The Freeze-Dried Groom is one of the nine stories in Margaret Atwood's fantastic new collection Stone Mattress. A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction fo...
Margaret Atwood’s story “The Freeze-Dried Groom,” from her new collection Stone Mattress, leaves the reader with many tantalizing questions. How does it end? Will Sam be a killer or a victim? What are the other characters’ versions of events? Answer some of these questions, or ask some of your own, by writing a fanfic...
A collection of short stories in which I write about the regular, everyday struggles of life with an over the top, dramatic twist. Highest Ranked: #154 in Short Story Copyright © 2016 by TheEnigmaticPhoenix
A dangerous stranger pays a visit to a desolate space outpost where everyone has something to hide. A young boy who is shunned by his community for being different creates fantastical drawings of steam powered beasts. Years after an apocalyptic event wipes out most of humanity, a small group of soldiers explores the a...
A singing automaton performs each night in Atlantic City. Like every work of art, the toy has a fascinating story behind her creation. An old barfly recounts the tale to a young server, teaching him the power of technology in helping man cope with life's trials of love, loss and regret. This is one of my earlier work...
Claudia is a shut-in, a nerd. She creates custom cybernetic limbs, unique works of art. Lumi is everything Claudia is not, exotic, exciting, outgoing. Claudia comes to realise they both have their secrets. Secrets that will tear them apart.
This is a collection of short stories written by Wattpadders who love their Science Fiction as much as we do. It aims to celebrate the diversity of the genre both in sub-genre, length and style, so whether you like Steampunk or Hard SciFi, Space Opera or Dystopian, fanfiction or a drabble, we know you'll find somethin...
This is a compilation of Flash fiction stories I've written using writing prompts (credit given). I especially like photo prompts.
Each day of the year in 2016, I will be attempting to write a short story, using a prompt. It'll be wild and hard and who knows? I might even turn out some good stuff. Maybe you'll even want to do this too. (Dedications go to followers.) This is part one of the 365 Day Challenge, and contains days 1-200. 5/31/17 - Som...
Stereo Hearts, is a writing challenge inspired by songs and music as a whole. Feel free to create a story based on only one of the song prompts inside or all of them. Any questions regarding the prompts inside, feel free to PM me at my main account: @esoterically [cover credit to @algort]
Hey there! This is simply a collection of short stories that I write while enduring the long editing process of all of my books! They range from fan fiction, to writing prompt material, to one shots, to my own original ideas. I like to broaden my range, and consider this my practice arena. Hope you like it! Text Copyr...
Daily short stories between 100-500 words written based off random prompts :)
I like to write. As you may be able to tell. I haven't been very good at writing lately. As you may also have been able to tell. That's why I've decided to write a short story collection. The stories won't interlink, some may vary wildly and you might even wonder if they were written by the same person (the answer is...
So in 2016, I decided to start writing more and to do that I'm going to be doing A Prompt A Day For A Year (that's the title!!!). These prompts are all from birdsonqs on Deviant Art (http://birdsonqs.deviantart.com/). Thanks for reading and I hope you in joy all the horrible stories I write this year and sorry if I g...
Hello. I'm going to be doing a sort of series of unrelated stories, each based on a different writing prompt. The prompt for this one: After the flooding of the earth, humanity has relocated to underwater cities and huge spaceships. The two groups have not interacted for decades, until something forces them to. (Prom...
Ok so here's my attempt at writing one shots. Most or all will be fluff. COMPLETED
These are the stories I wrote for a 30 days writing challenge. It's based on Lee Jinki (Onew) and my original character Oh Kyungmi. In this Jinki is actually a CEO instead of an idol. The prompts given are the chapter titles. Thank you for reading. *AU means alternate universe
These are just some random stories and poems I wrote in Creative Writing. I actually explain the prompt of the story (or poem) at the beginning of it before you start reading it to help you understand it. So there are free prompts! I encourage you to try them. Most of them are fun to do, but there are a few serious on...
A series of unrelated NaLu one-shots that make up my entries for NaLu week 2014! Constructive criticism is very much encouraged and appreciated, but I promise that my writing has improved since I wrote these!
I'm in a creative writing club at school and we usually get about 10 minutes to write using certain prompts; these are the result of those prompts. Hope you enjoy!
I write with a group of talented authors called the Story Orgy. We post on our blogs every Monday snippets of a story written based off of prompts - it could be anything from a phrase to a list of different items we have to incorporate into our writing. We asked our readers to come up with some prompts for us to write...
the noise in my mind the swell in my heart the words are highlighted why do I go blank the mechanics I know of the spirit I desire it would not be art if it did not sink in so deep
A collection of one-shots about a rather interesting mercenary.
Here is a random collection of short stories, poems and ramblings written using the prompts from the book "642 Things to Write About." I highly doubt I'll be winning any kind of awards for the writing on display here, but it is a fun daily challenge (yes, I said daily challenge... lets see how long I last before I ult...
Have you ever wondered what the slaves in America felt about their predicament? Have you ever wondered what they felt? This book is a compilation of poetry about African American slaves by African American slaves. These poems and short stories will fill you with so much emotion and respect.
Short stories - a story per chapter Based on whatever I feel like writing in that moment ^^ They are mostly relatable stuff and a kind of go-with-flow thing Enjoy =)
After three years of writing stories, whether fiction or non-fiction, on my blog, This is Another Story, I think it's about time I put my memories and stories in a book. Although most of my stories are incomplete at this point, I am looking forward to finishing them and publishing them. This will be half fiction, half...
Short stories I've written over time. All stories are finished, with the exception of six word memoirs.
