Short Stories - Written Tales

A Christmas Tale

January 23, 2021January 23, 2021 Christina Barber

Thin, white candles teetered at the end of the small, pathetic looking tree. The branches struggled to hold up the … Read more

January 23, 2021 Katarina Petrovic

You will bring me plastic blue roses and I will think how I crossed the line again. I see you … Read more

December 20, 2020 Anna DeFreitas

Portugal is a beautiful European country located in the Iberia region, near Spain. It was part of the Roman Empire … Read more

December 18, 2020 Luca Shin

I stared in horror at the mountain of shoes, smelling of sweat, dirt and pain. Each shoe a part of … Read more

November 22, 2020 Chris Bunton

He thumbed one of the ears laced through the braided cord around his neck. Heavy rain poured through the darkness … Read more

November 15, 2020 Ambica Ghai

Why does death evoke sympathy? Even a person hated by everyone gets a couple of genuine RIPs after demise. Is … Read more

November 13, 2020 Ambica Ghai

I had once read a quote about happiness and it has stuck with me for the last two decades now! … Read more

November 3, 2020 Nimra Savanghan

Blue. Like the color of his intense eyes. So hauntingly mesmerizing and that it halts me every time. I watch … Read more

November 3, 2020 Deep Naskar

I shouldn’t have bought this. I shouldn’t have bought this queen-sized four-poster bed. I was just a single person. I … Read more

October 29, 2020 Kaci Skiles Laws

Corn syrup is filling each grout-line of the salmon, tiled table; the fizz is subsiding as the room bubbles up. … Read more

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Oliver Rose Brown

The Vicar plucks a crisp curl of witch skin from the pyre. He nibbles, clasping the charred flake between his … Read more

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Urmilla Kannuswamy

He was alone in the woods and with the last of the hand warmers gone, there was nothing to keep … Read more