Stories

I never thought this day would come...a strange disease has spread throughout the entire world. People is being held in quarantine ...

Today is the cheerleading tournament. I am so nervous! I know we practiced a lot...the jumps, the dance...the moves...but still I can’t ...

Or so I think my father thought. I wouldn't know exactly because that was the last time we all saw him. He knew he was risking his ...

Alice was in trouble. She was floundering. She was sinking. The worst possibilities her friends had suggested were no longer abstract ...

I'd been following the man for 3 days when he finally noticed.

I wake up to find myself in a forest, tied to a wooden chair. I struggle to get out. Then, ahead of me approaches a figure. In the ...

There seemed to be enough space in-between us, but this was the first time I’d ever sat next to a human being.

One day, when I was walking home from coding class....a zombie stopped me and asked me for directions. He was trying to get to

When the sun rose the next morning, Susan rubbed her eyes three more times than usual. The character of the light in her bedroom wasn’t ...

"Well, that settles it," I said. "I am never doing that again!"

It took me a minute to fully register what I was seeing. Why was the apple in my hand PURPLE?

I had just arrived at Evelyn’s 4th birthday party, balloons in hand, when all hell broke loose. Nothing changes the power dynamic between ...

The first thing you have to understand is that in 1990, every elementary school kid had—or desired—a slap bracelet. The second thing ...

A band of misfits, stoic and seasoned, stood at the city gates, the night wind whipping around them. They had traveled inland from ...

I felt a hand and my hair sprang from every nook and cranny of my body and when I turned around, my face went from pure fear to unbeatable ...

The soup is alive. The soup is angry. It wants revenge...

As predicted, Ariana woke up with a dull headache and a sore throat. Every breath she expelled felt warm and contagious. She got dressed ...

The garden. It is a special place. Roses, Chrysanthemums, Laurel bushes, Marigolds. Not squids though. Especially huge squids. There ...

So it’s like that, I thought, letting the letter flutter to the ground as I tossed my head back in exasperation. This was not the first ...

It turns out that the easiest part of life after death is the dying bit—after that, well, everything gets a little complicated.

The notes of the song flew from her mouth as if pulled by a string. The lights so bright, she was blind. The stage was alive, and the ...

The homeless man signed heavily as he settled himself into the bench, relieved that there was no one nearby to hassle him, at least ...

She stood up in the run-down apartment, heaving and shivering in her sweater. Another day, she supposed. Better than the alternative ...

An anthropomorphic whale sat by itself on the beach. It admired everything around: the waves, the cliffs nearby. What a lovely world ...

Barry, or Bazza to his mates, was a duck. An actual duck. The beak, the feathers and the webbed feet. His favourite activities were ...

I looked around the shed at what the previous owner had left behind: a hoe, the reel for a hose, some stakes, chicken wire... ah, just ...

Laia laughed bitterly. "You're all utter fools," she spat. "I'm the most powerful witch here." The judge in the center shook their ...

Once upon a time, in the fruit-filled jungles of Twibby-Dibby, there lived a giant snail known as...

It was 11:46am. You'd think the world would end at a more appropriate time, as the last rays of the sun touched the land at dusk or ...

There’s no way I’m letting some Worms take me out that easy. I paid 10 grains for the emergency DNA mods back in Milky Way and nearly ...

Monkey pressed the key with a single dot on it. It had used this one regularly over the last few weeks. But now it didn't feel like ...

If I’d actually believed it was possible, I never would have done it.

"Happy birthday!" they sang—but it wasn't my birthday.

"I only agreed to this because you told me Danny DeVito would be here!"

Martin awoke to the sound of car horns blaring from the street below. Pulling on his robe, he down from the bedroom window and was ...

I finally got on dance moms but Abby lee miller kept screaming"...

then they thought...

I could watch everything they had done but this, this had crossed a line so far into the dark that the shadows were afraid of it, this ...

