Gritty Stories

Willow Astor flees her engagement party barefoot, hijacks a stranger's car, and spends one wild, filthy night with him. The stranger? Justin Wilder, the new butler in her family's mansion. The man she just rode senseless now serves her coffee every day and calls her "Madam Astor." Forbidden heat. Zero regrets. How long until her family and his uniform ruin everything?

❝𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞.. 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.❞ 𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐜𝐫𝐲.. 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 "𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐲.. 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬, 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧." 𝐈 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐰𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐤. 𝐌𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦. . . . Z'airee was a caretaker at a old people's home and he took care of many patients. The only thing was that it happened to be one of the few nursing in homes in NYC. So many patients wounded up from the hood where many of the patients were from different gangs. Z'airee wasn't supposed to have favorites but he always had this particular one.. Mr. Sinaloa. Heaven was a drug dealer who visited his grandpa, Tyreek Sinaloa everyday. His grandpa was everything that his parents wasn't to him. The trenches of New York was where he came from. All his mom cared about was drugs and his dad walked out on him. He grew up running the streets because his mom was too high one everything to care, with men coming in and out they house. He never had that support system so he was wit older kids for as long as he could remember. So as soon as his grandpa got custody he was good but he always knew he wanted to move out as soon as possible..Or so he thought. EXT

In a world where heroes are manufactured in labs and morality is a marketing gimmick, Queen Maeve has reached her breaking point. Drowning in the corporate rot of Vought International and the escalating madness of Homelander, she expects a lonely end-until the sky fractures and a woman clad in hair and shadow descends upon Manhattan. Enter Bayonetta: an Umbra Witch from a world of celestial wars and infernal pacts. Displaced into a reality of "Supes" and cynical PR, she finds the ultimate project in the jaded Amazon of the Seven. What begins as a reluctant alliance to survive Vought's tactical purges evolves into a reality-shattering bond that defies biology and magic alike. As the duo carves a path through corrupt idols and corporate gods, Maeve must decide if she's willing to trade her manufactured "perfection" for the dangerous freedom of the Abyss. From the neon-lit boardrooms of Vought Tower to the ancient moonlit cliffs of Vigrid, follow the journey of two Queens who stop at nothing to burn down the old world and build a sanctuary in the shadows.

They were built to be perfect. They became something else. Ironclad was created as part of a secret Decepticon experiment - six brothers designed to merge into a single unstoppable weapon. But something went wrong. Something changed. Instead of loyalty... they chose freedom. Now alone on a war-torn Cybertron, Ironclad survives the only way he knows how: by tearing his enemies apart and rebuilding himself from what remains. Each scar tells a story. Each stolen insignia marks another life taken. And through it all... he sings. Soft lullabies echo through scrapyards and battlefields alike-calm, almost comforting... until you realize they're meant for you. Caught between the Autobots who don't fully trust him and the Decepticons who fear him, Ironclad walks a razor-thin line between hero and horror. Because sometimes... The only way to survive war is to become something worse than it. DISCLAIMER: I don't own Transformers. Rights to the franchise go to Hasbro, Takara Tomy, and Paramount.

a story of people fighting tooth and nail believe it or not

Everyone thinks the war ended when Captain America disappeared beneath the ice. They're wrong. There was another war. One no one remembers. One that was never meant to be found. Azul was only two years old when she was left to die-and found by the people who would become her entire world. They weren't heroes. They weren't saviors. They were something else. They raised her in the shadows. Trained her. Built her into something the world was never supposed to see. Until the night they were all taken from her. Now, Azul is alone... carrying the ghosts of a war that was erased and the lessons of those who didn't survive it. Because some things don't stay buried. And when the truth finally comes back- So will she.

Dead Rock thought it buried its sins in rope and lies. They were wrong. Clay McCallister is still standing-and this time, he's not just settling scores. The town is cracking. Old enemies are crawling out of the dirt. And the deeper he digs, the worse the truth gets. Some men die once. Others make sure the whole town goes with them.

Set 500 years after the events of Rise: Askiya, the world has been split into 8 different empires with the Songhai Empire as the World leaders in every imaginable category. Technology, Commerce, Tourism, Resources, Military might. We follow the 2nd Prince as he navigates through his early adult life trying to find himself and live up to the Askiya name in a time of peace. However, per human nature the destruction of the status quo and peace is inevitable.

A spinoff to the Avants

By day, Kallen Onyx is just another invisible nineteen-year-old trying to survive the Second Shift District. By night, he is the city's unacknowledged safety net. When the bridges shake and the buses stall, Kallen steps in. He doesn't fly, and he doesn't wear a cape. He turns his skin into unyielding mineral stone to hold up the infrastructure the city refuses to fix. He saves lives. The system logs it as "Operational Variance." He breaks his back. The system calls it "Maintenance." But after years of being a human column for a crumbling city, Kallen feels something new. A delay. A stutter. A lag between his will and his power. The weight is getting heavier. The "Lag" is getting longer. And the city just updated its benchmarks to demand even more. Kallen has to decide: Does he keep holding up a world that treats him like a spare part? Or does he let it fall?

Her life was just hard, ordinary, and dark... until a mysterious man became the wedge that shattered her reality. Now, her past is a bomb waiting to explode, and the gates to a terrifying new world are wide open. Read here, a heart-pounding journey of action, forbidden romance, and unbelievable destiny. Meet Nay and Otto, the girl who was born to change everything and the man who changed her world. "Those eyes were sharp and glittering, they held a silent promise of something unsettling."

Insect War Chronicles is a gritty science-fiction war saga set in a shattered paradise where one-inch-tall survivors-Tinylings-fight for survival inside a sealed dome built on lies. After teenager Beau Danning accidentally cracks the dome's boundary and uncovers the truth about the world beyond, his actions trigger a catastrophic insect invasion led by intelligent, organized mantids under the ruthless General Karakis. Forced into leadership far too young, Beau and his allies-engineers, medics, pilots, and militia-must improvise weapons from scavenged human technology, wage brutal miniature warfare, and confront impossible moral choices as their safe haven collapses into open war. As the conflict escalates from survival skirmishes to full-scale military operations, the series explores leadership, sacrifice, and the cost of truth in a world where humans are no longer the apex species.

Former FBI agent, Bob Eli Bennett has been laying low for three years in big city of Chicago as a small time, local detective after his unprecedented fallout with the FBI. When a series of petty crimes in Chicago's outskirts spiral into something far more darker, Bob rediscovers a chilling conspiracy involving a global tech company, corrupt officials and ruthless gangs. With the help of his long lost childhood friend, Mark Robinson, a famous journalist with political ambitions and Tessa Brandt, a dedicated FBI liaison, Bob races against time to put an end to the conspiracy even if it requires taking law and justice into his own hands. But when the trust fractures between his friends and the enemies close in. Bob must decide how far he's willing to go and how much he's willing to risk to complete his mission. Highest rankings:#7 in crimedrama, #1 neo-noir,#13 in gang violence,#1 corruptgovernment,#6 in pageturner,#31 in investigation and #8 in crime solving.

NEW CHAPTERS EVERY FRIDAY!! In a city where every life is quietly sorted into its place, Lumi Nix has learned not to ask questions. Years ago, her sister Aria vanished without explanation, leaving behind nothing but silence and a system that insisted there was nothing to investigate. Since then, Lumi has lived carefully within the limits assigned to her. But when Lumi discovers information that could lead her to Aria, the fragile order of her life begins to unravel. Clues lead her into parts of the city she was never meant to see, forcing her to confront secrets buried beneath the districts and the powerful structure that governs them. With the help of an unlikely ally from a world far above her own, Lumi begins a search that could finally reveal what happened to her sister. If the city doesn't stop her first.

V was a Nomad-a desert-born merc who knew that family was the only thing worth dying for and Night City was the only place where dreams went to rot. But after a botched Arasaka experiment sends her spiraling through a reality-bending rift, she doesn't wake up in the Badlands. She wakes up in the Emerald Forest, surrounded by black-furred monsters and teenagers with transforming scythes. Armed with Guts, her trusty Defender LMG, and enough Gorilla Arms plating to level a skyscraper, V is a walking anomaly. In a world powered by Dust and protected by Aura, her heavy cybernetics and brutal combat scars mark her as something else entirely: a "Veteran Huntress" from a place no one can find on a map. When Headmaster Ozpin offers her a spot at Beacon Academy as a "special student," V takes the deal. She's just looking for a way home, but she quickly finds herself playing reluctant big sister and heavy-hitter for a group of idealistic kids. Between teaching Ruby Rose how to mod high-caliber hardware and showing the White Fang what a "Solo" can really do, V starts to realize that even in a world of Grimm and Magic, the rules of the Nomad remain the same: You don't leave your people behind.

William "B.J." Blazkowicz was supposed to die in the fire of Deathshead's compound in 1946. Instead, he wakes up in 1960 in a San Francisco he doesn't recognize. The stars and stripes are gone, replaced by the rising sun of the Japanese Pacific States and the shadow of the Greater German Reich. To the Kempeitai, he is a nameless madman. To the Resistance, he is a ghost from a dead era. Juliana Crain is a woman chasing shadows-smuggling mysterious film reels that show a world where the Allies won. When she finds a bloodied, hulking stranger with an impossible accent and a rage that could topple empires, she realizes the films aren't just fiction. They are memories. As B.J. trades his advanced Da'at Yichud knowledge for a chance to burn this new world down, he finds something he never expected in the quiet strength of Juliana: a reason to stop fighting for the past and start fighting for a future. In a multiverse governed by fate and film, one man is about to break the reel.

In a world where golden palaces float above and the poor choke below, Li Chu refuses to accept the order of things. In the Dust-Wards, he steals power meant for the heavens and forges a brutal path where survival is carved through pain, not enlightenment. Hunted by beasts, tempered by poison, and shaped by relentless struggle, he turns his own body into a weapon, breaking everything that stands in his way. But when he steps into a city built on hidden suffering, his strength draws the gaze of those who rule from above. Now marked for death, Li Chu must fight not just to survive, but to tear down a system that feeds on the weak, even if it costs him everything.

Carlos leaves New Buffalo behind, haunted by the wife who went missing and a family he can no longer reach. Arriving in Lansing, Michigan, he must navigate a city full of both promise and peril as he searches for a chance to start over. But the city holds dangers he could never foresee. Among its crowds, a delusional serial killer known only as "The Anodyne" stalks the grieving, convinced that his gruesome deeds are acts of mercy. Leaving no trace and evading every investigation, he spreads terror through his chilling philosophy. Burdened by his past and hunted by the city's shadows, Carlos must fight to survive before the darkness inside and around him consumes his very being. Can you piece together the clues and solve the mystery before the truth is finally revealed? Seven Minutes Too Late, perfect for fans of suspense, twists, and psychological drama, is a slow-burn thriller you'll never forget. ********************* Disclaimer: Drafted with artificial intelligence, this story, including its concept, plot, characters, and narrative arc, was designed by Micah D'Amico (me) and is entirely fictional.

"Begone. Gone. For divinity has dispersed. Now humanity's destiny is forged. We are all labeled APOSTATIC." God's a fucking joke. You learn that pretty quick living under a sky full of pipes. This planet never had fuel. No coal. No oil. Nothing worth burning. After that steam engines invention, the industrial revolution came, because some brilliant psycho discovered the human body produces more energy than any engine ever built. After that? Everything went to hell. Steam towers, pressure boilers, turbine halls, gearworks big enough to swallow city blocks. Pipes running through buildings like veins. Dynamos humming day and night. The rich call it progress. Yeah, no shit. Down here we call it processing. And it turns out - people are the fuel now. We burn REAL great.The government runs a nice polite system called Contribution. Families give something to keep the generators spinning - a limb, a kid, sometimes the whole damn household if their district falls behind quota. Do it long enough and they Promote you. That means they bolt you into a pressure rig and let the turbines chew your pulse into electricity. Meanwhile the rich bastards float above us in their clean little sky-city pretending the world isn't powered by screaming. Down here it's gangs, rust, meat grinders, cannibalism drugs and cult freaks chanting that the engines are holy punishment. Dumbasses. Name's Poppy Van Carter. That's what the records tell me. Mechanic. Smoker. I keep broken steam engines alive because if they stop, the whole rotten city drops out of the sky. Funny thing is... Apparently my body produces more power than any damn boiler they've got. Which means everyone suddenly wants me. Government. Cult. Even my half-sister Akira Steinhelm. And I just wanted to fix engines and smoke in peace. Instead I'm stuck in this rusted hellhole waiting to see how many nails do I have to drive into my neck to get out. Welcome to APOSTATIC, BITCH

Style is a riot. The revolution is the new black. In a near-future 2026, high-fashion hedonism meets the grit of an impending uprising. "You Slay!" is a strobe-lit, sarcastic thriller navigating the shallow waters of digital brio and forbidden luxury. As the world crumbles, a fatal collision ignites: between those who wear the revolution as a trend-and those prepared to start it. In a society obsessed with aesthetics, looking good is the only thing left to die for. Vibe: Cyber-noir / Sarcastic Thriller / Social Satire