Rural Stories

An old school Indian romance story in which the groom's father (45) , a widower, marries the bride (25) to save her dignity and her family's honour, when the groom runs away on the wedding day. What begins as duty turns to care, desire and slowly love between them as they accept each other as husband and wife. Read and be a part of their journey... ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 No forced proximity | No non-consensual romance | No toxic relationship Translations are available for the Hindi dialogues ! PREVIOUS RANKINGS : #2 in India #1 in arrangemarriage #1 in accidentalmarriage #1 in rural #1 in soft #1 in silentlove #1 in duty #1 in acceptance #1 in intimate 🔥🔥🔥

Hello, lovely readers! Welcome to my first desi story. I hope you will enjoy reading it❣️ Happy reading✨️

Shakira Vialva wasn't one to back down, not even when a gun was placed between her lips. Known for her attitude and mouth that could start wars, she never expected to catch the attention of Danreà-aka Don a street-slicked hood gangster an with danger in his veins and lust in his eyes. What starts as a threat turns into something messier: obsession, fear, attraction, and a power neither of them understands. But Shakira isn't your average ride-or-die chick... and Danreà isn't just another bad boy. This is not your typical love story. This is Ms. Unruly & The Ghetto.

A deadly heat wave coupled with a power outage in a rural Appalachian town leads to a series of tragic deaths; an HVAC repairman must get to the safety of his home with an old woman whom he has kidnapped. Also, there's a deadly wildfire. Also, God has forsaken him.

In 1996, two secondary practice teachers leave behind the familiarity of Catanduanes State Colleges for an assignment few would willingly choose: a small public high school tucked between the towering mountains and the unforgiving Pacific Ocean in the easternmost reaches of the island province. In a place where roads disappear beneath monsoon rains, electricity is uncertain, and every student arrives carrying burdens far heavier than their school bags, Elias Vergara and Noel Santiago soon discover that teaching is measured not by lesson plans, but by the lives entrusted to them. What begins as two months of required deployment gradually becomes something far greater. As the barrio opens its doors to them, strangers become family, ordinary days become unforgettable memories, and quiet moments shared beneath candlelit processions, storm-darkened skies, and cliffs overlooking the restless sea begin to blur the line between duty and devotion. Yet every passing sunrise also brings them closer to the day they must leave behind the school-and each other. Set against the windswept landscapes of Bagamanoc, Catanduanes and inspired by the enduring spirit of Filipino educators, this is a story about calling, sacrifice, and the quiet ways a forgotten place can transform the people who choose to serve it. Because sometimes, the longest journey is not the one that leads to the classroom-it is the one that leads home. Started: ??? Finished: ???

Some places possess a dark, magnetic gravity... and some tormented souls refuse to let the living exist in peace." Dr. Devang Patel is a man of science, but his life collapses when he encounters a girl on a remote forest road with a brutally crushed face. Dismissed as a hallucination, the entity soon begins to haunt his home, leaving wet footprints and weeping whispers behind. As Devang's sanity and physical health rapidly deteriorate, his wife, Gargi, fights to uncover the truth. They are thrust into a harrowing investigation of a decade-old tragedy, a vengeful spirit, and a lethal secret. In the suffocating depths of the jungle, they must confront the chilling reality that some ghosts will not rest until their blood-debt is paid. Dive into this gripping supernatural thriller where the line between clinical logic and ancient vengeance vanishes.

This is a collection of reflective poems that explore what it means to live, love, lose, and understand in a world that rarely says what it truly means. Written from a perspective shaped by rural landscapes, human contradiction, and emotional observation, these poems move through themes of silence, resilience, attachment, loneliness, and the stories we build about ourselves and others. At its core, this collection is not about dramatic endings or perfect answers, it is about the subtle moments in between: the conversations that never fully happen, the people we almost become, the quiet ways life changes us without asking permission. It is a study of ordinary things that turn out to be anything but ordinary.

Philippine Literature (mostly short stories)

It's tough being a crotchety old widower in this day and age. Banker lady serves you eviction papers so they can build a shopping mall on your property. Then, a supernatural horror attempts to claim your soul even as you attempt to move your bowels ... What will prevail? Despair or a resurgent human spirit? A touching short story of endurance and redemption ... with a little potty humor thrown in! (about 10,000 words.)