I'd lost him, he was mine, I....needed him, I caused this to him,I just wanted... I just wanted to stop him before- I just-I Hate- ...

The blade that lit the surface of my skin ablaze sat there as I bled, waiting for the sweet release of death I held her, I was akin ...

My limbs wen numb as so did her heart, and for once, I cracked a smile she was dead, my killer was dead, The police look at me and ...

We decided to go to McDonald's and when we got there...

Death and taxes. The two things in life they say are certain. But there was a third truth they were now confident was an undeniable ...

Clouds of dust plumed up as sheets of residue fell off the windowsills. Long abandoned, the house shuddered under the force of the ...

i died and went...

Admiral Baldwin finished his early morning tea and toast before pacing the deck of the S.S. Lean Coffee collecting his thoughts. He ...

Suddenly the room went dark. Sam, Miguel & Michael were all alone now. The visitors were gone. An eerie quiet settled in the bedchamber ...

They sat at the table, lit starkly by the bare bulb overhead. Between them the deck of tarot cards. Two cards face up; three of swords ...

“Ed Every - Twitter superhero. Hire me to sort out your troll problem”. Too long - brevity was key for Twitter bios. “Ed Every - troll ...

We are building a bridge...a new path to a new town. This area was recently bought by a big company and they want to develop a new ...

I could no longer see my pod or my blaster, just this vision of inviting lava coupled with the intense cold. I reached in the direction ...

She went into the woods and saw...

As a family of spellcasters, the Fosters knew all too well when to lay low. Once they made it to a dingy pub on the outskirts of town ...

Four sagely birds convened at the tallest tree in Vogel Valley, each carrying a branch from their respective homeland. After exchanging ...

"Hey guys, what's up! I'm Miles Trouquesor and in this video I'll be unboxing the brand new NecroHaus GCM28 Neural Oscillation Diffuser ...

Never leave a container of mint balls next to a witch's cauldron. But the trick to this is, what exactly is a witch? When I first came ...

The men are afraid to ask you but “Do you not crave blood sir” ? Listen well lieutenant, I take no pleasure in feeding. All things ...

Maybe it was the length of time I’ve spent in the silence of space, but music has meant a lot to me these last 5 years. I’d gotten ...

Once, I had read how the mushrooms we see in the forest are not individual organisms, but part of a much larger whole that exists underground ...

Her hands trembled as she took the reigns, knowing what it meant to leave. She tapped Lancelot with her heel and he left the open door ...

Sunlight poured in through the grimy hotel window, rousing me from my slumber. I yawned and consulted the bedside alarm clock, which ...

Alice's life changes on a Tuesday morning. The coffee shop she works at, close to campus, is crowded with professors and students getting ...

The children heard the sudden gritty rubbery traction sound of approaching tyres and leapt off the narrow woodland path with only a ...

It's said there's a fine line between doing what you're told and getting what you want. But it's not a fine line. It's a sheer, icy ...

I took my sharpie and I wrote all over his car. I couldn’t believe that

My partner and I pulled up outside the scene of the crime, annoyed to find the news crew had already beaten us there. It was the third ...

I took two weeks off of work and told everyone I was going to Mexico with my parents. The truth was that I was going to sit in my apartment ...

Mitch and Mindy leapt up, terrified what lay beneath. They twirled around, examined the human remains occupying their chairs and, in ...

Where am I going to find a box of grits at this hour? It’s an unconventional ingredient, as far as magical components go, but Southern ...

It was a really hot day to be in the onion fields. The heat made the aroma of the onions strong and pungent. The citizens residing ...

The boy suddenly woke up on the shores of a beach. Bitter cold and the familiar stench of coastal decay overtook him. The deafening ...

Finally after 3 years of searching, I had found my little sister. There was only one problem, directly on top of the cage that she ...

The giant’s body lay face down in what this morning had been Halbert Haversham’s home, stables, and small orchard. The giants left ...

Humpty Dumpty was tired. He was tired of being glued over and over again...why did he had such a thin and fragile shell? He wanted ...

