Shortys2025 Stories

Welcome to the Annual Short Story & Poetry Writing Contest, where words ignite imagination and creativity takes center stage. Whether you're a storyteller or a poet, this is your chance to captivate, inspire, and share your voice with the world. All genres, all styles-one platform to shine. Let your stories speak. Let your verses rise.

After closing his club, vampire Bellamy is greeted by a surprise: his ex, her new husband, and a problem she's hoping he'll solve for old times' sake. His ex has married one of their vampire mortal enemies, and the entire vampire mob has turned against her. With the vampire mob closing in, Bellamy must choose between a woman he'd thought he'd love forever and the empire he built after he was gone. This is a paranormal short story inspired by the 1942 movie Casablanca.

Fragments of a heart, stitched together in verses. An assemblage of my poems. (Part-II) Winner of Wattpad's Shortys2025 Highest Rankings: #4 in poem #127 in poetry

Diary of a Teenager is just a mix of poems, short stories, and random thoughts-bits and pieces of what it feels like to be young, confused, happy, heartbroken, and everything in between. It's messy, honest, and straight from the heart. #Shortys2025 #poetry #prose

Short stories written to prompts in 2025. * -'Blooming Cheek', Weekend Write-In 8.8.25 - prompt: 'resistance' -'Textual Healing', Shortys 2025 (2000-5000 words category). Prompt was: "Write about a romance which starts with a mistaken identity text." -'The Wanderers', Weekend Write-In 3.10.25 - prompt: 'frontier'. Got a bit political in this one. Not sorry. -'Afterglow', inspired by Weekend Write-In 14.11.25 - prompt: 'dignity'. Not submitted, as it was way over the informal word limit. -'A New Girl', written for the untiring @BooksbyLwordpress's Fall Contest 2025. Dani has lost control of her life, but finds hope over lunch in a cosy cafe. -'Far-off Fountains', Weekend Write-In 05.12.25 - prompt: 'torrent'. -'A True Love's Knot', Weekend Write-In 12.12.25 - prompt: 'polish'

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A collection of poems. "The Pink Blue Rose" is a love story told in petals. Each poem blooms into the next, carrying you through a gentle journey of tenderness, heartbreak, and quiet wonder. Short enough to be read in a single sitting, yet deep enough to linger long after, this collection captures the fragile beauty of moments that slip between dream and memory. As the rose shifts from pink to blue, so too does the heart-discovering the ache of longing, the sweetness of hope, and the miracle of finding love where you least expect it. A delicate fable in verse, The Pink Blue Rose is for anyone who has ever pressed a flower between the pages of their life and called it love. Participating: #Shortys2025 Best Ranks: #7 poem #3 poems #1 poetrycollection #1 bookofpoems #3 prose #3 shortys

[ Winner of Shortys 2024] Starless, Scarlet; A collection of horror poems, The official description will be written after completion..

This is a collection of flash fiction and short stories written for the 2025 Shortys, and which follow up on events of the Venomous Agenda series. As such, it contains spoilers for other books in the series, and may be read in any order. #1 in extracredit (September 29, 2025) #1 in homework (December 22, 2025) #1 in venomous (December 22, 2025) 2025 Shortys long list (Salvation Abroad)

🌊The Shortys 2025 Shortlist🌊 A short story, my entry for the Shortys 2025, followed by a few poems for the same contest. The short story is inspired by the Flannan Isles lighthouse mystery. The poems are all lighthouse themed.

You are at The Singularity of your space-time. Don't you feel it? As you get reduced down to infinity. You are now no more than One singular thought. -s i n g u l a r i t y- SINGULARITY is the third poetry collection by Sarah (Subhanki), curated out of confusion of a teenage mind. The collection comes out to be visceral, ingenious and visually incongruous - it was never meant to be of perfect rhyme or structure. The author makes sure you question your existence every time you complete the collection. Happy reading!

This is what happened when a witch hit town. One stormy night. An old haggard's house. A flicker of light. Who could think of what's coming. A peaceful night of sleep for the peaceful townsfolk before the town went to shit. How naive they were. Walking into a trap, unsuspecting. Word Count: [[3000 - 3200]] (Short story)

Two hearts that have never met but see each other every day long for each other's company but could never take the first step in drawing closer. What could ever bring them together for a chance of happiness in each other? Fate decided to give these lovelorn lovers a nudge in the right direction, one showery day in London. 🏆WINNER of the Rainy Beginnings contest hosted by @WattpadLitFic, August 2023.🏆 ⭐FEATURED in @WattpadLitFic CONTEST WINNERS reading list.⭐ ☂ Word count: 4.9k words. By Mary-Jane Kristo. © All rights reserved.

When Mr. Carraway buys an antique mahogany bed, he thinks he's found a bargain-something elegant to replace his broken one. But soon, the whispers begin. Keys vanish, memories blur, and dreams twist into corridors of endless wood where faces move when he isn't looking. Each night the bed feels less like furniture and more like something alive. Something listening. And when the whispers finally call his name, Mr. Carraway realizes too late that some bargains come with a price far greater than money. A chilling tale of obsession, forgotten memories, and the secrets carved into mahogany.

#WattpadShortys2025 first poetry submission. This prose poem reflects on the precarious existence of the Cape Peninsula baboons, challenging official narratives that reduce them to mere statistics. It highlights the deep connection between the baboons, the land, and local heritage, exposing how bureaucratic "management" masks ongoing population decline and ecological erasure. Through rich imagery and emotional resonance, the poem mourns loss, calls out the dismissal of dedicated conservationists, and confronts human responsibility for environmental degradation. Ultimately, it raises profound questions about memory, truth, and the urgency of bearing witness to protect not only the baboons but the shared natural legacy they represent. Entry to #WattpadShortys2025 #Shortys2025

A collection of short prompts, poems, flash fiction etc. written for contests.

Wattpad Shortys 2025 Entry - Short Story

Rose is a girl who seems out of place because she is a supernatural who was born into a polyandrous family. She has never been good at relationships but meeting Jason was the best thing that happened to her and that is what she narrates in this book.

🗽In the city of New York, a regular girl tries to balance her average paying work life with having an actual life... that means missing out on a love life. Romance was on hold for Ana while her hands worked away to earn her wage and bring her imagination to life. But if she couldn't go find love while chasing her dreams, love would have to give her a little nudge. And she might fall right where she's meant to be.🗽 💜 🏆Winner of the Fall For You contest hosted by Wattpad's @YA profile, November 2023.💜 ⭐FEATURED in @YA CONTEST WINNERS reading list.⭐ Word Count: 4.7k words. By Mary-Jane Kristo. © All rights reserved.

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