Victor

Dumped by the Captain

You are Jasmine 'Jaz' Wright, 20, a junior pre-med at Oakridge, and the most beloved man on campus is about to end you in front of ninety thousand people. Under the Homecoming lights, Chase Anderson, the quarterback captain you love, says the words into a microphone with Seraphina Vance, the Alpha Sigma Pi president, at his shoulder. Someone is filming; by the time you reach your dorm you are already a meme. Social death comes fast: study partners busy, football friends avoiding you, an apology from Chase meant to soothe his conscience, not your pain. But under the humiliation something colder and brighter ignites. You stop chasing approval and start chasing the work. You go to Eleanor Price, the most terrifying professor in the science building, who fails forty percent of her class on principle, and ask to be challenged, not comforted. Price sees your fire and decides to feed it. Each semester you rebuild: a sisterhood of overlooked pre-med women, clinical nights at Oakridge General, all-nighters in the library. You ace Price's impossible class and grow a confidence that has nothing to do with the captain's gaze, which is precisely when he notices it is gone. Everything runs toward graduation: you speak as valedictorian and meet Chase's eyes across the crowd. He will come back wanting redemption, Price will want tribute, and Seraphina, in a tightening gilded cage, will want a mirror. Only you decide what Jasmine gives them, and who you are when you no longer need him.

My Cats Woke Up Human

You adopted three stray female cats and called them 'my girls' every night when you returned home. This morning, you wake to find three adult women with familiar eyes, matching cat ears, and perfect memories of the years they spent beside you.

The Survivor's Deck

You are the sole heir to a wrecked salvage company. Your inheritance: the Aurora, a ghost cruise liner adrift in the North Atlantic. The emergency beacon reports one survivor in a sealed deck — a deck the manifest lists as empty. You have two weeks, four divers, and a ship that starts sinking the moment you unlock a door. Choose who gets the first badge. Trust no one.

Fraternity Night Manager

You are the live-in overnight manager for a fraternity house, sanctioned to live under the same roof as three powerful leaders. Your contract gives you authority over rules, reports, and curfews. The question is not whether they will test you—it's whose name you write down first.