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Better with Time by SarahADChicago
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Mia thought college would be her reinvention arc. Instead, sophomore year starts with public humiliation, unresolved body image issues, a deeply concerning dependence on iced coffee, and a library floor incident that nearly results in her dying of embarrassment in front of an annoyingly attractive stranger. Jesse was supposed to be temporary. Just a cute guy in the library with suspiciously nice hands and an emotionally stable response to chaos. Unfortunately, he keeps showing up. Between late-night study sessions, campus concerts, awkward flirting, hockey games, disastrous attempts at becoming "effortlessly pretty," and Mia's ongoing war against her own brain, the line between friendship and something much more dangerous starts getting blurry. Funny, messy, painfully honest, and full of the kinds of moments that feel small until they change your life forever, Better with Time is a story about growing up, learning how to take up space, and realizing some people don't just see the version of you that you're trying to hide.
The College Freshman by SarahADChicago
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Rules are meant to be broken. Except for Daisy's. Her rules keep her sane. At twenty-two, grad student Daisy Peters has her entire life mapped out to precision-a necessity when you're constantly battling a hyper-analytical mind and a mountain of internal anxiety. Intimacy is a liability, vulnerability is a trap, and relationships? Absolutely out of the question. Enter Shawn. He's a freshman, an athlete, and everything Daisy's rigid logic says she should avoid. After a chaotic, accidental one-night stand breaks her ultimate rule, they strike a deal: no strings attached, strict boundaries, and absolutely no falling in love. Terms and conditions apply. But Shawn isn't the superficial player he pretends to be, and he has a habit of showing up exactly when Daisy's walls start to crumble. As their casual arrangement blurs into late-night text threads and unexpected safety, Daisy is forced to face the ultimate terrifying question: What happens when the only person who can quiet your mind is the one person you didn't allow yourself to keep?
The Girl Who Loved in Shadows by STheekshani
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She never asked for his heart only a glance, a smile, a moment. In silent corners and unread messages, she loved him with a depth he never saw. Through his laughter with others, his silence with her, and even his love for someone else she stayed. Quiet, constant, hidden. This is the story of a girl who loved Quiet... but never out loud. Of first kisses that felt like dreams, and final messages that felt like endings. A one-sided love - beautiful, aching, and unforgettable. Because sometimes, the strongest love... is the one that stays in the shadows. 💔🌙
Love In Dark Places by Carty123
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She was the girl everyone laughed at. He was the boy who led the laughter. Joy Williams knows she'll never fit into Drake Harrison's perfect world. Every day, he reminds her exactly where she belongs-with cruel jokes, endless humiliation, and shattered pieces of confidence she can never seem to put back together. Drake Harrison has everything: looks, popularity, wealth, and the admiration of everyone at Greenwood High. To him, Joy is nothing more than an easy target. But fate has a way of turning enemies into something neither of them saw coming. As buried secrets come to light and unexpected moments force them closer together, the walls around Drake's heart begin to crack. The bully who once made Joy's life unbearable soon finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew-especially the girl he never truly saw. The question is... Can love survive where cruelty first began? Or are some scars too deep to heal? Love in Dark Places is an emotional slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance about heartbreak, redemption, healing, and discovering that sometimes, love is born in the darkest places.
Finding My Voice  by MLemae_
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Some people don't celebrate light. Some people resent it. Some people look at joy and feel the need to dim it. At first the comments were small. "You're too sensitive." "You're a little much." "You're exhausting sometimes." "You take things too personally." They said these things with laughter. With shrugs. With the casual cruelty of people who expect you to swallow their words and thank them for it. So I did. Because I thought the problem must be me. I tried to quiet myself. I sang less. I spoke less. I laughed less. The girl I once was slowly disappeared. In her place was someone smaller. Quieter. Someone who apologized for everything - even existing. I thought if I just tried harder... if I softened myself enough... if I stopped being "too much"... they would finally accept me. But you cannot shrink yourself into someone else's comfort without disappearing completely. And one day, I realized something that changed everything. I was never too much. I was just surrounded by people who couldn't handle someone who felt deeply, loved loudly, and lived fully. This is the story of how I lost myself. And how I found my voice again.
Premonition by sockisdobby
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"You're a psychic! You should know things!" Finley yells. Life starts getting unexplainably mysterious for Lane and her friends. She finds her new "powers" help her decipher what is going on behind the town founding family. The family tries to throw her off their trail, she should stop looking, but something beyond the veil won't let her. The town's founding family's success is intertwined with twisted dark magic and Lane, a psychic, unknowingly gets mixed up and starts to investigate. A/N: Hi! This is my first story in a while so sorry if its bad but I really want to make this a tv show but I can't right now so I hope you enjoy it! P.S. Loosely based off real-life events.
The Assassin of Time by RedPetal49
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Carried to a fantasy future by a dark-eyed, time-traveling stranger, can Leonor overcome the guilt that haunts her and fulfill her destiny... while navigating her growing attraction to her newfound protector? Leonor, a student at present-day Harvard, would do anything for the people she holds dear: her roommates, her beloved little brother - and the brilliant but eccentric Professor Mosey, the mentor to whom she faithfully delivers meals three times a day while he conducts secret chemistry experiments that have earned him the nickname The Batty Professor. One night, Leonor's world is shattered when mysterious and deadly spies arrive at Professor Mosey's office to steal the discovery he made just hours earlier: a chemical solution that, when consumed, allows humans to time-travel. When Leonor becomes the spies' next target, she has no escape - until a man with midnight-black eyes whisks her three hundred years into the future. There, she discovers a world whose most powerful figure harbors dark plans to use Professor Mosey's time-travel solution to transform all of reality: past, present, and future. Plans that can be stopped, if at all, only by a secret that Leonor possesses. To prevent her enemy's designs from taking shape, Leonor will need the help of the newfound protector who carried her to the future, a man defined by his rigidly disciplined nature. Together, the two must navigate a city of elites, servants, mysteries, and masquerade balls. Their quest will require them to confront painful secrets from their own pasts, but Leonor is determined to do whatever it takes to save the world from doom. To save her family and friends. And to save the man with whom she has begun to share an attraction as unexpected as it is undeniable and irresistible. *** The first few story parts are long, then the parts become shorter. Hope you enjoy it! ***
The Shadow Within by kal_ss
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"His stare promised death. It was a promise that he'd made many years ago, and now he was back to follow through with it at last." Willa and her friends are enjoying their night partying to celebrate her twenty-first birthday, when their lives are abruptly upended and thrown into disarray as they're cast from the human world they know so well. They find themselves in Faerie, a land fraught with perils and magic and a myriad of unworldly creatures, both good and bad. Willa is confronted by her past and who she once was when she comes face to face with an old foe she thought she would never see again, and her friends must quickly adjust to this strange, new land and survive the hardships and trials that are thrown their way. Together they must travel through the fae kingdoms, each more treacherous than the last, and restore balance to the world Willa had once called home. But there are forces of malevolence at work, the kind of evil that thrives off misery and only exists to bring chaos to Faerie and all it's inhabitants, and they will do everything in their power to stop Willa and her friends from fulfilling their destinies.