creepy stories fantastic stories Frederick Frankenberg medium length stories Monday, April 22, 2024 The Quest for Red Bull by Frederick Frankenberg <i>Jake is forbidden from travelling beyond his garden, out where life is cheap and monsters roam, but he simply must get some more Red Bull.</i><br><br>I wasn't always an adventurer. In fact, I hardly left the house. I would shut myself up in the living room and play video games all day. But Daddy used to let me out on Fridays to play handball with the other kids after my homeschool ended. <br><br><br>I was in front o… Read more Labels: creepy stories fantastic stories Frederick Frankenberg medium length stories 7 comments:
fantastic stories short stories Tamara Breuer Monday, April 8, 2024 The Skeleton In The Closet by Tamara Breuer <i>Isabela has always struggled to fit in with her family, but things come to a head when she discovers a skeleton among her father's possessions.</i><br><br>Three years after moving into her father's home in Asunción, Isabela found the skeleton in his closet. The wooden crate containing the bones had been lying in the same spot since she began her caretaking duties, and yet she had never thought to ope… Read more Labels: fantastic stories short stories Tamara Breuer 6 comments:
David Lanvert fantastic stories short stories Monday, March 11, 2024 The Shoes of Kings by David Lanvert <i>Two mall employees become friends, but one harbours a surprising secret. </i><br><br>My friend Jake sold men's shoes at the Florsheim shop. Talk about the lowest rung of retail. I was a few spots higher, working at a designer jeans store in the same mall. At least girls came into my place. Malls, back in the 70s, were like small towns. Everyone's aware of the pecking order. We always had the lonely F… Read more Labels: David Lanvert fantastic stories short stories 9 comments:
Adam Strassberg fantastic stories short stories Friday, February 9, 2024 this story possesses you by Adam Strassberg <i>You are the shaman Pathana, and this story will possess you.</i><br><br>This story is now shared with you. <br><br>You possess it. <br><br>You are you, and you are the many people reading this story, now, then, and later. <br><br>You are all connected through this one story as you, the shaman Pathana, discover a small iron chest hidden deep beneath the defeated dragon's hoard of gold and gems. Iron shields most magics, and so y… Read more Labels: Adam Strassberg fantastic stories short stories 13 comments:
fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month ZK Hardy Friday, January 12, 2024 Men with No Light in Their Hair by ZK Hardy <i>Proud members of an exiled tribe in host a guest with a taboo vocation, in ZK Hardy's fantasy.</i><br><br>I saw him coming down the road out of the copse of trees at the edge of our land. I craned my neck, but couldn't see Dad looking so I shouted a warning as the man came closer. In the midst of the cepical bushes, my father stood up, like a forest animal startled by the sound of snapping twigs, and… Read more Labels: fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month ZK Hardy 18 comments:
fantastic stories long stories Rina Song Friday, November 17, 2023 The Guardian in the Woods by Rina Song <i>Tara befriends an unusual fox in her garden, that continues to visit her as she grows up; by Rina Song.</i><br><br>She first saw the fox crouching in the corner of her new backyard. <br><br>Tara thought maybe it had snuck in from the woods surrounding the neighborhood. Its pelt was brilliant orange, a lively flame against the late summer grass. Dust clung to its whiskers as it snuffled at something in the dirt. <br><br>&qu… Read more Labels: fantastic stories long stories Rina Song 4 comments:
fantastic stories Loredano Cafaro Sabrina Beretta short stories Monday, August 28, 2023 The Fourth Tale by Loredano Cafaro, translated by Sabrina Beretta <i>Giovanni Rosselli's life in Turin threatens to grow stale, until he finds a story anthology with a funny title, containing an uncanny tale; by Loredano Cafaro, translated from Italian by Sabrina Beretta.</i><br><br>When Giovanni Rosselli, wandering among the stalls of used books in Via Po, bought that anthology of tales with a funny title, he did not imagine what he was about to face. His life had unfold… Read more Labels: fantastic stories Loredano Cafaro Sabrina Beretta short stories 4 comments:
fantastic stories funny stories James Rumpel medium length stories Monday, June 12, 2023 Do Not Pass Go by James Rumpel <i>Inspired by an old Swedish film, Chip Newcombe challenges Death to a board game; by James Rumpel.</i><br><br>Chip Newcombe writhed on the floor next to his bed. His right side exploded with one gigantic wave of pain after another. During each fraction of a second between onslaughts of suffering, he cursed himself for not calling an ambulance earlier or at least telling his wife that he wasn't feeling wel… Read more Labels: fantastic stories funny stories James Rumpel medium length stories 10 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories Monday, April 3, 2023 Obligation by David W. Landrum <i>The Michigan mafia are backed by ancient black magic, and Alessia regrets having to fulfil her obligation; by David W. Landrum.</i><br><br>Alessia Bernini dreaded the visit of Lucia Sandro. Her coven of <i>strega</i> - witches - owed the Sandro family obligation. If Lucia had been wise or even a little mature, her <i>strega</i> friend would not have been so apprehensive about granting her bequest. But Lucia was vain, fool… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories medium length stories 4 comments:
fantastic stories Liz Rosen very short stories Monday, January 30, 2023 When the Wind Blows by Liz Rosen <i>Liz Rosen tells a cryptic and lyrical tale of a cosmic secret-keeper. This story is part of a public art project with artist Heather Arak-Kanofsky.</i><br><br>When the wind blows, I leave my body and go walking. <br><br>Sometimes I head toward the moons of Jupiter, crossing the empty, black parsecs of space with the deliberate long strides of a missionary carrying the word. I let the rings of the Galilean satellites… Read more Labels: fantastic stories Liz Rosen very short stories 10 comments:
Alexandra Grabbe fantastic stories short stories Friday, December 9, 2022 Out Of This World by Alexandra Grabbe <i>A cosmopolitan actress, who travelled to LA to chase a dream, reflects on her life and the life of the people she left behind; by Alexandra Grabbe.</i><br><br>I never meant to abandon my children. How could anyone think me capable of such deceit? It should go without saying that I wanted to raise Daria and Nadine myself. Desertion? Who deserts children on purpose? Such an attentive mother I tried to be, duri… Read more Labels: Alexandra Grabbe fantastic stories short stories 11 comments:
Adam Strassberg fantastic stories funny stories medium length stories Friday, November 18, 2022 The Last Temptation of Harold by Adam Strassberg <i>The ancient demon Harborym possesses eighteen-year-old Harold at the Burning Man festival, but struggles to tempt a Millennial mind; by Adam Strassberg.</i><br><br>"I have lived eons before and I will live eons hence, yet each moment spent trapped inside this mortal's body is an eternity of suffering to me." The demon Harborym, the Dark Lord's renowned Master of Misery, was now mastered by … Read more Labels: Adam Strassberg fantastic stories funny stories medium length stories 27 comments:
David Henson fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Friday, September 30, 2022 Eleven by David Henson <i>Farmers Jemery and Jezzie face a problem when two horses are growing too close together on the vine; by David Henson.</i><br><br>I was concerned as soon as the horse pods began to sprout on the vine. The last two, Eleven and Twelve, seemed too close. Now that the pods are about the size of my leg, it's clear there's a problem. <br><br>"Should we cut a tendril now and transplant one, Jemery?" Jezz… Read more Labels: David Henson fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month 9 comments:
fantastic stories funny stories medium length stories Thomas Eggenberger Friday, August 26, 2022 Brother Cedric by Thomas Eggenberger <i>The reverent peace of a monastery is disturbed when a resurrected monk decides to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh; by Thomas Eggenberger.</i><br><br>Brother Cedric did not return to us the same man who had died. <br><br>We unbolted the door after the ten Hail Marys required and found him there. Not sitting quietly in wait, as had Marius. Not weeping on his knees to the Almighty, as had Gregory. No, Cedric gree… Read more Labels: fantastic stories funny stories medium length stories Thomas Eggenberger 5 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Monday, June 20, 2022 Play in Time by David W Landrum <i>David W Landrum's tale of a romance between a reclusive physicist and an anachronistic thespian echoes Shakespearean themes of predestiny. </i><br><br> Min Yuan liked working for a physics laboratory. She had trained diligently, mastered her subjects in undergraduate and graduate school, and taken the job she had always dreamed of having. She did mathematics to calculate and describe the dynamics of sub-a… Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 3 comments:
fantastic stories Henry Moraja long stories Friday, June 10, 2022 The Shapeshifter by Henry Moraja <i>Nikolaus yearns to learn the secrets of the shapeshifter, so others can finally see him as he sees himself; by Henry Moraja.</i><br><br> In the town of Neunburg, legend says a shapeshifter lives in the woods. A will-o'-the-wisp, a trickster, a murderous beast too clever for humans to comprehend. There are stories about it, told around the fire at family gatherings; and paintings and songs, and they all te… Read more Labels: fantastic stories Henry Moraja long stories 1 comment:
fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated Shelley K Davenport Monday, June 6, 2022 Oh, How Sweet and Fitting by Shelley K. Davenport <i>Every year, Pearl travels to the local cemetery to celebrate her birthday with a stranger who died when she was a child, in Shelley K. Davenport's enchanting parallel world.</i><br><br> In Port Kittanning there lived a very old woman named Pearl. <br><br>Port Kittanning is landlocked, and only called a port because of its abundance of hilltops for docking airships, and the confluence of several rivers necessary … Read more Labels: fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated Shelley K Davenport 11 comments:
creepy stories fantastic stories medium length stories Tiffany Renee Harmon Monday, April 18, 2022 I Drown Each Time by Tiffany Renee Harmon <i>From her absent father and her emotionally distant mother, Lena finds solace in the sea; by Tiffany Renee Harmon.</i><br><br> When Lena was a young girl, her favorite place in the world was the Sea of Sandrine. She would sit by the banks of the sea with her green pail and plastic shovel waiting for hermit crabs to scamper near her. The whole world seemed to fall silent and melt away in this private paradise. … Read more Labels: creepy stories fantastic stories medium length stories Tiffany Renee Harmon 6 comments:
David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories Friday, April 1, 2022 The Mirror by David W Landrum <i>David W Landrum's reimagines Snow White as a soaring fantasy tale, told from the perspective of the sorcerer's apprentice.</i><br><br> We should have known better. Trying to conduct an affair in the house of a sorcerer seems to me, now, supreme foolishness. But when are lovers ever rational? When you are enamored, head over heels in love, the sensible dissolves. It did for Rosfirth and me. I had been … Read more Labels: David W Landrum fantastic stories long stories 2 comments:
Dante Cross fantastic stories long stories Friday, February 11, 2022 For Home by Dante Cross <i>Two unlikely adventurers travel through treacherous territory, trying to beat an invading army, but with different goals in mind; by Dante Cross.</i><br><br> It was the stench that woke him. Not the sound of the nearby babbling brook, nor the light from the sun peeking over the horizon, nor the birds joining each other in song; no, it was the stench of blood and corpses not yet a day old. <br><br>Rile's eyes flut… Read more Labels: Dante Cross fantastic stories long stories 1 comment:
