Shortfiction Stories

✨ The Luminous Ink Awards ✨ Celebrating the Brightest One-Shots & Short Stories Some stories shine brighter than a thousand diyas. 🪔 The Luminous Ink Awards honor writers who can create magic in a single chapter or a few short chapters - stories that touch hearts, spark imagination, and leave readers glowing. This Diwali, let's celebrate: One-Shot masterpieces - impactful stories in a single chapter Short Stories - 2-5 chapters filled with emotion, creativity, and charm

When Althea uncovers a secret tied to her family's past, she and her childhood friend Riven race against time to stop something from destroying the town they love and to disarray their harmonious lives. *** Every summer in Altamarina feels warm and familiar, yet Althea senses a strange pull she can't explain. It's as if it's enticing her to come forth within. When she stumbles upon her late grandmother's hidden journal, she uncovers stories of forgotten pacts, shifting tides, and a power quietly passed down to her. With Riven by her side, she explores the truth behind the whispers that have followed her family for years. But the deeper they go, the more they realize that some secrets were never meant to resurface. As the final days of summer approach, will Althea dare to face what's waiting for her? [[Word Count: 30,000 - 40,000 words]] Disclaimer: This story is written in English. Cover Design by Amanda Alincastre

In "Whispers Between Worlds," 17-year-old Elara grapples with a haunting past and nightmares that blur reality. When a mysterious fire draws her into a hidden realm, she encounters Kael, a warrior from another world, tasked with mending the rift threatening both their lives. As their bond deepens amidst supernatural dangers, they must confront painful truths and choose between saving their worlds or each other. This tale of love, loss, and resilience explores the power of connection across worlds, where every choice holds the weight of destiny.

Night after night, the stories draw him in. Heroes. Forests. Dragons. Wonder. Soon he begins writing his own adventures-discovering a voice he never knew he had. But the real story is waiting in the final, sealed pages of the old book... pages that reveal a message from the past and a legacy he is only beginning to understand.

WARNING: Cringe/absurdity/general stupidity will ensue. I'm not looking for feedback on these stories, so either comment what you liked if you want to, or don't comment at all, please and thankyou :3 These are stories I write when I'm bored/have a good idea that isn't novel-quality/just want to write something new, but not start a whole project. These will be anywhere between 1K-10K words probably. Different from my creative writing practice, which is aimed at meeting exam criteria and thus more limited. I'm not trying to be 'good' with these, just getting drabbles out of my head and into a format people can read as a somewhat cohesive story.

Over and over the hills the bells rang, and they rang loud, and they rang aggressive, and everybody knew that they were ringing, and nobody knew what it was about, because indeed they knew not that there were any bells at all.

Contain all of their untold stories, letters and feelings.

The winners of The_Bookshop's Photo Prompt contests from November 2018 - February 2019 Featuring stories by * HicksScribbles * Taaivan_Sininen* Morrigana89 * Lepus_Leporis * VeraLoy * SassyRedWritingHood * Eyespitfire * Nonamek * Thenonmouse* re19beccaa * Cheldu3 * Uranium -Bombs and *Voyageavecmoi*

A cassette, a sketch, an echo. Three people. One quiet connection.

ယောက်ျားလေးတယောက်ရဲ့ လွမ်းဆွေးမှုကို နူးညံ့ညင်သာတဲ့ ပုံစံနဲ့တွေ့ရမှာပါ။ BL ဝတ္ထုတိုပုံစံဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဆယ့်ငါးမိနစ်လောက် အချိန်ပေးပြီး ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါတယ်။

Can Lacey MacKenzie pull off her latest side hustle scheme without totally embarrassing herself in front of her crush? ***** Lacey MacKenzie is going to kill it with her new side hustle. She's putting her makeup expertise to use, transforming herself into popular characters for kids' parties. Or at least, that was the plan until her crush's mom asks Lacey to dress up in a super embarrassing costume for her daughter's birthday. Lacey has to decide if the cash is worth facing complete and utter humiliation in front of the guy of her dreams. The Nickelodeon Side Hustle Short Story Contest Winner! Featured on Nikelodeon's Official @SideHustle page!

Lillian's pottery studio should be her sanctuary. But when she sculpts figurines from deep-sea clay, the faces that emerge are those who once hurt her. And then they start to move. A psychological horror story about trauma, art, and what we create when we're angry. --- Content warning: Body horror, psychological distress, trauma themes, verbal abuse

မောင့်ရဲ့ငယ်~ ငယ်မောင့်ကိုချစ်တာသိတယ်မလား?

In the colony of Meritt, young girls are poised to be virtuous wives at an early age. Through rigorous testing and isolation the girls are prepped and groom and for Clara, the day has come for herself to prove if she has what it takes to be an ideal wife or barren one.

2018-19: Ranked No. 1 - for "Love for life" 2019: Ranked #129 for "Care" 2019: Ranked #70 for love triangle "marry me" he opened his eyes and looked straight into mine. i was speecless because of this sudden proposal. "breath esha" he whisper in my ear. "umm... I want to go home " i said looking away as i had already planned not to get into such thing before getting my life stable. I remove my hand from his shoulder and looked away. He hold my face from both of his hands and forced me to look at him "no you have to answer now, please don't make me do something that i may regret later on" he said more like a threat. Jerk he ruined everything, stupid. "you're not in office. You can't order me right now and it's my life and all decisions are my own, it's getting late i need to go." i said struggling to free my self from his grip but he was too strong. "you have to be mine, or nobody's" he said sternly loosen his grip and unfold his arms. I really miss his warmth but last part was rude and cute at the same time. What a jerk, one time he's so nice and another minute he became arrogant jerk.

New York isn't the place it once was. The high-rises are gone, the world is bankrupt, and survival is hard to come by. But then again humans always adapt, so monetizing the most precious commodity - blood - was only the natural step.

"They would come, and when they did, I would go." Word count: 478 Loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's classic Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Seven colors. Seven stories. Because life is never just one shade. A literary anthology inspired by the seven colors of the rainbow. These are seven standalone short stories of love, memory, and hope-reminding us that there will always be a rainbow after the rain. Each chapter will represent a color from the rainbow and each story will have the elements of the color within the story. We remember life in colors. These are the shades that shape us. Form: Short Fiction Language/Medium: English (yes, susubukan ko naman muna ang English Fiction)

I WANT TO LEAVE THE MACHINE "You can't leave the machine, Abo. You are the machine. It's sort of like I can't leave my body."

"Alv-" he starts. I sink the blade into his abdomen. The movement is smooth, silent. He didn't see it coming. He leans forward, looking to support his body on me. The king his head on my shoulder. "This is the price, my lord. " I tell him as his coward soul leaves his body. ~ A short story.