Stories by @mr95

Sinners of Saint: Ruckus

They say that life is a beautiful lie and death a painful truth. They're right. No one has ever made me feel more alive than the guy who serves as a constant reminder that my clock is ticking. He is my forbidden, shiny apple. The striking fallacy to my blunt, raw, truth. He is also my sister's ex-boyfriend. One thing you should know before you judge me; I saw him first. I craved him first. I loved him first. Eleven years later, he waltzes into my life, demanding a second chance. Dean Cole wants to be my bronze horseman. But my clock is ticking. See, I'm not like the rest. I have an illness. Sometimes I conquer it. Sometimes it conquers me. My white knight has finally arrived. Hopefully, he isn't too late.

Sinners of Saint: Vicious

Emilia They say love and hate are the same feelings experienced under different circumstances, and it’s true. The man who comes to me in my dreams also haunts me in my nightmares. He is a brilliant lawyer. A skilled criminal. A beautiful liar. A bully and a savior, a monster and a lover. Ten years ago, he made me run away from the small town where we lived. Now, he came for me in New York, and he isn’t leaving until he takes me with him. Vicious She is a starving artist. Pretty and evasive like cherry blossom. Ten years ago, she barged into my life unannounced and turned everything upside down. She paid the price. Emilia LeBlanc is completely off-limits, my best friend’s ex-girlfriend. The woman who knows my darkest secret, and the daughter of the cheap Help we hired to take care of our estate. That should deter me from chasing her, but it doesn’t. So she hates me. Big fucking deal. She better get used to me.

Sinners of Saint: Defy

First included in Hot for Teacher Anthology: 19 Stories Filled with Lust and Love. My name is Melody Greene, and I have a confession to make. I slept with my student, a senior in high school. Multiple times. I had multiple orgasms. In multiple positions. I slept with my student and I enjoyed it. I slept with my student and I’d do it all over again if I could turn back time. My name is Melody Greene, and I got kicked out of my position as a teacher and did my walk of shame a la Cersei Lannister from the principal’s office, minutes after said principal threatened to call the cops on me. My name is Melody Greene, and I did something bad because it made me feel good. Here is why it was totally worth it.

Devil's Night: Nightfall

EMORY They call it Blackchurch. A secluded mansion in a remote, undisclosed location where the wealthy and powerful send their misbehaving sons to cool off away from prying eyes. Will Grayson has always been an animal, though. Reckless, wild, and someone who was never bound by a single rule other than to do exactly what he wanted. There was no way his grandfather was going risk him humiliating the family again. Not that the last time was entirely his fault. He might’ve enjoyed backing me into corners in high school when no one was looking, so they wouldn’t catch on that Mr. Popular actually wanted a piece of that quiet, little nerd he loved to torture so much, but… He could also be warm. And fierce in keeping me safe. The truth is… He has a right to hate me. It’s all my fault. Everything. Devils Night. The videos. The arrests. I’m to blame for all of it. And I regret nothing. WILL I never minded being locked up. I learned a long time ago that being treated like an animal gives you permission to act like one. No one has ever looked at me any other way. Their only mistake is believing anything I do is an accident. I can sit in this house with no Internet, television, liquor, or girls, but I’ll come out of here with something far more frightening to my enemies. A plan. And a new pack of wolves. I just didn’t expect one of my enemies to come to me. I don’t know who smuggled her in or if they meant to leave her here, but I can smell her hiding in the house. She’s here. And as the security detail leaves the supplies, the gates close, and the door to my gilded cage opens, giving me free reign of the house and grounds for another unsupervised month, I remember with a smile… Blackchurch houses five prisoners. I’m only one of her problems.

Devil's Night: Kill Switch

WINTER Sending him to prison was the worst thing I could've done. It didn't matter that he did the crime or that I wished he was dead. Perhaps I thought I'd have time to disappear before he got out or he'd cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was. But I was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and now he's anything but calm. Prison only gave him time to plan. And while I anticipated his vengeance, I didn't expect this. He doesn't want to make me hurt. He wants to make everything hurt. DAMON First thing's first. Get rid of her daddy. He told them I forced her. He told them his little girl was a victim, but I was a kid, too, and she wanted it just as much as I did. Step two... Give her, her sister, and her mother nowhere to run and no fuel to escape. The Ashby women are alone now and desperate for a knight in shining armor. But that's not what's coming. No, it's time I listened to my father and took control of my future. It's time I showed them all--my family, her family, my friends--that I will never change and that I have no other ambition than to be the nightmare of their lives. Starting with her. She'll be so scared, she won't even be safe in her own head by the time I'm done with her. And the best part is I won't have to break into her home to do it. As the new man of the house I have all the keys.

