Texas Stories

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** When the biker gang calls in a Jake Bryant's debt, he has no choice but to hunt down an old friend by any means necessary and retrieve their stolen drugs, even if it cost him the woman he loves. ***** Time has run out for Jake Bryant. The Devil's Hand motorcycle gang has cashed in the debt he owes them. Jake must hunt down his old friend, Rick, to retrieve the million dollars worth of heroin he stole from the gang. Soon, Jake finds himself double-crossing both Rick and the Devil's Hand, but his true loyalties will be tested when his girlfriend becomes a bargaining chip. After failing the other women in his life, will Jake finally be able to save someone he loves? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Zoe is a teenage girl convicted of a murder she didn't commit, but that doesn't matter in the Arena of Justice. You either win your fights, or you die. ***** Seventeen-year-old Zoe never expected to find herself on the wrong side of the law, but when she's convicted of a murder she didn't commit, she's sentenced to the Arena of Justice - the home of gladiator matches where murderers fight murderers, and every fight ends with a death. Zoe's plan for surviving is simple: ignore the other inmates and fly under the radar until it's time to fight, but that's easier said than done. As hard as she tries to hate those she must kill, Zoe soon befriends the other inmates and falls in love - a deadly proposition when a moment's hesitation can prove fatal. It's up to Zoe to save her life, no matter how hard the system is trying to kill her. [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]

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Marshall was there for the football game, but left with so much more after meeting the granddaughter of the Jones' family. I do not own any pictures used in the story. This story is fictional, but it does follow Eminem's timeline of events as best as possible.

College was supposed to be about classes, grades, and figuring out a future... but for Jimmy, it turns into something a whole lot bigger. An Air Force brat who's spent his life moving from place to place, Jimmy is used to starting over. But this time is different. Between early morning classes, grueling basketball practices, and long shifts working for Coca-Cola and slinging pizzas at Pizza Hut, he's finally trying to build something that lasts. Throw in the chaos of frat pledging-where proving yourself means late nights, loyalty tests, and more than a few questionable decisions-and life gets even more complicated. Somehow, in the middle of it all, there's Marley. From quiet nights on a worn-out couch to dreaming out loud about the future, what they have feels steady in a world that never has been. One minute he's just getting by, and the next he's standing in a jewelry store wondering how to afford a ring... and how to ask a Navy boxer for permission to marry his daughter. But campus life doesn't pause for big moments. Rumors spread, friendships are tested, and everyone seems to be rushing toward something-love, adulthood, or mistakes they can't take back. With every shift, every class, every late-night conversation, Jimmy begins to understand: Growing up isn't one big decision-it's a hundred small ones that shape who you become. Full of humor, heart, and the unforgettable chaos of college life, this fourth installment captures the grind, the friendships, the risks, and the kind of love that makes everything else make sense.

A Texas homicide detective and a former small-town sheriff from Rhode Island become partners in the fight against crime. When a series of murders begins to unfold in Dallas-murders that, at first glance, seem completely unrelated-they are assigned to the case. The only thing linking the victims is a bullet to the head..., and a killer who always stays one step ahead.

Everybody in Dallas knows the name Maddox Buchanan. Golden boy. Champion swimmer. Soccer star. Baseball prodigy. Straight-A student. The kid who somehow does everything perfectly. Born into one of the wealthiest families in Texas, Maddox lives in a waterfront mansion, drives expensive cars, and has a future most people would kill for. With recruiters watching his every move, a beautiful girlfriend who's loved him since childhood, and a family proud of everything he achieves, his life looks untouchable from the outside. But perfection comes with a price. Behind the medals, headlines, and polished smiles, Maddox is exhausted. The pressure to stay on top is crushing him slowly - and when a serious shoulder injury threatens the sports he's built his entire identity around, everything begins to crack. Only a few people notice the truth: his older brother Kyle Buchanan, his girlfriend Kennedy Knight, and the friends who know the version of Maddox nobody else gets to see. Because the scariest part about being the golden boy? Everyone notices when you start falling.

