criminal stories Salvatore Difalco very short stories Wednesday, March 13, 2024 House Rules by Salvatore Difalco <i>Tim Peters passes time in an isolation unit near the Canada-USA border by trying to get better at chess.</i><br><br>I play chess with Sam A in the isolation unit. Sam A looks like a linebacker, but he's smart. Sam B, who looks like a tub of shit, doesn't play chess. Sam B is a prick, but that's another story. I learned to play chess at Lackawanna Elementary. Mr. Oddi, the science teacher, taught … Read more Labels: criminal stories Salvatore Difalco very short stories 9 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories very short stories Monday, March 4, 2024 Too Much Knowledge by Gary Ives <i>An anatomy student recalls being thrilled and traumatised by an extremely intimate encounter. </i><br><br>Fifty years ago, and still I think about Him; the Him whose real name I will never know, but the Him with whom I became more intimate than with any other man. Ever. <br><br>Anatomy class met twice weekly. Our class of 40 shared ten cadavers, each assigned to four students. Erla Johanssen, twins Sven and Bridget… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories very short stories 13 comments:
Chinyere Evelyn Uku real life stories very short stories Monday, January 15, 2024 Danfo Ride by Chinyere Evelyn Uku <i>Chinyere Evelyn Uku tells of the thrill of riding a grimy danfo minibus in Nigeria's biggest city.</i><br><br>Lagos is the only place I know where I can see the grit, the grime, slick my pen into it and write. <br><br>On the 70 bus in DC, all the grit is mopped up with hand sanitizer or something to purify and wipe away, only to invite in the mundane. You hand over your singles or five-dollar bill to a machine … Read more Labels: Chinyere Evelyn Uku real life stories very short stories 16 comments:
Jim Latham real life stories very short stories Friday, October 13, 2023 Where Serpents Shed Their Skins by Jim Latham <i>A jaded American language teacher flirts with a Mexican polyglot overlooking the fertile Aztec highlands, in Jim Latham's flash fiction.</i><br><br>If you ask me, there's too much English in the world already, but I'm not so principled I won't earn money teaching it while traveling indefinitely. <br><br>These days I live in Puebla, a central Mexican city of four million dominated by the automobile i… Read more Labels: Jim Latham real life stories very short stories 12 comments:
Huina Zheng real life stories very short stories Monday, August 7, 2023 Unfilial by Huina Zheng <i>A Chinese widower thinks his grown children owe him filial piety and financial support, but is there a limit? By Huina Zheng.</i><br><br>Isn't it natural for children to be filial to their parents? Why do people tell me I am wrong and too hard on the children? How can I be wrong? <br><br>Yesterday, I met my neighbor, Ms. Lin, in a nearby park. She told me, "You should care about your children. Don't al… Read more Labels: Huina Zheng real life stories very short stories 5 comments:
Adam Strassberg funny stories very short stories Friday, May 12, 2023 Apple Pi by Adam Strassberg <i>I'll give you 90% odds that you'll enjoy Adam Strassberg's story about a married couple who use a twenty-sided dice for their decision-making.</i><br><br>Martin and Mari married the year after graduation. Martin was a tall thin white man with black glasses, Mari was a short fat black woman with white glasses. It was a mixed marriage - sort of - they both majored in mathematics, however Martin min… Read more Labels: Adam Strassberg funny stories very short stories 27 comments:
PA Farrell real life stories very short stories Monday, May 1, 2023 Winter's Quick Fix by P. A. Farrell <i>A transient resorts to desperate measures to survive the cold winter; by P. A. Farrell.</i><br><br>Dangling streetlights are being tossed by the wind like lemon drops in the darkening evening sky. The occasional whistling sound isn't a train, but the unforgiving tempest whipping around the buildings on the town's nearly empty main street. <br><br>Snowflakes swirl around like confetti at a wedding. The stree… Read more Labels: PA Farrell real life stories very short stories 8 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories very short stories Friday, February 17, 2023 Cast Your Bread Upon the Water by Gary Ives <i>Gary Ives' character tells of a fateful secret that steered the course of his family's life.</i><br><br>Please realize this is a secret I've kept for years. <br><br>We - our mother, my twin Michael, and I - lived in St. Anthony's parish. When Mike and I were just seven our father, a fire-fighter, died just before Thanksgiving after months of hospitalization due to burns suffered pulling survivors fro… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories very short stories 9 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:
Jim Latham real life stories very short stories Monday, September 12, 2022 Ellie's Orange Roses by Jim Latham <i>Ellie returns to her Alutiiq roots and mourns her beloved Gram; by Jim Latham.</i><br><br>Ellie's orange roses rest in a cracked blue vase on the table by the kitchen window. The sun shines through the window, making the vase glow, and the sea breeze brings the scent of the roses across the room to where Ellie sits in Gram's rocker, sipping samovar tea and looking out to sea. She wanted to go pick <i>uu… Read more Labels: Jim Latham real life stories very short stories 14 comments:
Jim Latham real life stories very short stories Friday, August 5, 2022 Uncle Grand's Wheat Field by Jim Latham <i>Bryn finds an unusual object in her neighbour's wheat field; by Jim Latham.</i><br><br> Bryn was taking her first sip of coffee when she saw it. She blinked twice then snatched the binoculars she kept for birding to make sure: a four-poster bed, complete with red velvet curtains and elaborate molding had appeared in Old Man Kemmerer's field. Keeping out of other people's business was one thing, bu… Read more Labels: Jim Latham real life stories very short stories 10 comments:
David Lanvert real life stories very short stories Monday, June 13, 2022 Tokyo 1942 by David Lanvert <i>Sato-san is the embodiment of hope after the tragedy of war; by David Lanvert.</i><br><br> Sato-san walks down the middle of the road, a fishing pole over one shoulder, head tilted back and eyes scanning overhead, seeking the source of a low thrum, felt but not yet heard, before the air-raid siren sends us scurrying for safety. We watch him from either side of the road, squatting behind charred wood or lying … Read more Labels: David Lanvert real life stories very short stories 7 comments:
funny stories Mike Hickman very short stories Monday, March 21, 2022 It Takes a Psychic by Mike Hickman <i>Carol's boyfriend hopes their relationship has a future, and who better to prognosticate than Psychic Trevor; by Mike Hickman.</i><br><br> Psychic Trevor didn't have a crystal ball, although he did have a mightily shiny head. On his purple-hued <i>Photoshop</i> cheese dream of a flyer, his bald pate sparkled with enough lens flare for a JJ Abrams movie. In real life, his dome was hardly any less gleaming. It… Read more Labels: funny stories Mike Hickman very short stories 6 comments:
pick of the month real life stories Scott D Pomfret very short stories Monday, January 17, 2022 Crybaby by Scott D. Pomfret <i>Scott D. Pomfret's character is unsettled by the sound of a man crying in the neighbouring stall of a public restroom.</i><br><br> Surely only an erratic and puny spirit of exceptional selfishness, with zero appreciation for the norms of manhood and propriety, would have put Noonan on the spot in such an unforgiveable manner. It was an ambush. Noonan was a prisoner of the man's sobs. He was their vict… Read more Labels: pick of the month real life stories Scott D Pomfret very short stories 7 comments:
A Elizabeth Herting real life stories very short stories Monday, December 13, 2021 Life in the Margins by A. Elizabeth Herting <i>A. Elizabeth Herting tells the story of Emma, who is having an ordinary day at the office in September 2001, until... </i><br><br> The wind whistles and whips her long, curly hair around her face. Emma is dazed as the strange reality of being exposed to the open air, at over ninety-seven stories high, begins to sink in. Her ears ring loudly, the sound of the explosion rendering her partially deaf to the world… Read more Labels: A Elizabeth Herting real life stories very short stories 5 comments:
Bruce Costello creepy stories very short stories Friday, October 29, 2021 The Wailing by Bruce Costello <i>A real estate bargain turns out to include some unwelcome extras in Bruce Costello's creepy tale.</i><br><br> First impressions are far from good. A macrocarpa hedge, grown into trees, shadows the whole property. The house has rotting timbers, sagging spouting, dog's leg downpipes and lichen-covered cream paintwork, stained ginger from a rusty roof. <br><br>The only tidy thing about the place is the diminutiv… Read more Labels: Bruce Costello creepy stories very short stories 8 comments:
Henri Colt real life stories very short stories Friday, October 22, 2021 Forever Always by Henri Colt <i>Henri Colt tells of two European musicians with feelings for each other. </i><br><br> Imre was the illegitimate son of a destitute Hungarian priest, presumably descended from King Stephen and Giselle of Bavaria. I was the son of an Orthodox Jew who escaped to a secular life in Paris. We met in high school, or rather, at the music store next to the school, where my heart fluttered while we played guitars inst… Read more Labels: Henri Colt real life stories very short stories 5 comments:
real life stories Tim Frank very short stories Monday, August 23, 2021 Elle by Tim Frank <i>Tim Frank’s character tells of an intense relationship with fellow college student Elle.</i><br><br> Our train sliced through a tunnel, causing my eardrums to pop. We juddered in our seats and the wheels clapped like an offbeat gospel choir. <br><br>Our class was on a school trip to the Tate Modern art gallery. We had boarded a train from a deserted countryside station and then we travelled through cornfields bordere… Read more Labels: real life stories Tim Frank very short stories 8 comments:
funny stories Heather Robinson very short stories Monday, October 19, 2020 Lost Dancer by Heather Robinson <i>Orthopedist Dr. Rosenberg enjoys a case of mistaken identity; by Heather Robinson.</i><br><br> She looked different from my other patients. My typical customer is 70 to 80 years old, suffering from joints riddled with arthritis, walking hesitantly, and in pain. But she almost flitted about the exam room, gracefully turning, hands extended elegantly. A kind of Holly Golightly meets Misty Copeland. As I stared,… Read more Labels: funny stories Heather Robinson very short stories 24 comments:
Frank Beyer real life stories very short stories Monday, June 8, 2020 The Giant Worm by Frank Beyer <i>Frank Beyer's glimpse into the life of a vagrant.</i><br><br> Don't sleep much, it's the first cool night of the year. I get up because it's light, drink a glass of hot water at the corner and check out ulcer on my leg; foul, and walking it rubs against my rough trousers. Will catch the bus down to the plaza later, I can't walk it. With time to kill, I sit on the curb and people watch, th… Read more Labels: Frank Beyer real life stories very short stories 13 comments:
