Fiction Short Stories
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Schrödinger's Baby
by Charlie Fish
Sometimes, popping out for a pint of milk is the worst thing a father can do.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 45 Comments
5 Stars
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Licence
by Bashir Sakhawarz
Your thoughts trek to all the points of the compass, but still that twist eludes you
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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Three Desert Stories 1
by Daniel Riesco
There is a bleached skeleton that holds no marrow
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
3 Stars
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Leaving Bill
by Gaynor Hill
Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 4 Comments
5 Stars
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We'll Be Returning
by John Riha
As I live and breathe, I’ll always love this cabin.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 2 Comments
3 Stars
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Three Desert Stories 2
by Daniel Riesco
The target, the target. I had little to go on.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
Autumn Starlings
by Andrea Smith
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Saving Lives
by Martin Westlake
Not for the first time, the solution came to him in the middle of the night
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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The Vandals are Coming!
by Alison Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker next door were targeted the following weekend...
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
- 3 Comments
3 Stars
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Top Short Stories
The Lady Or The Tiger?
by Frank Stockton
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 1166 Comments
5 Stars
Red, Yellow and Purple
by Andrea Smith
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 2 Comments
5 Stars
Leaving Bill
by Gaynor Hill
Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 4 Comments
5 Stars
Autumn Starlings
by Andrea Smith
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
The Dancer
by Bashir Sakhawarz
He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- 8 Comments
5 Stars
Apocalypse
by J.A. Koster
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 1 Comments
5 Stars
Snowflakes
by Louisa Campbell
It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 3 Comments
5 Stars
Strangers
by E.B. Axelrod
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- 3 Comments
5 Stars
The Cards
by Louisa Campbell
You have to play the cards you're dealt
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
- 1 Comments
5 Stars
Too Late
by Sara Loitz
"That tree," he says. "It's looking at me."
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: U
- 6 Comments
5 Stars
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