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Royalty Gone Bad

Royalty Gone Bad

A displaced Moroccan Prince and his lifelong enemy, forced to live in humble circumstances in New York, find themselves unexpectedly drawn to each other. As their fiery personalities clash, an unex...

Content WarningRoyaltyRomance EroticaPoverty
romance by N. Yves Chanelle · Complete · 116 Chapters
Fire and Ash

Fire and Ash

Ringer has spent his entire life fighting to stay afloat in a world created to work against him. Poverty, violence, and the unspoken rules of the streets close in on him from all sides. The only th...

ContemporaryCrimeGang Violence
romance / drama by Raya Jean · Complete · 52 Chapters
Hope for the Lonely

Hope for the Lonely

Are we really lonely just because we walk alone? 12 year old orphan Paisley lives with her neglectful adoptive parents who don’t have much money. She was adopted from an orphanage 3 years ago, fro...

EvilWarPoverty
adventure / drama by Tiffany · 6yrs ago · 15 Chapters
The Forgotten Dream: Birth of a Wishing Heart

The Forgotten Dream: Birth of a Wishing Heart

When Grizelda was a child she vowed she'd keep her sister from falling victim to the family's curse that came directly from the gods. When she's unable to keep that promise she vows to free the wor...

CompletedForbidden LoveDesperate Measures
fantasy / adventure by Crystal Ferrer · Complete · 49 Chapters
The Magical Illusion of My Wealth

The Magical Illusion of My Wealth

You can literally be what decide to, as does Rich, a poor immigrant who decides to be rich. Rich, a poor immigrant, returns to his homeland and decides to be rich, by creating a magical illusion of...

CorruptionExploitationWealth
humor by Samuel · Complete · 1 Chapter
Bestest Boy

Bestest Boy

The fantastical adventures of a boy from the rundown part of town. This is the story about Bestest Boy's journey from a young boy to a young man from the pages of his journal Fantabulous. Surviving...

Mental HealthSupernaturalSplit
drama / fantasy by Cortney Rowe · Complete · 61 Chapters
Seeds of Tomorrow

Seeds of Tomorrow

Meet Rocco Samson, a handsome, smart-ass seventeen-year-old with a penchant for rebellion. He's a good kid at heart, but Mark, his uncle who happens to be his age, takes him on wild adventures that...

Content WarningFirst LoveAddictionAddictions And Recovery
drama / other by J. Luce · Complete · 112 Chapters
Time March's Forward

Time March's Forward

Adam has never had the easiest of lives - what with his mother's passing, his workaholic father and a reputation as the school pauper. Sometimes, he wondered how he got stuck with such a piss poor ...

BullyingDepressionPhysical Violence
drama / romance by Elliott2000 · Complete · 19 Chapters
The Last Lamb of Swanston St

The Last Lamb of Swanston St

​One Unqualified Candidate. One Lucky Coin.  One Demanding Billionare.  ~~ ​Maya is broke, desperate, and drowning in the grey fog of Melbourne. When a dying man presses a strange, Chinese coin int...

CeoRomance/DramaAustralian
romance / fantasy by S.J Prior · 5mo ago · 18 Chapters
Stingray

Stingray

Stingray, is a mystery set within a 1994 pop-culture fueled landscape, that tracts the abhorrent circumstances leading to a poor 3rd grader receiving a Christmas gift far exceeding his family's means.

Coming Of AgeMurder MysteryPoverty
mystery / humor by WillieSaltz · Complete · 15 Chapters
Across 300 Years, I Love You

Across 300 Years, I Love You

Time seemed to stop for us as we gazed deeply into each other's eyes. Tears welled up as memories of us growing up together, although by a strange twist of fate that both binds us, yet separates us...

Historical FictionMystery/Sci FiFantasy Supernatural Romance
romance / drama by L.Sekai · 6yrs ago · 27 Chapters
Nothing Cheap About Love

Nothing Cheap About Love

Nate Rowan is twenty-four, broke, exhausted, and one missed payment away from losing the little life he has left. By day, he works warehouse shifts. By night, he delivers food across a city that ke...

Contemporary RomanceForbidden LovePoverty
romance by JinSu · Complete · 15 Chapters
LADY ROUGE

LADY ROUGE

Young and beautiful Alicia Sanchez sacrifices her virtue and morality to save her sister from a life of violence in Cienfuegos, Cuba at the hands of their abusive father. Out of desperation, she be...

PovertyErotica OscuraPast Sexual Abuse
romance / drama by Ethereal Author · Complete · 12 Chapters
The Stranger Among Us

The Stranger Among Us

Daniel, Mike, and Steven are three high schoolers growing up in rural West Virginia during the rise of the opioid crisis. This is an exploration of place, tragedy, death, and addiction. Daniel's fa...

TeenTeen FictionRural Fiction
drama / other by Duganism · 8yrs ago · 3 Chapters
Wednesday

Wednesday

Excerpt taken from "Between the Sisters" a novel in progress. This short story is a stand alone tale about living to make ends meet and the bad luck that makes that more difficult than it needs to ...

SliceoflifestoriesSliceoflifefictionShortstoriesnyc
drama / humor by Tiffany L Fuentes · Excerpt · 1 Chapter
The life of the last Don Juan

The life of the last Don Juan

This memoir follows a real story. A man who grew up in poverty, violence, and horror. Full of sarcastic moments and the strong desire to fulfill life. One of the most devastating beginnings, horror...

EscapeMotherA Slice Of Wisdom
other / thriller by JDlawyer · 11yrs ago · 1 Chapter
FACES

FACES

These are the stories of the FACES I have met. Stories of the truth in their eyes... the lives they have led. The boy’s morsels of sustenance grabbed by the cruel and greedy gravity,.. smashed and ...

TruthHopePoverty
drama / other by Essy Pach · 9yrs ago · 1 Chapter
A Mutiny by Nobodies

A Mutiny by Nobodies

You had everything to lose. You clutch the blade with a death-like grip, until your fingers bled and your heart crumbled. You will do anything for short-lived happiness.... the very innocence I need.

PsychologyHigh School RomanceMurder Suicide
drama / mystery by biangeli · 7yrs ago · 1 Chapter
Going to the Monoliths (Chapter 2 of The Judgement Stone)

Going to the Monoliths (Chapter 2 of The Judgement Stone)

The second chapter of The Judgement Stone, book 2 of the Polarity Breach Series. Ablias the Wizard Prince faces some tough decisions and turns to the advice of an old "friend" and a new friend

WizardBeachDaughter
fantasy / adventure by Frankie Stevens · Complete · 1 Chapter
No Ego

No Ego

This was a Reddit submission I made a while back. The prompt was the following: "You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the nec...

PovertyDiscriminationRace
drama / fantasy by Gremory · Complete · 1 Chapter

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