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:
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 Serafino fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Monday, July 21, 2025 Migration Season by David Serafino <i>Ten-year-old Ella's body starts developing in a surprising way.</i><br><br>Ma's been burning incense and chanting, but the bumps aren't going away. At first they itched, but now they're big and burny and the only relief is to rub them against the doorjamb, a tree or the rusty aluminum siding on our doublewide. The skin oozes pus. If it doesn't get better, Ma swears she'll take me to a… Read more Labels: David Serafino fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month 18 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:
criminal stories Lance Mazmanian pick of the month short stories Monday, June 23, 2025 All Access by Lance Mazmanian <i>A rock drummer on tour in Brazil looks for a quiet spot after a gig, but suffers an unexpected interruption.</i><br><br>Drum solo. Mine. <br><br>I'm tired, too, but it's just the solo, a couple more songs, the encore, and I'm outta here. <br><br>Really need a steak, man. Brazil is <i>great</i> for steak. <br><br>Anyway, here we go: A little snare ditty from the last tour, switch-up the China to ride (air drummers love that sh… Read more Labels: criminal stories Lance Mazmanian pick of the month short stories 9 comments:
funny stories Jan Allen medium length stories pick of the month Monday, June 2, 2025 Ms. Congeniality by Jan Allen <i>A sassy and sexually charged senior citizen takes a singles trip to New York City, with the hope of catching Husband #6.</i><br><br>The glossy paper pinned to the bulletin board at our public library advertised: "Weeklong Bus Tour to New York City for Single Senior Citizens." This sounded like the perfect way to find a new boyfriend, maybe even another husband. Husband #5 died in 2021 and I haven&#… Read more Labels: funny stories Jan Allen medium length stories pick of the month 16 comments:
fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Victoria C Roskams Monday, May 12, 2025 Swan Song by Victoria C. Roskams <i>Hulda is jealous of her master's possession of Alma, or rather a lifelike replica of Alma made of swan skin and sofa stuffing.</i><br><br>I never meant for Kokoschka to kill Alma; only for him to relinquish her to me for ever. In the end, they came to the same thing. It is better that way. It is right that her body, lifeless or not, should rest with one who truly loves her. Kokoschka did not love Alma. H… Read more Labels: fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Victoria C Roskams 7 comments:
fantastic stories futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month Reva Russell English Friday, May 2, 2025 Supernova by Reva Russell English <i>A once-proud professional mourner struggles to survive in a post-apocalyptic world in which Happyness is compulsory.</i><br><br>Dolora closed the last of the feeds. Nothing but personal ads and the usual organs and eggs. The lump in her throat hummed. Down, she told it. Quiet. <br><br>From the counter, the Mister Coffee chimed and spoke. Your beverage, Dolores. <br><br>It had never gotten her name or her coffee right, but … Read more Labels: fantastic stories futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month Reva Russell English 4 comments:
Marie Anderson medium length stories pick of the month real life stories Monday, April 28, 2025 Path of Combustibility by Marie Anderson <i>Reformed troublemaker Nomar and his wife Maria move into the suburbs and struggle to get on with the neighbours.</i><br><br>I'm not a badass anymore. Maria changed me. <br><br>We'd met in a creative writing class at the city junior college. Maria got the top grade in the class. I got the second highest, thanks to her help. It was the first <i>A</i> I'd gotten since fourth grade. Fourth grade was when my dad wen… Read more Labels: Marie Anderson medium length stories pick of the month real life stories 27 comments:
Brooksie C Fontaine fantastic stories funny stories medium length stories pick of the month Friday, April 11, 2025 Heart of Stone by Brooksie C. Fontaine <i>Terry is starting to fall in love with a woman he met online, but can't bear to tell her the truth about himself.</i><br><br>We met playing video games. I was Taurus77. She was HeartOfStone89. <br><br>Both of us had been bantering back and forth while fighting digital cyclops with digital swords. Now, we've been messaging for a couple weeks. <br><br>Taurus77: You can call me by my real name, if you want. It's A… Read more Labels: Brooksie C Fontaine fantastic stories funny stories medium length stories pick of the month 29 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:
Brandon Barrows criminal stories medium length stories pick of the month Friday, March 14, 2025 Hold Me by Brandon Barrows <i>Despite appearing to care for his ailing wife lovingly and attentively, Calvin resents the burden and longs for it to end.</i><br><br>I'm not the kind of person who could ever kill someone. No matter what they did, no matter how much I hated them, I couldn't do it. I don't have some tremendous moral compass and it's not because I don't have any violence inside me - I'd be lying if I s… Read more Labels: Brandon Barrows criminal stories medium length stories pick of the month 21 comments:
Joseph Hirsch medium length stories pick of the month real life stories Monday, February 24, 2025 The Wandering Gussak by Joseph Hirsch <i>Coss Bergman returns from military service to find his deadbeat mother has come into a huge amount of money somehow, and he determines to investigate.</i><br><br>The taxicab rolled down the dirt road leading through the trailer park. The driver looked out through the windows, then into the backseat. "You see it, yet?" <br><br>The passenger, a youngish soldier in a beret, looked out his own window and shoo… Read more Labels: Joseph Hirsch medium length stories pick of the month real life stories 5 comments:
futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month Stewart C Baker Friday, February 21, 2025 Fugue in a Minor Key by Stewart C Baker <i>A woman wakes from an induced dream and feels as if she has forgotten an entire lifetime.</i><br><br>What they do is sit me in a folding chair in a white-walled room with a single fluorescent bulb on the ceiling. Two techs in white (one short and female, one skinny and male) sit there and tell me this is real, that I was never a world-famous concert pianist, never married and never mourned my husband, and ne… Read more Labels: futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month Stewart C Baker 13 comments:
medium length stories Patricia Ljutic pick of the month real life stories Monday, January 20, 2025 The Fourth Time by Patricia Ljutic <i>Eileen's son returns to rehab, and her ex is getting divorced again - can she find hope when her life is orbited by tragedy?</i><br><br>Eileen secures her phone in the holder on her dashboard and follows the route to Tyler's next rehab facility. Her phone chimes: <i>Brenda left Rick. They're divorced</i>. Her grip tightens on the steering wheel as the GPS voice fades into the background. The road blurs … Read more Labels: medium length stories Patricia Ljutic pick of the month real life stories 11 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:
criminal stories Paula Bernstein pick of the month short stories Friday, December 20, 2024 The Accident by Paula Bernstein <i>An old-fashioned hotel proprietor in a picturesque French town observes intrigue among his guests.</i><br><br>We still speak about the day the American woman and her lover were killed. They died in full view of some half dozen people, including myself, who were peacefully pursuing their business at the very moment the bright red Ferrari went out of control and plunged two hundred meters to its final resting … Read more Labels: criminal stories Paula Bernstein pick of the month short stories 11 comments:
fantastic stories JD Strunk medium length stories pick of the month Friday, December 13, 2024 The Hourglass by J. D. Strunk <i>Young Jackson Maddox captains the Hourglass in search of the Eternal Isle.</i><br><br>It was not my idea to search the ocean for the Eternal Isle - it was Jack's, and Jack's alone. I am not an aquatic person by nature. Still, I recognized that, as an adventurer, it would have been folly for me to ignore seventy percent of our planet simply because it didn't sit well with my nerves. Jack never und… Read more Labels: fantastic stories JD Strunk medium length stories pick of the month 17 comments:
long stories pick of the month real life stories Sheila Rittenberg Monday, November 25, 2024 A Drive for Life by Sheila Rittenberg <i>Busy-headed forty-year-old Ruth gets a promotion that means she needs to learn to drive - and her instructor has a most unusual vehicle.</i><br><br>Ruth should have canceled the driving lesson. She'll mess it up, she just knew. She looked for the instructor from her porch. Noticed a few flowers coming up this early spring day. Crocus, crocus, tulip. Crocus, crocus, tulip. The pattern calmed her. Ruth'… Read more Labels: long stories pick of the month real life stories Sheila Rittenberg 13 comments:
