Russianfolklore Stories

A collection of award-winning and other short stories.

Go inside before dark and live another day... Sophie has spent her entire life in her remote, mountain village-picking strawberries, caring for her family, and getting home before sunset. All she wants is to keep her family safe, well-fed, and alive, and she doesn't trust anyone to do it except herself. Work hard, waste no time, and everything will be okay. However, the nightsnatchers that visit each night want full bellies, too. Fast, strong, and hungry, they'll eat any living thing. No one knows where they come from, where they go, or how to kill them. All villagers are trapped, fated to live out their days under the nightsnatchers' reign. After disaster strikes, Sophie's family dissolves into husks of their former selves, and she yearns for a life free of nightsnatchers. Filled with grief and regret, Sophie leaves her village for the first time, determined to destroy every last one. Nightsnatchers aren't the only creatures lurking in the forest, however. Spirits, monsters, and fae all call these wild places home. Exposed and vulnerable, she must learn which are friends and which are foes, all while battling the terrors within her mind. To find the nightsnatchers' secret and survive the ordeal, Sophie will have to turn to others, leaning on their strength to forge her own.

We write a lot of short stories in English class. Here are some. (Some things based off russian folklore)

He's an ancient, deadly predator disguised as a Fortune 500 CEO. She's a broke college student who thinks his "pet cat" is the real boss. Desperate to survive her final year of college, Lynxia Kauffman accepts a stay-in maid job at a secluded mansion owned by the mysterious Lev Volodin. The listing said he needed help around the house-and someone to care for his equally elusive, notoriously spoiled pet cat. The rules are simple: clean the mansion and keep out of his way. But the rooms shift at night, eerie melodies echo through empty halls, and Lev frequently disappears-only to return covered in fresh scratches with a dangerous, predatory gaze. Is Lynxia terrified? Not at all. As a hardcore cat enthusiast, she brushes off every red flag as just another adorable "cat habit." After all, if Lev acts like a solitary predator, it's obviously just because he's spent too much time bonding with his feline companion... right? What she doesn't know is that there is no pet cat. Lev is the last Kot Bayun-an ancient creature of Russian folklore whose voice can heal, hypnotize, or kill. And as his centuries-old enemies close in, Lev faces a new kind of danger: falling for the oblivious human who keeps trying to treat a legendary monster like a giant house cat.

ශාපයකින් නිරූපිත රුධිරය අතරේ, ආදරයට ම මියගිය යක්ෂයෙක්... තමන්ගේ නොවන මතකයන්වල වළාකියුණු වී, නිවෙනෙකු ම වූ කුමාරයෙක්