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.
PittinixDesigns
Poem Published
18th Sep 2024 8:48pm
18th Sep 2024 8:48pm
The Avid Poetess
A writer describes herself as an avid poetess.
She told a poet that some of his compositions were not poems.
According to her, they are short stories.
If she is an avid poetess, she should know more about poetry.
Perhaps she has her own definition of poetry.
Any form of writing or speech can be poetry.
It depends on how you read a composition.
A poem should be read with rhythm and style.
It seems that the poetess has not heard about conscious poetry.
In Jamaica, we invented dub poetry.
Let us talk...
She told a poet that some of his compositions were not poems.
According to her, they are short stories.
If she is an avid poetess, she should know more about poetry.
Perhaps she has her own definition of poetry.
Any form of writing or speech can be poetry.
It depends on how you read a composition.
A poem should be read with rhythm and style.
It seems that the poetess has not heard about conscious poetry.
In Jamaica, we invented dub poetry.
Let us talk...
#WritingPoetry
#lyrics
#ShortStory
129 reads
6 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
11th Sep 2024 00:30am
11th Sep 2024 00:30am
This dog has nine lives
Andy Felthersnatch's dog burst into flames when it peed on a live wire. Felthersnatch later told the press, "There was an almighty explosion and the whole street lit up. I turned around and my dog was on fire." Power was off for five hours that day in a small town 30 miles north of Ottawa, Canada. Against all odds, the dog survived.
#fiction
#satirical
#ShortStory
69 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
9th Sep 2024 8:21pm
9th Sep 2024 8:21pm
The Asylum, circa 1900
The people at the dreary hotel
Are either aged or unwell
The guests who chose to stay aloof
Lie wrapped in rugs upon the roof
A statue with a gas-lamp torch
Has toppled over on the porch
The way others wish to go
Have been obscured by drifted snow
Unknown objects falling from the air
The careful stroller better beware
It's known that the skating pond conceals
A family of enormous eels
Those who have escaped can die with dignity
Tortured, raped & beaten by the malignity
The monuments above the dead
Are too eroded...
Are either aged or unwell
The guests who chose to stay aloof
Lie wrapped in rugs upon the roof
A statue with a gas-lamp torch
Has toppled over on the porch
The way others wish to go
Have been obscured by drifted snow
Unknown objects falling from the air
The careful stroller better beware
It's known that the skating pond conceals
A family of enormous eels
Those who have escaped can die with dignity
Tortured, raped & beaten by the malignity
The monuments above the dead
Are too eroded...
#illness
#MentalHealth
#rhyming
#SelfHarm
#ShortStory
90 reads
0 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
9th Sep 2024 7:44pm
9th Sep 2024 7:44pm
A girl, two birds, some candy & a very large cat
Once upon a time a little girl was going to take her doll for a walk when there she was, meeting two nice little birds
She dropped them a pretty little bow and said to them,
"Good afternoon, little birds, will you play with me?"
"I have some lovely candy in my little bag"
"I'll give you some"
One of the birds said, "I have no objection"
and the other said, "Neither do I"
They enjoyed themselves very much until it was nearly evening
Then the little birds said, "We want to go away now" ...
She dropped them a pretty little bow and said to them,
"Good afternoon, little birds, will you play with me?"
"I have some lovely candy in my little bag"
"I'll give you some"
One of the birds said, "I have no objection"
and the other said, "Neither do I"
They enjoyed themselves very much until it was nearly evening
Then the little birds said, "We want to go away now" ...
#birds
#cats
#children
#fiction
#ShortStory
143 reads
4 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
8th Sep 2024 12:02pm
8th Sep 2024 12:02pm
The Emergency
Look out!
They're coming for you
Who is it?
Why me??
I'm perfectly healthy
How did I get here?
What happened?
I'm on this table, motionless
I can hear & see but I can't talk or move
It's like I'm in some sort of comatose state
I can see the nurses & doctors talking but i don't see their mouths moving
They continue to look towards me
One of the nurses has this large needle
She's walking towards me
I don't like this one bit
There's no way I can stop or defend myself
Please no, don't put me to sleep!! ...
They're coming for you
Who is it?
Why me??
I'm perfectly healthy
How did I get here?
What happened?
I'm on this table, motionless
I can hear & see but I can't talk or move
It's like I'm in some sort of comatose state
I can see the nurses & doctors talking but i don't see their mouths moving
They continue to look towards me
One of the nurses has this large needle
She's walking towards me
I don't like this one bit
There's no way I can stop or defend myself
Please no, don't put me to sleep!! ...
#fiction
#mystery
#scary #ShortStory
#scary #ShortStory
111 reads
6 Comments
dimpy
dimpsmoon
dimpsmoon
Poem Published
5th Sep 2024 10:49am
5th Sep 2024 10:49am
the sun did not rise today
the sun did not rise today
its role was cut off.
seeing this, the flowers
fell to the ground without blooming,
the green leaves scattered without turning yellow
but the sun did not rise today
the waves of the sea did not touch the shore
a flock of birds started flying
in one direction to search
for the sun that comes every day.
by tearing the mountain,
the roots of the trees,
felt suffocated,
n started circling here and there ...
its role was cut off.
seeing this, the flowers
fell to the ground without blooming,
the green leaves scattered without turning yellow
but the sun did not rise today
the waves of the sea did not touch the shore
a flock of birds started flying
in one direction to search
for the sun that comes every day.
by tearing the mountain,
the roots of the trees,
felt suffocated,
n started circling here and there ...
#earth
#ShortStory
214 reads
21 Comments
PeaceFlpw
Peace Flow
Peace Flow
Poem Published
5th Sep 2024 2:47am
5th Sep 2024 2:47am
Adam & Fia (your honor tv mini series)
on the surface-an adorable couple; but underneath it all- there's barely buried trauma with no need for a shovel....
dear Adam- in a constant state of haze- i see myself in adam- before his fatal mistake; the "innocent" yet "guilty" of attention not being paid- it's as if he never had a chance- his storyline engraved....
Fia and her one sibling whom recently passed away- were the blacksheep of her family that slays- parents masquerading as a family that "prays"....
Adam & Fia- like a twisted Romeo &...
dear Adam- in a constant state of haze- i see myself in adam- before his fatal mistake; the "innocent" yet "guilty" of attention not being paid- it's as if he never had a chance- his storyline engraved....
Fia and her one sibling whom recently passed away- were the blacksheep of her family that slays- parents masquerading as a family that "prays"....
Adam & Fia- like a twisted Romeo &...
#MentalHealth
#relationships
#ShortStory
117 reads
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
27th Aug 2024 11:06am
27th Aug 2024 11:06am
Porno Holocaust
I met a young girl with a face of a leper
as I browsed some travel books at the local store down on the lower east side
I heard her mother was raped on a bed of nails
she was known as a pillow biter
her bruises were covered with makeup
she wanted revenge
someone took a photograph of the rape
one of the men was in the lower left of the photograph
she described the rape as a porno holocaust
it was a gang bang
one of the men were discovered in a steam bath
this wasn't his first time
he was having an orgy with another man, claiming they...
as I browsed some travel books at the local store down on the lower east side
I heard her mother was raped on a bed of nails
she was known as a pillow biter
her bruises were covered with makeup
she wanted revenge
someone took a photograph of the rape
one of the men was in the lower left of the photograph
she described the rape as a porno holocaust
it was a gang bang
one of the men were discovered in a steam bath
this wasn't his first time
he was having an orgy with another man, claiming they...
#abuse
#fiction
#illness
#ShortStory
#violence
117 reads
3 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
24th Aug 2024 11:34am
24th Aug 2024 11:34am
Dead guy in the corvette
He shot that dude like it was nothing
I never seen anything like it in my life
He pulled up to the red light
Got out of his car
He walked over to the Corvette and fired three shots into the drivers face
He then calmly returned to his car
He had the music up really loud
Some horrible 10th rate rap from today
Pure shit!
He just wasted that fucker!
Anyway,
The light turned green and he took off
So did everybody else
Except for the dead guy in the Corvette
I never seen anything like it in my life
He pulled up to the red light
Got out of his car
He walked over to the Corvette and fired three shots into the drivers face
He then calmly returned to his car
He had the music up really loud
Some horrible 10th rate rap from today
Pure shit!
He just wasted that fucker!
Anyway,
The light turned green and he took off
So did everybody else
Except for the dead guy in the Corvette
#cars
#fiction
#murder
#satirical
#ShortStory
81 reads
12 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
22nd Aug 2024 6:36pm
22nd Aug 2024 6:36pm
The Boy in the Woods
I lived with my father in a huntsman's cottage in the woods that local children called haunted, and which attended upon me an atmosphere that I hardly deserved. On warm days my father would let me take the horse through the woods and across the eleven miles to school, on wet days I'm surprised I didn't drown several times in the muddy bog engendered by the rains.
The woods were considered haunted because 70 years prior a huntsman had hung himself from an old oak, and some years later a woman died nearby, her face supposedly held in a wide-eyed rictus of terror. This was the literal...
The woods were considered haunted because 70 years prior a huntsman had hung himself from an old oak, and some years later a woman died nearby, her face supposedly held in a wide-eyed rictus of terror. This was the literal...
#ghosts
#historical
#religion #ShortStory
#religion #ShortStory
118 reads
3 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
22nd Aug 2024 11:47am
22nd Aug 2024 11:47am
Mistakes can be deadly
He worked
He worked
He worked
and worked
He drank
He drank
He drank
and drank
His job wasn't to far from his home
He would walk home the same route every day
It wasn't the greatest neighborhood
Hobo's were always near the liquor store he would stop by each evening
He'd buy a bottle and have it finished by the time he arrived home
Trash littered the streets & sidewalks
He would always look down to see if any scratch-offs were thrown on the ground
Once he found a used scratch-off that had a 2 dollar...
He worked
He worked
and worked
He drank
He drank
He drank
and drank
His job wasn't to far from his home
He would walk home the same route every day
It wasn't the greatest neighborhood
Hobo's were always near the liquor store he would stop by each evening
He'd buy a bottle and have it finished by the time he arrived home
Trash littered the streets & sidewalks
He would always look down to see if any scratch-offs were thrown on the ground
Once he found a used scratch-off that had a 2 dollar...
#alcohol
#boredom
#death
#home
#ShortStory
88 reads
8 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
21st Aug 2024 12:05pm
21st Aug 2024 12:05pm
Cum here, cum there, cum everywhere
#beach
#dirty
#erotic
#orgasm
#ShortStory
374 reads
13 Comments
DU Poetry : Short Stories
