Characterdriven Stories

"In a world of swords and silence, it was never passion that saved them - but the love that never asked to be spoken." ★He finds the peace he never thought he'd deserve. ★She gives her heart without asking for his - believing that one day, he might give it anyway. ★But in a world ruled by swords and secrets... can love survive without speaking its name? ★First chapter: 10th October 2025 ★Final chapter :

Jay Halstead left everything. The badge. The team. His wife. Haunted by his past and bound by a promise that never felt right, he set out hoping to find himself again. Was it the Army that pulled him away... or fear? Did he really go straight to Bolivia... or was there a detour? And what if, five years later, his path crosses Erin Lindsay's again-when neither of them are the same? What happens when the one person he left behind refuses to let go this time? Still Us is a Linstead story of love lost, love found, and everything in between. A slow burn reunion. A battle with ghosts. And the kind of connection you only find once in a lifetime. Not just a fic. A fix-it. A healing process. An escape.

"I'm Thea Emerson. You are?" she asked. The man grunted, clearly not in the mood to answer. Thea's eyes drifted over his bloodied, dirt-smeared figure until they caught a heart-shaped bloodstain marring his arm. Her lips twitched into a smirk. "Alright then, lover boy," she said, "let's get you out of that ravine." the walking dead / daryl dixon / slow burn ongoing - weekly updates season 1/2 - ?

Betrayed by the men in her life, Sarah must come to terms with her past and learn to trust again to get the future she deserves. Will she give herself a second chance? *** Meet Sarah Suarez, a talented young woman at the start of her career, doing all she can to provide for her family. With a sick mother, a little brother to provide for, a runaway dad, and an unreliable fiancé, her life is anything but easy. She braves through the storms that life throws her way to get what she deserves. This comes at the expense of a broken heart. Henry Salva is the youngest CEO of Xian Enterprises and the heir to Salva Corporation. Don't be fooled by his gentle and harmless demeanor. He is a ruthless businessman. His heart had died once. What will happen when the two of them cross paths? Will they learn to trust again? And when Henry's first love returns, who will he choose? *trigger warning: has minor PTSD episodes. [word count: 95, 000 - 100,000 words] #1 in NewAdult ||Edited to the best of my ability|| ||One year later, 'the best of my ability' has improved, so I will be editing again (more like a rewrite, actually).|| Edited chapters will have a ✔

Existence has already ended once. By something that was not even "something" in any ordinary sense. Unseen, unfelt, and forever forgotten. But what comes after absolute nulity? Affirmation. Endless, reasonless affirmation. An overflowing plenitude that refuses silence. After recreating existence, the Plenitude Without Reason chose once more to participate. For participation is the only way to remain as something without becoming everything. From that Will, Anathasia was born. - Kyle. The person she stayed with through everything. The one who remained by her side as she moved through life... and everything beyond it. After college, they continue living together. Nothing really changes on the surface. But at the same time, things are changing. Not just on Earth, but across realities completely separate from the one they've always known. Old resentments begin to surface. Questions start forming. About meaning, about purpose... about what's left when power stops mattering. Now, somewhere between raising daughters and just trying to live normally, they find themselves dealing with things that don't really have simple answers. The consequences of actions taken eons before they even met. The weight of roles they were never meant to fully understand. And beyond even that, The existence of an Original Creator. The Author... trying to move on from controlling everything. How will the Supreme Being herself... and the one who stands beside her... deal with all of this? The mundane. And the things that go far beyond reality itself?

On Indefinite hiatus 𝟑 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬. ɪ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ᴀ ꜱᴘᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴋᴇᴇᴘꜱ ᴍʏ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ʙᴜʀɪᴇᴅ. ᴀ ꜱɪɴɢʟᴇ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜ ꜰᴇᴇʟꜱ ʟɪᴋᴇ ꜱɪɴ. ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ɪ 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ꜱᴇᴛ ᴍᴇ ꜰʀᴇᴇ. 𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 good intentions still leave scars, And some truths are not meant to be spoken aloud. TOP RANKING TAGS 1# in whychoose 12/09/25 1# in softfantasy 1/28/26 2# Hurt-comfort 2/24/26

Sany has spent her whole life trying to stay away from Raffael Nozuky Anderson-the perfect, untouchable heir of the Anderson family who keeps following her like she's his entire world. Cold. Persistent. Impossible to escape. Until one truth shatters everything. They were married the day she was born. No love. No choice. No warning. While Raffael sees it as fate-something sacred, something worth waiting for- Sany sees it for what it is. A cage. Now trapped in a marriage she never agreed to, Sany only wants one thing: Freedom. But Raffael? He's willing to wait. He's willing to be hated. He's willing to break... if it means she stays. Because to him, she was never just family. Never just a girl. She was always his. And he's not letting her go. One loves. One resists. One waits. One runs. In a world where love is decided before it even begins- will she choose him... or destroy everything to escape him? Husband from eternity

She doesn't let people in. Not anymore. Jaida has learned that control is safer than chaos, silence is safer than words, and distance is safer than attachment. She keeps her life carefully structured-her emotions even more so. Because if she loosens her grip even for a second, everything falls apart. Then there's Mason. He doesn't ask. He observes. He lingers. He notices things about her no one else bothers to see-and somehow, that becomes more dangerous than if he tried to break her walls outright. He's not supposed to matter. She's not supposed to react. But rules don't mean much when someone starts paying attention in all the ways you've spent your life trying to avoid. Jaida wants control. Mason has never needed it. And neither of them expected that the one thing they can't dominate... might be each other. A slow-burn story about obsession, emotional resistance, and what happens when the one person you refuse to let in refuses to leave.

A woman sees a gap in a man's life and assumes it means something is missing. He doesn't argue with her-he just doesn't agree with the assumption. RAF. Legion. A forest in Latvia. What she thinks is absence, he knows as something else entirely.

Two lives cross in the most ordinary way, and somehow, nothing stays the same. As Liam and Mara grow closer, what begins as simple moments slowly turns into something deeper... something harder to ignore. Between Us: Inner Story is a soft, slow-burn journey through love, vulnerability, and the quiet things we're often too afraid to do or say.

This book is a supplementary collection of extras for The Age of Spring. Reading this is not required to enjoy the main story. This space exists for readers who want to get to know the story, world and characters more. Not everything belongs in the narrative. Some things are just fun to read or learn about if you want a closer look. This book may include: Character descriptions Artwork and visual concepts Poetry Short scenes and alternate POVs Chapters that didn't make it into The Age of Spring Read what interests you. Skip what doesn't. Each entry will be clearly labeled so you can jump to the content you want. Extras may be moved or reordered if new pieces belong earlier in the timeline and do not spoil future chapters.

London, 1900. Detective Sergeant Ned Kelly is suspended, restless, and hiding a dangerous secret. When the enigmatic James St Clair crashes into his life with talk of stolen magic and a kill list, Ned is dragged into a world he never believed existed. Witches are being murdered across the city, their powers ripped away. Ned's mysterious immunity to magic makes him the only man who can protect Jamie. But in a time when wanting another man is a crime, the greatest danger might not be the killer hunting them, but each other.

A girl with nowhere to go. A hidden world beneath the mountain. A life built from nothing... and a connection she never expected. After being forced from the only place she's ever known, Sarah ventures into the wilderness with nothing but determination and a will to survive. When she stumbles upon a vast, hidden cavern-alive with its own ecosystem-she makes a choice that will change everything. She will build a life there. Alone, she learns to survive-crafting a home, growing food, and carving peace out of the unknown. But when she discovers a wounded stranger in the forest and brings him back to the cavern, her quiet world begins to shift. Xelas is strong, guarded, and from a life far different than her own. They don't share a language... but slowly, through trust, survival, and silence, something begins to grow between them. And just as quickly... he's gone. Now Sarah must face the cavern alone again-while holding onto the quiet truth she can't ignore: Some connections don't end... they wait. Cavern's Heart is a slow-burn story of survival, healing, trust, and finding belonging in the most unexpected place.

Something is wrong aboard the USS Enterprise. No alarms sound. No system fails. Yet after the arrival of a harmless mammal, the crew begin to change in ways no scanner can explain. Distance vanishes. Restraint weakens. Words long withheld rise too easily to the surface. Feelings carefully contained for months-or years-become harder to deny. As bonds strain, loyalties shift, and old certainties begin to fracture, McCoy is forced to confront a truth of his own. Spock and Commander Lancaster can no longer pretend their connection is merely professional. And once honesty has crossed the line into speech, nothing aboard the Enterprise returns unchanged.

He loved her enough to be accused of killing her. And maybe that's what makes this worse. They turned her into a story. And him into the villain. But somewhere between what they believe and what he remembers- something doesn't fit. She left behind fragments only he can understand. Small things. Quiet things. The kind that don't matter... until they do. And the deeper he goes, the more it begins to unravel- This was never just a MURDER. It's a story of secrets, of a love that wasn't as simple as it seemed, and of a girl who might not have been, who he thought she was at all. "He lost her once to death-and again to the truth."

She married him for three months. He never touched her. But the man who stood behind him-the one who never speaks-is the only one she can't ignore. Anna thought it was a contract. She didn't know, she was stepping into something that had already lasted twenty years.

A psychological slow-burn from the world of Sherlock Holmes about people who understand everything except their own emotions. London has become offensively mundane, and Sherlock Holmes is finding inactivity harder to bear than he would ever admit. Baker Street is mired in restlessness, irritability, and intellectual stagnation-until their apartment is disrupted by a visitor Sherlock truly didn't expect. Mycroft Holmes. The man who rules half the British Empire with the cold precision of a chess grandmaster makes a request that defies all logic: he needs advice on a personal matter. What at first seems like a minor social complication gradually reveals something far more dangerous-a situation that cannot be resolved by deduction alone. A psychological slow-burn from the world of Sherlock Holmes, full of intellectual tension, the atmosphere of Victorian London, and people who understand everything except their own emotions. New chapters are released every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. Mám na profilu také českou verzi.

Mirah Alexander is trying to survive heartbreak-one day, one distraction, one breath at a time. Then she meets Roya Hilton. He's calm, unreadable, and dangerously captivating. The kind of person who doesn't chase... but still gets exactly what he wants. What Mirah feels isn't soft. It isn't steady. It hits fast, sharp, and deep-like something she shouldn't trust. But she doesn't want to stop it. Because with him, the pain fades. And the rush? It's everything.

Two travellers set out to meet a girl they only know through words. The journey takes them across cities, conversations, and the strange territory between language and reality. Told in fragments, with temper and distance, this is a story about expectation, perception, and the people we envisage before we meet them.

Wobble Wobble Kokomi follows Jin Hyun-hee, a middle-aged housewife whose daughter Hae-na left behind an overly powerful computer "for Mom." Hyun-hee barely knows how to use it, but after seeing a trot singer advertise a game on TV, she installs it out of curiosity. By accident, she crosses into the game world and begins a quiet, slow life far removed from work and noise.