Diners Stories

First book in my series of Animorph parodies. This one is about Guy Fieri. Don't expect it to be anything like an actual Animorphs book because I've never read one.

Imagine a child opening a Christmas present in 1957. Inside the box, the child sees a picturesque model of a small New England town. It has all the staples of small-town America. Twinkling lights, mom-and-pop store fronts, neat little blocks with colonial houses. It's surrounded by a clay forest of pine, elm, ash, birch, and oak. On a little hill south of the lake is a white water tower, painted with the lupine grin of the Houndstoothe Fightin' Gray Wolf. Perhaps the child doesn't notice the other wolf, a figure too large to be in scale with the town, but small enough to go unnoticed for now. It sits in the woods south of the town circle, and it has little pink lightbulbs for eyes. Sixty years pass. Many things stay the same, but lots of lights grow dim. There are a few corporate faces invading, but this is an idyllic place, so the mom-and-pop places soldier on as well as they can. But the only light that burns ever-bright and ever-constant is Lincoln's Diner.

Just some Pinterest post inspired oneshots. This gave me some many feels going through them... I couldn't contain my squeals/tears.

Lovers Catrina and Robbie don't know where they stand. A choice one fateful night makes that decision for them.

Mable Smith is a modest, shy girl. She has a resonable, simple life as a dog walker. She even had a routine down: eat breakfast at the Dumpling Diner, grab that day's scheduled dogs, and then go home. Nothing exciting happens in this peaceful town of Maybell. Until today, and Mable was about to find herself in the middle of it.

it was like clockwork, the way mingyu came in to that diner. sat at the same barstool, ordered the same plate for breakfast and for dinner, drank the same amount of coffee. looked at the waiter with the bright eyes. =͟͟͞͞ ✩ mingyu loves routines, and seungkwan hates them. they learn to adapt to each other. ⏯ she used to be mine - sara bareilles

Every night, Kat pours coffee for people who shouldn't still be walking this earth. It's the early hours of a small-town diner in the 1950s, where the neon never sleeps and the past refuses to stay buried. Kat works the graveyard shift, listening to strangers talk because that's what waitresses do. But some of these customers know her name. Some know things they shouldn't. And some are carrying sins that won't let them die. Between these nights at the counter are other stories-memories, fragments, and flashbacks that refuse to stay quiet. As Kat begins to trace her own past, she uncovers the truth about her family and the violence that shaped her long before she ever poured her first cup of coffee. The diner becomes a crossroads: one thread unfolding in confessions from the dead and the damned, the other in the slow unearthing of a legacy she never chose but cannot escape. What begins as listening turns into reckoning. Black Coffee is a literary horror serial told through two parallel narratives-an anthology of midnight encounters and a haunting descent into inherited guilt, complicity, and survival. Each chapter opens with an order. Each one leaves behind something colder than silence. New chapters every week! You can also subscribe for more of his work at seraphimwrites.substack.com, or, if you'd like to see Seraphim George's other work (novels, poetry, plays), visit www.seraphimgeorge.com.

Clare Hastings. She's quiet, shy and incredibly beautiful with a surprisingly witty tongue and eccentric style. She's moved from Oxford, London to the itty bitty new town of Crayton, California. A sweet little town with nothing to do. At first glance, Clare is an amazing, carefree girl yet there's something strange about her: something deeply and incredibly sad. Something that she's refusing to let people in this new town find out about her. Something kept under lock and key in the deepest, darkest crevices in her mind: where nobody can find it. But what if somebody does? What if there's somebody who's determined to know and memorize her every single thought and free the tortured soul trapped under years of pain, no matter the cost? Clare slowly starts to learn that the ultimate goal isn't fixing yourself for somebody else in order to feel again. Instead, it's how to be able to love, and be loved, just the way she is: perfectly imperfect.

Steph is a 17 year old just about to graduate high school. She really doesn't have her future planned out , much to her mother's chagrin. While at work one day , Steph meets Becky. Their first meeting doesn't go very well. But they soon meet each other again and Steph can't help but be interested in her. All signs point Steph having a life she always wanted. But will her Mother support her or stand n the way?

Life takes a hold of Savannah Lynn at the age of three years old. From sleeping in raggedy booths to finding her way around the U.S. and sweetly backstabbing, yet falling for, every person she meets. The girl has to get out eventually. But has that time hit her too soon?

Archibald is a humdrum banker from Georgia who makes an incredibly bad, life altering mistake when wording his proposal to his girlfriend. Indulging in emotional frivolity (for the first time in his considerably mundane life) he swears to have no marriage save for the perfect marriage. The Universe at large is holding him to this, and his next 12 months are the most unusual series of circumstances as Archibald tries to understand his predicament, from wondering if he's crazy to trying his hand at throwing dramatically throwing whiskey. What does it mean to have the perfect marriage? Read Archibald's story and stand in his thoroughly vexed shoes.

It was just like any normal day as a highchool student working on a Saturday at Bacon by the Billion breakfast and dining. Yet, when Ben is informed that he will be training the new hot employee he realizes that this day might be a bit harder than he thought.......much harder~

CALLIPSO What happened? ARGOS To me? I quit. CALLIPSO You quit? I thought you got injured and needed time to recover, or, or you were captured, but- you just stopped? Long pause. ARGOS Basically, yeah. ---- Or; good food, and why a hero might chose to settle down.

Guy Fieri was just a man of my dreams. That is, until he showed up in my hair salon and asked me to lighten him up.