Short Stories
#ShortStory
Short stories, here you'll find concise prose fiction on a range of subjects. Small self-contained stories to make you think and feel.
Deep Red
#lust
#sex
#family
#violence
#ShortStory
158 reads
6 Comments
Play With Fire....You know the rest
A 38 year old woman in America doused herself in gasoline and lit herself on fire in protest of one of those yearly Miss America Beauty Pageant's. Before lighting the match, the woman shouted slogans criticizing the pageant's exploitation of woman. Her last words were reportedly, "WATER! WATER! WATER!!"
#fire
#fiction
#ShortStory #support
#ShortStory #support
72 reads
2 Comments
Two Sexual Numbskulls
An unidentified couple somewhere in America were found dead, post-coitus in their car. They had apparently forgotten the most important safety rule for having sex in the backseat of a car: Either turn off the ignition or open the garage door!
#sex
#cars
#fiction
#ShortStory
#ignorance
74 reads
9 Comments
King of the Road
A traveling wiz kid
Shit kicker
Gathering speed
Push button magic
Cyclone launch
Over the edge
Asphalt rising
Hotdogging
Driving into the interstellar highway
Eatin dust!
Neptune’s convoy or the boogie van
Velvet interior, hell on wheels
His freedom of choice
Picking up his trapeze freak, sea hag
At the space farm
She once owned a Coyote Duster
A super shooter, strato-streak machine
Currently lugs around in a Falcon
White dice
The two are missing links
From a...
Shit kicker
Gathering speed
Push button magic
Cyclone launch
Over the edge
Asphalt rising
Hotdogging
Driving into the interstellar highway
Eatin dust!
Neptune’s convoy or the boogie van
Velvet interior, hell on wheels
His freedom of choice
Picking up his trapeze freak, sea hag
At the space farm
She once owned a Coyote Duster
A super shooter, strato-streak machine
Currently lugs around in a Falcon
White dice
The two are missing links
From a...
#universe
#rainbow
#cars
#ShortStory
#scifi
66 reads
7 Comments
A Real Dumb Shit
Some stupid, 29 year old woman from somewhere in America did not believe the doctors when they told her that her two young daughters congenital blindness was incurable. The woman decided to commit suicide by slicing her wrists in the bathtub one night in 2018. She left a suicide note implementing that each daughter receives one of her eyes. The girls are still blind & now orphaned!
#suicide
#fiction
#ShortStory #ignorance
#ShortStory #ignorance
150 reads
12 Comments
Maniacal Moves
An accountant from San Fransisco, CA hit a homeless man with her car. She then drove home with him still stuck to her windshield. When she was arrested, she denied that she had ignored the man's cries for help for three days. She let him bleed to death in her garage. She did not dispute the fact that her boyfriend had dumped the man's body in a nearby park!
#murder
#fiction
#ShortStory
85 reads
10 Comments
You Deserve A Break Today
A man by the name of Chester was the owner of a McDonald's on the outskirts of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Sometime in March 1980, he was driving North on Interstate 43 when he crashed his car.
There was a decent snowfall occurring with icy conditions.
His vehicle had crossed the median and into the southbound lanes before hitting a guardrail.
Chester was able to climb out of the burning wreckage, pulled off all of his burning clothes and stood naked in the middle of the road.
In a matter of minutes, Chester was run over and killed by an oncoming tractor-trailer. ...
Sometime in March 1980, he was driving North on Interstate 43 when he crashed his car.
There was a decent snowfall occurring with icy conditions.
His vehicle had crossed the median and into the southbound lanes before hitting a guardrail.
Chester was able to climb out of the burning wreckage, pulled off all of his burning clothes and stood naked in the middle of the road.
In a matter of minutes, Chester was run over and killed by an oncoming tractor-trailer. ...
#nature
#snow
#fiction #ShortStory
#fiction #ShortStory
91 reads
12 Comments
The Case of the Criminal Queen
a detective story
It was a busy day for Homer Featherstonhaugh and as he leapt from the red London bus, as much as a man of his girth ever leaps, he had a loud enough song in his heart to make the sparrows quit their warblings. He dove into Bidwell’s and ordered a pot of tea and a cooked breakfast. Folks thought it was eccentric of him to eat in a workman’s cafe surrounded by boiler suits and such, or a sign that he was trying too hard to seem like a man of the people, a sort of reverse parvenu. ‘Silly old Homer’ they’d say, ‘Off on his odysseys again. The fellows must think him a...
