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As The World Falls Down

As The World Falls Down

Sydney Greer has been in a mental hospital for the last 6 years. Now at 21 she has been cleared and released to her father's care. He however is too caught up in his perfect new life with her stepm...

Content WarningSuicideRealitySubstance Abuse
romance by 𝚁𝚘𝚠𝚊𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚍𝚢 · Complete · 41 Chapters
Nothing Else Matters

Nothing Else Matters

In the modern setting of the 12-step recovery community, this love story features a heroine who suffers a traumatic event and the man of strength who brings her back to wholeness from that trauma. ...

PtsdRecoverySubstance Abuse
drama / romance by Karen Erickson Parks · Complete · 16 Chapters
Scars

Scars

Everyone has scars whether they are visible or not. Some people work through their scars with the help of others and some struggle alone.

Content WarningDepressionSuicideSubstance Abuse
drama by C.R. Knight · Complete · 55 Chapters
When She Gets Burned

When She Gets Burned

This is not a love story of forbidden desires. This is a hauntingly poignant tale of one's heart. Alani Holt, a resilient yet broken soul, navigates the landscape of her toxic relationship with her...

Content WarningToxic RelationshipLoveSubstance Abuse
drama / other by E.L Black · Complete · 17 Chapters
Obey

Obey

What would you do if someone had complete control over your life? Would you roll over and take their orders, or would you fight back? In this world, bonded Protecteds have absolute control over th...

Forbidden LoveCollegeFreeform
romance / other by DollyTH · 5yrs ago · 19 Chapters
Box of Stars

Box of Stars

Fifteen years ago, nine high school freshmen joined their school's drama club. They became as close as family, and the rest was history. Now, eight of the friends are reunited at a funeral. Some ...

MusicTraumaGeneral Fiction
drama by Lily Hawthorn · Complete · 31 Chapters
The Man I Used To Be

The Man I Used To Be

Jarod Calloway was born to burn, first as a rockstar, then as a cautionary tale. Once the golden god of Black Velvet, gold records, sold-out tours, scandals caught on camera, he left behind a trai...

Forbidden LovePsychological ThrillerRedemption Arc
literary-fiction / drama by R. Lovre · Complete · 105 Chapters
Sick

Sick

This is the Sick series. A series of short stories based on drug use, mental health and lots of sex. These stories contain triggers and graphic sexual literature. If you are offended by this, plea...

Content WarningDark EroticaEroticSubstance Abuse
erotica by Lady Chántal · 3yrs ago · 9 Chapters
Undesirable

Undesirable

This book is currently being rewritten- slow updates- September 2023 Have you ever wondered what the life of a teenager who seems like a perfect Christian girl, who has never any wrong in her life...

Content WarningDreamsCollegeDad
romance / other by Audrey Croe · Complete · 10 Chapters
A Silver of Hope

A Silver of Hope

The day he found her on that bridge was a day he would never forget. Her hair whipping in the wind with tears rolling down her face, as she said her final goodbyes to the world that had been nothin...

Content WarningSecond Chance RomanceDepressionOvercoming Trauma
romance / other by Charlie · 3yrs ago · 1 Chapter
Immortal

Immortal

This is a story about how Benjamin Leonard finds meaning after the biggest day in his life comes and goes, and moves further and further into the past. Benjamin's nights out with his friends - Raym...

Content WarningEmotionalReflectiveThoughtful
other by Slambeblame · Complete · 13 Chapters
Spirits on the Rocks

Spirits on the Rocks

Follows a college student struggling with a newfound drinking problem who has befriended the ghost in the bathroom of the local tavern. This is a short piece I wrote at school as part of a freewri...

Science FictionAlcoholAlcoholism
scifi / other by JoshVanTrip · Complete · 1 Chapter
Residents of Rotscape

Residents of Rotscape

Read at your own risk. The residents of Rotscape are all burdened—be it by mental or physical issues, trauma, or their own stupidity. Can they lift the weight of the transformations that bloom the ...

Content WarningSuperpowersMental HealthPoliceinvestigation
thriller by m e s s i ♡ n o m a · 1yr ago · 4 Chapters
A Junkie's Journal: The Birth of Devastation

A Junkie's Journal: The Birth of Devastation

They had no power in my world. In my world it never rained, tears never came, and when I wanted to sleep I didn’t have to do it behind three dead bolts just to feel safe.

Content WarningYoung Adult FictionSubstance AbuseImplied Rape
drama / romance by loveisalie · 4yrs ago · 21 Chapters
On Good days, I am A ghost.

On Good days, I am A ghost.

A short POV about my journey with schizophrenia.

Content WarningLoveTraumaSubstance Abuse
other by Amy O’Neil · Complete · 1 Chapter
The House of Sin

The House of Sin

In the gritty underbelly of Georgia, Caroline Roberts is pulled into the Taylor crime family's dark world. As she becomes entangled with the brothers and a ghost that haunts them, she must navigate...

Crime FictionCrimeFamilyabuse
romance by Saturn · 1yr ago · 11 Chapters
Cocaine Hearts

Cocaine Hearts

Jonah is twenty-three and his heart beats like it's trying to escape his chest. He hasn't slept in his own bed in eleven days. He's crashed in cars, on rooftops, on bathroom floors in houses he doe...

Literature Short StoryOne-ShotFirst Person
literary-fiction by Electra · Complete · 1 Chapter
Warm embrace

Warm embrace

When she's at her lowest and doesn't believe what's she wants to believe because then maybe she'd be okay but people keeping telling her "It's not actually real something like that would never happ...

Abuse WarningSelfharmSubstance Abuse
fantasy / romance by Summer Dawn · 5yrs ago · 1 Chapter
Nine Lives

Nine Lives

9-part series of the life of a Game Girl. GAME GIRLS is a feature documentary about the hopes and dreams of two women living on the extreme fringes of contemporary American society. It sheds light ...

Mental HealthRecoveryJail
drama / other by Teri Rogers · 6yrs ago · 1 Chapter
this ends bloody

this ends bloody

~~~ "We need to get the body out." "I agree with Roman," Zara speaks up finally, "We all are to blame. My DNA is under his nails and it looks like he was attacked. Klaus you were the one who kil...

MurderMental HealthSubstance Abuse
thriller / mystery by julia grace · 7yrs ago · 1 Chapter

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