Bipoc Stories

When her office burns down an editor must share a workspace with the most infuriating man alive or risk the promotion she's been working her entire career for. **** Chielozonam 'Elo' Williams is doing great. All things considered. It doesn't matter that the job she loves as editor at PerfectRomance, the publishing imprint she's been working at for the past five years has started to feel more like a chore these days. It doesn't matter that her judgemental father might be right about her wasting her life away by not using her full potential. What really matters is getting her dream promotion and enjoying the prime years of her youth. That is until the unthinkable happens. After Elo's office building burns down overnight she's forced to share an office with the one person that makes her blood boil: Connor Price. Archenemies since their days at college Connor makes getting under her skin an art form. He's brash and rude and irritates her like nobody else can with his scathing looks and contemptible behavior. It's not long before they're locked in a battle of wits, neither willing to back down or give up. When they have to work together to acquire a potentially lucrative manuscript, they are forced to put aside their long-standing animosity for an adventure that will blur the line between hate and desire until neither of them can tell where the fighting ends and the falling begins. PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION meets ANYONE BUT YOU meets THE HATING GAME in this contemporary rom-com about resilience, self-discovery and two sworn enemies who can't tell the difference between wanting to kiss or kill each other. An ONC 2026 story inspired by prompt 40. THIS NOVEL IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD AND INKITT. IF YOU ARE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, PLEASE INFORM THE AUTHOR VIA WATTPAD, AS YOU MAY BE READING FROM A MIRROR SITE WHERE IT HAS BEEN PLAGIARIZED AND YOUR DEVICE MAY BE SUBJECTED TO A MALWARE ATTACK.

Tracy is a small town girl with modest ambitions. She bumps heads with her boss, Duncan, a privileged techie when she gets an internship in San Francisco. The two do not see eye to eye until a surprise business trip to Tracy's hometown gradually turns things around. Or, at least, that's what Duncan thought until Tracy's odd relationship with Winter comes forth. Could twelve days of Winter festivities melt the ice between them?

Astrid spent her life imprisoned by loving parents who feared the world would take her away. So she ran. Straight into the arms of a lonely king who lives alone in a castle full of secrets. Darius offers her warmth, books, and freedom she's never known, but the more time Astrid spends with him, the more she realizes something is terribly wrong. He's everything her parents warned her about, and now she has a choice: remain with something that could kill her, or go back to the prison that her parents built?

After her brother Alfie pretty much runs the Daylight Factory into the ground, Penny Evermore has to leave her top job at Evermore Enterprises HQ to fix this mess. Together with the help of her best friend Sloane Hidaka, local trainee vet Ezra Montero and yes Alfie, they need to turn Daylight bulbs into a hot commodity while rebuilding bridges with the residents of Muckle Rock. But one day, Penny starts receiving bulbs with even more magical properties from a mysterious sender and she must figure out whether it is a threat or a warning. About this series: This is Season 1 of "...at the Daylight Factory". Structured like a TV series but written as short stories, I have 8 episodes and 8 'outtakes'. I'll be uploading these alternately every Friday morning. Grateful for any constructive feedback and if there's interest, I'll get cracking on Seasons 2 - 4! Hope you enjoy this :)

IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, EONS LONG PAST... 'Since time immemorial, the scribes and poets of yore have long sought to keep the memory of their people alive. Through the written histories and recalling of sacred arts, the epic saga of the Osentan nations lives on. A tale of tribulation and triumph. Of jubilant song and immeasurable sorrow...' Written and illustrated by ArtakaWorks. Read the full illustrated version on Patreon (NEW CHAPTERS EVERY WEEK) https://www.patreon.com/artakaworks

you loved them, didn't you? i did too, once. - words from a juvenile heart, too young to have been torn in this way. (poems about love, heartbreak, and acceptance. for anyone that's still hurting: maybe we can heal together).

a list of face claims~

The situation for First Nations children is incredibly discriminatory, unfair, unequal, and deeply traumatic. First Nations kids don't get adequate social services, get unequal social services, are sometimes denied healthcare, their schools are underfunded, and kids are being separated from their families. Which is traumatic. Participate in this communal action so that they stop being discriminated against. Read on to find out more.

When she deeply yearned for someone...

Was Diane sexually assaulted in a public bathroom? Or is she just racist? The world may never know.

Short story about a boy, an old man, and what is seen. Written in 2014.

