hardest seasons. Inside, you'll walk with me through grief, miscarriage, infertility, diabetes, anxiety, a heart attack, sepsis, kidney failure, dialysis, and amputation. You'll meet the woman who questioned, cried, laughed, got angry, and sometimes sat in silence wondering if God was still listening. You'll also meet the God who never left. Stories like The Funeral Nobody Came To and But God... We Talked About This reveal what faith looks like when life doesn't go as planned-honest, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, always real. People ask how I still trust God after everything. My question is simple: How could I not? When the rooms grew quiet... When answers didn't come... When I had to learn a new way to live... It was still just me and God. This isn't about perfect faith. It's about holding on when your hands are shaking and discovering that sometimes God doesn't remove the storm-He holds you through it. Each story includes reflection, scripture, a Coffee with Keida moment, a Sticky Note Quote, and a prayer-because these stories aren't just meant to be read, but carried with you. These are the broken pieces of my life. Together, they became the woman I'm still becoming. Welcome to Pieces of Me

" her sister recently died. nobody in her family forgotten it nor made maley forget it, in fact. they blamed her for it. they all believe she's the cause of it, they beat her. Mentally.. but also Physically, at the same time. she blames herself also for the death, not believing anyone who says otherwise. she doesn't know some day and some guy will show up, which however will literally change her life.. ,,

A pokemon gets lost in a forest with no way Home but just as they almost give up another pokemon comes and saves the day

2:22am. That was the exact time you took your last breath. Your blood dripping from my fingertips, the smell of your Versace cologne wafting in the air and your dull and now lifeless body on our once snow white carpeted floor. I dropped to my knees, my eyes stinging with salty tears as I immediately went to taste your lips for what I refused to believe would be the last time that I would feel you. I gripped your body as tight as I could. Almost as tight as your hands would find their way around my neck most days, cutting off my air supply ever so often, and having my heart skip a beat in my aching chest. I put my ear to your heart, hoping I would hear a faint skip like my own, but I found myself met with the flattest of all tones. Wishing it was me instead of you who was lying there, beautiful and still. I was the one who deserved to die. Not even for what I had done- but for all the things I had thought about doing to you one day, if I had the opportunity. And now, there I was. I hated myself for it. But you had left me no choice. This was the only choice you had ever given me. In 16 years, 192 months, 5844 days, 140160 hours, and 8415360 minutes- this was the first and only time that I could make a decision about how something was going to go, how something was going to play out. How my life was going to be. 2:22. Somehow, I just knew in that moment, I was in the right place at the right time. Dedication goes wholeheartedly to any and all domestic violence victims, especially those closest to me. ❥ ©Copyright KeKe Biddle 2022-2026

Arden's move to Switzerland is supposed to be a simple reset-until a single encounter shatters everything she thought she understood about her new life. Suddenly surrounded by strangers who speak in secrets, nothing makes sense as she's pushed to step into someone else's shadow. Drawn into a hidden network where truth is a weapon and names are disposable, she is forced to wear a life that isn't hers to uncover a threat she cannot see. But the deeper she goes, the more one question haunts her: Was she chosen... or was she never meant to escape?

Book 1: When The World Died (The Beginning Of The End) The world didn't end with a bang. It rotted. One second, everything was normal. The next-everything collapsed. Death came fast. What followed came faster. The dead didn't stay dead. They kept moving. And they didn't stop. December Hayes was never meant to survive a world like this-soft, untrained, unprepared. But survival doesn't care who you used to be. It strips you down and forces you to become something else. Saved by a stranger who trusts no one and trained like a weapon just to stay alive, December is thrown into a reality where hesitation gets you killed-and mercy can be more brutal than death. Because out there, the infected aren't the only monsters. And sometimes, the most dangerous thing in the world... is still human. --- © All Rights Reserved 2026

