Short Stories - Written Tales

The Puzzle of Life

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

September 13, 2020 M.J. Iuppa

Spring comes with no particular surprise. Glacier rocks begin to surface in fallow fields. The shift of warmer weather lets … Read more

September 9, 2020 Dychotomous

To the love of my life, When I first met you, you were wearing slacks- hair pushed back and a … Read more

September 7, 2020September 2, 2020 ScarletWitch912

Cold. She was cold. She curled up into a ball beneath her covers and shivered. It didn’t help. The cold … Read more

September 2, 2020 Doug Hawley

Locals from Igaluit on Baffin Island north of mainland Canada found what appeared to be odd pebbles which were exposed … Read more

August 23, 2020 Doug Hawley

Duke Hanley – High school was OK. I was average in most classes, but did very well in math. There … Read more