Spooky By Rae Sterling 4 10 min. 189 It was the day before Halloween that I found her on my doorstep. She was just too adorable, a tiny black kitten with huge green eyes just sitting on top of the Jack-o-lantern on my porch like some sort of Halloween postcard. I was supposed to be leav ... #horror
Mistress Mary By Caren Hahn 7 16 min. 147 It's bad enough helping her aging mother-in-law sort through fifty years of clutter. But when she finds an antique doll that takes the nightmare to a new level, Mona is ready to call it quits. The doll, however, has other ideas. #horror #humor
Headless By Cass Weldon 5 13 min. 150 Indigo dismounted her motorcycle with carefully unhurried speed. The moon overhead was bright and silvery, and the noise coming from the house was happy—chattering voices and scattered laughter pouring out from golden glowing windows. The autumn nigh ... #horror #thriller
Blog Entries of the Brokenhearted By Stephanie Van Orman 3 29 min. 151 The wind blew the grass in waves that rippled like the waves of the sea. The tombstones didn't bend to the wind. She couldn't see him, but in her mind, he was there. #modern #paranormal #young adult
The Librarynth of the Lost By Taya Okerlund 4 14 min. 253 An evil assassin is plotting the death of Fairy's crown prince. The princess will have to get her hands dirty, making some sketchy bargains, just to protect them, but the traitor is closer than you think. #adventure #fantasy #middle grade
Dragon's Fury: Chapter One By Brian Meeks 3 5 min. 138 From out of the mist it flew... ...a dragon bent on revenge and hungry for power. Who will stop him? #adventure #fantasy
Tethered By Crystal Brinkerhoff 21 5 min. 498 The bodies wouldn’t sink. His muscles ached and his back screamed at him. Dragging the corpses into the ocean had been much harder than he’d expected. Heavy with salt water, his crew uniform clung to his body and trapped in granules of sand that chaf ... #horror #thriller
Red Wrath By Gerhard Gehrke 3 9 min. 114 I was sitting in a bar, brooding and thinking about superheroes. There was a special on the news all about them. The large flat-screen televisions mounted on the wall should have been showing the Mets game. Instead we got a fawning comedian whose fil ... #fantasy #science fiction
My Beauty For Your Ashes By Traci Wooden-Carlisle 2 9 min. 44 It all started with one lone tear. It escaped unguarded, quickly falling from her high cheek bone, wetting the concrete below. It was closely followed by another. Soon there was a rain of tears splashing against the once warm, dry stone underneath he ... #romance #clean romance #spiritual
The Gentleman Physician By Sally Britton 6 26 min. 149 Nathaniel Hastings bit his bottom lip to keep from laughing while his patient, Lady Huntington, continued to spout nonsense about the reasons behind her various ailments. He knew very well nothing troubled her that a good conversation could not cure. ... #historical #romance #clean romance
Incognolio By Michael Sussman 5 12 min. 88 Ever since the concussion, I can’t get the damn word out of my head. I haven’t a clue what it means. But I love the sound of it. So, I’ll make it the title of my novel and allow the entire story to spring forth from this mysterious word. My neuro ... #humor #thriller
The Speed of Sound By Steppen Sawicki 3 5 min. 70 Jay had never been much of a talker. He had won Carrie’s heart with gentle touches on the hand and shoulder, neck and waist. He had made her dizzy with rare utterances of her beauty and his love, precious because they were so rare. When they married ... #science fiction
Supervillain High By Gerhard Gehrke 3 6 min. 112 “See that guy there in the purple mask robbing the bank? That’s my dad.”Brendan stopped the video on his phone and waited for a reaction. Mr. Childes, his school counselor, nodded as if this was something he had heard before. The older man took his ... #science fiction #young adult
Red Marks the Child By Amira Awaad 5 11 min. 104 This desert land was exceptionally dear to me. Its warm sands resound in the drumming beats of my eye-lashes. The sultry wasteland engulfed fresh oases with water that was pure — it pulsed and it pulsated. It throbbed like the beating of a living hea ... #adventure #mythology
The Follower By M. K. Martin 4 5 min. 386 I watch her sleep, her short bristle of hair twisted into sweaty knots. I can’t help her and it’s killing me. I lay down next to her, the heat baking off her in waves. I sigh and the dust puffs out, a few small dry leaves flap at me as if annoyed by ... #science fiction
The Purse By Dan Hahn 5 13 min. 125 The smell of coffee lingered lightly from lunch as warm afternoon light streamed through the windows onto the linoleum topped table. Lorine sat with her purse open, engaged in the light conversation of old lovers. Yet Stanley hadn’t been in her life ... #fantasy
Dragonsphere By Richard Fierce 4 3 min. 96 It was dark and cold. The distant sound of dripping water echoed throughout the narrow tunnel, part of a large system of interconnected passageways and caves deep in the Viss Mountains.A hooded figure navigated his way through them hesitantly, pausin ... #fantasy