Flash-fiction Stories

Dark tales told in only two sentences. It's like a mixed bag of poisoned candy.

a collection of oneshots from writing challenges

With a New Year comes a second chance! I invite you to bring me your best Flash Fiction, One Shots, and Short Stories of 2025 Give your amazing contest entries another chance to shine bright and steal the show ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Contest opens: December 15th Submissions close: December 31st

A collection of short stories which will hardly take your twenty minutes to read each one. #1: The Colleague - a corporate employee seeks truth behind the disappearance of one of his colleagues. #2: The Anniversary Night - a cop investigates an accident in which a couple dies in a car crash on their first anniversary night.

About Pages Within Draft Pages In the quiet folds of unfinished thoughts, this space hums softly - a gathering of words that never learned to stay still. Here, poems bloom between pauses, prose drifts like smoke, and stories hide beneath the ink-stained corners of memory. Journals whisper what was almost said; scraps of paper remember what the heart tried to forget. Pages Within Draft Pages is not about perfection - it's about becoming. Every line is a pulse, every draft a fragment of a living thought. Read slowly. Something here might speak to the part of you that still writes in the dark.

Set in the middle of family conflict and separation, this story explores the memories of a child who grows up after her parents' divorce. Forced to choose between her parents, she enters a new life filled with silence, loss, and unanswered questions. Growing up in the same house without her mother, she learns to be strong too early and discovers how pain can shape a person long after childhood ends. This story is about loss that never fully heals, love that changes shape, and a question that remains unanswered: what life could have been if the family had never broken apart.

An anthology of short stories, narrative poems, and flash fiction.

What does Christmas taste like when you strip away the sugar? It tastes like mud on the boots of an exploited elf. It tastes like the bitter champagne of a rented bride. It tastes like the empty chair no one dares to look at on Christmas Eve. Step into a collection of stories where magic exists, but comes at a terrible price. Here, the Three Wise Men are debt collectors, and happiness is sold in jars. Welcome to the dark side of Christmas. 🌑 INSIDE THIS BOOK YOU WILL DISCOVER: The Hidden Truth: What is the bloody price of Santa's ambition? Conspiracies: Why do the Three Wise Men control global debt? Toxic Love: High-society weddings propped up by glittering lies. THIS STORY IS FOR YOU IF: ✅ You are obsessed with shows like Black Mirror or Love, Death & Robots. ✅ You look for short, intense chapters (perfect for the commute or before bed). ✅ You are sick of sappy Christmas movies and crave bite, cynicism, and satire. ⚠️ WARNING: Contains lethal doses of reality, irony, and dark fantasy. Not suitable for those who still believe gifts are brought by magic (for free). Which side are you on? Santa or the Resistance? 📖 ADD THIS STORY TO YOUR LIBRARY AND LET THE WAR BEGIN.

If you're looking to read something short in numerous genres, take a seat and welcome to my collection of short fiction stories. These short stories are purely fictitious and range from 500 to at least over 1k words. None are related. Each tale was written by me and no story will be fleshed into a full book {apologies if you eventually want one to be} WARNING: Some short stories may make sense, others may not; and some may end in complete cliffhangers. Updates may come higgledy-piggledy Nonetheless, have a great read! The Fiction Cabinet Copyright © 2023 by Jaq Willow ©All rights reserved

More flash fiction flavors of the near future.

"The Last Delivery" is a short horror flash fiction about a night-shift delivery driver who accepts what seems like a routine order from an unfamiliar apartment building. As the delivery unfolds, small inconsistencies and an eerie atmosphere begin to surface, turning an ordinary job into a quiet, unsettling experience. The story builds tension through subtle details and realistic encounters, leaving the reader to question what is real and what is not.

The smoke wraps tendrils around your legs and sinks into your skin. Dry coughs scrape their blunt nails down your throat and the smoke penetrates deeper, sliding a hand around your neck and s q u e e z i n g. Everything is blurry now. Your breath comes in short, sharp bursts. You hear hoarse sobs in between rasping coughs. Blood and saliva drips onto the dead grass. Too late. *** It's always the quiet, unassuming events that foretell the end. That's where the movies get it wrong. The world won't go out with a bang. It will slowly burn right in front of our eyes as we pretend that we like the warmth. Then when we finally come to our senses and we are no longer blinded by money and greed, it will be too late. A collection of short speculative fiction and poetry pieces that explore the fine line between dystopia and reality.

Over a century after the failed colonization, the backing government finally agreed to launch another expedition. This time instead of trying to spread to a new world, the expedition's primary goal will be to discover what happened to the original craft and its crew. Will the new journey answer the numerous questions of the homeworld? Or will they share the same fate as their lost kindred...

The Weekend Write-in is a group of writers who each week draft and share a piece of flash fiction of 500 words or less inspired by a one word prompt released every Friday. If interested follow the link below. https://www.wattpad.com/story/400213593-the-weekend-write-in-volume-6 TheWriter'sDen (Kitra Writes) can be found in Discord. Hosted by Struggo. https://discord.com/channels/713402078378065940/713403036357361776

Five Christmas tales set in the Heists, Hoaxes and Other Hijinks Universe - Young Tony "assists" with the casting of the school Nativity - Beano goes on an ill fated trip to the shops - Big Dave gets an ominous warning about the future - Stephanie gets what she wants for Christmas - Young Weasel gets an unexpected gift This story is a standalone adventure, but ties into the currently ongoing Heists, Hoaxes and Other Hijinks Murder Mystery. Heading by Samantha Puchacz

Ancient horrors lurk in vain promises. Weekly short tales from a world under the Blue Spire's shadow. Vote & Follow me into the dark. Art Credit: raffelkd (Pixabay)

Inspired by a real dream, The Creature Inside is a flash fiction horror story about the terror of being awake but powerless, and the chilling realization that sometimes the darkness doesn't just surround you-it enters you.

A quiet flash fiction about love, class, waiting, and the beauty of words that never truly fade.

This short story is about the friendship between Rana and Dipa, two individuals who grow up together in a small village despite having contrasting personalities and dreams. As life leads them onto different paths, art and astronomy, they face distance, change, and unspoken fears of separation. Through memories, small gestures, and shared understanding, the story highlights how true connections can persist beyond time and distance, showing that maturity does not erase the past but deepens its meaning.

This second volume of collected poems and short stories follows behind the footsteps of "The Art of Losing and Loving." It tries to integrate the feelings of a person still growing but having finally landed on who they are. It goes beyond the connections we make with ourselves and others, and touches on our purpose in life. Beyond the grief and struggles there is a light that is waiting to bathe us in it. We are meant for joy. Only if we dare to seek and fight for it.