Microfiction Stories

Flash fiction, poetry contest entries and stuff! Here are my entries for various writing challenges, contests and prompts, plus random writings. There's poetry, flash fiction and more!

In the quiet corridors of a hospital, the clocks sometimes measure more than just time, they measure the distance between the living and the ones who refuse to leave. Meet nurse Chloe, a night shift worker about to learn that sometimes love doesn't end with a funeral. In Room 412, a striking Red Hat and purple adornment, hold a secret that defies medical science. Enter a world where the monitors beep, the rain falls, and the impossible sits right in the chair beside you. Welcome to a journey into the unknown.

Desperate to escape the suffocating chaos of the modern world, Elena buys a one way ticket back to the past to see her late mother one last time. But she quickly learns the terrifying price of absolute predictability, a world you can never leave. Trapped in a glitching , eternal Tuesday afternoon, Elena is about to discover that nostalgia can be the ultimate prison

Through small observations and gentle daydreams, ordinary moments become meditations on self awareness, gratitude, loneliness, empathy, and the quiet stories that surround us every day. Each story begins with something easily overlooked: a passing stranger, a changing light, a small detail; and follows wherever the imagination leads. None of these imagined lives may be true, but perhaps they don't have to be.

Each chapter in this book is a stand-alone work of micro-fiction, around 80-200 words long. A moral to each, they may leave you guessing, wondering, or feeling challenged.

A chilling twilight zone style psychological horror about the price of playing it safe. Full story on Wattpad . Link in Bio Sadie always took the safe route, trading her dreams for a quiet, empty life. But when she steps into a mysterious carnival funhouse that appears overnight, she finds a labyrinth of twisted nears reflecting her greatest regrets. Guarded by silent, grinning clouds who feed on hesitation, the funhouse demands a heavy toll for every wrong turn.

When three neighborhood kids find a mysterious old dollhouse on the street they find it to be an exact miniature replica of the Victorian mansion that is owned by old man Abernathy. Inside they find whimsical porcelain dolls that are full of life but trapped in a terrifying game of scale. The kids are about to learn that the Doll house has plenty of room for new tenants.

Highest Ranking- #1 in Short Story! Tiny book about big things! MicroTales are the little stories, which say many big things in less words. Read less and think more. This is one of the first books, if not the first one, which brought the genre of micro-tales or mini stories to Wattpad! -------------------------- You can open any chapter and start reading. No need to read from beginning. Read something different than usual genres! You won't be disappointed, I promise! :) -------------------------- Copyright © 2016. Cover credits: Yours Truly!

Less than 100 words, ten seconds-that is all it takes to shatter your sanity. Welcome to a collection of razor-sharp flash fiction, where every word is a weapon and every ending is a trap. In the shadows of these bite-sized nightmares, monsters do not hide under your bed; they wear the faces of those you trust most. Step inside, but be warned: these micro-stories cut deep, bleed fast, and leave you breathless in the dark. Can you survive the twist before the page turns?

From divorce ceremonies to planet-eating aliens; from romance under the stars to war between the Greek gods. Taste dozens of other worlds in this collection of short fiction. For advance access to these stories (often with better formatting), see https://www.webofworlds.net/pieces Cover image by Davide Clode: https://unsplash.com/@davidclode SYNOPSES: SETI In the Age of Loneliness (2020) Hired to design a logo for an astronomy research group, graphic designer Olivia Suen meets radio astronomer Arzu Rostami. They keep each other company during Arzu's late-night observing run, and learn much more about each other than they expected. A Vanished City (2020) A flash fiction piece about a sudden and horrific loss. On Concurrent Cake Decoration for Divorce Ceremonies (2020) In Haber, cake decoration takes place during the ceremony, artistically incorporating events and symbols important to the couple. Lesha is the cake artist at a divorce ceremony where a clash of cultures results in disaster. The world is flat (2018) "The world is flat." Granddad says this all the time. So we buy tickets to space. Some kind of trout (2018) The alien fish was minding her own business when a fissure opened in the ice above her, and she was sucked unceremoniously upward. Before the Eagle: A Tale of Prometheus (2017) "You would betray the king of the gods!?" "Oh yes," Prometheus replied, "That's who I am, you see. I'm a traitor. It's what I do!" Empty Nest (2016) A semi-biographical tribute to memory and place. Skink (2017) A sentence or two about a lizard. The Planet Eater (2015) The Planet Eater swung around the yellow star and closed in on his prey. An asteroid bounced off his long, worm-like body as he swept into the inner system.

Glimpses of dragons. Glimpses of liches. Glimpses of pudding swallowing the entire world. Welcome to, "Glimpses OF Worlds" From an Undead Hero to a rabbit's prison break. The portal swirled. Come. Peer into the curtains.

A woman living alone in the wilderness, far away from civilization. One day while attending to her chores, a small airplane crashes in her land. Who is the unconscious pilot she finds and why did the plane crash?

Scent of the dawn, and tales of getting lost.

***2X WINNER OF @YAROMANCE'S 'BITE-SIZED LOVE BUFFET 2024'*** ❝ Walking through life with you, ma'am, has been a very gracious thing. ❞ - Errol Flynn, 1941 A POST-WWII SHORT STORY COLLECTION.

Yggdrasil is a story about protecting a loved one's memory disguised as an ecological tale where the unnamed protagonist (it could be you, it could be me, it could be anyone) tries their damnest to save an ash tree of being cut down, 'cause saving one tree might save the world, it might even save what little left they have of you...

Assorted flash pieces.

Microfiction | An unexpected but galactically-correct assembly of tiny tales brimming with ambitious robots, agnostic aliens, identity-challenged cyborgs, kidnapped vampires, bureaucratic angels, and the occasional human. ***Science fiction, fantasy and horror*** Copyright © 2017-2018 by C. S. Begu All rights reserved Cover by @csbegu

an ever-growing collection of micro-fiction stories that i write for enjoyment from time to time~

A powerful witch, Britney, leads a coven of loyal followers. As the full moon rises, a sinister force threatens to tear their bond apart. Will Britney's strength and magic be enough to protect her coven, or will darkness consume them all?

Stories of all kinds, told in a single sentence. I hope you find a few that you enjoy. Don't forget to vote and comment!