Short stories & poems for everyone from everyone
Crime Fiction Novels He remembered pain. He pictured it like a comet with an infinite tail. A tail that didn’t grow thinner with length but turned into a monotonous line, a constant companion in...
Gothic Short Stories Early morning light cast intimidating beams of shadow through the mist laden forest. This was nothing than a distraction to John, who had already been up for hours. His eyelids...
American Period Short Stories continued from part two I spent a long time discussing my grandmother and the life she led. My mother and Marianna didn’t get along at all until my mother left...
Love Letter Story Dear James, I remember the first time I saw you, walking into senior English a new student, and I remember how it changed everything. I remember the first time I...
Serial Fiction Novel The helicopter landed more smoothly than it had alighted. The crops were flattened by a strong down draft from the rotor blades. The entire field was empty and appeared to be even...
Serial Short Story Attention now turned toward his wounded hand. He didn’t have any bandages and he was without the energy left to rip off another shred of shirt. The sharp taste of...
Adventure Fiction Stories A thin streak of lightning struck the night sky, temporarily and simultaneously casting the ship into daylight and blinding the occupants. Men scattered around, desperately attempting to work together to...
Serial Fiction Novel A windy autumn day, dark blue sky, leafless trees, dry beige soil and grass, lonely horse, two white buffalos. An old man in fur coat and cap with enormous white mustache,...
Short Story The cool, damp, air of early spring pulled heavily into friar John’s labored breaths. His legs grew weary, yet there was a unyielding passion that kept him upright. How many days...
Short Story “What happened?” She rubbed her forehead and sighed. What HAD happened? It had seemed like a perfectly innocuous evening… Sprawled on the floor, with yarn, glue and glitter around her, Maura...
Short Story A condor rode an updraft high into the air, patiently searching for its next find. I was leaning my head against the window in the back seat of Eddie’s brand new blacked-out...
Short Story Rachel waddled down the dirt path to the port-a-potty and flung the door open. The smell slapped her in the face and escaped with such force she actually stepped out of...
