Levi is a nineteen-year-old asexual wizard with too many problems and not enough friends to help him with them. The magic and the price for using it is taking its toll but he refuses to give up before he has fixed what he broke eight years ago. But when magical beings start disappearing around him he is forced to ackn...
**ONC 2024 Shortlister** Heems is an energy vampire, a parasite, draining xeir hosts' energy with a single touch. That is until xe meets Shiro, a wily thief who happens to be the only person immune to Heems's parasitism. ---- Working as a doctor on dwarf planet Eris, Heems drains the energy of xeir unknowing hosts...
Kolo's life didn't end when the masked hunter caught her. It began anew. He was a disciple of the lost Iron God, whose power once kept the world alive. Now, she is too. With the whisper of this strange god in her heart and everyone looking to her for a miracle, she could build a new world...or a new hell.
"Your name is Romeo? Like the--" "--Yes, like the William Shakespeare story." ~~~~~~~~ Summer nights in the late 90s, two best friends spending their days together in a rusty neighborhood somewhere in Arizona. Except, it's the summer of 2024 but-- that doesn't matter. Juelz does matter. Juelz always matters. Maybe jus...
Annabelle hadn't wanted to burn the restaurant down initially. In all honesty, she had been in a good mood. The food smelled great, the weather was perfect, and the boy she had met on Tinder looked like an absolute snack in all his pictures. But then, he rocked up to the date half an hour late, without an apology. W...
One likes to fight. One hides the truth. One keeps them all in line. Nadia, Jax, and Angelo are triplets from the imaginary city of New Canton. Their parents have been selling drugs for years, absent from their lives. As a result, the teenagers have learned to sell, fight, and keep everything afloat. Almost eighteen...
One Midsummer night. Two girls. Seven flowers. Once the night is over, everything has changed. *** This is an entry for the 2024 Shortys Awards. Credit to @furusato_ for the lovely cover!
Amateur comedian Nora performs at a comedy club for the first time. With nervousness, a tough crowd, and a new prosthetic arm to deal with, will she leave her audience laughing at her jokes or her passion for comedy?
What if your fairytale romance was founded on a lie? [winner of #badassreads Secrets and Sacrifices competition]
A bottle of whiskey. A lonely bridge. A decision, foolishly made. However miserable her life may have been, twenty-two year old Reagan did not want to put an end to it--not really. But in a drunken attempt of doing so, she creates an infinite loop in time and space, from which she can never escape. ...
Magic isn't like in the movies. It isn't warm and fluffy. It doesn't bring happy endings. And it always has a price. Fancy cover by magic wizard rat queen Rai :)
A romantic, experimental short story written for skrivpepps Valentine day challenge.