Modern Life

We walk side by side down the long crosswalk, the cool wind gently disarranging our hair as we look at the beauty of the cherry blossoms surrounding us. I look up at Isak, and his wavy brown hair is softly tossed by the breeze, his light brown eyes reflecting the soft pink of the blossoms. He was taller than I, his features pronounced from this angle, casting a tender and profound expression. Beside him, my darker characteristics—my black hair and deep brown eyes—contrast so

A teammate’s letter to a lost friend—about regret, courage, and the promise to be better.

She’s a single mom, a fighter, a lover—and even as cancer tries to take everything, she refuses to stop burning with life, laughter, and love.

A struggling writer turns her cranky barista into fiction — until life starts copying the story, one twist (and proposal) at a time.

A tense tale of fleeting encounters where admiration turns obsession, blurring intimacy into danger.

In a near-future dating game, a human and an AI flirt and deceive, each racing to unmask the other.

She thought she found love, but he vanished like a ghost — now she’s haunted by memories she can’t let go.

A chance run-in with her ex-husband forces Madelyn to confront years of love, loss, and unanswered what-ifs.

The air in Haight-Ashbury vibrated with a thousand conversations, a symphony of strummed guitars, and the scent of patchouli and freedom....

Love lingers, even when years, silence, and snow try to bury it.