The doll continued sewing in the dark corner, greeting the needle spiders as they clattered across the wooden shelf. Many avoided her ...

He brought his hands together in glee, his eyes gleaming. He received looks as if he had lost his mind, but that just increased his ...

I ran through the hallways trying to get to class. It seemed like one of those scenes in a movie where the main character is comically ...

Grind the beans until they turn as smooth as sand in an hourglass. Pull the lever until the water streams down in an iridescent cascade ...

He looked at the night sky and imagined other worlds. Alternative universes where he was happier, wealthier and maybe a couple of inches ...

It had been eleven months to the day since the storms first began. Most cities were but flattened piles of crumbling brick and rotting ...

I started out as any normal child. I’d pass the days away playing silly childish games, like duck-duck goose or tag with the neighborhood ...

How do you know if you’re crazy? What if you’re actually on to something you’re not supposed to know, and being labeled “crazy” is ...

I watched the fire burn what was left of the rubble away. My nose filled with smoke, my heart with vengeance I walked to the woods ...

The plane was landing, and I was running out of time. I frantically looked across the aisle at his slack-clad legs, crossed at the ...

“A hero’s journey is long and winding, but a hero always finds the way,” my mother read. “That’s the end of the story, Anya. Good night.” ...

The buttery crumbs spilled out of my mouth and onto my velvet robe. As I devoured the ethereal croissant I began to feel drunk with ...

I twisted the noose in my hands, curving it into a heart shape. Happy Valentine’s Day, I thought. Nothing else I’d done or tried to ...

“Please don’t hurt me...” Kay was curled up into a ball, her arms over her face. In the dark she couldn’t see who was there. “No, stop!” ...

Days later Houston, having recovered from the attack, stood in a dusty atrium in one of many deserted, faceless municipal buildings ...

When humankind first encountered an intelligence equivalent to its own, it was not at all what we expected.

Fortune cookies. I've been making them for eons, directing entire Chinese restaurants in the delicate art and penning the predictions ...

Once upon a time there was a man who likes seeing stars. That man was married and he had 2 daughters. One day, while he stayed at home ...

Wearing a mask is a beautiful thing until the moment dawns on you that taking it off is a lot harder than putting it on. I had been ...

I had always been an unremarkable demon. I came from a proud bloodline of many a well known incubus that had seduced some of the major ...

It was a beautiful night. The moon was shining over the mountains, illuminating the treetops and silhouetting the owls and other night ...

There is snow everywhere. It keeps piling up. It is not melting. It’s almost June.

Whenever someone asks me about my childhood, I don’t smile and think of good times. I shudder. I think of the only thing from my childhood ...

The night was cold and foggy, the perfect scenery for a gruesome crime. Detective John Mason was assigned to the case, he was the best ...

Crunch. The bug bit into its snack once more, covering yet keeping in time with the ticking of the clock it was captured in. It gleefully ...

Day 304: I am still all alone with no answers, just as I have been for the last nearly year. The lack of human companionship is finally ...

You think you know me. But I’ve fooled you with my ordinary clothing and passive manner. I want you to think I’m weak, submissive ...

The damp murk of the cellar, unaided by the arm of moonlight reaching in through the grime of a solitary window, was silent and still ...

Before their eyes was the frozen ocean, fractured but solidified once more underneath. It seemed like an undulating ballroom floor ...

Felce had always been a quiet town on the cliffs bordering the sea, the only racket emanating from it coming from the waves crashing ...

Well, it's not every day that you discover your mother is the most despised supervillain in the history of Mars.

I ran up as fast as I could. I could hear the loud booming voice ahead, bellowing "Giddy up, Giddy up! Last train out to your new life ...

All was quiet in the Musick household save for a mechanical hum emanating from the attic. A keen observer watching from the across ...

How is it possible for a person to suddenly grow a second head? Of all the maladies that I have researched, I never suspected that ...

"Fellow Blockians, this is our hour of battle. We must not falter! To victory! Battalions 8 and 9, prepare for ambush!" The legoes ...

Jim had been stuck in a time loop for—by his estimates—a hundred and fifty years. At least the day he inhabited was sunny and warm ...

The flickering lamp was the only source of light in the darkened field of buttercups. The bunny couldn't pause to think of why it was ...

The end of my life was near. I could feel it in my bones. “Make it a double,” I said to the bartender. What would a few extra drinks ...

I was walking, book in hand, when I bumped into someone. I was met by a familiar face. My friend, Kate, looked back at me. But then ...

It was a crisp fall day. The end of our hike had led us to a clearing in the forest, just behind the CVS. Holly was standing still ...

I was there alone.

Everyone loved Lora's laugh. It was low, full of humor and light and everything you could want in a sound meant to elicit smiles. It ...

The gentle hum of the blowing fan in the corner, the slither of sunlight strewn across the room and settled on the tired, angelic and ...

The tiredness enveloped her as she closed the call room door. She hoped for just an hour of sleep before the nurse called saying that ...

One of the only good things to come out of the pandemic was this: by 2025, sweatpants have become acceptable garments in every situation ...

Oblivious to my lifelong mental condition to which he had just contributed (motorcycle-phobia) RG09LBJ pootled down the street on his ...

Somewhere outside, someone—or something—was wailing. A blizzard was due, and Cecelia wondered if perhaps it was a banshee warning the ...

"...vanity plates are cheap in the USA, but here in the UK they can cost a fortune, so I saved myself a few thousand quid by changing ...

Kim rolled over and snoozed her alarm, even though she knew there was no getting back to sleep. As the comfort of dreams wore off and ...

The hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach was overtaking me. I reached for the bottle of Lorazepam, only to find that it was empty ...

"Baloney!" cried the clown. "I'm telling you, thanks to Stephen King, all the children in the audience were terrified of your antics ...

Every morning, before the day started me and Lucy would watch the military boys run along the country side. Everyday I would ask Lucy ...

There are so many beautiful and subtle things about this planet that make it unlike earth, but the most striking has to be the red ...

Day 154 of the genetic mutation research: Subject D has started to repond to the treatment. The other subjects didn’t run with the ...

He approached me in the in plaza, smiling. Without a word, he handed me a card. It read “Marcus Wallaby the Third. Effing up the ineffable ...

"So you sold our perfectly good camel for those date seeds and not at the bazaar like I told you to?" I could see my father shudder ...

This is how the story goes, how it ends, no one knows. Line by line, we fabricate it ‘til we sound inebriated. Using only context clues, cleverly ...

It was the weirdest plant Charlotte had ever seen- and she’d seen many in her 22 years as a Master Gardener. First of all, it seemed ...

It was over. It was finally all over. Completely and utterly finished, no chance of returning.

Ahhhhhhhhh! The girl screamed.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" The boy could hear the medusa hiss right next to his ear from behind him as he stared. On the wall opposite ...

"By Balu's beard mother, how many times do I have to tell you"? Gurok paused, holding the edge of the door looking back into the room. "When ...

The palm trees swayed in the breeze as Vivian gazed at her dog-eared airport novel—an airbrushed photo on the cover—not reading a word ...

Terry “The Terror” Lunderbuff was a local legend. It was said he was a cheat, a thief and an aggressor whose history as a secret agent ...

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A stakeout wasn’t what David had in mind for Christmas Eve, but here he was, shivering in his car with a cup of cold coffee while “Last ...

The night, like most nights on the Newfoundland coast this time of year, was appropriately dark and stormy. Eileen sat at the bar ...

Wiping sweat from my forehead, I took a step back to admire my work. The cat house was finally complete, and I couldn’t wait for my ...

Byla jednou jedna malá chaloupka.

Do you know or at least imagine how is to live in a Pink world? That is my case, I live in the pinkiest, sweetest and most cloyiest ...