creepy stories Sarah MacAllister short stories Wednesday, April 24, 2024 A Bachelor's Dinner Party by Sarah MacAllister <i>Hendricks goes to great lengths to prepare the perfect dinner for Charles - it's a pity that Gemma is coming too.</i><br><br>The cellar air tasted cool and rank. Hendricks selected a horizontal bottle from the wine rack and blew dust from the label; an aged <i>Montepulciano D'Abruzzo</i>. He carried the bottle upstairs to the kitchen and twisted the cork out upon a round table laid for three people. Fumes b… Read more Labels: creepy stories Sarah MacAllister short stories 8 comments:
JD Strunk real life stories short stories Monday, April 15, 2024 Swish by J. D. Strunk <i>Jeremy Astor becomes obsessed with making the high school basketball team, but at what cost?</i><br><br>Jeremy "Automatic" Astor stood at the free throw line. Two shots were forthcoming; two points would win the game. Even so, it was not the orange lip of the rim that was the focus of his attention. Nor was it the 400 chanting fans. Rather, Jeremy was attempting to calculate the odds of a game endi… Read more Labels: JD Strunk real life stories short stories 15 comments:
pick of the month real life stories short stories Stephen Myer Friday, April 12, 2024 The Blue Country by Stephen Myer <i>A sorrowful man shares his surreal recurring vision of the Blue Country.</i><br><br>I sit beside sorrow heading crosstown, eyes searching for the address through iridescent drops that pelt the windshield. I depart the bus and climb the steps of a brownstone. A woman answers the door. She wears a black, avian print dress that conforms to her svelte body. Where have I seen her before? Perhaps she is the doctor… Read more Labels: pick of the month real life stories short stories Stephen Myer 18 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:
funny stories Jon Fain short stories Friday, March 29, 2024 The Reincarnation of Herb McWeed by Jon Fain <i>Having navigated college through a haze of reefer smoke, David swears off the pot - until it becomes legal. </i><br><br>David lives in Massachusetts, born and raised. "Where It All Began," as the saying goes, a state whose origin story is about a mob of cheap shits who didn't want to spend more for their tea. This attitude has evolved over the generations into a bedrock orneriness, steeped in t… Read more Labels: funny stories Jon Fain short stories 6 comments:
Eamonn Bhreathnach real life stories short stories Monday, March 25, 2024 The Edges of Orpington by Eamonn Bhreathnach <i>A lonely man tries to reconnect with a stranger he encountered four decades ago.</i><br><br>It was over forty years ago. I was hitch-hiking and he gave me a lift from the ring-road south of Edinburgh to York. He - whoever he was - was driving to his home in Orpington, which was then in Kent. He was making the return journey, having followed a girlfriend to Edinburgh who had told him she didn't want anyth… Read more Labels: Eamonn Bhreathnach real life stories short stories 9 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:
Paul Sharville pick of the month real life stories short stories Friday, March 8, 2024 Half a Creamed Chicken Sandwich at the Airport by Paul Sharville <i> Two strangers strike up a conversation at the airport, and make a connection that will linger even though they may never meet again.</i><br><br>For the past five years, since 1946, Vincent had attended the November dinner at his grandmother's house in Sheldon, Vermont, east of Lake Champlain. His grandmother was widely regarded as the most well-connected woman in Franklin County, at least by those less … Read more Labels: Paul Sharville pick of the month real life stories short stories 16 comments:
creepy stories David August short stories Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Moving Forward by David August <i>A resentful man starts experiencing blackouts during which a mysterious interloper keeps trying to be nice to him.</i><br><br>Coming home from work, I'm about to open the door to my apartment building, I look sideways, and whom do I see rushing in to meet me? Mrs. Brown from the third floor, that old bat, always gossiping about everyone and always with that phony beatific smile on her face. I can only im… Read more Labels: creepy stories David August short stories 17 comments:
futuristic stories Rick Taliaferro short stories Friday, February 23, 2024 Crazy-Ass Casanova by Rick Taliaferro <i>Todd is thrown in prison for shooting a group of robots, including the one he loved. This story was inspired by a passage from Sherry Turkle’s book, </i>Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other<i>.</i><br><br>While he waited for his lawyer, Todd Trigun sat by himself in the rec room of the Durham County Jail. The other tough-looking inmates congregated at a television bolted to th… Read more Labels: futuristic stories Rick Taliaferro short stories 18 comments:
creepy stories criminal stories short stories Sully Stone Wednesday, February 21, 2024 Inner Power by Sully Stone <i>Jen Marshall has been sectioned after self-harming, but she does not trust the medication she is being given.</i><br><br>And the clock's hands turned to yet another arbitrary number. The tick-tock of its mechanical insides wormed through my head with its dulling beat. I flicked my raven hair past my shoulders and tried ignoring him. <br><br>My therapist slid his hands over his tan dress pants, as if he were iron… Read more Labels: creepy stories criminal stories short stories Sully Stone 6 comments:
June D Wolfman pick of the month real life stories short stories Monday, February 19, 2024 We Hid Jonah by June Wolfman <i>Noah and his buddies are innocently playing video games when their peace - and innocence - is interrupted by their friend Jonah.</i><br><br>We hid Jonah. Saturday, three of us, me Ben and Leon, were gathered in my room playing video games when Jonah climbed up the treehouse and along the branch and knocked on my window - the usual entry. I opened the window and immediately saw that Jonah was crying. I'd … Read more Labels: June D Wolfman pick of the month real life stories short stories 46 comments:
real life stories short stories TC Carner Monday, February 12, 2024 The Fence Mender by TC Carner <i>After a major crash in his truck, a war-traumatised cowboy contemplates his mortality.</i><br><br>The truck was careening out of control. <br><br>No place to go but over the cliff now. <br><br>He knew it, and in the same moment knew that he couldn't do a damned thing about it. <br><br><i>What was at the bottom of that cliff?</i> he wondered almost casually. <br><br>Time stretched and the vision through the windshield slowed to a creep - li… Read more Labels: real life stories short stories TC Carner 8 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:
creepy stories Paul Kimm short stories Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Two Little Fingers by Paul Kimm <i>A man tries to explain his act of kindness towards a finger-deficient busker, but there's something more sinister going on.</i><br><br>He's always been in the same spot as the first time I saw him. Right on the ground with his bottom planted, lotus position, on the concrete square slab that seems reserved for him. Even when its busy he's there with the little keyboard held between his thighs. Tho… Read more Labels: creepy stories Paul Kimm short stories 11 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories short stories Friday, December 22, 2023 Take Me Home by Gary Ives <i> Pisquasistan Indian Charlie is called back from his exile in Canada to see off his dying father.</i><br><br>Charlie's sister Agnus's letter said that their 87-year-old father, Walter Two Hearts, was bad sick and wanted him to come down from Canada to help him. Agnus, diabetic and wheelchair bound, could not - or at any rate would not - help Walter. As a born-again Christian she had no use for her d… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories short stories 5 comments:
Clive Aaron Gill pick of the month real life stories short stories Monday, December 11, 2023 Andrea's Story by Clive Aaron Gill <i>Andrea and her son flee El Salvador and seek asylum in the USA, circa 2016.</i><br><br>My son and I sat opposite a US Customs and Border Protection officer in El Paso, Texas. In the small, brightly lit office with white walls, the officer examined my passport. <br><br>She asked in Spanish, "Andrea, why are you and your son seeking asylum in the USA?" <br><br>From the time I'd left El Salvador, I'd thought … Read more Labels: Clive Aaron Gill pick of the month real life stories short stories 12 comments:
Bill Tope real life stories short stories Friday, December 8, 2023 Fruit Salad by Bill Tope <i>Following a collision that killed her husband and left her disabled, Beth finds it hard to trust again.</i><br><br>"I remember what it was like," recalled Beth softly, speaking to her daughter, "when I had someone." <br><br>Deb peered at her mom with concern. It wasn't often that the older woman assumed a mantle of self-pity or showed signs of melancholy. "You've got me, Mom," s… Read more Labels: Bill Tope real life stories short stories 12 comments:
Huina Zheng real life stories short stories Friday, December 1, 2023 A Difficult Truth by Huina Zheng <i>Huina Zheng's character moves in with her grandmother out of filial loyalty, but at what cost?</i><br><br>My mother and her brother, my uncle, were both retired. My uncle had been a doctor, my mother a civil servant, and their retirement pay was high. But they were not filial to my 80-year-old grandma, who lived alone. My uncle's family lived in the same town as my grandma, and it took them only 40 m… Read more Labels: Huina Zheng real life stories short stories 5 comments:
Fernando Sorrentino funny stories pick of the month short stories Thomas C Meehan Monday, November 27, 2023 A Lifestyle by Fernando Sorrentino, translated by Thomas C. Meehan <i>When his key breaks off on the inside of his apartment, Fernando Sorrentino's character must fight bureaucracy and apathy in increasingly desperate attempts to escape; translated from Spanish by Thomas C. Meehan.</i><br><br>In my youth, before becoming a farmer and cattleman, I was a bank employee. This is how it all came about: <br><br>I was twenty-four years old at the time and had no close relatives. I was li… Read more Labels: Fernando Sorrentino funny stories pick of the month short stories Thomas C Meehan 8 comments:
