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Words From
Lived Reality

Stories born from what we live, feel, witness, and remember.

Real stories. Meaningful voices. A kinder tomorrow.

The Imprint

Where lived experiences find their words.

Words From Lived Reality is an author-led imprint created to bring original writing, books, essays and reflections into one home. At present, the imprint publishes the founder's own work and is not accepting manuscript submissions from outside authors.

Current status: Independent author imprint — own publications only. This website is an official home for the author's writing and forthcoming books.
Books

Stories in different stages.

The WLR catalogue grows in its own time — with clear space for published, soon-to-release, and developing work.

Available NowThe Two Worlds — Part 1 is the currently published title.
Releasing SoonBUZU — The Human I Met · The Incomplete Story · Spill The Tea
Upcoming ProjectsThe Two Worlds Part 2 — The Return of King Iyad, plus 11 further books under development.

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Available Now

The Two Worlds Part 1

Beyond Belief Truth of the Other World.

Evelyn is haunted by recurring nightmares of a woman who seems to have lost everything—while an entire world appears to be crying with her. And when the name Iyad keeps breaking through the dream, one question refuses to disappear: is it only a dream, or a truth reaching across another world?

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Releasing Soon

BUZU — The Human I Met

A tale of love, friendship, kindness, and finding home.

Buzu is a happy Alaskan Malamute puppy who loves his home and family—until he is taken far away to a city he cannot understand. Hurt and confused, he begins to believe every human is the same, until Kevin shows him that kindness, friendship and love can still heal what the world has broken.

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The Incomplete Story

The Ring That Made the Difference.

Seven years after Jennifer Richardson vanished without a trace, Rehaan is about to discover that her disappearance is connected to him in a way he never saw coming. A forgotten encounter, an unfinished story and a truth buried for seven years begin pulling the past back into the present.

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Releasing Soon

Spill The Tea

Some stories should never be shared.

Upcoming Projects

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Upcoming Project

The Two Worlds Part 2 — The Return of King Iyad

The Two Worlds series continues. Expected release: December 2027.

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Upcoming Project

The Hunter Becomes the Haunted

Genre: Paranormal Mystery / Psychological Horror
A hunter enters a haunted place and discovers that some ghosts don’t want to scare you—they want to be understood.

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Upcoming Project

The Dorm — Room No. 313

Genre: Horror / Mystery
Room 313 has a door that should never be opened. Behind it lies a mystery where the blood is only the beginning.

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Upcoming Project

Mystery Behind My Wife’s Murder

Genre: Murder Mystery / Psychological Thriller
A murdered wife. A trail of lies. And a truth buried deep enough to make the mystery itself dangerous.

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Upcoming Project

The Angel From Above

Genre: Spiritual Fiction / Drama
When everything ends, heaven chooses that moment to speak. A broken man hears a voice that changes the course of his life.

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Upcoming Project

Evil Is He — Story 1

Genre: Crime / Psychological Thriller
Some people chase justice. He defines evil. In a game of power, crime and deception, the real question is—who is the criminal?

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Upcoming Project

Earthian — The Day I Realised I Am a Human

Genre: Speculative Fiction / Social Drama
Same Earth. Different boundaries. Different realities. Still human. A story about borders, prejudice, and the fragile hope that survives between them.

Featured Quotes

Words to carry with you.

A few words from the WLR collection — for the moments when a sentence says what we could not.

Sometimes, surviving changes you more than suffering ever could.

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Not every silence means peace. Some silences are where the truth is hiding.

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Truth does not always arrive to save you. Sometimes, it arrives simply to set you free.

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Reality is rarely divided into good and evil. Most of the time, it is divided by what people choose to do with their pain.

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Every life carries a story that the world never learned to ask about.

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Lived Reality

Behind the stories, there is a life that lived them.

A more personal space for glimpses of real experience, observations, creative beginnings and the moments that quietly become part of a writer's world.

Featured Experience

Why I Can Write What I Write

Some stories feel real because they are born from observation, experience and the things life teaches us along the way.

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Lived Experience

The Things Life Never Taught Me Gently

Growing through ups and downs, disappointment, broken trust and struggle — and learning what each season leaves behind.

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Behind the Writing

Behind Every Character, There Is a Little Reality

Why the people in a story can feel uncomfortably familiar: because real life teaches us how complicated people can be.

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Reflection

I Have Seen Both Sides of People

Loyalty, betrayal, kindness, hypocrisy and the many faces people carry — lessons that find their way into fiction.

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A Quiet Truth

The One Who Always Listened

There were things that could only be cried out in solitude — and a connection that made those moments feel heard.

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Articles

Small truths. Bigger questions.

Short, precise pieces on life, people, relationships, society and the everyday truths we often feel but rarely say aloud.

Featured Article

Not Everyone Who Smiles at You Is Happy for You

A quiet look at hidden competition, comparison and the difference between kindness and performance.

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Featured Article

Why We Outgrow People We Once Loved

Sometimes distance is not betrayal. Sometimes it is simply growth taking a different direction.

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Featured Article

The Difference Between Being Alone and Being Lonely

Solitude can be peaceful. Loneliness is something else entirely.

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Featured Article

When Being the Strong One Gets Tiring

A reminder that resilience does not mean you never need somewhere to put your weight down.

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Founded By

Husna Hanif Shaikh

Independent Author & Publisher

Writing at the intersection of people, places, emotions, experiences and stories — with the hope that words can leave the world a little kinder than they found it.

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