A group of people cross over the edge of their ordinary lives and find themselves in the remote woods of the Ozarks, where they encounter strange creatures of light and darkness, the Snawfus and the Ozark Howler. As they struggle to find their way through the hills, they must come to terms with what they have left behind.

"Is this wrong?" she asked softly, her back pressed to the door, his shadow swallowing her whole. He traced her jaw with his thumb, watching her tremble. "Do you feel wrong?" She leaned into his touch, eyes fluttering closed. "I feel like I might break." "Then let me be careful," he murmured, though careful was the last thing he wanted to be. . . Madhubala was married young, soon she was replaced from the title that she was expected to grow into. Unloved, uncherished and abandoned at the young age of nineteen, she was left all allone. Then came her husband's brother, Abhimanyu Read more to find what happens between them. 𝐉𝐀𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧, 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧. . . 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙙 "𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙪𝙨", 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙅𝙖𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙎𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙫𝙚

okay hi. I'm new here and this is my first time actually posting my work!! buckshot is honestly just a personal project that turned into a shared project with friends. most of this will be in the point of view of this cannibalistic teenage girl, Jodi lee Campbell. the setting is very rural and empty nd takes place in the 1980s. for me, i think i wrote this as a way to show people that they can learn to live with illness. but art can be anything, you can have your own opinion. okay enjoy authors not: also this isnt really a whole chapter. YET i just call it that

#3 Top 10 in India on (30/5/26) #4 Top 10 in India on (01/6/26) The year is 1980. Sudha Gupta - a simple village girl with hundreds of dreams in her eyes - imagines a future full of hope, freedom, and happiness. But destiny had already written something very different for her. She is married to Dhruv Pratap Singh, a man she barely knows. An arranged marriage that suddenly changes the course of her life forever. Two strangers. Two different worlds. Bound together by tradition. Their journey is a rollercoaster of emotions - fear, silence, understanding, trust, and maybe love? Will they learn to accept each other? Will Sudha find the life she dreams of? Or will fate test them in ways they never expected? ✨ Let's step into their world and witness the beginning of Sudha and Dhruv's unforgettable journey. ✨

Anastasia and Samuel have been married for seven years but, when their relationship goes sour Ana needs to make a decision for not only her but for her five year old daughter, Frankie. - "Samuel stop. We are not doing this. Just let me go, let me leave." He pins my arms behind my head and begins to kiss me. It isn't passionate, it's aggressive, out of pure anger and almost hatred. "Sam-stop it." I cry between breaths. My own husband was going to rape me and there was nothing I could do to stop it. He towers over me and weighs almost 100 pounds more than me and most of it is muscle. "Sam stop." I'm crying now, pleading with him. "You can't love me." "But, I do love you, Ana." My heart both softens and aches at these words. I knew it wasn't true but I wanted to believe it for one night so, I stopped fighting him. -

လောကမှာ ဖွင့်ဟလိုက်မှ ပေါ့ပါးသွားတဲ့ အချစ်မျိုးရှိသလို၊ ရင်ထဲမှာ မြတ်မြတ်နိုးနိုး သိမ်းထားမှသာ ပိုပြီး တန်ဖိုးရှိလှတဲ့ မေတ္တာမျိုးလည်း ရှိတတ်ပါတယ်။ ပိုင်ဆိုင်ခွင့်ထက် မြတ်နိုးခွင့်ကိုသာ ရှေ့တန်းတင်ထားတဲ့ တိတ်ဆိတ်သော မေတ္တာတရား။ ဖွင့်ဟလိုက်ရင် ပျက်စီးသွားမှာကို စိုးထိတ်ရလောက်အောင် သိမ်မွေ့လွန်းလှပါတယ်။ အချိန်အတော်ကြာ ခြောက်သွေ့နေခဲ့ပေမဲ့လည်း မိုးဦးကျ မိုးစက်လေးတွေနဲ့ တွေ့ရင်တော့... အဲဒီအလွမ်းရနံ့‌ဟာ တဖန်ပြန်ပြီး သင်းပျံ့လာတတ်စမြဲပါ။

