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.

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).

This isn't a story about giving up. It's about the quiet kind of courage, the kind that looks like walking away from something you've worked so hard for because it was slowly breaking you. After months of losing myself to work, burnout, and survival mode, I'm learning to rebuild the life I once loved. I don't have all the answers. I don't have a backup plan. But for the first time in a long time, I'm choosing myself over my comfort zone. Here's to healing, starting over, and trusting that sometimes the scariest decisions become the most life-changing ones. Chapter 29 begins here.

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?

AUTHOR'S NOTE Thank you for taking the time to read my story! If you want to learn more about me and my other books please visit my website, marychrisescobar.com (there's a link in my profile). DESCRIPTION Carolyn’s life has gone pretty much according to plan. She’s followed all the rules. Her star is rising at work, she’s just gotten engaged to an amazing man and she lives in a perfectly decorated apartment. A delayed flight throws her life and plans off schedule. What she learns, stuck overnight in the airport, has her questioning everything and puts her face to face with her own missed connection. Follow twenty-six year old Carolyn’s quarter-life coming-of-age story, the demise of her life as she knows it and the discovery of her own truth. PRAISE FOR DELAYED "I don’t know how Mary Chris Escobar did it, but she basically renewed my faith in the saying, 'Love is lovelier the second time around.'" - coffeebookmom.wordpress.com "The story renews your faith in forgiveness and the power of love." - Amazon review

Welcome to the other side of the mirror...

I was in the supermarket holding a bottle of red wine, pasta, a bunch of tomatoes, chips, and a bar of chocolate, when existential crisis hit me. I was ready to pay and go to my uncle's apartment where I was staying alone as a getaway from major depressive phase. While I was standing in front of the chips aisle with the wine bottle under my arm, I thought "is it adulting?" Going home alone for a movie night with homemade pasta and wine? In the sound of my short and comfortable heels, I felt the glance of adulting shine over me. The glance of light which lived shorter than the light speed. I quickly came back to my reality: What adulting are you talking about? You are 24, unemployed, never worked in your life. You probably will do nothing with your degree. You are in depression, feeling lonely, and shopping with your long-distance husband's money. Do you feel like an adult? Definitely, not. Do you feel like a broken twenty-something in existential crisis? Hell yes!

Ghostbusters meets X-Men in a creepy urban fantasy adventure! "A pocket watch. She bought a pocket watch and it killed her. And I thought how we died was bad." As far as apartments go, roommates Stella and Charlotte "Bronte" believe theirs to be just fine. Sure, they hate taking the stairs up to the third floor, especially after grocery shopping. And yes, the apartment staff could be a bit nicer. But all things considered, it's not a bad place to live. Until the sudden chills begin, seizing them at inexplicable times. Until Bronte starts to see shadows out of the corner of her eye and Stella begins to hear voices too close, sighs too near to be the culprit of paper-thin walls. Century-old ghosts Oliver and Cyril have seen what happens to mortals forced, unknowingly, to spend time in their company. For the unlucky few, their perceptions change, allowing them to perceive the departed. And not everyone, they know, are strong enough to handle living with the dead. Determined to save Stella and Bronte from the fate that befell their last haunting, Oliver and Cyril must find a way to prevent their perceptions from deepening. But when the two ghosts encounter a dark creature unlike any they've seen before, they might have to rethink their plan. The two girls might be the key to saving their afterlives. Not to mention themselves.

Brooke Ferguson had the perfect life. Perfect grades in college, perfect friends in her perfect sorority, and a perfect boyfriend with whom she planned a perfect future. It all came crumbling down when she found out she was pregnant. But the thing that broke her was the death of her mom, the one who had been holding her together through the storm that her life had become. Follow her journey to wholeness as she leaves her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee and heads to central Florida, land of sunny days, home to "the happiest place on earth," in search of peace and a new start. Along the way she finds herself and love... will it last?

A brilliant, emotionally guarded 23 year old graduate with a five-year plan must choose between the stability she's fought for and the unpredictable magic of love , all while trying to build wealth, heal, and stay soft in a hard world.

→ This isn't just a letter. It's the ache you hide in your smile, the truth you whisper only to yourself at night. 🕊 Have you ever written something and kept it hidden, hoping someone might still understand without reading it? It's okay if you don't answer. I just wanted you to feel... seen. --- This book isn't about happy endings. It's about that quiet chaos in your late teens and early twenties- when your smile hides a storm, and you start missing a version of yourself you didn't even know you'd lost. These short stories are about the stage we don't talk about. The sinking. The silent screams. The fragile strength of just getting through. If you've ever felt like you're falling apart silently, this book is for you.

nail-bit·er (noun) 1. a situation causing great anxiety or tension. "a nail-biter of a victory" 2. a person who bites their fingernail

Mandy Halder had everything figured out: a job (that she hated), a promising career path (can you call academia promising?), and a boyfriend (who "just wants different things" now, apparently). So maybe she never had everything figured out, but she did have stability and a steady income, and what more could a twenty-something ask for? After Mandy is unceremoniously fired and left without funding to continue her graduate program, she's left without a plan--possibly for the first time ever. And after her live-in boyfriend makes it clear that he now expects them to move back to his hometown, Mandy realizes that the only place she can go is home. Soon, Mandy finds herself participating in a city-wide scavenger hunt for a hidden rock, surprising herself as she finds more ghosts, old flames, and memories than she ever could have expected--or hoped for. Set against the wild natural beauty of the Las Vegas desert, Rock Bottom reminds us that sometimes not knowing is the best thing to rejoice in, and that sometimes going back is the only way forward.

It's almost hard to grow up in today's day. Almost.

Just a twenty something year olds journey through heartbreak, self discovery, and lots of cranberry vodkas.

For you from me is a compilation of essays that I have written for women creating their own future, navigating the world and all its complexities and just for those of you who may feel like you need someone to connect with, who has gone through the same events and tribulations you may have.

The year started out weird, but things really took a turn for the bizarre when we discovered the Buzzfeed quizzes were coming true. ***** Leela Pendurthi is dog-paddling toward adulthood. Armed with a useless BS in astrophysics and a pretty decent data plan, the recent college graduate's life might be in shambles, but at least she has plenty of time to browse dank memes. Her half-assed attempts to slay the chaos dragon (and catch the attention of a local, possibly-autistic podiatrist) have been going relatively smoothly (relatively is a key word, here), until her best friend Abby points out that every Buzzfeed quiz they've taken seems to actually do what its claim to do. Guess their names? Check. Tell them their favorite 1D songs? Yup. When it becomes apparent that they have a chance to glimpse into their futures, one asinine quiz at a time, Leela and Abby embark on a quest to do the impossible: find date-able boys in their Appalachian hometown. While Leela has her cap set on 'emotional stability' and a '401k' and 'dental', Buzzfeed appears to have an entirely different type of guy lined up for her next boyfriend, AND a one-month deadline to meet her soulmate. But Buzzfeed won't be able to answer Leela's most pressing question: can she date and get dumped by a stoner in time to meet her soulmate in 3 weeks? There's no way her soulmate is going to be a pothead, right? Right? *kinda for grown-ups. there's curse words and weed*

One day a little girl was born and that child's parents died when she was two met a new family and was adopted and changed her life.

A young man acclimates to life in the city and takes a chance by introducing himself to someone new...

just four best friends getting through everyday together, - A SCRIPT FANFICTION - Featuring Jungkook of BTS & Mingyu of Seventeen