Twentysomething Stories

This book is a raw, reflective journey through fear, self awareness, faith, and healing. Told through quiet moments, spontaneous drives, music, and inner dialogue, it explores what it means to sit with discomfort instead of fighting it and to slowly learn self compassion. Blending personal experience with spirituality, autism, and mental health, the author reflects on how fear can shift from a burden to a guide, and how presence, honesty, and small perspective changes can lead to meaningful growth. This is not a story of perfection or instant healing, but of learning to move forward gently, imperfectly, and with faith.

If we're the adults, then where did all the kids go? A story about young people figuring life out. #1 black poetry [08152021] #1 blacklit [08162021]

They drunk themselves through university, graduated to London... and found themselves fated to the same dire ineptitude of wearing a name badge and wanting to die.

A conversation between me and myself. As I go through my regular run-of-the-mill life I come across instances, the mundane to rarely even exciting, when I stop and steal me away from 'the now' to go to a secluded place in my head where I rendezvous with myself. Reflection. Introspection. Self-exploration. Nonsensical babble. P.S. At least one chapter may be dramatically dark. It's just that when you talk to yourself you don't have to add that extra drop of cheeriness just to seem okay. Writing in a state of high emotions makes things seem intense. But I am perfectly okay. As okay as I can be. :-)

Katie is the ultimate planner, with a carefully created life plan, when she grows up she'll have it all: law career, husband, house and kids. On her boyfriend Mark's thirtieth birthday, he proposes. Except he drops a bombshell, he's bored and leaves on a gap year, without her. Katie wonders if she can plan zest into her life without going abroad, after all, she's on the Partner Track Program at a top-notch law firm and can't just leave. Yet she's always wanted to go skydiving, enter a karaoke competition and she surely could squeeze excitement in as well as achieve her law ambitions. But Dan, a work colleague who lives life by the seat of his pants, believes she's going about things all wrong. It's spontaneity she's missing. Even the greatest plan can go fundamentally wrong in love and at work. Katie can plan to love someone forever, but sometimes that someone doesn't plan to love you back. Sometimes careers can become derailed and even go off track. Can Katie learn to let go because sometimes life needs to be lived in the moment? #NaNoWriMo2020

Nora Murphy is a young, ambitious woman who has just moved to New York City to start a new job as the marketing manager for Buzz Hackers, an independent record label and media company. She is determined to make a fresh start in her life and leave behind her past mistakes. However, her first day on the job doesn't go as planned.

A book filled with poetry by a tortured poet, till her ink bled.

Set in modern day London, If Only opens with its central character, Olivia, making a pretty bold statement - "Women are delusional." Starting from age four, Olivia then begins to dissect her past failed relationships in order to finally discourage herself from believing in Hollywood style romances. Writing with brutal honesty, she reminisces over her first loves, one night stands, online dating history, the short affair she had with an ACTUAL millionaire, and finally the so-called love of her life, who has just walked out on her. Each chapter represents another phase in her life and another failed attempt at securing a movie worthy love story. Throughout the journey, the reader is privy to Olivia's views on life as a millennial, homosexuality, friendships, ambition, body confidence, and ultimately, love.

Eight twentysomethings navigating careers, relationships, and life's unexpected chaos across Washington D.C's diverse neighborhoods.

Life as a 20 year old. Is it fleetingly freeing or detrimental to your very existence?

A random collection of my poems

And so it begins. The classic coming of age story about a twentysomething girl, finding her way in the city. After graduating (with an Arts degree- questionable choice, but we'll learn about that later) she finds a one bedroom apartment and she buys a cat. Life is sweet. She's a living, breathing, cat-hugging cliche of a single girl. To many people that's how it looks from the outside, that's about as interesting as it gets, and maybe, that's even where the story ends. But that girl is me, and unless I am a total wet blanket, I think we both know thats hardly all there is to tell. The more you get to know people, the more you learn that almost no-one is living their life like it appears from the outside. I'm going to tell you what its really like to be a twentysomething, to live alone, dabble in online dating, attempt to navigate my first functional relationship, work for the boss from hell, and try to find my feet in "this economy". Come on, you know what I mean. But before we can even get to that part of the story, you have to understand how the story begins. So here goes nothing...

1st Place in the Doughnut Awards for Short Story 🍩 | 3rd place in the Midnight Coffee Awards for General Fiction ☕️| Kate, a recent college grad, has to navigate the gig economy in Los Angeles and maintain her sanity, in order to not go broke, get arrested, or end up in jail. Looking for direction, she takes a chance and puts her trust in the universe. But the universe works in bizarre ways, and Kate finds herself knee deep in the competitive trenches of a donut shop war. A Note from the Author: Donut Fiend is inspired by various employment escapades, unforgettable colleagues, and the juggernaut of retail war. If you like the Devil Wears Prada and Dope, then you may like Donut Fiend too. ~absinthesipper

The year is 2025. 20-year-old Dolly Diamond is about to enter her third year of university, determined to turn her life around and to get away from her Mum, Martine, her sisters, Emily and Alice, and their flat in a rundown council estate. But then, something unexpected happens-and turns everything upside down. As it turns out, perhaps Dolly isn't so different from her mother after all... (Fanfiction of Diamond Girls by Jacqueline Wilson).

No offense, but the mind is a swirling circus of events that has nothing to do with the present moment, and I'm addicted to my phone. I think there's something inherently offensive about writing a book before you're 30, but I'm 28, and I've saved money all my life by giving the gift of gab. So, I've written a book I can only imagine I'll look back in hindsight on as annoying. As an adult with a psychiatric file thick enough to be considered literature, I've navigated everything from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient therapy, from self-harm and eating disorders to personality and mood disorders. I have been studied, treated, labeled, and relabeled. And yet, the simplest truth remains: I've never quite fit in. This is a memoir of sorts. Not because I believe my life is important-it isn't-but because I have an unfortunate tendency to overshare and a compulsive need to make sense of things out loud before they disappear from my brain entirely. If you've ever felt like a ghost in your own life, a whisper between the lines, an unreliable narrator to your own unraveling-perhaps you'll find a flicker of yourself in these pages. A thread to tug, a warped mirror to peer into, or simply proof that the chaos isn't yours alone.

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart." Lennox Avila is expecting to miss out on the Christmas festivities this year. After last Christmas, she really can't bring herself to face him. With picking up the pieces of her heart, she prays for a peaceful Christmas. Her friends won't let that happen. [ 2018 ]

Sadie knows there's nothing worse than constantly being overlooked. Even now, hundreds of miles away from her small hometown, she's still pining for the approval of her parents and the attention of her brother's best friend. So when the promotion she's worked the better half of her twenties for is given to someone else, she finds herself back in Westfort confronting childhood wounds in hopes of moving on. But the road to healing has never been easy and when old sparks fly between her and Jack Moore, will she finally be seen and loved for who she really is?

Before Charlie passed away at twenty-three, he had one final surprise for his four best friends after his death: a trip to Mexico to relax after their month of grief! The problem? Holly hates Juliette. Juliette hates Noah. Holly wants Noah, but Noah keeps checking out Juliette. And, as always, Jude is hanging at the sidelines, pining over Holly, and trying not to get sunburnt. Once more letters from Charlie are found, it's clear he had an ulterior motive. What was it?