Melancholy Stories

Monika thought it was over. She had destroyed her own reality, shattered her world, erased her friends... all to escape a lie that felt too perfect. But now she's back. ...

Ziyu thought he had everything planned out. In pursuit of a happier life, he betrays his devoted wife, Meilin and asks for a divorce, driven by his affair with the allur...

What do you do when the world is quiet but your mind won't shut up? 3:04 A.M. is a haunting, intimate collection of fragmented thoughts, whispered confessions, and emoti...

these are just small pieces of our days. bus rides, streets at dusk, the kind of conversations you forget until they come back to you years later. nothing grand. just th...

MELANCHOLY | Melancholy drips from my fingertips. AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK ON AMAZON UNDER 'MELANCHOLIC MUSE' BY MAY GARNER This melancholy drips from my fingertips so s...

Some seasons never really end... they just change shape. The summer of 1994 was supposed to last forever. For Summer Daniels, it began with the hum of a BMX bike, the bo...

Lunara Iris is a memory weaver - a gifted soul who mends the pasts of others with threads of light and starlight. In a city where memories can be traded, erased, or rewr...

After the battle on the rooftop, Tsubaki leaves behind his previous life, including his subclass and a girl who loved him too much. Heartbroken, she decided to write le...

He opened one cell and chained himself to a choice. Love in a broken world. Loyalty with blood on its hands. And a mark that burns long after the gunshot fades. (This st...

Stuck between a past she can't forget and a present she can't lose, Rhea finds herself torn between two hearts. Between the comfort of the present and the ghost of her f...

I watched you fall in love with everything that wasn't me.

Struck me with your thunder, and I will glow with your lightning.

"They say they love me. But all I see is the [0/0] staring back showing the lack of it. But it's fine-I lie too. We're even." [Name] is a third-year at Hakuko...

It is hard to breathe the same air as that breathed by happy souls.

This poem shows how grief changes a person forever. It's about carrying pain deep inside and learning to live with the scars it leaves behind.

Rafael, a rising singer-songwriter, suffers from a mental block under the pressure of fame and expectations. As he spirals, his longtime girlfriend Aira struggles to sup...

These short excerpts are from my new book, "The One We Once Were." It tells the story of a forbidden love between two worlds that should never have met.

This is where all the stray scenes ended up. The ones that knocked on my door, said "we belong in your story," (even they are wrong). So I kept them anyway. B...

A city shrouded in rain, ghosts lurking in every shadow. Elias Ward's world is one of quiet darkness, where memories linger and hope feels just out of reach. But one uns...

Maybe growth is the art of losing gently.