Stories

Nineteen, not out, and secretly into the guy who took the only open seat in his astronomy lab. The hottest guy he's ever met. Older, unbothered, straight as far as Cole can tell. A slow-burn, first-time story told across one semester, intrusive thoughts included. He kept saying I owe you one. Neither of them knew where it would lead. Fifteen chapters. The complete story.

Life is filled with surprises. We are constantly reminded that we are at the mercy of the universe; from the people we meet, to the events that shape us, to the places we find ourselves in. If we are among the lucky ones we will find our place in the world, and someone to share it with, and life will be sweet. But even then, everything is subject to change, and we either roll with the flow, or find ourselves fighting against the tide, because you just never know what might come at you from out of the blue.

The Andiol Empire is torn apart by a merciless civil war. In the capital of Dimalos, old allies and unexpected companions navigate danger, betrayal, and brief moments of hope as blood runs through the streets. Choosing the wrong side can be fatal — especially when the enemy serves the Darkness.

"Everything important happens in Dimalos," Ikarr Knobnose once said. So it is on a certain evening, when a mismatched group gathers in an abandoned industrial district, though not all will see dawn.

Far in the north, Franz Landez gazes into the Mirror of Dreams, where a black tower rises beneath a blood red sky. Humanity is running out of time.

As Jake and Danny begin their senior year, everyone has something to prove at Mon Valley High School. But as wounds from the past reopen, carefully constructed identities begin to unravel.

Healing takes work, trust takes time, and the ground beneath them is still desperately thin.

While Chad recovers, basking in the miracle of a relationship finally brought out of the cold, Robert returns to SDN to face the fallout after the battle. The fault lines beneath them are already shifting and Robert is quietly bearing the cost so Chad never has to.

They're finally together, but what you see on the surface level can be deceiving.

Marcus Reed came to Snow Pine to disappear. Then he meets the Calloway brothers. Ryan is kind, steady, and gentle in a way Marcus has never experienced before. But Cameron Calloway is the exact opposite. Wild. Reckless. Infuriatingly magnetic. The older brother carries anger like a second skin, pushing everyone away before they can leave him first. Falling for both of them was never supposed to happen. But in a town like Snow Pine, secrets don't stay buried for long. And choosing one brother could mean losing them both.

L & L Investigations is a detective firm run by Lars Wrede, middle-aged and of Dutch-Swedish origin, together with his younger partner Lennart Torstensson. The firm is based in Stockholm but Lars in particular has strong links with the Netherlands from his youth. By coincidence they get a job to find out the truth behind a mysterious death in the Dutch university town Leiden. This brings them in contact with various aspects of Dutch society, including the experiences of gay young men.

In the final tale of Zafiro, he is trapped with voices controlling his head. A familiar face joins him in the Icebox and his mother is doing all she can to help her child.

Meanwhile, a new enemy is sneaking about the shadows that is threatening what remaining family he has left on earth!

Ten years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, five-year-old Crown Prince Zhu Cilang awakens with memories of death, and the destruction awaiting his family and his nation.

Within the prince’s young body also lives Ai, an artificial intelligence carrying the knowledge of a future humanity destined to collapse 450 years later beneath the weight of humanity’s greed, division, and selfishness.

Bound together by a shared body and an impossible second chance, Zhu Cilang and Ai must charter a new path for the world around them.

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