Short Stories

A trader in Medieval England encounters beings from another time and place

A young man stumbles onto his fate as posted in the local newspaper's obituaries

A tall thin man approaches a young woman alone in a parking lot. Her hair is long and dark with a part down the middle. She looks like one of Ted Bundy's victims.

This is an AU of the third season. Clark's in danger.

Fiction from the back woods

It was time for Tom to face his final ordeal, his final step into manhood. Would he succeed and be able to carry on the ancient family traditions or would he have to live with the quiet shame of failure for the rest of his life?

My Granddad has been gone for years, but the memory of spending time in his garden is very real to me!

Teenagers Alice and Andy live on opposite sides of The Irish Sea. When they meet, it's love at first sight. But how will they continue the relationship? They're both at college, they both have jobs and they're both disabled...

An experimental short story about a great jazz bass player.

Conversations among ducks in a pond

We all thought that you had died in the war! "I did Thomas, I did."

love and loss, heartbreak and renewal ... a work of fiction encompassing the span of human emotion.

What parents do with their kids shouldn't be for their sake only

Mantra requires not only simple repetition; it requires other things to go with - such as oneness of mind, dedication, sincerity etc

He could not help remembering Andrea del Sarto of Robert Browning & knew that there could be people like that.

The story of a man with is about to turn fifty

A young wife and mother struggles with the temptation of romance with another man.

Story chronicles the life of a working class girl in late 19th century Britain with a surprising twist.

creative writing short story, summer in June 7th grade

Estelle Getty has passed away at the age of 84. a very sad time

A story about asking for and receiving forgiveness.

Short story involving abusive relationshp

short story involving relationship over decades

The life of a bronx, New Yorker from 13 to 33, a catholic school kid and has friends and their mis adventures, and getting chased by the police, homeowners and just about everyone else.

"You will be given the responsibility of educating our young who saw and felt the war, the generation who will define peace to our future generations...

My prey is elusive. Though I've performed this ritual countless times it's still unpredictable. Will the prey give himself up easily tonight? Or will it be a struggle?

She walked across to her seat unable to handle this artificial air of formality and the impersonality. She felt that it was all pain that people choose to inflict on each other and on themselves too

This is an analysis of "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, written in 1941. Through textual evidence, a correct interpretation of this story is presented within.

"Ye'd need not be scared of the devil had ye been Jack O'Banion. Yep, thet' tinker from the town of Tralee, down in the fair Limerick county wasn't afraid of the devil. No siree!"

A short story in the style of Charles Bukowski. Be sure to check out my horror novel, Cocoon of Terror.

Sometimes it's not too late to give the gift of love

Despite the risk of cancer, some women simply can't resist a dangerous golden glow.

A short story with hints of the occult and the metaphysical.

Two fighter pilots are grounded by an intense fear of flying that developed overnight; until their aged grandfather finds the cure.

I am certain of only one thing- God has been kind to some. God is unkind to certain others; that unkindness is itself enough for them. You need not add to it. It is cruelty enough that no more is needed.

Laughter. I know it well, your laugh. Now and then I hear it and I turn my head to look at you. Once I thought I had a glimpse of you, and for a second my life was whole again. But you were never there.

This is a piece that I wrote, as stated, about my favorite place. It used a lot of imagery.

An Indiana gas station owner is giving away free gas to vehicle owners who display Obama '08 Bumper Stickers on their vehicle.

In a dystopian setting two grown men grapple, one slightly disfigured in obvious dark clothing, ripped and torn from confrontation.

A funny happening in Central Park.

My personal battle with poverty, homelessness and loss and the amazing grace of God to see us through everything.

"Misalignment Classification Code 0001/-A. Inappropriate response. Happiness."

I am here to find peace and refuge, but where is it?

Koko is a children's entertainer in the early days of television. We find him considering making a major life-changng decision....

A humorous story about an eighty year old lady.

Words can and do hurt, and can cause permanent emotional scars and wounds!

When Ralph & Cathy have to travel out of town they leave their 12 y.o. Golden Retriever with a handicapped cousin who lives in the country by a lake, Dusty relates her adventure there.

This entry is a hilarious take on the classical myth. It follows the grain of the Greek myth, but turns it into a satire.

The stuff that occupies our lives from beginning to end

this is a story about my dog rusty and the worst camping trip we ever took

The ending of the story is nothing more than the narrator's weak attempt at distracting his reader from his own culpability in Bartleby's Death.

This is a fictional Mafia hit, but one that is based firmly on actual fact.

This is a short designed to make you think about some of the dynamics of sensual balance.

What I went through when I lost my Brother and Dad less then a year from one another.

Our troops only take a few days off durring this war. Here is my illusion of that one day off.

Poe deliberately erodes his narrator's credibility throughout the story to undermine the narrator's final conclusion that his beloved Ligeia has returned from the grave.

A girl realizes that she wants to go to college.

There are many, many stories about the sword that has to be pulled from a stone, or retrieved from a lake; but what if the magic sword just simply got LOST!

Two boys sneak off from the family camping trip in the Ozarks and find a bookstore in the fourth dimension ... with fourth dimensional toys.

This is a chapter from "Supernatural Radio" about KSR, broadcasting from West Bobcat, Missouri in the Fourth Dimension.

A homeless woman on the wintry streets of New York is helped by a kitten, a preacher man, and an Archangel.

A young woman explains how her experience falling from a tree as a child helped her to understand her first broken heart.

A recently widowed woman daydreams of her children being kidnapped at a Burger King.

A woman struggles with the decision to view the body of her best friend at his funeral.

Mr. Eugene Stupid goes to the shopping mall and drives the store clerk crazy.

Louey is Mr Harper's dog, but he's too old to exercise. One day, he lets her out for a run... and what follows is a great adventure. But can Louey ever find her way home again?

A story with a surprise ending.

A Short Story about relationships and life.

Autumn hears the story once again of how she came to be

When writing a short story or novel, here are some questions those who critique will ask of your story, so by beating them to the punch you should avoid the slush and rejection piles.

The search for a true heart

Thump ... crash ... the sound of a windowpane breaking shattered the thin film of silence hanging on the cold air. Unusual sounds for a usually silent town of England.

This is a story of a father that had his children stole from him and the life he lived without them. How every day was a struggle to stay composed, to be a man and not let how he felt surface in-front of anyone.

A Christian allegorical piece in the tradition of Tolkien and Lewis but with it's own unique style and elements. It grips you from the beginning and never surrenders!

This could have been a bad fishing trip, but it ended up being a very special day.

How a girl really feels about her life.

It was an exciting holiday for yenyen. Her entire family is going for a week vacation in her grandmother's place. It was going to be a big family reunion. But who would think that she was also about to learn the story of the land which she named "Granny's palace".

A story from Litane's point of view. Talks about Malonia's past and what happened to Zorba during that time.

This is an introduction to the fourth dimension and its inhabitants. These inhabitants are known all over the world to all cultures, as the Gentry, the Good People, and to the Cherokee as the Nunnehi.

A woman's struggle to overcome life's hardships, an intriguing relationship, children and the fight to survive debt.

This is a proven theory of weight loss. It has kept weight off or it has helped me lose weight every single time I have used it.

Short story for adults only...contains adult content.

Part four of Begin Again

Part 2 of Begin Again

Part 1. Parker, 17, journeys to California chasing after love and learning a few things about life along the way. He meets up with a mysterious hitch hiker who although appears to be different turns out to share many of Parker's problems.

Repentance is not meant to be enjoyable, but if we are blessed we will suffer.

I awoke promptly at 7:30 a.m. this morning after going to bed at a decent hour, grabbed one of my sons and drove across town.

This is a little story that I came up with to tell my son to get him to drink his milk.

A man takes a picture of a woman lying on the street, but that's the beginning.

A report by an alien on the situation of Earth and it's eligibility for take over.

My first deer

The whispering voice was heard in the disturbed dreams of Velma Johnson that repeated itself over and over till it jarred the poor woman awake. "Betty, Betty", she called in the haziness of her sleep, but no answer came.

A description of our trip to Mekedatu and Sangam and information about the places nearby.

A mouse on the quest for cheese learns that it's not always so easy to get to.

A girl learns the true meaning of having a sister.

A cat goes on a crusade to rid the devil from his house and get his paradise back.