Shortfiction Stories

Every morning, Papanti wakes to smoke, brew coffee, and feed a hungry dragon-calf. Between fog, dreams, and absurd conversations, the line between reality and story grows dangerously thin. ☕ A daily, poetic slice-of-life fantasy - whimsical, warm, and quietly strange. -Our champions embarked upon a perilous quest for a mystical herb, said to possess the power to transmute the ill odours of vaccine effluence into ambrosial, non-polluting fragrances. Shall they endure the onslaught of the monstrous hordes they are fated to encounter?-

The water balloon smacked him on the temple. It didn't hold much water, but it was a small and thin one, so it blew up hard and completely doused him.

She's a leftist organizer in Minneapolis. He works for ICE. They know exactly why this is a bad idea - and do it anyway. Loophole is a darkly funny, painfully human story about politics, attraction, and what happens when ideology collides with actual skin and breath. No heroes. No villains. Just two people caught in a moment that isn't supposed to exist. Nothing gets fixed. Nobody gets redeemed. But something real happens - and that might be worse.

❝you said that if i bought you food, you'd marry me?❞ ⌜ started: january 1st 2017 ⌟ ⌜ completed: april 26th 2017 ⌟

"Take a left here." The driver of the rickshaw, unable to understand or unwilling to care, continued straight down the road.

Frances is a high schooler who daydreams -- maybe a bit too much. While she fights a losing battle in her mind, can she win the war in her life? This short story is inspired by a few Paramore songs, so it's great for fans of the band!

Jimmy was sick. That's what everyone had always said. Sick in the head....

Had she seen him? He stayed perfectly still, not ducking behind the corner again. Any movement might give him away, and he was confident that his camouflage was good enough. To discern a single eye at this distance? It would be very difficult... but it wasn't impossible.

[DOWNLOAD THE FULL EBOOK FOR FREE VIA AMAZON, IBOOKS, KOBO AND LULU!] Ten sumptuous slices of short fiction. Bite-Sized Fiction For Busy People is perfect for those who love the escape a good story provides, but are too busy to sit down and read a full-length book. With each story being somewhere between one hundred and four hundred words, time is no longer a valid excuse not to read. Serving as an introduction to the wonderful world of flash fiction, this short ebook will open your mind to the endless opportunities they provide. Running out of steam? Take a moment to immerse yourself in a story. Twiddling your thumbs on the bus? Indulge your imagination with a bite-sized treat.

Ethan lives on the outskirts of town with his family. He travels to a busy city with his father. He meets a girl named Luci, and they grow fond of each other. They both graduate high school but Luci has to leave. Assurance was made and words were exchanged. Can time really tell the truth behind broken promises?

He ended up throwing eight pebbles into the water. It was comforting to watch them penetrate the murky surface and vanish entirely, perhaps never again to see the light of day, and leave behind naught but a hole, a small water column, and an expanding ripple of water. The eighth pebble he knew to be the last, because when it left his hand he realized that he no longer cared. The exercise was done. It was time to move on.

The last recorded meeting between the members of the Organizational Arrangement Committee took place on August 14, 1984. It was, by all accounts, an uneventful one, with testimony from remaining participants and minutes evidencing that nothing of note took place on that date.

She had no idea who'd sent it. Three possibilities popped into her mind immediately: Pedro, Johnson, and Levi. They were the likeliest, but it could be from somebody else, of course. It could be from anybody else. Maybe somebody she didn't know. Maybe a stalker. Ooo.

500-word short story! Seven years after her husband is killed in a car accident, a woman sees her husband alive. This short fiction includes a plot twist that is revealed as the wife narrates.

Pearl and Jasper have been happily together for a few years now. One day Peridot gets herself in trouble after the trouble with the other Crystal Gems, Jasper starts to learn more about herself and Pearl.

Random fictional short stories, I just feel like writing. Excuse my grammar and tenses, I just write

A collection of flash fiction stories I have written over the years. Most were produced in response to a prompt, so the topics vary wildly.

မောင့်ရဲ့ငယ်~ ငယ်မောင့်ကိုချစ်တာသိတယ်မလား?

An collection of short/flash fiction by me. They can range in topics, but I like to stick to interesting prompts. If you have any weird, out of there story prompts, PMs :)

First drafts of short stories. All feedback welcomed and encouraged!