Benaissa Bouhaja real life stories short stories Friday, July 17, 2026 A Veneer of Perfection by Benaissa Bouhaja <i>Susan and Don go on a double date with old friends who seem to be the perfect couple.</i><br><br>The sun was setting behind the towering buildings as the street lights flickered on. Don and Susan sat in their small rented coupe, one of many cars lined up bumper to bumper in rush hour traffic. Don's eyes were fixated on the red lights in front of him as Susan glared down at her phone. <br><br>They flew into the c… Read more Labels: Benaissa Bouhaja real life stories short stories 5 comments:
funny stories Michael Nolan short stories Monday, July 13, 2026 The Limerist by Michael Nolan <i>A tall tale about Tommy O'Brien, who was so enamoured of limericks he could express himself no other way.</i><br><br>My father told me about Tommy O'Brien. It was late one night and he'd been sitting in the dark in the kitchen, filling himself with whiskey, the Pierian springs of his wit. When the spirit was with and in him, he was the best of storytellers. He waved me to sit down and he slopped … Read more Labels: funny stories Michael Nolan short stories 3 comments:
futuristic stories Joanne Merriam short stories Friday, July 3, 2026 Possible Purposes of Plastic Buttons by Joanne Merriam <i>A woman is so preoccupied with her dying husband that an alien invasion fails to make much of an impression.</i><br><br>I was at the hospital when the aliens landed. I'd made up my face that morning, but I'd eaten since then, and cried, and laid my cheek against his. I wiped my face naked with wet tissues and rubbed it with my bare hands, something soothing about the gesture despite everything. At th… Read more Labels: futuristic stories Joanne Merriam short stories 3 comments:
funny stories Nicholas Spitzman short stories Monday, June 15, 2026 A Second Opinion by Nicholas Spitzman <i>A man goes to great lengths to avoid a dental procedure, and his dentist is unwillingly complicit.</i><br><br>My dentist retired and Dr. Sorensen took over his practice. I went in for my cleaning and she told me unapologetically that my lower left second molar was cracked and that it needed a crown. <br><br>"Can we just keep monitoring, and if it gets worse, we do the crown?" I asked. <br><br>"We could, but i… Read more Labels: funny stories Nicholas Spitzman short stories 12 comments:
Brian Clark funny stories short stories Friday, May 22, 2026 Something is Afoot by Brian Clark <i>Scotty has escaped from his uncaring humans, but without his lifelong partner Angus.</i><br><br>The moderator cleared his throat loudly and waited for the room to quiet down. <br><br>"Hello, everyone. Welcome to another meeting of our little therapy group. First item of business: we've finally come up with a name for our self-help club. We're calling it Suddenly Single. I think you know why we picked th… Read more Labels: Brian Clark funny stories short stories 14 comments:
funny stories futuristic stories John McAuliffe short stories Monday, May 18, 2026 Hologram Sam's by John McAuliffe <i>David considers a radical image overhaul at Hologram Sam's.</i><br><br>David entered the studio and was met by a smiling man who offered his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Sam, and I am who I am, but <i>you</i> can be anyone." <br><br>"Hi Sam, I'm -" <br><br>"David. David Tipton." <br><br>"Yes." <br><br>"I have you right here." Sam raised the tablet in his left hand. "Come with me."… Read more Labels: funny stories futuristic stories John McAuliffe short stories 16 comments:
Philip Cesario real life stories short stories Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Emile by Philip Cesario <i>In 1961, young Michael hangs out with Emile Khalid, owner of the small New York book store his father works at.</i><br><br>Emile Khalid once had a fedora, a broken window, a red cat, and a black foot. Although not at the same time. <br><br>French and Syrian at the root, with an intellect honed at the Ecole des Beaux-Artes in Paris, he was an enthusiastic émigré to America, erstwhile artist, alleged Communist, unaba… Read more Labels: Philip Cesario real life stories short stories 10 comments:
fantastic stories Femi Salami short stories Wednesday, May 6, 2026 The Boy and the Lake by Femi Salami <i>When a child goes missing in a West African village, two friends dare to explore the forbidden Lake.</i><br><br>My name is Gabriel, and my favorite place in the whole wide world is the dusty path by the little river behind our house. That's where I go to think, and to sing. Everyone in Oyo knows the song. You hear bakers singing it as they knead dough, and farmers humming it in the fields. It goes: <br><br>&quo… Read more Labels: fantastic stories Femi Salami short stories 10 comments:
funny stories short stories Stephen Mirabito Monday, May 4, 2026 The Pickle of it All by Stephen Mirabito <i>George gets in a pickle at work when his date Mia's punny pranks get out of hand.</i><br><br>At first, her little jokes were innocent and thoughtful; honestly, they were. On their first date, Mia gave him an origami folding of a dog (it was her model example for the third graders in her classroom). When George unpeeled the flap of the dog's ears, she had written in curly-cursive purple ink: <i>It is a p… Read more Labels: funny stories short stories Stephen Mirabito 22 comments:
GB Prabhat real life stories short stories Friday, May 1, 2026 The Moving Finger Writes by G. B. Prabhat <i>A man recalls a memorable work trip to Kerala's beautiful Vembanad Lake.</i><br><br>It was dusk when we reached the hotel, which according to the various reviews I had read, was situated right on the shore of the lake. For many years now, I had been dreaming of visiting Kumarakom in Kerala to take a look at the Vembanad lake, reportedly India's longest. I contrived to make sure that the venue of the … Read more Labels: GB Prabhat real life stories short stories 28 comments:
David Roe funny stories short stories Monday, April 27, 2026 The Curious Case of the Porcine Portrait by David Roe <i>A vainglorious landlord is mortified to find his property defaced by amusing graffiti.</i><br><br>I've always wanted to be a hero. That's why I became a landlord. <br><br>This country is in the midst of a housing crisis. Such trying times demand a champion, a man of noble intentions. And what could be more noble than providing a home for the downtrodden at fair market rates? So, when my father asked me to ma… Read more Labels: David Roe funny stories short stories 8 comments:
creepy stories Joseph Hirsch short stories Friday, April 24, 2026 Cozy by Joseph Hirsch <i> A detective visits a woman connected to two missing persons cases, and finds something shocking.</i><br><br>My suspect lived at the end of a cul-de-sac in a two-story bungalow surrounded by similar small houses. Two children were out front playing - a boy and a girl - enjoying the summer weather. The boy had a yellow plastic dump truck in his hand, a load of pebble gravel in the berth of the dump body. The … Read more Labels: creepy stories Joseph Hirsch short stories 8 comments:
Cain Randle real life stories short stories Wednesday, April 1, 2026 Before the Buzzer by Cain Randle <i>A man goes to a memoir writing conference and gets a dose of his past he hadn't expected.</i><br><br>I had been thinking about writing a memoir for twenty years and staring at a blinking cursor in a blank Word document for the past three years. Instead of moving my fingers and just writing the thing, I attended another (my twelfth) memoir writing conference - this one was in Chula Vista - where they guar… Read more Labels: Cain Randle real life stories short stories 2 comments:
Carl Tait real life stories short stories Friday, March 27, 2026 The Gavinaw Process by Carl Tait <i>Pascal's expensive manufacturing process leads his business to great success, to the extent that he refuses to negotiate with potential new clients.</i><br><br>Pascal Gavinaw loved telling customers his prices were not negotiable. <br><br>His fees were ridiculous. Astronomical. And not subject to change for any reason. Why would they be? The Gavinaw Process was the industry standard and was protected by nine sep… Read more Labels: Carl Tait real life stories short stories 8 comments:
futuristic stories ML McCortney short stories Wednesday, March 25, 2026 The Wanderer by M. L. McCortney <i>A deserter crash lands on an alien world and has a crisis of conscience.</i><br><br>If not for a sudden cold breeze, Gaensyn might have slept forever. Even with his eyes still closed, his head throbs along with a dozen cuts and bruises and burns scattered over him. <br><br>Gaensyn's eyes flutter open. He hangs upside down in his pilot's chair. Where there used to be viewport glass, there is now only sand an… Read more Labels: futuristic stories ML McCortney short stories 5 comments:
criminal stories Saul Isler short stories Monday, March 9, 2026 The Waverly Tontine by Saul Isler <i>Colin Waverly tells the epic story of his father's shifty investment scheme, and what became of the capital.</i><br><br>If word of it had ever spread, Father's tontine would most certainly have become the most famous in history. But it had been held the darkest of secrets until I learned of it just this past week. Outside of its participants, I may be the only one to know of its provenance. And its s… Read more Labels: criminal stories Saul Isler short stories 8 comments:
criminal stories funny stories short stories Tim Wright Friday, February 27, 2026 Buoyancy by Tim Wright <i>Bumbling gangsters Norm and Lefty try to dispose of a body in Tampa Bay, but things don't go as planned.</i><br><br>Norm watched the corpse bobbing by the boat in the moonlit bay and remembered an old high school science class, the one where they made an egg float by putting salt in the water. Lefty reached out with the boathook and gave Mantini's body a hard shove. It went under, then returned to th… Read more Labels: criminal stories funny stories short stories Tim Wright 9 comments:
creepy stories John Leahy short stories Monday, February 23, 2026 Elegy In The Retort by John Leahy <i>A story inspired by the Lamb funeral home scandal in which numerous bodies were cremated at once in order to boost profits quickly.</i><br><br>We are seven. We were not meant to be burned together. Not like this. Not in this oven. Not in this place. Not stacked like refuse. Not shoved in haste, as if death were a shipment, a quota, a monthly target. And yet, here we are: pressed shoulder to jaw, pelvis to ri… Read more Labels: creepy stories John Leahy short stories 10 comments:
funny stories James Rumpel short stories Monday, February 9, 2026 Christmas Dinner 2065 by James Rumpel <i>Christmas is coming up, so it's time for Chuck and Amy to revive their parents from cryosleep again.</i><br>"Okay, we'll have your parents out shortly," the company representative announced. <br><br>"That's great," said Chuck. "We have to have them back by 5:00 Monday, correct?" <br><br>The rep checked some data on his tablet. "Yes, that's right," he replied, &quo… Read more Labels: funny stories James Rumpel short stories 8 comments:
funny stories Jake Holland short stories Wednesday, February 4, 2026 NRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR by Jake Holland <i>A woman living with her parents is troubled when her recently divorced stepbrother Theo moves in and starts a relationship with their vacuum cleaner.</i><br><br>Theo was spending too much time with Harry. <br><br>'How long does it take to hoover a bedroom,' I said. 'He keeps it running all night.' <br><br>'It helps him sleep,' Mum said. 'Like white noise.' <br><br>It was Sunday, so we were all eating… Read more Labels: funny stories Jake Holland short stories 8 comments:
