Womanhood Stories

The women in my family were never soft enough for life to spare them. They survived things they rarely spoke about. Pain they carried quietly. Love that hurt them. Responsibilities that forced them to grow too early. Moments that changed them forever. And somehow... they still kept going. My mother. My aunts. My grandmother. Even us girls growing into women now. Different personalities. Different lives. Different wounds. But connected by one thing: Survival. We are not a perfect family. We argue. Drift apart. Misunderstand each other. Carry silent pain in different ways. But when life happens... real life.. we still find our way back to one another somehow. Because in families like ours, the love never fully leaves.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm just a character wandering around in this giant world-just trying to get by while everything moves past me. Lily isn't just lost on the crowded city streets, watching the buses rush past. She's lost in her own life. As the daughter nobody wanted, she spends her days hoping to find a face that won't judge her for once, a place she can finally call home. Is she always going to feel like a stranger in her own story, or is she ready to meet the person she's been searching for all along-herself? I held onto these memories in silence for years. They're like shards of broken glass from my childhood-sharp and painful, but now I'm finally brave enough to pick them up.

"A woman is taught to carry tradition long before she learns to carry herself." In the heart of a society built upon honor, ritual, and silence, women are worshipped as goddesses yet raised within invisible boundaries they are never meant to question. मर्यादा follows the lives of women who inherit obedience like heirlooms passed from mothers to daughters through lullabies, customs, and fear disguised as virtue. Beneath the beauty of sindoor, silk, temples, and sacred traditions lies a quieter truth: the weight of expectations carried for generations. Through poetic prose and emotionally layered storytelling, मर्यादा explores the fragile line between devotion and confinement, dignity and suppression, love and control. It is not merely a story about women suffering under patriarchy, it is about the ways society teaches them to romanticize their own sacrifice. Haunting, intimate, and deeply rooted in cultural reality, मर्यादा is a reflection of every silence inherited in the name of honor.

This story is a reflection-of choices, consequences, and the heavy inheritances life sometimes leaves behind. It is not meant to glorify pain, nor to justify the paths we take when we are lost or searching for comfort. Within these pages, you will meet a young woman (Nabila) shaped by her parents' decisions, by circumstances beyond her control, and by her own curiosity about the world around her. She makes mistakes. She seeks solace in ways that may shock or surprise you. But at its heart, this is a story about survival, self-discovery, and the complicated legacies we inherit from those who came before us. To the reader: be gentle with yourself as you journey alongside her. Life can be messy, inheritance can be painful, and choices can carry heavy consequences. How we respond to these challenges is what defines us. Thank you for stepping into this story, for witnessing her journey. May it remind you of the weight of legacy, the complexity of human emotion, and the resilience that lies in unexpected places. - Radiyat

Ink, Grief, and Other Inheritances is a haunting collection of poems about love, loss, womanhood, trauma, longing, and survival. Through raw confessions and lyrical storytelling, JBD explores the wounds people carry, the tenderness the world often rejects, and the fragile ways we learn to keep living despite it all. These poems bleed with grief, ache with memory, and still reach for hope in the darkest corners of being human.

These are short stories that are full of emotion and are funny. I hope you enjoy a sneak peak to my crumbling life ;) Welcome home! Please comment a red heart if you can relate! xoxo

The Juris Files is a curated archive of poems - part confession, part indictment, part elegy. Each piece is a case file of the heart: cataloguing love, loss, betrayal, rage, ambition, and the slow, silent wars women wage against the world and themselves. This is a collection for the ones who feel too much, speak too little, and never stop noticing. I present to you, the reader, the evidence.

Kristy isn't fond of Lacey's idea of supporting women. Disclaimer - I don't own Baby-Sitter's Club 2020.

For the women in life. You inspire me.

a young woman's daily short & longforms

A compilation of poetry about women, and women empowerment and women self acceptance. ✨️

"She withdrew her sword and smirked in appraisal to the familar shrill noise that occured, knowing she was not alone in the urge for blood and wrath. She was not alone because she knew by that noise, the unsheathed instrument would always be there by her side. They were a team in destruction and peril, together as one, joined by the desire to inhale the sweet iron stench that escaped life."

Rosalie is sure she is pregnant and could not be happier, but Leroy isn't so sure and is less than thrilled

Mina Pendergast lives a quiet life with her foster parents in a small town in England. On her sixteenth birthday she gets her first period and over the days that follow her life becomes more and more un-normal as she discovers the mystical powers that have lain dormant within her until now. But having magical powers does not make her life easier - if anything they turn it completely upside down! Confiding in a kind and clever teacher (who has a few secrets of her own...) Mina embarks on a journey to discover the truth of powers, her parents and her own mysterious past, learning that everything is infinitely connected. PS. She's also gay. But like, so are lots of people. This story isn't really about that.

First scene of a re-write of the infamous And Just Like That SATC reboot, where the ladies get together and realise that they have grown apart. Let me know if you like it and I can write more :)

'The World as I Know It' is a selection of poetry that tread the line between girlhood and womanhood, exploring the complexities of age, feminity, and loss of innocence.

Egodi - a young girl with desires alien to her people. She is caught up with the reality of her world and made to choose between what's acceptable and what's unknown. It's a battle of being more than she knows. Will she win this battle? Will the status quo be changed?

From childhood to adulthood, Aisha has learned that the world has rules-some written, some unspoken, and some etched into the fabric of society, restricting where she can go, what she can do, and how she is perceived. Whether it's at home, in school, or at work, she faces subtle and blatant discrimination that shapes her path. But within those invisible lines, she finds moments of resistance, small rebellions that define who she truly is. This is her story-a quiet yet powerful reflection on the reality of being a woman in a world that still fights her existence in ways both seen and unseen.

Two college students confront the way of life while reaching out to their sexualities, feelings, the first and last acts of adolescence, and the beginnings and realities of adulthood. While this work of fiction pilots friendship, familial love, betrayal, pride, and self-redemption, it also leads the readers back to the well known 'unconditional love' for the families that we save for ourselves, as we are met by the love we ought to receive from our own kith and kins that comes with a great yet disturbing revelation. A novel about curing hunger without opening the mouth. ━━━━━━━━ Original Fiction Genre: Young Adult Fiction Sapphic / WLW Photo by Kseniya Vashchenko Copyright EST. 2023 by satricain