Litreads Stories

Boy meets girl, girl falls in love, blah-blah-blah. Let me be clear with you from the beginning. This is not that kind of story. My name is Cait, and I live in the g...

In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dre...

At the center: there's Rumi, a young boy who grows up in a normal family- yet flinchingly is devoured by the absence of his parents' relationship. Over the years of a si...

WATTYS WINNER 2020 Two interconnected murders, 64 years apart. One woman's search for truth and identity. Readers' comments: 'a masterpiece', 'impeccably written', 'amaz...

A man who's always seen the world through an artistic lens, where boat railings are covered in vermilion paint under cotton candy clouds, would like nothing more than to...

GRAND PRIZE WINNER in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last fiction competition! A prequel to Margaret Atwood's latest novel, The Heart Goes Last, and an entry in the He...

Flash Fiction. Short Stories. Poetry. All in one aspect.

An introduction and comprehensive guide to the Literary Fiction Network: what we do, what we believe in, how we help writers and readers, how we plan to grow the communi...

After being afflicted with depression at an early age, 17-year-old Mae finds a way to cope through diary exchanges with her best friend. Using an old leather-bound journ...

A collection of stories, 50 words or less, as an experiment in what can be developed--and how--in relatively few sentences.

What happens when a literal Professor of Coolness begins to feel like he's losing his edge? ∆ Originally published as a hypertext story on Philome.la ∆ Updated with...

Eleanor "Inside an ocean of ink I recreated her so that I could emphasize everything I didn't say" : Eleanor should through an Outspokenness life after her onl...

Daniel Callahan once called the small brick home on Honeysuckle Lane his, until he died. He has had to share his home with countless others since his death. Daniel has...

A very short story that tells much about Kirby Bob, his Mother Gretta, and father Herbert. Innocense, infidelity, and loss all come together in this brief little story.

1. When You Hear Echoes From The East A story of a young probinsyano girl in the middle of World War II 2. Miss Indigo A story of lost time between two sisters 3. I Prom...

She just wanted a job, not the end of the world. Flash fiction

A world that's slowly filling with water where all books have disappeared and confused survivors read the patterns in scattered birdseed, any answers that exist lie with...