- home - all stories     list by rating     list by author     list by date added     list by length - all collections     list by rating     list by author     list by date added     list by length - contemporary stories - classic stories - new titles - authors A-Z subgenres: - alternate and future histories - humorous | | | | | Page    1  2  3  |  Next   1-2 Phase in Space by Paul O'Neill Humorous Sci-Fi tale of how the world could be. - Date Added: June 2001 - Length: 2 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later   3-4 Professor Panini by Matthew Grigg Professor Panini is too clever for his own good. - Date Added: December 2008 - Length: 3 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Time, Again by Tim Maly "Before we met, you showed me your diary." - Date Added: October 2006 - Length: 3 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later They're Made out of Meat by Terry Bisson A conversation about an unusual discovery. - Date Added: October 2004 - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later   5-9 A Most Ambitious Experiment by Mike Krath A perfectly simple time travel experiment is made increasingly complex by the involvement of the inventor's other half. - Date Added: May 2000 - Length: 5 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Return by Fernando Sorrentino A man is the only witness to an accidental killing and the bizarre series of events that follow. - Date Added: February 2001 - Length: 6 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Tobermory by Saki Revealing the dangers of giving previously dumb animals the power of speech. Especially cats. - Date Added: October 1999 - Length: 7 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Pumping Up Napoleon by Maria Donovan Napoleon is resurrected and meets a young lady. - Date Added: June 2006 - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: 15   - view comments   - mark for later   10-14 Paris, at Night by Sung J. Woo "You grow memory like a crop, and when you want to, you harvest it." - Date Added: February 2009 - Length: 10 pages - Age Rating: 15   - view comments   - mark for later An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popular ever episode of The Twighlight Zone. - Date Added: March 2000 - Length: 11 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker Intended as a short companion for Stoker's 'Dracula' we join the narrator as he begins a coach trip on the mysterious 'Walpurgis' night. - Date Added: March 2001 - Length: 13 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Time, Art & Criticism by Paul Trembling What is art? And who decides? The artist or the critic? - Date Added: November 2007 - Length: 13 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones When the ugly girl decides to find herself a husband she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for. - Date Added: December 2008 - Length: 14 pages - Age Rating: 15   - view comments   - mark for later   15-19 No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens A frightened railway signal-man is plagued by premonitions of distasters. - Date Added: September 2001 - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London The story of a destructive rivalry between two brilliant scientists. - Date Added: November 1999 - Length: 16 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving A man drinks a magic potion and sleeps through the American Revolution. Classic reworking of a European folk-tale. - Date Added: March 2001 - Length: 16 pages - Age Rating: U   - view comments   - mark for later The Big Deal by Jamie Brindle Quince sells death. No wonder he likes his job. - Date Added: January 2006 - Length: 17 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later   20-29 The Other Option by Jamie Brindle Quince returns to the life-selling business, but this time he's got competition - Date Added: February 2009 - Length: 21 pages - Age Rating: 15   - view comments   - mark for later The Horla by Guy de Maupassant Creeping paranoia becomes something altogether more sinister, but is it madness or has he discovered a plot that threatens humanity. - Date Added: June 2001 - Length: 27 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter. - Date Added: September 2002 - Length: 28 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Page    1  2  3  |  Next

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