━━━ 얼굴 주장 ❛ FACE CLAIMS ❜ in which i, marley, give you face claims for your books! 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚂: 𝙾𝙽𝙶𝙾𝙸𝙽𝙶 © -𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙰𝚆𝙱𝙴𝚁𝚁𝚈𝙵𝙰𝚁𝙼

She felt like she was drowning, the desperation to reach the top but heavy weights on her feet not allowing so. She didn't know what happened after she gave up, everything went black, and the last thing she heard after the beeping went away were the screams of the people around her. How can everything go wrong in a mere second? one second she was chatting with her friends, and next she was being eaten by this ugly-looking zombie. Yes, that's what they were, zombies. Everything used to be fine.

Lilith "Lili" Fenn Lives in the conservative town of Sunny Creek, with her overbearing Gran. Cryptid whisperer. Breaker of mirrors. Too powerful for her own good. And just may be the key in a war between Heaven and Hell-while trying to survive being 17...and falling in love for the first time.

"Did you think this through, Keomi?" he questioned. I watched him pace around me like some sort of predator, most typical for his kind. "You'll end up most like your mother you know?" The clock ticked. "Maybe even better." The clock ticked. I looked up at him. He stopped his pacing and leaned forward, placing his hands on my knees, narrowing his eyes. "I repeat, did you think this through Keomi?" I narrowed my light brown eyes right back at him, tight smile. "I thought everything through. Did you?" The clock chimed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Holding onto hopes of the future becomes less and less within reach when days tick by with no change. Keomi constantly takes the brunt of this stagnancy, being the middle child that never had the time to live out her dreams. That is until she finds one of her closest companions dead in her home. Until she no longer knows who she can trust within her own circle. Until she finally decides to face the forces that have kept her down for so long. How much can she can get done in such little time? And, will the change even be worth it?

A dermatologist with vitiligo discovers her demisexual identity while juggling fake dating, a tangled love triangle, and family pressure to marry-forcing her to choose between conformity and self-acceptance in conservative Bengali society. When Aaheli Chatterjee jets off to Vietnam, to avoid arranged marriage and nosy aunties, a fake dating pact with charming Ayan spirals into something dangerously real. But love gets messy-especially when she faces backlash from Ayan's family and growing feelings for her best friend Tara makes her question her sexuality. Back home, family pressure, viral videos, and a rising queer campaign test everything. In a society where scars run deeper than skin and queerness isn't easily labeled, can Aaheli choose love without losing herself?

A young cult member realizes the danger her organization poses, and must choose between love and community. Imani has been a student at Vespers International for almost a year, sequestered away on a private property near Florida's eastern coast. Surrounded by hundreds of acres of wilderness and cut off from the rest of the world, Imani learns to conform to the strict religious culture and accept the teachings of the cult she belongs to. But when her love for another student chips away at the foundations of her faith, Imani begins to pull at the threads of the Vespers' way of life - and discovers the organization's terrible true purpose. As she fights to see past the lies she's been told and the constructed world of Vespers International falls away, Imani must find a way to escape the insidious group and save as many of her fellow students as possible.

When the opportunity for the role of soloist arises at the National Ballet, Natalya Noble knows she has to push her limits and audition. Determined to surpass the exceeding amount of family pressures placed on her, she decides to routinely practice every night at the dance studio she considers a place of refuge. Of peace. What Natalya does not expect, however, is to be interrupted on the first night by the new employee: a young custodian who goes by the name of Kian Truman.

A Nigerian Fiction. Adanna had made peace with the past-or so she told herself. To herself, her ex was a memory she'd buried beneath time and silence. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. Femi, who once disappeared without a trace, the one who taught her how to love and how to break, walks back into her world years later... with a wife and children by his side. The sight of him stirs the ache she thought she'd outgrown, shaking the quiet life she's built with someone new. As old emotions resurface and unspoken words press against her chest, Adanna finds herself standing at the crossroads between what once was and what could still be. In a world where love doesn't always arrive when it should, she begins to wonder-is this love, or the echo of it?

After World War 3, the last remaining humans congregate in what was Greenland. The once over-populated Earth now only has 500 million humans. Seeing the opportunity for power, the group that calls themselves "The Order" has taken it upon themselves to lead the new world. The problem? They want absolute control over everyone. The biggest threat to their power are the people that developed super-human powers from the radiation.