Devil's Night: Hideaway

BANKS Buried in the shadows of the city, there's a hotel called The Pope. Ailing, empty, and dark, it sits abandoned and surrounded by a forgotten mystery. But you think it's true, don't you, Kai Mori? The story about the hidden twelfth floor. The mystery of the dark guest who never checked in and never checks out. You think I can help you find that secret hideaway and get to him, don't you? You and your friends can try to scare me. You can try to push me. Because even though I struggle to hide everything I feel when you look at me--and have ever since I was a girl--I think maybe what you seek is so much closer than you'll ever realize. I will never betray him. So sit tight. On Devil's Night, the hunt will be coming to you. KAI You have no idea what I seek, Little One. You don't know what I had to become to survive three years in prison for a crime I would gladly commit again. No one can know what I've turned into. I want that hotel, I want to find him, and I want this over. I want my life back. But the more I'm around you, the more I realize this new me is exactly who I was meant to be. So come on, kid. Don't chicken out. My house is on the hill. So many ways in, and good luck finding your way out. I've seen your hideaway. Time to see mine.

Devil's Night: Corrupt

Erika I was told that dreams were our heart's desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. His name is Michael Crist. My boyfriend's older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. He's handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team and now gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. But I noticed him. I saw him. I heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid... For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. Now, I've graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven't stopped watching Michael. He's bad, and the dirt I've seen isn't content to stay in my head anymore. Because he's finally noticed me. Michael Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. My brother's girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven't had her body, I know that I have her mind. That's all I really want anyway. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. In my city. Unprotected. The opportunity is too good to be true, as well as the timing. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they're out. We've waited. We've been patient. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true.

White Noise Inheritance

When Marta Leão's twin sister dies of an overdose in a Cascais villa owned by a billionaire she had been seeing secretly, Marta — a civil rights lawyer — begins pulling at the threads of her sister's last six months. What she uncovers is a network of men who trade in the vulnerability of young women the way others trade in commodities: carefully, legally, and with perfect deniability. The four episodes are structured as escalating confrontations — each one stripping away another layer of what Marta thought she knew about her sister, about the men involved, and about herself. Ferocious, grief-soaked, and precise, the series names a kind of violence that rarely gets named.

Feral Season

Carla Braga is a wildlife photographer who has spent six years documenting predator behaviour in remote wilderness — and quietly using those assignments to run from a violent relationship she escaped but never truly left. When a solo expedition in the Alentejo backcountry goes wrong and she is stranded with an injury and no signal, the film becomes two parallel survival stories: the physical one, unfolding across harsh terrain, and the psychological one — the memories she can no longer outrun when there is nowhere left to go. Shot on location in Portugal's interior, Feral Season is about a woman who is better at surviving in the wild than in the world she came from, and the reckoning that arrives when both become the same place.

The Lisbon Protocol

Ana Vidal is a Portuguese intelligence analyst stationed in Brussels whose cover identity — the elegant wife of a senior EU diplomat — has become so total that she is no longer certain where Ana ends and the performance begins. When she intercepts communications suggesting her own handler has been running a parallel operation that has gotten two field agents killed, she goes off-book to find the truth, operating without backup across Lisbon, Madrid, and Istanbul. The series is less about espionage mechanics than about a woman who has spent a decade being everything everyone needed her to be, and the ferocious clarity that arrives when she decides to stop.

Bloodline Covenant

Sofia Mares has spent twelve years building distance from her family — a Porto crime dynasty that controls half the city's waterfront through legitimate business and the other half through fear. When her estranged father is found dead under circumstances the police declare an accident and everyone else knows is a message, Sofia returns — not to mourn but to find out which of her three brothers pulled the trigger, and why. The series unfolds across five violent, elegant episodes that refuse to let Sofia be either a victim or a hero: she is a woman navigating a world built entirely on male aggression, using the only tools the family ever taught her.