Ella-Mint Wraith is a small girl in district ten. When she is reaped in the 73rd annual hunger games and she walks into the arena her opponents think she will be an easy kill, but Ella isn't just the quiet girl, she hides a sharp edge and is willing to use it to cut deep. She becomes known for her quiet odd demeanor. Will the ghost girl make it out of the arena? And if she does will she ever really leave the games? *UNEDITED*

Thorn does not believe in being saved. She believes in exits. In locked doors. In silence. In keeping her head down, her hands busy, and her past buried so deep no one thinks to look for it. After a month of failed job interviews, Thorn walks into the Rosewood Lounge for one reason only: tea. She does not expect the crooked job sign in the window. She does not expect Noah Thornwood, all chaos, charm and impossible warmth. She does not expect Elias Thornwood, all control, sharp edges and quiet protection. And she definitely does not expect a non-alcoholic café-bar full of people who somehow notice too much, ask too many questions, and make far too much room for a woman who has spent her whole life trying not to need anyone. Thorn is brilliant, guarded, exhausted and terrifyingly calm. She is a bartender who does not drink, an artist who hides her work, a woman with chronic pain, old grief, and a history no one at Rosewood could ever imagine. But Rosewood has its own way of loving people. Through tea. Through food. Through ridiculous theories. Through late-night shifts, handmade blankets, found family, and the kind of loyalty Thorn has never trusted enough to want. The longer she stays, the harder it becomes to pretend she is only an employee. Because Noah sees the loneliness she hides behind sarcasm. Elias sees the pain she refuses to name. Zara knows the girl beneath the armour. And slowly, painfully, Thorn starts to learn that family is not always blood. Sometimes family is the people who save you a seat. Sometimes it is the people who stay. And sometimes, after years of surviving alone, there is finally room for one more.

Callum O'Brinnan has one goal: rugby. As captain of St. Finian's rugby team, Callum's life is planned out-win matches, go pro, stay focused. He doesn't do distractions, and he definitely doesn't do complicated girls. Then he crashes into Caoimhe Walsh in a school hallway. Sharp-tongued, beautiful, impossible to read, and carrying far more responsibility than anyone her age should, Caoimhe becomes impossible for him to ignore. The more Callum is pulled into her world, the more he realises the girl everyone thinks has everything under control is barely holding herself together. At school, Caoimhe is confident and untouchable. At home, she's raising her siblings while trying to survive parents who are slowly destroying both themselves and their family. And no matter how hard she tries to push Callum away- he keeps coming back. But loving someone isn't always enough to save them. Especially when they don't believe they deserve to be saved at all.

Hallie Bennett has spent her entire life pretending everything is fine. As a first-year counselor at Camp Cedar Creek, she finally gets six weeks to be someone else, a girl who spends her days chasing campers through the woods, laughing too loudly around campfires, and falling into lakes often enough to become a running joke. For the first time, she feels free. Then she meets Joey Sullivan. A fellow counselor with a sharp tongue, a guarded heart, and scars of his own, Joey makes it difficult for Hallie to keep hiding behind her smile. The closer they become, the harder it is to ignore the truth they've both spent years running from. Because some secrets don't stay buried forever. And some summers don't just change your life. They save it.

The bittersweet love between a soldier and a nurse during World War I. *Some things in this story are made up or completely fiction. I did my research on most things to make it as accurate as possible.* *If I make any mistakes on history or anything please do let me know, it would be much appreciated.*

Kristen returns to Pancaya Island, only to find that neither the island nor the people she left behind are as she remembers. Time and hardship have changed everyone, including herself. As Ariel grows close to Trevor, a charismatic young man who represents the possibility of a new future, Kristen struggles to reconcile the life she imagined with the reality before her. Their friendship is tested as old wounds resurface and long-buried ghosts of the past demand to be faced. Haunted by feelings of loss and displacement, Kristen becomes convinced that Ariel has replaced her, forcing both of them to confront how much they have changed since their time apart. As new challenges threaten the fragile peace they have found, Kristen and Ariel must come to terms with the people they once were and the people they have become. In a story about growth, forgiveness, and belonging, they learn that returning home is not about reclaiming the past, but accepting that some things must change in order to move forward.

|ONC 2026| AMBASSADOR'S PICK - ROUND 2 QUALIFIER - ROUND THREE QUALIFIER - ROUND TWO QUALIFIER - ROUND ONE ------------------------------------------------------ When Terra is doomed, humanity's final hope is sent into the unknown aboard a vessel meant to carry life beyond extinction. But humanity's future falls to those who were never meant to hold it. Unintentionally trapped aboard the ship, Derrin Muely becomes a silent witness to the unraveling of humanity's last survivors, forced to watch as fear, ambition, and control drive them to destroy one another. Left alone in the vast quiet of space, Derrin turns inward. Through fragments of memory and reflection, he confronts a life spent searching for purpose, measuring his worth, and fearing failure, only to find that meaning may never have been something to discover at all. At the edge of existence, with no one left to see him, Derrin must face a final question: If life has no audience, no legacy, and no greater purpose, what does it mean to keep living?

Woodsboro. A quiet little town tucked away in California. Well... Semi-quiet. The kind of place where everybody knows everybody, gossip spreads faster than wildfire, and teenagers spend Friday nights looking for trouble because there ain't much else to do. But all it takes is one bad apple to spoil the bunch. Twenty-six years ago, Woodsboro belonged to a monster. A serial killer hidden behind a pig mask stalked the town in the early seventies, leaving behind bodies, blood, and enough nightmares to last generations. Eventually, they caught him. Buried him. Closed the book. Or so everyone thought. Because when people start turning up dead twenty-six years later, the town begins whispering the same question: What if he never died? Everyone remembers the Woodsboro Murders. The masked killer. The blood. The survivors. What nobody knows is that this time... They're chasing a ghost. Every clue points back to a dead man. Every rumor feeds the legend. Every terrified citizen is too busy looking backward to notice the monsters standing right in front of them. And somewhere in the middle of it all is Elizabeth Prescott. The sweet cousin of Sidney Prescott. The cheer captain. The girl who always smiles. The girl who remembers birthdays, helps strangers, and seems far too kind to have a cruel bone in her body. When Elizabeth was fourteen, she and her mother fled to Woodsboro to escape an abusive father. They settled on the outskirts of town, in a lonely house surrounded by acres of woods and empty land. Their closest neighbor happened to be the Macher family, though "close" was a generous term when miles of dirt roads and towering trees separated each property. It was quiet out there. Safe. Or at least it was supposed to be. Because everybody has secrets. Some are just better at hiding them. The question is: What happens when the wrong people survive? An Alternate Ending to Scream (1996) Who lives? Who dies? And who gets away with murder?

September 26, 2019. "Utopia Purgatorium"-the oppressive declaration from the Philippines' government which is a state of suspended laws for six months wherein the police and other emergency services are grounded in order to "purify" the country. The political chaos becomes personal to nineteen-year-old Ella, who is a nursing student, when an atrocious school shooting takes away her fellow students and even her childhood best friend. With the authorities now defunct, there will be no help for her. Ella survives through sheer luck and violence, and meets Gabriel-a sarcastically mysterious looter who has sinister reasons of his own. Involuntarily joining his gang called The Bandits, Ella learns the harsh realities of life while surviving in a nation without any laws alongside mercenaries, and learns the grim techniques of the extraction trade.

"He already spent three, you only get one 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚." After a long trail of advice from your parents, you finally made it to Robloxia alone, but ready with your only friend Jane by your side and enough bux to survive. You decide it's time to leave your old café job behind. The future resides in your path... and better pay too. Came to DuskLine Store, you work as a store associate with a simple job---stocking shelves. It's not glamorous, but it's yours to keep within. You see new faces, new places, and one mysterious Robloxian who doesn't quite seem... alive -or so you thought. (Art and chapters in progress...!)