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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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.
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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…
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Flash Fiction: The Lunch Date
The glass case over the pastry display was shattered, a masked goon moaning on the floor in front of it. Half the tables in the small cafe were overturned, broken plates and smashed sandwiches scattered across the tile. The rest of the customers had fled, and a terrified barista peeked…
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Short Story: The Monster with Many Eyes
We all have our monsters. Sometimes, we feel ashamed by them, but we shouldn’t let that stop us from asking for help fighting them. That’s the concept behind The Monster with Many Eyes, which is also a story about two girls beating the crap out of a monster. It appears…
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5 Short Stories About Witches (that you can read for free right now)
I’m going to be a witch this Halloween. I’ve got the hat and the black dress, and I just need to figure out my makeup. Witches have always been one my favorite paranormal beings. Maybe it’s the spells and potions or the feminist undertones. It could also be a side-effect…
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Short Story: Around the old Hawthorn Tree
Addison found the box one Sunday afternoon when her mom asked her to clean out the closet in the guest bedroom. It was a dusty old cardboard thing, and inside, she found a few notebooks with her late grandma’s name on the front and a beautiful silver necklace with a…
Kristen Brand 