It was a busy day for Homer Featherstonhaugh and as he leapt from the red London bus, as much as a man of his girth ever leaps, he had a loud enough song in his heart to make the sparrows quit their warblings. He dove into Bidwell’s and ordered a pot of tea and a cooked breakfast. Folks thought it was eccentric of him to eat in a workman’s cafe surrounded by boiler suits and such, or a sign that he was trying too hard to seem like a man of the people, a sort of reverse parvenu. ‘Silly old Homer’ they’d say, ‘Off on his odysseys again. The fellows must think him a...
#ShortStory
#prose
#mystery #historical
#mystery #historical
87 reads
2 Comments
The Birthday Party
I ordered my own birthday cake
I even bought balloons
Invited friends and family
The party starts at noon
I broke up with my boyfriend
Actually he just dumped me
He couldn’t understand my mind
He asked to be set free
My tiny old apartment
Didn’t have a lot of space
I put out food to snack on
Afraid it’ll go to waste
My mom called first to cancel
After that it was my sister
One by one, they dwindled
My best friend too, I’d miss her
I set up streamers on the wall
Even though no one...
I even bought balloons
Invited friends and family
The party starts at noon
I broke up with my boyfriend
Actually he just dumped me
He couldn’t understand my mind
He asked to be set free
My tiny old apartment
Didn’t have a lot of space
I put out food to snack on
Afraid it’ll go to waste
My mom called first to cancel
After that it was my sister
One by one, they dwindled
My best friend too, I’d miss her
I set up streamers on the wall
Even though no one...
#depression
#loneliness
#romantic
#birthday
#ShortStory
141 reads
6 Comments
Lupe Vélez
It’s your beautiful ending.
It’s your careless sigh.
It’s the way that you ended,
Without a real goodbye.
Aa Harvey © All Rights Reserved 2023 [/font]
It’s your careless sigh.
It’s the way that you ended,
Without a real goodbye.
Aa Harvey © All Rights Reserved 2023 [/font]
#identity
#death
#America
#ShortStory
#PopCulture
67 reads
1 Comment
The Glamorous Couple Next Door
flash fiction
They were in a hotel not far from the Spanish Steps. The place was filled with American tourists, including a Mr and Mrs Franks who had sat with them at dinner and asked them to explain various British idioms in their coarse, braying voices. ‘I don’t know how you stand them’ said Jane.
‘Me?’ said Barnaby, rootling through a suitcase on a chair with a broken crossbar. ‘You’re the one who caused them to glom onto us at bridge last night.’
‘I only said that she looked just like me in that hat when I was here last year.’ She threw up her hands. ‘Bah!...
They were in a hotel not far from the Spanish Steps. The place was filled with American tourists, including a Mr and Mrs Franks who had sat with them at dinner and asked them to explain various British idioms in their coarse, braying voices. ‘I don’t know how you stand them’ said Jane.
‘Me?’ said Barnaby, rootling through a suitcase on a chair with a broken crossbar. ‘You’re the one who caused them to glom onto us at bridge last night.’
‘I only said that she looked just like me in that hat when I was here last year.’ She threw up her hands. ‘Bah!...
#sex
#fiction
#ShortStory #horror
#ShortStory #horror
94 reads
2 Comments
Kab-Baddy
In the gritty streets where Harley roams, Harleen Handall, the name she owns. A weekend shift at the corner store, Covering for her folks, she's ready for more.
Four girls stroll in, fueled by booz, one of them decides to shoplift, a bad decision to choose. "Oi P*ki, grab vodka from the top shelf, now!" Harleen stays cool and refuses to bow.
She hands over the bottle with a calm demeanor, But the girl's not satisfied, her actions much meaner. "LET GO, YOU SILLY B*TCH!" she yells and she kicks, Harleen holds tight, using her skills, so slick.
...
Four girls stroll in, fueled by booz, one of them decides to shoplift, a bad decision to choose. "Oi P*ki, grab vodka from the top shelf, now!" Harleen stays cool and refuses to bow.
She hands over the bottle with a calm demeanor, But the girl's not satisfied, her actions much meaner. "LET GO, YOU SILLY B*TCH!" she yells and she kicks, Harleen holds tight, using her skills, so slick.
...
#narrative
#ShortStory
#prose #sports
#prose #sports
88 reads
1 Comment
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