Growing Stories

Every summer, Julian's parents put him on a plane to Sicily. Every September, they brought him back. In the hill town of Santa Caterina Villarmosa, he wandered the streets alone at nine years old, watched old men in the piazza understand something about living that he couldn't yet name, and learned from his grandmother's hands that love was something you made with care and placed in front of people and trusted them to feel. Then he came home to Beachmont, to the kitchen table rules, to the Sicilian immigrant household where feelings were liabilities and appearances were everything, and the boy who knew the difference spent the next twenty years forgetting it.

He wasn't the smartest, the richest, or the most popular. He was just Ayaan - an ordinary boy in a chaotic home, a Delhi colony, and a life that never quite fit right. This is not a story about a hero. This is a story about growing up - one grade, one heartbreak, one quiet realisation at a time.

How does it feel for one person not get the life they deserved? Luna grows into maturity at such a young age and it's hard for her to enjoy her life when so many things are happening at once for her. School and home was not her safe space, so what can be her safe space be? or Who?

Some conversations slowly turn into promises. But life moves forward. Careers begin. Cities change people. And sometimes love doesn't end... it simply changes shape. The Last Bench is a quiet story about ambition, timing, and the spaces we leave open for the people who once walked beside us. Set between college classrooms and the realities of growing up, it follows two people who meet by chance, grow together, and slowly learn that love is not always about staying - sometimes it is about becoming.

Kim Seokjin is a world renowned actor, he is the most demanded and highest paid actor in all of Seoul. There are several people claiming to be his love but every single one is shut down with defamation charges. One thing Seokjin hates is liars and that too about relationships because he doesn't do them! Jeon Jungkook is a small town flower shop worker, completing his studies but not having the financial support to go and work in a big place he chooses to make ends meet doing something he enjoys. He is awestruck when it comes to romance, reading every book possible because where he lives there is no such thing as television. So what will happen when the actor's mother becomes starstruck with the flower shop boy and urges an alliance? Will Seokjin be able to accept Jungkook? Will jugkoook be able to adjust to his new life? Read to find out how Jungkook faces every obstacle after moving for marriage and how Seokjin saves him every single time! Main ship - JINKOOK Side ship - VHOPEMON & YOONMIN I (J)hope you like my story! If not I don't care don't read xox Started: 12/07/24 Ended:

A poetry anthopolgy about my life

A combination of 26 symbols on the many shades of my descent into madness. (the later ones are the most recent, the ones at the start are from when I was about 15 or so. I was relatively poor at writing poetry back then; 'backwards questions' was my first poem ever I think. However, I will not delete them. At some point if I ever want to professionally publish my work, I will filter out the ones that are too immature and poorly written. But for now, they stay)

When Kimberly moves to New York state she's a bundle of nerves as she battles her anxiety. She quickly makes new friends with Carol Seaver and Mallory Keaton though. Without meaning to she also becomes best friends with Carol's older brother, Mike. As time goes on will their friendship ever become something more, or will it become a matter of what could've been. Find out in "Show Me That Smile."

Back when Andrew Biersack first put the 'Black Veil Brides' band together, he called upon a favour from a good friend of his to whom he had promised that, some day, he would repay that favour. Today would be the day that he would be even with that friend, or as even as she saw fit. As even as she needed it to be.

I believe that a book doesn't become beautiful because of it's highly complicated words. But it becomes beautiful when it is simple and can make you connect with yourself.. This book of poems "Thirty Little Thoughts" is written in the most simplest language but has embedded in it the most complicated emotions. It contains a set of 30 poems on very simple topics in a very simple language which might even touch your soul. Do read it to know yourself a little more. Hurray!! I've finally published all the 30 poems ;) Enjoy!

Marcus arrives at yet another job interview, bracing himself for disappointment. Surrounded by confident, well-dressed candidates who seem to glide effortlessly through life, he feels out of place and invisible. The room reeks of wealth, connections, and opportunity-things he doesn't have. As names are called and others move ahead, Marcus struggles to keep hope alive. Each rejection chips away at him, his certificates and hard work feeling meaningless. When the man in the suit finally announces that the company has found the candidate they were looking for, Marcus' frustration boils over. He pleads, begs, and clings to the man in desperation, but is met with cold dismissal and humiliation. By the end of the chapter, Marcus is left alone in the rain, shivering and soaked, facing the harsh reality of a world that seems indifferent to his effort, dreams, and suffering. This opening sets the tone for a story about resilience, societal injustice, and the emotional weight of repeated failure.

Anela Morgenstern, young and strong, was raised in the Mafia. She knew that she wasn't born in the Mafia but has the thirst to prove that she was meant to have a part in a world so hidden but also very dangerous. She believes that she is strong enough to be an important asset to her family, but when she takes on a case, unexpected truths are revealed about her past that she was too young to remember. When she discovers that her real parents were killed in order to keep a secret safe, a secret that could very well destroy Mafia families, she turns her back on the world she so wanted to be apart of and hopes to destroy it, killing anyone responsible for her parents death. Through her heartless journey in discovering the truth she meets Octavius, a young man who makes her heart beat faster but also helps her feel like her real self again. (Updated version! Hope you like it better!)

A collection of my poetry. Some old, some new.

Amiya is dealing with struggles in her life and trying to find herself.

Calie is an ordinary girl from Texas, but after her suddent move to New York she meets these two brothers Levi and Leo and they are not so ordinary.

This is a project I started just 2 days ago. Now in the place there is a ton of life. Let's see what's in it!

Diana had large imaginations when she was little. It was hard to tell what was real but at her age she had fully believed it. It was a way to comfort herself In a quiet life environment. Now Diana is an adult. Her life is not all rainbows and sunshine but a secluded office job much like her home besides the reliance of her imaginary friends. When she visits San Diego to see her family for summer she encounters someone who resembles a particular imaginary friend of hers as a kid; Mud boy Chris. She heavily Denys any idea of trying to get to know him, however his connections with her family made it hard to avoid. Suddenly her imagination began to grow again and inspiration through love and hope creates confidence for a dream.

THE true story of Ted Bundy, one of America's most charismatic Lawyers...who stalked college girls and killed them. A gripping, dramatic book that lifts the lid on a time when no one was safe...and how Bundy became as notorious as Charles Manson, Ed Gein, Albert DeSalvo, and other murderers whose crimes shocked the World. The new crime novel saga by Robert Helliger, author of "The JFK Files". Rated PG-13 for strong violence, sex scenes/references, some coarse language, and strong, adult themes. Warning: FOR READERS 13 YEARS AND OVER.

3 BOOK SERIES PUT INTO ONE BOOK Genevieve has been alone for most of her life but her life changed when she accidentally attacked one of the male wolves from the pack, she didn't know she was living in, which happened to be one of the strongest and most dangerous packs in history. She soon discovers that she has a kind of power which a turned wolf shouldn't have. She can't figure out why or how and her new Alpha seemed keen to find out. To do this she must look into her past and the legends from werewolf history. Her wolf leads her to an old legend prophecy which she is told she needs to fulfil before the Omega Moon. If she doesn't, it will cost her her life. But little does she know how much the world is relying on her survival. **(This story has evolved as I've grown. It doesn't start off as good as I would like but it reminds me of how much I've changed as I've grown older. Please forgive the childlike storytelling at the start, I can't bring myself to change it. I hope the better written chapters later on help make up for it! :) -Shay7447)**