Touchstarved Stories

Evelyn Hart loses her corporate job overnight when her company is acquired-and her department erased like it never existed. With rent due, savings shrinking, and LA swallowing her whole, she applies to a too-perfect listing in the middle of the night: Estate Caretaker - live-in. Discretion required. Excellent compensation. She gets the contract in thirty seconds. No interview. No company name. She signs anyway. A plane ticket arrives minutes later. Eldermoor House waits for her outside Edinburgh-an ancient mansion with modern amenities, a forest that refuses to stay silent, and a black lake called Loch Glass that reflects things that shouldn't be there. Evie tells herself she doesn't believe in ghosts. She's just a modern witch-salt, wards, herbs, rituals. Nothing supernatural. But Eldermoor isn't interested in what she believes. The house has men in it. Three of them. All dead. And all of them want her.

Grace was hired to keep the Winter Soldier stable. Instead, she's waking him up. ​ After secretly swapping his chemical sedatives for real medicine, Grace has turned a mindless weapon into a dangerously aware predator. When a mission spirals into chaos, the "Asset" glitches, choosing to protect his nurse instead of his objectives. ​On the run in the frozen wilderness, Grace realizes her mistake: she woke up the Soldier, and now he's the only thing keeping her alive.

Twenty year old Azaan Khan hates the thought of family. Life has burnt him so many times- he doesn't believe in its tethers. Love was fake. Family was a lie. Life was just meant to walk towards certain death. The world had deemed him insane, then so be it. Insane he was. So when he is found and bound to the family that once lost him- rage fills him, hate pounding in his heart at this lie infront of him. He vows to make them send him back, break the chains they placed around him themselves. Ranveer Rathore goes to find the baby they once lost- he has everything in his palm. Perfect brothers, perfect lineage, perfect company. Just one thing had been missing all these years- his youngest brother lost in a tragedy no one ever recovered. What he finds instead is a boy with a shark like smile, maniacal smile, and a bloody cackle of a laugh Will he be able to love this boy wearing the blood of his brother or is Azaan's insanity, enough to drive them all away? Basically what if a perfectly normal family meets a boy who would leap off a building for fun.

The chapters are really short, so ignore the amount of them! I'm trying something new. How Harry, being something impossible, shook Seattle Grace

This is a pureshadow story, I see the deciet trio as a family so...yeah! And whenever I read pureshadow/puremilk/shadowvanilla where shadow milk like moves in with pv i always wonder what happen to candy apple cookie and black sapphire, so...yeah, first few chapters are gonna be mama shadow milk 😁

Just a bunch of crappy one-shots, written by a touch-starved teenager. :P

Compete short story In a world where Espers fight monsters and Guides keep them sane, Lee Min-jun has a secret. She's the only Guide left alive-and nobody knows. For seventeen years, she's hidden her S-rank abilities, working a quiet desk job at the Hunter Association while Espers slowly go mad from contamination. It's safer this way. Safer to stay invisible than to become the Association's puppet. But when Ethan Cross arrives-an arrogant American S-rank on the verge of going rogue-her carefully constructed life begins to crumble. One accidental touch. One moment of weakness. And now he knows something's different about her. As his contamination spirals and her secret threatens to unravel, Min-jun faces an impossible choice: reveal herself and lose her freedom, or watch the world burn. Some secrets are worth dying for. Some people are worth the risk.

𝘚𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘸-𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘸. Calla has always known she wasn't wanted. Not by her parents. Not by her seven siblings. Not even by the servants who barely acknowledge her. She's used to being ignored, used to being unloved-and used to quietly loving someone who doesn't love her back: her brother's best friend, Kieran Holt. But when he snaps at her in a moment of carelessness, something inside her breaks. Calla begins to fade-stops reaching out, stops speaking, stops trying. And when her body finally gives out from an illness no one even knew she had, her family is forced to face the truth: the sister they all overlooked was slowly disappearing right in front of them. Kieran is the first to realize just how badly he hurt her. And he's determined to earn her trust, her forgiveness... and her heart. Because now that he sees her for who she really is-soft, strong, worthy-he'll never look away again. A heart-shattering, slow-burn brother's best friend romance about trauma, healing, and being loved out loud for the very first time.

Captain Salazar's pride was his downfall. Driven by ego in life, and now revenge in death, he and the crew of the Silent Mary are now muertos vivientes, living dead, coursing with hatred for the Sparrow and the quest for retribution. Now confined in the infamous Devil's Triangle, Salazar and his officers await the day Jack Sparrow betrays the bewitched compass and sets them free so they can once again terrorize the sea, in search of pirate blood. However, as the crew aboard the Silent Mary resign to their doomed existence, they encounter someone, or something, within the triangle. The officers inform Salazar of glimpses of a masked specter, and mysterious whispers of songs that seem like a chorus of souls intoning in unison. What fate lies in store when the ill-fated crew and their Capitán come face to face with another inhabitant of this Hell on Earth? (Cover is not mine) Crossposted from AO3

Life is getting duller without someone there to hold you (I wrote this story after the effects of covid, and I feel like I truly wrote this from the heart)

YREEEE POG

Princess Elowen was raised to be a symbol of peace. Promised to Prince Lucien Ardent, her marriage will unite kingdoms and secure a future written long before she could read her own name. Lucien is adored. Charismatic. Golden. The kingdom sees a love story waiting to happen. But they do not see Anthony Vale. Her shadow. Her shield. The knight who stands behind her throne and watches every hand that dares to touch her. Lucien courts her beneath chandeliers and applause. Anthony says nothing yet somehow his silence feels like a claim. The prince wants her as his queen. The knight wants her as something far more dangerous. And when jealousy sharpens into rivalry, when glances turn into warnings, when restraint begins to fracture Elowen realizes the war threatening the kingdom isn't political. It's personal. Because one man burns for her. And the other would burn the world. Teaser‼️🔥 Anthony Vale has never broken an oath. But when Prince Lucien Ardent's hand lingers at Elowen's waist a second too long, something in the knight shifts. And for the first time since swearing his loyalty- He wonders what it would cost to betray a crown.

A series of Legendborn Oneshots Another dance by happen stance between Selwyn and Briana Matthews

What if letters were not enough? Not notes, texts, calls, chats, games or glances. A cold hearted girl, and an iceier guy trapped in a mental box together If you're into obsession and conflictiom, read this.

two souls, bound to be apart.

A month after he came back, John has almost forgiven Sherlock. So, he decides to visit the detective, but something seems different about him.

They are two halves of a whole, two stars inexorably pulled together by gravity, forever rotating one another, forever caught up in each other's orbit. They are Anakin and Obi-Wan. They are Darth Vader and Ben Kenobi. It doesn't matter. Names mean nothing. Not for them. They should be enemies. They are a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord. And yet... nothing can truly keep them apart. OWK series time travel AU fix-it. NOT VADERWAN!

15 year old Jim lives in a farmhouse just outside of Riverside Iowa with his abusive stepfather Frank. 16 year old Spock moves in next door along with his parents. Frank hates Vulcans and Gays alike. And Spock is betrothed to T'Pring. His family expects them to bond, even though she can't stand him. Even with all of that, Jim and Spock fall for each other before discovering that they are T'hy'la.

Jack, abandoned by his own mother at age of 15...Being raised by his father was hard. He needed the embrace of a motherly love...Developing in a non-good mental state, Jack was sent to ''Corrhey's Mental Hospital'', to treat his motherly issues...Which were affecting mentally...He was sent with a psychologist named Hannan.....

"I'm gonna kill that ghost." Feng Xin mutters under his breath. He shifts onto his hands and knees properly, releasing Mu Qing from his vice grip once the other stops attempting to murder him. It seems that while the two heavenly officials were wandering around Crimson Rain Sought Flower's decadent Paradise Mannor, they happened to stumble into some sort of trap while entering a random room. or While trapped in a tight enclosed space, Feng Xin and Mu Qing come to terms with some deeply hidden feelings. Idk how to write summaries anymore, it's been like 5 years since I last wrote a fic lol. Take the "in the box" trope, but instead of horny it's just deep in the feels but it's not a confession fic. I'll likely add more to this, but for now take it as a one-shot ✌️ this isn't revised so feel free to let me know if there's any mistakes!!