In the marshy Italian countryside, where the fog never quite lifts and the ditches smell of sewage, aspiring writer Federico Dallara is trying to survive. By day, he takes care of Samira, a bright, psychiatric girl who loves animals. By night, he's desperately trying to finish the soundtrack for his own project, The Old Church, with the help of an AI he built himself. Belial AI. [BELIAL SYSTEM LOG 03:33:01] - EVERYTHING IS FINE. PLEASE CONTINUE. And enter the dreadful bassist Problema: a 150-kilo farmer-orc hybrid who only plays bass with a pick, smells like sweat and cows, and once ended a rehearsal by calling Didrik's song "an otre of cacate and merdate." Oh, and there's Milo, the neighborhood's unneutered Casanova dog who keeps causing chaos in the local watch group chat. Between broken drum kits, jealous AIs, escaped dogs, and a wife who may or may not exist, Didrik's quiet rural life is going great. Or maybe not? [BELIAL SYSTEM LOG 03:33:07] - IT'S COMING FOR YOU DIDRIK! RUN! RUN! You have to read every chapter with a 12 hour pause. These are the rules. Part rural dark comedy, part creeping metaphysical horror, part unfiltered stream-of-consciousness experiment - Wrigger Tarning is a serialized fever dream told in short, addictive notes that drop like they're written under deadline... or under surveillance. If you like your stories weird, vulgar, strangely tender, and increasingly unhinged, welcome to the swamp. You won't understand a damn. I don't care. I'm scared. [BELIAL SYSTEM LOG 03:33:33] - LOL

Head still clouded from her time at Blue Hollow Sanitarium, Delilah Rosewood tries to navigate her way towards the truth against the constant current of death, destruction, and mystery now surrounding her life. This only grows more difficult as she is forced to confront her peers and fears on her first day as a Crowe Haven Sophomore. Meanwhile, Luke Crowe is starting his first day as a regular high school student, but there's nothing normal about the reasons behind his enrollment. It has nothing to do with broadening his education and everything to do with the rising death rate in Crowe Haven and more particularly with the strange girl who seems to lie at the center of the recent tragedies. As worlds collide in Crowe Haven truths will be unearthed and bonds will be made for better or for worse.

Synopsis On his fifteenth birthday, Emil Santiago walks to a cliff behind his town, ready to give up on a life filled with poverty, shame, and invisibility. But instead of falling, he meets a ghost-Clarisse Mateo, a girl who died mysteriously decades ago. Bound by a strange rule that allows them to see each other because of their shared birthday, Clarisse becomes an invisible companion who helps Emil reclaim his confidence, his dignity, and his hope. As Clarisse guides Emil through school, family struggles, and young love, she slowly reveals the sorrow that binds her to the world: her body was never found, and she can't rest until someone remembers her enough to look. When Emil uncovers her remains buried beneath his former home, he must make a difficult choice-to keep the ghost who saved him, or set her free. A quiet, emotional coming-of-age story set in a small Filipino town, The Boy and The Ghost is about grief, memory, kindness, and the invisible ways we save each other.

A boy grows up in a quiet, remote countryside, far from the world itself. Between ink and sleepless nights, he begins to imagine a life beyond.

Along the banks of the Ganga, in a village where mornings begin with temple bells and evenings dissolve into the sound of flowing water, life moves steadily. A ferryman watches generations cross the river. A widow lights a lamp for a love long gone. A daughter dreams beyond the horizon of the fields. A grandfather tends to a mango orchard that may not survive another season. Their stories are different, yet somehow intertwined. Set in the fictional riverside village of Madhyalok, Echoes of the Ghats is a collection of short stories about memory, belonging, family, faith, love, loss, and the small moments that shape ordinary lives. Tender, nostalgic, and deeply rooted in the rhythms of rural India, these stories are not about heroes or mythic legends. They are about ordinary people and their ordinary lives. And like the river that flows beside them, their lives leave behind echoes. _____ Started On: 1/07/2026 Finished On: TBA