Womanhood Stories

Every season leaves its mark. This poetry collection explores the rhythms of womanhood-the monthly cycles that shape the body, the emotions that accompany love, and the traditions that guide marriage. Through intimate and reflective poems, it tells a story of change, connection, and finding one's place between personal dreams and family expectations.

Thandie waits for a husband who vanishes on a business trip. As if an eggshell in her life's batter wasn't enough, she's served divorce papers, only to discover the trip masked a secret wedding in Lagos. With four children and a looming mortgage, Thandie reluctantly takes a second job. Life couldn't be sour until Thandie's sister enrolls her on Oppo, an app that only matches opposites without her consent. Of all possible matches, Oppo pairs Thandie with Callum, a local bakery owner. For Thandie, their connection feels like a glitch, but for Callum, secretly smitten with Thandie, it's a gift. Can the man who crafts sweet confections tempt the woman whose heart has forgotten desire? Let's see if they discover the perfect recipe. WARNING This story does not contain: - Mil/Billionaires - Fast cars - Hidden Prince - Sexy muscled whatever Characters are 30+ years old.

I wish for many of us to see beyond what meets the eye and understand more than what we think we know. This piece is my hope-that others might feel the same way, and capture what I'm trying to say beneath the surface.

Unlike the Yagyaseni whom we praise, our Yagyaseni wasn't a princess. She was the daughter of a drunkard, born to emancipate sufferers.

Kuthumi has rejected an unfavorable arranged marriage and disgraces her family and her village. She goes into the woods to try to make a new life for herself. After days of wandering, Kuthumi comes upon a beautiful palace, rising like an oasis out of the forests. The Lord of the Palce, Khrishna, sends his servant to invite her in. Very shortly, Kuthumi learns that not only is she a guest, she is allowed to live for as long as she wants in the beautiful palace. To make things even better, she has been assigned a handsome companion, Bopala, to make sure she is never lonely and to introduce her to a whole new life.

She thought she was building businesses. She was building freedom. From losing her father at six and spending part of her childhood in an orphanage, to becoming a mother, wife and serial entrepreneur, she learned early that security wasn't something she could simply expect. It was something she had to build. So she did. Business after business. Plan after plan. Reinvention after reinvention. But behind the sales, spreadsheets, motherhood, marriage, financial pressure and endless calculations was a question she wouldn't understand until much later: What was she really working so hard for? The Life I'm Building is an honest, funny and deeply personal memoir about survival, ambition, motherhood, money, faith, disappointment and the complicated pursuit of independence. It isn't the story of someone who had everything figured out. It's the story of a woman who kept figuring it out. Because not everything worked. But she did.

「 WATTYS 2019 WINNER 」 the failings of a surgically healed heart, is a series of autobiographical poems arranged into six thematic parts to form a collection which examines the idea of the collective and how that informs individual. i. family an exploration of my relationship with the men and boys in my household and how that has worsened, whilst the opposite is true of the rest of my family ii. immigrant an exploration of the immigrant experience and how as the first child of igbo parents; i was the intermediate between the east and west iii. spirituality an exploration of growing up in the catholic faith and an examination of all its faults and hypocrisies. iv. loving an exploration of friendship, artistry, sexuality, failed romance, but most importantly self-love and all it entails. v. womanhood an exploration of how in many ways puberty was a bitter sweet reality check along with everything that it entailed. vi. catharsis a reflection on the worst period of time in my life where, with hindsight, i come to terms with harsh and lovely realities of life and death.

Experiencing womanhood in society

a compilation of poems completed in 2021. My goal was to keep writing in hopes my words will resonate with someone and soothe the confusion and harm that will inevitably exist. It captures the rawness of heartbreak, the layers of betrayal, the emotional turmoil of one's twenties along with the highs and lows, and discovering what it means to travel to the depths oneself with acceptance and compassion.

Chen LiYu from LanMeng province is very lucky to find her true love. Just before their wedding, she is abducted and sold as a Concubine. She joins the court of king YingZheng, from the State of Qin. As she tries to find her place and peace at the court of this young and ambitious king, paranoid takes over the life of YingZheng. And while his dark spirits drag him down, he tries to take Li with him. (I'm still in the process of translating the original version) -This is a true story that took place in the third century B.C. in what would become China. All important political characters have existed. Only Li Yu and her family are invented by me as a form of storytellers. Please note that English is my third language. If mistakes are made, feel free to let me know. The original story is made by me in Dutch first with now having 15K reads on that first version.

When I look at my former self, I still can't believe what I have been through to be what I'm now. Perfect or imperfect, i wouldn't change a thing from my past as it carved me into someone that majority only wish to be. Today I have everything, that I once used to dream of; family, love, care, laughter, prosperity, promising future and a home. Yes! Home, a place of my own that I can call HOME. Where I live and be myself. But was it always like this before? Had everything been so admirable ever? This is a story about a woman, who lived different harsh phases of life but she never gave up. She stood for herself and took control of her life by opposing social norms. From where I stand and see, she's connected to all of us in a way. She somehow mirror, ups and downs of every women I see. P.s I will try to add some Urdu, but roman English and Urdu typing is not my forte like many other wonderful writers I came across with.

A guide into hectic life's of independence, beauty, depression, anxiety, fear, loneliness, love, lust, destruction, women hood, abusive relationships, gays, rape, trust, transgenders, religion, self discovery, resent, distance, family issues and every other fucked up thing someone may go through.

What kind of trouble would Ceil Phantomhive get into if he was reincarnated into the 21st century? Probably a lot of unexplainable chaos! And not just because he came back as the opposite gender! What of Sebbastian and his worrying curse of becoming a charming little boy during daylight? Follow Cecelia as she discovers her past life and encounters the new enemy, intent on seperating her from her demon butler. The quirky cast of Kuroshitsuji seem to all have been brought back to life, they just haven't awakened yet! (Kuroshitsuji fanfic, DemitriXCecelia[SebbyXCeil])

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.

A "coming of age" compliation of stories and an outburst of feelings. It is a love letter to girls who have aspirations outside their suffocating hometown. Our narrator navigates womanhood and rejects conformity at any cost. We explore her existential crises as she is exploring different parts of herself in different places. We witness a great deal of love, reckless living, misfourtune, and adventure through the lens of a girl becoming a woman.

This is inspired by the Barbie movie. This is the Barbie in the Dreamhouse characters. This story is about Barbie and Stacie waking up and their feelings about being a woman.

Some of us stayed too long. Some of us called it fate. Some of us taught ourselves not to know the difference between being chosen and being convenient. This is a collection about the love I accepted before I understood what I deserved. It is about the staying, the lying to myself, the slow and painful process of seeing clearly. It is not a love story. It is the story of what I had to unlearn to find one.

a statue. Maybe a young woman. Maybe a loving madam. Maybe a deadly hermit.