J Mogwai long stories real life stories Monday, September 8, 2025 Constriction by J. Mogwai <i>Slavik, called Pipet by his deadbeat friends, is planning to leave his town and his girlfriend for a new life in Moscow - but will old habits get the better of him?</i><br><br>"Hans Zimmer is a loser," read a crooked scrawl on the wall of the bus stop. Pipet stood across from it, frowning, lost in thought. Something told him the name belonged to a composer, though he couldn't recall when or whe… Read more Labels: J Mogwai long stories real life stories 6 comments:
creepy stories fantastic stories long stories pick of the month Sarah Arceneaux Friday, September 5, 2025 Emily's Bones by Sarah Arceneaux <i>Leo spends years searching for the remains of his murdered sister, with help from beyond the grave.</i><br><br>When they dug up the bones on his property, Leo was out of town. <br><br>He got the call while he was walking a wide street, looking for the white-lettered glass door of the specialist's office. The deputy on the phone told him that someone had called up an anonymous tip; that he wasn't in any troub… Read more Labels: creepy stories fantastic stories long stories pick of the month Sarah Arceneaux 11 comments:
Eric Del Carlo futuristic stories long stories pick of the month Monday, August 25, 2025 Alternate Timeline Fanfic by Eric Del Carlo <i>In an alternate history with stunted technology and strange sexual mores, Coby enlists the help of his schoolmate Jaecar to write a story inspired by a retired science fiction author.</i><br><br>Jaecar told quality lies. He said he'd screwed a girl named Edie Thaw. There was quiet brilliance in that name. Edie was commonplace enough, but Thaw stood on the edge of believability. <i>Some</i>body had to be named T… Read more Labels: Eric Del Carlo futuristic stories long stories pick of the month 5 comments:
Bill Tope long stories real life stories Friday, August 22, 2025 Hairline Fracture by Bill Tope <i>Foggy-headed elder Michael Lessup, having not been intimate with a woman for years, dares to dip his toes into a new relationship.</i><br><br><b>Present Day</b><br><br>Michael sat on the green-painted bench at the edge of the small city park fronting the grade school. He was dressed warmly, despite the late spring warmth of the sunny May afternoon. He watched as youngsters played kickball and skipped rope and tossed a rubb… Read more Labels: Bill Tope long stories real life stories 16 comments:
EJ LeRoy fantastic stories long stories pick of the month Friday, August 15, 2025 Mrs. Tilbury's Paramour by E.J. LeRoy <i>An unconventional romance set in an alternative past where clockwork technology reigns; first published in</i> Phantasmical Contraptions & More Errors <i>by JayHenge Publishing, 2022.</i><br><br>When Frédérick Caron received the French country house address from the agency, he smiled at the prospect of the challenge. The eccentric American widow, Mrs. Tilbury, turned away several men already without giving clea… Read more Labels: EJ LeRoy fantastic stories long stories pick of the month 8 comments:
David Prosser funny stories futuristic stories long stories Monday, August 11, 2025 A Mom I Can Get Behind by David Prosser <i>Demon-summoning black metal singer Charlie decides to trade in his mother for a new model.</i><br><br>"It's always clean up after yourself, mow the lawn, put it back in my purse, get a real job, stop trying to summon entities..." <br><br>"Is that it?" the guy behind the desk, Mr. Parker, asks, after I trail off, reliving the trauma. There's so much trauma. He flips around his laptop scree… Read more Labels: David Prosser funny stories futuristic stories long stories 6 comments:
Heather Thompson-Brenner long stories real life stories Friday, August 8, 2025 That’s What Breaks My Heart by Heather Thompson-Brenner <i>As she transitions into adulthood, theatre-loving libertine Gretchen has a complicated relationship with troubled fabulist Phil.</i><br><br>If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames. <br><br>- Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double<br>I met Phil the summer before my senior yea… Read more Labels: Heather Thompson-Brenner long stories real life stories 9 comments:
Justin Portela long stories real life stories Monday, July 28, 2025 Clementine and Nicholas, After the War by Justin Portela <i>In 1947 London, under the shadows of wartime events, mystical savant Chef Amos takes over a hotel restaurant, where Clementine and Nicholas's relationship intensifies while they prepare the perfect tomato soup.</i><br> He was a darling chef. Darling, really. The best. Oh, the odes the boys in the kitchen were singing on the morning of his arrival; Friday, December 5, 1947. They floated chatter about t… Read more Labels: Justin Portela long stories real life stories 4 comments:
fantastic stories Kelsie Thorschmidt long stories Friday, July 11, 2025 Only Ever Four by Kelsie Thorschmidt <i>Paulette, cast adrift from her family and her beau, is drawn to a mansion and entrapped by its mysteries.</i><br><br>Within the car that slowly wound through the maze of country roads, no one knew there sat a young woman in dire distress, her whole life having unexpectedly plummeted into the lowest depths of human experience. Not even the driver, who was paying far more mind to the road on this black, stormy… Read more Labels: fantastic stories Kelsie Thorschmidt long stories 9 comments:
long stories pick of the month real life stories Rozanne Charbonneau Friday, July 4, 2025 Summer Letters by Rozanne Charbonneau <i>In 1970s France, a girl tries to run away from summer camp to escape the clutches of her overbearing mother and disdainful stepfather.</i><br><br><b>The Colonie des Eglantines, a holiday camp for children in the Haute Savoie, France</b><br><br><b>August 22, 1972</b><br><br>The long Formica tables were laden with jars of Nutella and redcurrant jam. Children in shorts dunked buttered tartines into bowls of café au laits. A feast, but I was… Read more Labels: long stories pick of the month real life stories Rozanne Charbonneau 28 comments:
Anna Villegas long stories real life stories Friday, May 16, 2025 The Bear Trail by Anna Villegas <i>Ex-alcoholic Faye has a contented but directionless life with her third husband Owen, until he starts having troubling "incidents".</i><br><br>Faye had no plan. <br><br>She had never intended to have a plan. The universe aligned his illness to define the path she found herself following, each footstep planted more firmly than the last, the way a bear's paws tread their way into eternity by wearing the … Read more Labels: Anna Villegas long stories real life stories 17 comments:
fantastic stories long stories Nathan Chu Friday, April 18, 2025 Immortals by Nathan Chu <i>QuèfÄ“ng's love for Fènghuáng is such that she volunteers to become immortal like her, even though it means a thousand years of torpor.</i><br><br>"I love you." <br><br>QuèfÄ“ng has shared an apartment with Fènghuáng for two years, and two years before that, they were college dormmates, but it's only now, after she's said it, that she realizes just how true it is. <br><br>Fènghuáng stares at her for what… Read more Labels: fantastic stories long stories Nathan Chu 10 comments:
long stories pick of the month real life stories Simon J Phillips Monday, March 17, 2025 Pangea by Simon J Phillips <i>Rory and Garrett decide to escape their deadbeat families by floating away down the Connecticut River.</i><br><br>It starts and ends with the raft, more or less. That whole green summer before high school started, all me and Garrett talked about was building it. We daydreamed of floating down the Connecticut River, which started somewhere up in Canada and carried on past - somewhere farther than either of us… Read more Labels: long stories pick of the month real life stories Simon J Phillips 16 comments:
Ed Walsh long stories real life stories Friday, February 28, 2025 The Man at the Table by Ed Walsh <i>Fatima finds herself in a glamorous but unsuited marriage, but her life takes a fateful turn when she makes an unlikely connection in her favourite restaurant.</i><br><br>In the city of Grover there is a restaurant called <i>Penceys</i>. It is on Patmos Street and has been there for as long as anyone in the Tuppertown area can remember. It is a small affair, twelve tables covered in cloths of red and white check, a… Read more Labels: Ed Walsh long stories real life stories 5 comments:
criminal stories Kiyoshi Hirawa long stories Monday, February 17, 2025 The Harvest is the End of the Age by Kiyoshi Hirawa <i>Sheriff Letz is called to investigate a brutal beating in the visitor's lot of a remote prison, and must navigate his community's sordid underbelly.</i><br><br>The prison visitors' lot was empty. So was the gun, half-hidden in the nearby grass and still warm like the trembling body next to it. <br><br>Bodies are like black holes - one minute radiating light, the next minute collapsing and rapidly pulli… Read more Labels: criminal stories Kiyoshi Hirawa long stories 5 comments:
Annette Higgs criminal stories long stories Friday, January 31, 2025 The Case of the Dead Poet by Annette Higgs <i>Scruffy music teacher Charles Meistersinger witnesses a murder, and tries to solve the case before his own unpleasant secrets are dredged up.</i><br><br>An intimate group, just nine people, had gathered in the hall. They filled two ragged rows of mismatched chairs arranged in a semicircle before a low stage. Despite lively social media promotion and posters in the local bookshop, the Society had attracted on… Read more Labels: Annette Higgs criminal stories long stories 5 comments:
Cecil Fenn fantastic stories long stories Monday, January 27, 2025 One Who Helps by Cecil Fenn <i>A troubled fugitive finds solace in the home of a man with mysterious talents akin to magic.</i><br><br>Sebbi fell in step with the red-haired man who lived outside the walls, and caught him round the shoulders, pinning his arms to his sides. Though Sebbi wore a crucifix and believed in compassion, he flashed his knife before pressing its cold iron blade against the red-haired man's pale throat. He was d… Read more Labels: Cecil Fenn fantastic stories long stories 6 comments:
George Nevgodovskyy long stories pick of the month real life stories Monday, January 6, 2025 The Cracks in Everything by George Nevgodovskyy <i>Schoolgirl Jackie is frustrated about being kicked out of her favourite teacher's classroom because of a dead rat, and starts to see cracks in the façades put up by the adults in her life.</i><br><br>The smell hit us the moment we entered our classroom on Monday morning - like my socks if I left them in my bag for a few days after figure skating practice. And that wasn't the only strange thing. Ms. K… Read more Labels: George Nevgodovskyy long stories pick of the month real life stories 6 comments:
Anu Kay long stories real life stories Monday, December 30, 2024 Netta, Nebraska, Nina by Anu Kay <i>A Pakistani tour guide falls for an American visitor and remembers her even long after moving to the USA himself.</i><br><br>Pappu once lived in Karachi where he drove foreign tourists to the ancient city of Mohenjo Daro. The five-thousand-year-old city was magnificent. With its broken-down majestic ruins, brown and gold in the afternoon sun, the steps that now led nowhere, the rutted small roads that emptie… Read more Labels: Anu Kay long stories real life stories 13 comments:
futuristic stories long stories Yuri Kukhar Monday, December 16, 2024 MechaGlam by Yuri Kukhar <i>Mrs. Koneshin has spent her whole life striving to reach the impossible standards of Astral society, and prepares to make a grand sacrifice to maintain her position of privilege.</i> <br>"All that's left is for you to sign the agreement, and we can proceed with the operation next week, Mrs. Koneshin." <br><br>Nova stares at the screen displaying the document, the white light bright enough to ingrain… Read more Labels: futuristic stories long stories Yuri Kukhar 4 comments:
