Fiveminuteread Stories

This is a collection of short stories written by Wattpadders. It aims to bring a variety of stories of different genres, all of which can be read within 5 minutes. So...

In real-life, there are no ghosts or elemental creatures that scare us. They are just tricks of the mind and figures to talk about, aren't they? But my father told me of...

10 seconds. One choice. One small moment to change you life.

PREVIOUSLY WATTPAD EDITOR CHOICE Clara is thrifty. She rents a cheap apartment, works multiple jobs, still has the same set of chairs from her university days. When she...

The time is short but as Liza walks around she tries to make the most of what she has. Sometimes the simple things are the best.

The Deleted Files: A series of 'pilots;' that I wrote, ideas I never developed, or otherwise that work well as standalone short stories Treefolk: A first hunt, a strange...

Magic always came to the women of Mabel's family on the eve of their twenty-first birthday, and always, in a most grandiose manner. This very short story recounts how ma...

Abigale thought that this was to be a simple dog walk. Then Liverpool won the premier league and all the memories she wanted gone are now crashing in to her full force.

A new tradition turns in to the best surprise ever.

You know that scene in The Kissing Booth 2? Where Ollie kisses Miles? What if those two, drumroll please, were Louis and Harry? Yeah. Come on, click it. You know you wan...

cover art: Amy Beager.

fever dream of a pathetic short story ~written by yours truly (E) and my best friend (H) ***to note: written with random generated characters and we had 5 mins to write...

Imagine having a life like mine where one mistake leads out to a huge disaster. Well read to find out how my life falls apart like a jigsaw puzzle and then slowly falls...

larry stylinson, that's what they call them. it's cute, really cute, and I ship them with all my heart. but theres just something, something that twists inside of me whe...

❗️Featured in '5 Minute Reads - Anthology' by @_ShortStory_ on Wattpad❗️ 🌹 Shasha, a smart beautiful teenager loves her best friend so much that she wishes upon every t...

Nowhere To Go: a local ghost who's angry at writers for giving him a bad name, set in nighttime in the now defunct subway station. Written by YOU! (As suggested by #writ...

Her life has been turned upside down over the past few months. Now she has to face her family. Trigger warning: miscarriage, suicide.