A Beira do Abismo

Isabel Fonseca grew up watching her mother disappear into a marriage built on beautiful lies and slow violence. Now thirty-two, she is a Lisbon-based investigative journalist who has spent a decade exposing powerful men — until the most powerful one she has ever targeted turns the machinery of investigation back on her. What begins as a professional siege becomes deeply personal when she discovers her subject has been systematically monitoring her private life for two years. Shot across Lisbon's rain-slicked streets and coastal cliffs of Sintra, Edge of the Abyss is a film about a woman who has made aggression her armour, and what happens when someone finally gets underneath it.

After the Fire

Three sisters return to their childhood home in the Louisiana Gulf Coast after a wildfire destroys their mother's property — and unearths a secret that recasts their entire shared history. Over four nights, old wounds, buried resentments, and a long-withheld truth pull the family apart and then, improbably, toward something like honesty. After the Fire is a chamber piece about the stories families tell to survive and the relief of finally stopping.

Sovereign

In 1960s Washington D.C., Diana Welles is the only Black woman partner at a powerful lobbying firm — a position she built through two decades of flawless performance, strategic alliance, and the near-total erasure of her private self. When a civil rights attorney threatens to expose the firm's backroom dealings with segregationist clients, Diana must decide whether to protect the institution that made her or burn it down from the inside. A portrait of power, passing, and the hidden costs of belonging.

Still Water

Two strangers — a marine biologist recovering from a near-fatal accident and a widowed architect redesigning a coastal resort — are placed in forced proximity on a barrier island off the Georgia coast. Over one long summer, they excavate each other's losses with honesty that neither expected to survive. Still Water is about two people who have learned to hold their breath and the terror of finally exhaling.

The Unraveling of Simone B.

Simone Beaumont was the most photographed fashion editor of her generation — until she walked away from everything at the height of her career and vanished for three years. The series unfolds across two timelines: the dazzling, destabilising years at the top of Parisian fashion and the quiet Louisiana bayou where Simone rebuilds, reckons with addiction, and learns to mother a daughter who barely knows her. Lush, visually opulent, and emotionally devastating.

Porcelain

Celeste Monroe is a New York art curator whose polished exterior conceals a marriage quietly dissolving and a secret creative life she has suppressed for a decade. When she discovers an anonymous street artist whose work mirrors her inner world, she begins a discreet pursuit that forces her to choose between the life she performs and the woman she buried. Shot between Manhattan gallery openings and rain-soaked Brooklyn rooftops, Porcelain is a slow-burn meditation on identity, desire, and the courage to crack.

Original Gen — Now

"They thought they outgrew the Upper East Side. They were wrong." Twenty years on. The original group — Blair, Chuck, Serena, Nate, Dan, and the peripheral players who shaped them — are in their mid-forties and have built, or dismantled, the lives they seemed destined for. Season 1 reunites them around a landmark Constance Billard fundraiser that becomes a social war zone when Gossip Girl resurrects — and this time, targets their children. Season 2 follows the fallout: the marriages tested, the friendships re-examined, and the question that none of them fully answered at 22 — who do you actually want to be?

Daughters of Ares

"We did not build a nation by waiting for permission." An epic following the Amazon nation across three generations — grandmother, mother, daughter — as their isolated island city-state is forced into contact with the expanding Greek world. Season 1 is the founding of Themyscira and the original compact with Ares. Season 2 follows the granddaughter's decision to send warriors into Greece for the first time. Season 3 is the Trojan War from the Amazon perspective — the women who chose which side to fight on and why.

The Wine-Dark Sea

"He was not a hero. He was a man who refused to drown." Not a retelling of the Odyssey — but a new sailor, Nikias of Corinth, whose voyage home after the Trojan War takes him through the same mythological waters in a different sequence. He is not Odysseus: he is less clever, less chosen, and more honest about his fear. He is accompanied by the six surviving crew members of a ship that no longer exists. Each island and monster they encounter is rendered as a genuinely alien encounter — not an adventure, but a crisis of world-understanding.