Graham Travis Lincoln built his life around systems that made sense. As Westbridge University's starting quarterback and the nation's leading Heisman candidate, consistency had always been his advantage. Read the defense correctly. Trust the structure. Deliver under pressure. Repeat. Then Elena Marisol Reyes enters his routine quietly enough that Graham almost misses the shift entirely. A Filipina-American journalism student assigned to profile Westbridge football, Elena sees through performance faster than most people can maintain it. Around her, Graham finds something he did not realize he had been searching for: silence without expectation, conversation without strategy, and a version of himself untouched by stadium lights and public mythology. What begins as habit slowly becomes dependence. But emotional certainty arrives long before Graham understands what it means for the life built around him. Because loving Elena does not only threaten reputation. It challenges the identity system that shaped him long before he ever stepped onto a football field. And Elena already knows what happens when someone chooses you privately but hesitates publicly. As football pressure intensifies, media attention sharpens, and future expectations close in around them, Graham is forced to confront a truth more destabilizing than any defense he has ever faced: The relationship was never the unstable part. The unstable part was everything surrounding it.

Nearly everyone is familiar with the adventures of the simulation soldiers from Bloodgulch and the exploits of the agents Carolina, Washington, Maine, Wyoming, Texas, C.T., Florida, and the Dakotas. However, there were plenty of other men and women that made up the ranks of Project Freelancer. These are the tales of those unsung individuals. Credit to u/Wangtimeee for the cover. I do not own Project Freelancer or Red vs Blue. Some characters are my own.

The story of two people that dated in high school in their small Midwest home town. Briefly infatuated with each other, they fell in love. But they broke up when they had a fight. Over the years they lost contact with each other. Never knowing what became of the other. They always thought about each other as the years past in their dreams. They each thought about what might have been. Then one day fate stepped in and by the grace of the Devine, they found each other again in the small Texas town of Medicine Bow. A thousand miles from where they last saw each other! What had happened to the other! They were about to find out! What would fate have in store for them this time? Would Loraine and Steven both find their dream in Texas? You will have to read the story to find out!

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Christopher Laurence Marquez understands systems better than he understands people. As an engineering student newly arriving in Texas, he trusts timing, structure, and observable patterns. Most things can be explained if examined carefully enough. Systems stabilize. Adjustments happen. Life continues. Then orientation week changes direction. What begins as ordinary proximity with Brandon and Blake Hayes - identical twins at the center of Texas football culture - gradually becomes something Christopher cannot fully organize into logic. Brandon moves through the world with immediate momentum. Blake with quiet precision. One expands the atmosphere around him. The other steadies it. Somewhere between them, Christopher finds himself answering faster, staying longer, and noticing them before he means to. The connection does not arrive dramatically. It builds through repetition: shared routines, recognition patterns, quiet reassurance, late-night conversations, and the growing realization that some people begin to feel emotionally familiar before you fully understand why. As football visibility expands across campus and beyond it, Christopher struggles to balance overstimulation, attention, and the terrifying possibility of becoming emotionally reachable inside a world that never seems to slow down. Because Christopher has spent most of his life preparing for eventual distance. But Brandon and Blake keep returning. Again. And again. And again.

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You know, they say life is like a wildflower, blooming wherever beauty is needed. That's at least she used to say, but I don't think any wildflowers will be seen here anymore. Beauty is not what my world has blooming, but rather something ugly like a weed. Olivia is just a twenty-seven-year-old young woman left to figure out the aftermath of losing her mother after years of battling with cancer. She is angry. She is lost. She is mentally a mess. Incomes Briggs, someone who makes her angry in a different way, but is that really what she feels towards him? Will time be on their side?

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Arielle Collins has always felt at home at the Lawrence house-where the fridge is always open, the laughs come easy, and everything feels a little less complicated. Including him. Hunter Lawrence is sarcastic, a little too confident, and way too good at getting under her skin. They've been teasing and flirting like it means nothing for years. Which is fine, it's always been fine. Until it's not. Because somewhere between late nights, football games, and almost-moments, things start to change-and suddenly, it's not so easy to pretend it's nothing. And when feelings get involved, so do consequences. Oh - and did I forget to mention? He's her best friend's twin brother.

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Three brothers. One infamous family. An event that changed the course of their dynamic. The Ferraris are much more than a brand. It's a lifestyle that could indeed get you killed......by your own family

This is the story of how Wilbran came to be their childhood story how brandos inner homophobia came to be and Wilson's side of the story if this gets a lot attention then I'll work on one with brandos pov!! Enjoy

Loralie Crosswell moved to Valley View for her eighth grade year. While there she meets a boy who's oddly good at skateboarding. Colby Madden has lived in Valley View for a year already. His friends convince him to go to school and he meets a girl who's good with baking.