Charlie Fish medium length stories real life stories Friday, December 29, 2023 The Cut by Charlie Fish <i>Globally, over 200 million women and girls have undergone Female Genital Mutilation. This story addresses this controversial issue, with the genders flipped because I wanted men in particular to squirm.</i><br><br>Feda admired his father. Gurion was a woodworker and joiner of a skill unmatched this side of Ngoro. He could make a plank straight and level enough to satisfy the gods themselves - the elder women… Read more Labels: Charlie Fish medium length stories real life stories 23 comments: shares
futuristic stories Matt Hollingsworth medium length stories Monday, December 25, 2023 The Historian by Matt Hollingsworth <i>A time travelling historian falls in love with a woman who is struggling to get over the death of her boyfriend. </i><br><br>I love you. <br><br>Yes you. I know you think you don't know me, but you do. Or at least you did. We would sit on the roof of your house, watching the tree line, saying nothing, content in each other's company, and I'd hold your hand or run my fingers through your golden hair. <br><br>You… Read more Labels: futuristic stories Matt Hollingsworth medium length stories 13 comments: shares
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: shares
medium length stories Michail Mulvey real life stories Monday, December 18, 2023 Three Questions, Three Minutes by Michail Mulvey <i>Michail Mulvey's feckless character attends an interview to teach English at a religious school, but worries about his capacity for redemption.</i><br><br> Once again I sat in the principal's office. But not for disciplinary reasons, at least not this time. This time I was interviewing for a job. And in a parochial school of all places. Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows High School. If Sister Constance, m… Read more Labels: medium length stories Michail Mulvey real life stories 10 comments: shares
Karthik Krishnan medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Friday, December 15, 2023 Born Again by Karthik Krishnan <i>Meenal submits to the Maharishi's revenant ritual, and finds herself desiring nothing more than companionship. </i><br><br>The final day of the initiation was everything that her sister had warned her about. Meenal was killed slowly. Her sister had missed giving her the finer details. But as she stood before the Maharishi, his thumbnail swatting the air around her purple-veined neck, Meenal felt it: her… Read more Labels: Karthik Krishnan medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 8 comments: shares
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: shares
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: shares
futuristic stories James Forman medium length stories Monday, December 4, 2023 Clocking In by James Forman <i>For decades George Anglin has worked hard every day in the factory making Styro brand products, until something unexpected changes.</i><br><br>The tower alarm rang at 4:00am like it always did. It would continue to ring from inside my head until both feet cleared the entrance gate and touched onto the plant grounds. <br><br>Say you were running late or sick, you still couldn't stop the ringing. The only person I… Read more Labels: futuristic stories James Forman medium length stories 6 comments: shares
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: shares
