• Home /
  • Search By Tags

Despair stories, books, poems, and more

940 results    

Related Tags:

despair, love, death, hope, pain, depression, sadness, life, sad, dark, hate, loss, poetry, loneliness, darkness, hurt, romance, suicide, sorrow, fear, anger, alone, hopelessness, horror, lost, heart, family, fantasy, tears, grief, heartbreak, war, poem, friendship, helplessness, night, lonely, god, abuse, fiction, broken, cry, dreams, faith, lies, misery, suffering, blood, dream, heaven
In a land called Obscuria, there is a war going on. The country is defenceless against a powerful enemy who's got many followers, but despite all of that, its civilians refuse to lose hope. The greatest reason for that is the existence of Melinda Grey, a legendary warrior whose skill… Read More

Tags: war, hope, despair, shadows, goodvsevil

Tags: death, war, hope, life, despair

This is my first attempt to write a Terza Rima Open Sonnet. Although each line consists of eleven syllables, there is no real meter because I can't hear (and can't figure out) where the word stresses are. It is traditional in the sense that it follows the Terza Rima rhyming… Read More

Tags: love, romance, despair, breakup, break-up

Tags: love, fantasy, despair, reality, humanity

A grim adventure set in an alternate reality where Dragons are to be feared as much as the Tyrant in the neighbouring Kingdom. Dark whispers are carried across the winds, and Khain, a grizzled Dragonslayer, answers them as best he can....with Bone, and tempered Steel. His story will be updated… Read More

Tags: fantasy, despair, adventure, grimdark, fatalist

A poem born of despaired musings at what the US has continued to be. Read More

Tags: despair, politics, observations, cynical, musings

There is no pit too deep... Read More

Tags: dark, despair, night, darkness, christian

Tags: hope, despair, impotence, guilt

Tags: despair, pain, alone, lonely, solitude

Tags: despair, hopelessness, dark-thoughts

Book / Horror

March 27, 2023

Reads: 354

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A cosmic horror short story collection. Read More

Tags: hope, despair, supernatural, eldritch, cosmichorror

A man in his late thirties falls in love with a teenage girl and it changed him whether for better or worse it is hard to tell. The following account is his attempt to explain his feelings to his buddies. Read More

Tags: love, romance, despair

Book / Fantasy

December 31, 2022

Reads: 27206

Comments: 20

Shelves: 4

The Booksie Classic House

When war strikes the lands of Obscuria, a woman called Melinda and her boyfriend are forced to part ways. However, she won't let it stay so. With no friends and family left to back her up, she rides off to the battlefront. There, she sees what horrible things the enemy… Read More

Tags: fantasy, war, hope, despair, shadows

Horror philosophy about trying to find a way out of grief. Who will help to do it? Read More

Tags: horror, despair, way-out

Poem / Poetry

October 08, 2022

Reads: 189

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: despair, alienation, solitude, phonograph, gramophone

Does true love exists? What a person can do for beloved one? Read More

Tags: love, despair, choice

lol hs writing Read More

Tags: despair, teen-love

Poem / Poetry

July 31, 2022

Reads: 244

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: love, death, life, despair, rain

3.23.22 Read More

Tags: despair, future, mental-health

"Every 100 years, the moon shall shine topaz, lighting the way for those enveloped in despair. Whosoever is fated to live in the light, will be gifted with love on the night of the topaz moon." ??? I have always lived a life of tragedy and despair. I never thought… Read More

Tags: romance, despair, drama, truth, redemption

An existential contrast of cultures Read More

Tags: despair, alienation, haitian-vodou

Originally written in the year 2000, this is one of my more experimental poems. It's a narrative prose poem, so the lines between poem and story are somewhat blurred. Read More

Tags: love, despair, alienation, madness

Back to more serious essays (after posting a few cartoons). This doesn't imply optimism (because it's unlikely we'll learn in time), but it's also not pessimistic entirely (because nothing really stops us from learning other than the doubt that we can). So read this as a fiction, not non-fiction. Since… Read More

Tags: death, despair, change, doom, extinction

Short Story / Other

December 11, 2021

Reads: 553

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

The Review Chain House

Tags: hope, despair, christmas, sun, santa

Tags: love, abuse, despair, sadness, shame

Poem / Poetry

December 01, 2021

Reads: 258

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: despair, disappointment, bitterness

Tags: family, despair, relations

A General Feel Of The State of Affairs... Read More

Tags: romance, hope, despair, pain, remorse

Short Story / Science Fiction

September 13, 2021

Reads: 423

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This drabble tells the story of a man and Emily, a woman very dear to him, who lived to see a new and wondrous era of humanity, but he was the one who saw how it would end. Read More

Tags: hope, despair, utopia, letter, sciencefiction

Book / Action and Adventure

August 24, 2021

Reads: 10475

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

All actions have consequences. Not all consequences become apparent straight away, some can take years to have an effect. And isn't it funny what can be said when talking to a man in a pub. William said a lot in the pub over the span of a few days and… Read More

Tags: love, death, despair, betrayal, character

Dawn of AI Short Story Contest 2023 image

Welcome New Writers

jonwinfloorsadelaide
Beth Chew
Paro
lullabies
Ales' Zhmen'ka
rodsik