Writings for adult readers (18+). Some pieces are fiction, some are personal. Enter only if you are 18 or older and legally permitted.
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by Margaux Thibodeau-Grant
Every winter she carves a hotel out of ice outside Quebec City, and every winter the same married man books the same suite. This year she carved his face into the headboard. Only she knows it's there. Only she knows what melts in April.
Oct 30, 2026
by Agata Sowińska-Lech
For six months she has learned every line, every gesture, every breath of the woman playing Lady Macbeth in Warsaw. She knows the part by heart. She knows the actress by heart too. Then one night, the voice goes.
Oct 29, 2026
by Mikkel Brahe Østergaard
She came in to cover a man's name on her hip. Five sessions, one needle, and a tattooist in Copenhagen who should never have started wanting to be the name underneath.
Oct 25, 2026
by Natsue Hayakawa-Ono
When he ended it, she gave back his key. She did not tell him about the copy. A quiet, unsettling story of love that refuses to leave the room.
Oct 25, 2026
by Mateo Ferrandiz Quiroga
A piano tuner in Buenos Aires is hired to keep a dead man's Pleyel exactly as he left it: a little flat. Every Thursday. For as long as she can bear it.
Oct 24, 2026
by Jonaki Rajkonwar
A long ballad from the banks of the Luit: a boatman's wife, a lover with a lantern, and a river that has loved her longer than either of them and will not share.
Oct 24, 2026
by Nour Abi Khattar
A widow asks a Beirut perfumer to bottle the smell of the man she lost. He studies her for weeks, note by note, and the perfume slowly stops smelling of the dead.
Oct 23, 2026