Category: short stories
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Short Story: Crime and Superpowers
Moreen Lee, private investigator, takes a case that seems to be a simple matter of a cheating husband. They keyword there is “seems.”
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Short Story: Confessions of a Former Chosen One
This one’s funny but dark. Content warning for mentions of torture and attempted suicide. I was thirteen when the wizard took me. Opened a portal right under my feet. I fell through the fabric of the universe, screaming my throat raw, and landed in an ice-cold lake. Thank God my…
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The Memory of Ghosts: A Halloween Urban Fantasy Serial (Part 5)
First time reading? Start with Part 1 here. Recap: Last time, Bea and the ghost searched a graveyard but found no trace of the ghost’s husband’s soul. Then they followed a trail of sinister magic to the cellar of an old house. Chapter 5 The cellar must have been put…
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The Memory of Ghosts: A Halloween Urban Fantasy Serial (Part 4)
First time reading? Start with Part 1 here. Recap: Last time, Bea and the ghost found the name of the cemetery where the ghost’s husband was buried. Then two mysterious men attacked Bea but were scared off by the ghost. Chapter 4 When Bea parked her van in front of…
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The Memory of Ghosts: A Halloween Urban Fantasy Serial (Part 2)
First time reading? Start with Part 1 here. Recap: Last time, our ghostly protagonist’s monotonous afterlife was interrupted when the old woman she’s haunting calls an exorcist. But instead of moving on, the ghost talks the exorcist into helping her track down the soul of her lost husband. Chapter 2…
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The Memory of Ghosts: A Halloween Urban Fantasy Serial (Part 1)
It’s October! Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, so to celebrate, I want to share a free urban fantasy short story. I’ll be serializing The Memory of Ghosts all through October, so expect updates every Thursday this month. Check it out if you like: Ghost librarians…
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Urban Fantasy Short Story: Strange Hunt (Part 2 of 2)
Find the Others…before they find you. Looking for an urban fantasy short story with lots of action and a bit of creepiness? Finished reading Poison and Honey and want more of the characters and world? You’ll probably enjoy Strange Hunt. Just make sure you read Part 1 first, or else…
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4 More Sensational Superhero Short Stories
We’re not getting our usual selection of superhero blockbusters in theaters this summer for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean we have to be deprived of good superhero stories. One way to get them is by supporting your local comic book shop, and another is by searching the internet. Or…
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Urban Fantasy Short Story: Strange Hunt (Part 1 of 2)
An urban fantasy short story about a woman hunting a fae monster.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Flash Fiction: Marigold and Saffron
Marigold pushed the blankets off herself, careful not to make a sound. Slowly, she sat up in bed and put her bare feet on the rough wooden floor. Then she stood, wincing as the floorboard creaked under her weight. She froze, and her heart pounded as she waited to see…
Kristen Brand 