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Master of Keys

M. P. Whiteley Fantasy Fiction

Once known as a man of honour and courage, Sir Lorent Tarrven, the King's Master of Keys, grows long in the tooth at the top of the Tower of Chains. Responsible for the keeping, and breaking, of the realm's internal enemies, he is a bitter man wi...

The Boy That Braved The World

Lilian Myers Short Stories

Jacob knows nothing except for one thing. He woke up in a shack and is too scared to leave it. Until he is forced to...

Ready... Set... Future!

Lilian Myers Short Stories

Collin and his friend Ryan go out looking for Ryan's lost umbrella late at night. Collin ends up getting lost, and follows the music of the streets, which lead him to the future. A heartwarming short story of being ready for anything!

The Day The Kitchen Met a Human

Lilian Myers Short Stories

The kitchen utensils and appliances have a happy life in their happy home. That is, until, the house is FOR SALE! The kitchen must do whatever it takes to save their lovely home.

Wander Beyond The Mountain

Lilian Myers Short Stories

Ben is going on a hike that Google says is the most beautiful hike in the world. When Ben arrives, he isn't convinced. But later, Ben's story proves that even just a nasty little squirrel, can make Google, correct.

Hollow

Colin J Switalski Fiction

Out of a world of monsters, this creature is a god.

Window

William Nguyen Short Stories

Sophia moves into a new house with her mom. The house is old. An eerie atmosphere. A mysterious window on the third floor. Painted red. What is going on?

The Firebird Ballads

C. Maverick Poetry

This is a growing collection of verse that is connected to the Vampyres universe, first 7 chapters of the book are on my Tablo profile. Please leave feedback; good, bad & ugly, I am open to all of it!

Morning Glories and Other Short Stories

Marufa Hoque Short Stories

How strong is a chance acquaintance? How far will one go to keep one's faith? And how much will one sacrifice for the sake of Allah? ***A collection of Muslim short stories.***

A Tale of Two Princesses and Other Stories

Marufa Hoque Short Stories

Two princesses are restricted to the palace grounds because of court protocols. In an effort to rid their boredom, one of them tells a story. But what happens when her story comes to life? ***A collection of short stories about princesses***

Short Story Book

Skylar Ann Rohdenburg

A book of short stories. Harry Potter stories to be exact. I'm writing with my imagination here. I am the Skylar Rohdenburg in the story enjoy!

Loki's Raven

N. F. Underwood Short Stories

Bjorn, the young, newly married, helmsman of Loki's Raven, is sailing to Miklagarth, the capital of the Byzantine empire, when he finds a stowaway on board. Ulf, is a young orphan, who stow away on Loki's Raven, hoping to reach Miklagarth and bui...

From my head to yours...

Ziandry Peralta Adult

The Secrets in the Attic

Christopher Stamfors Fantasy Fiction

Fredric grew up without knowing that he had a grandpa, at least he knew very little about him. One day, his parents decide to take him to his grandfather's who lived in a big old house. After meeting him, he was allowed to explore the old mansion,...

Vampira: Underworld

Brandon Mashinya Fantasy Fiction

Jimmy is about to have his life changed around. After failing a what was deemed a simple mission by his superiors, Special Agent Jimmy Ross is re-assigned to a new district of the NIA, the world's most secretive Intelligence agency. His life cou...

Azza-Jono: Outbreak!

T. Van Santana Science Fiction

The Living City. Divided like the brain, both by the fissure of the River and the monolithic Wall. But no barrier is truly impenetrable ... A frightening new disease ravages the inhabitants of the City and threatens to infect the City Herself. ...

Dear Agony

Shaira L.A.O. Short Stories

A compilation of Flash Fictions, Drabbles and Quotes

The Lost Lighters

Chase Wasilenko Disaster Fiction

Two characters cross paths in this bizarre telling of an unlikely event in the worlds search for the lost lighters.

Shadows of Yesterday

Christine Larsen Non-Fiction

There have been countless heroes in wars throughout history. These are the stories of some ordinary Europeans who found extraordinary courage to survive WWII.

Think I Can Fly

Christine Larsen Fiction

Another year - 2019 - and another collection of my 500 worder 'prompt' word inspired tales, both fiction and non.fiction. They are written to make you laugh, sometimes cry, many times make you ponder and maybe examine your own thoughts on differe...

Playing with Words

Christine Larsen Fiction

Each of these 'flash-fiction/non-fiction' (around 500 word) stories are inspired by a randomly chosen single prompt word each week. Hopefully there will be 50 or more small reads for you to enjoy in an otherwise dull moment throughout the year.

Short Stories Published by Spineless Wonders

my abbr.d life

Michael Giacometti Fiction

‘Bringing together 20 very different stories, My Life and Other Fictions is a bold debut from Michael Giacometti and a unique exercise in experimentation with form and voice.’ ELIZABETH FLUX, Books+ Publishing An Aboriginal girl craves her abuse...

my abbr.d life- the story of the story

Michael Giacometti Literary Fiction

This essay tells the fraught history of the microfiction, my abbr.d life. The following essay was originally published by Spineless Wonders in Cracking The Spine: ten short Australian stories and how they were written.

brb be right back

Maree Dawes Adult

Partner away and home alone but for the sleeping children, our protagonist joins online chat. As a newbie, she battles with the language and protocols of cyberspace and wonders if anyone will ever speak to her online. Then online life becomes mor...

The Memory Bones

Amanda O'Callaghan Literary Fiction

This short story was a finalist in the Carmel Bird Short Story Award, selected by Amanda Lohrey (2012). An elderly lady, afflicted with dementia, reveals the answer to a decades-long murder mystery.

ADNARCHY

Mark Vender Literary Fiction

At home Kevin is a reluctant carer for his brother; on the street he's a suburban soldier, armed with an Artline

The Lake Story

Ron Elliott Short Stories

A moving story told with gritty realism and vivid imagery, reconstructed through storytelling, emails and unreliable memory.

Panthers and the Museum of Fire

Jen Craig Fiction

Panthers and the Museum of Fire is a novella about walking, memory and writing. The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney café to return a manuscript by a recently-dead writer. While she walks, the reader enters the narrator’s entire world...

How to Read an Australian Short Story

Ryan O'Neill Short Stories

Read about my short story comprised of lines from 150 short Australian stories plus stories and essays from nine other Australian writers. Intro by Amanda Lohrey. ‘Cracking the spine is not just a deftly curated overview of the contemporary Austra...

Permission To Lie

Julie Chevalier Short Stories

A collection of short stories set in places as diverse as a nudist colony, the corporate world and prison. Beneath her wry humour and snappy style, Chevalier brings insight and compassion to her depiction of contemporary Australian life and to gro...

The Waterfowl Are Drunk!

Kate Liston-Mills Short Stories

Kate Liston-Mills' The Waterfowl Are Drunk! is a series of short stories set in the author's hometown, Pambula, on New South Wales' far south coast. A fox stalks a nest of hatching swans, loving parents deal with their child's Down syndrome diag...

We're all travellers here

Marjorie Lewis-Jones Fiction

‘We’re All Travellers Here’ won the Carmel Bird Award. Award judge Michael McGirr said my prize-winning tale: is ‘the story of an older mother and her adult son on tour. The son is buried alive in his own sophistication and self-concern. The moth...

I Put A Spell On You

Sam George-Allen Politics

In I Put A Spell on You, Sam George-Allen explores how certain practices of women today mirror the work of their spell-casting ancestors. This collection sheds light on who witches actually were, before patriarchal societies painted these women as...

The Dead Aviatrix

Carmel Bird Contemporary Women

This is the title story from my new collection, The Dead Aviatrix: Eight short stories. It was inspired by something that happened to me as the writer of a novel some years ago. It was an awful and troubling thing, and I wondered for a long time a...

My Hearts Are Your Hearts

Carmel Bird Short Stories

What are the hares getting up to among the sunflowers? Who is paying $6000 for a raincoat? The priest is good, kind, adored, believed – but can the schoolgirl trust him? Who kills his wife and dumps the body in the pool? What if you find your deat...

The Dead Aviatrix: the story behind the stories

Carmel Bird Short Stories

The Dead Aviatrix is an ebook published by Spineless Wonders in November 2017. It is the first book of short stories in the Spineless Wonders new Capsule Collection series. The eight stories in The Dead Aviatrix are not obviously connected with e...

Bulldozer

Ariella Van Luyn Fiction

Step into the dysfunctional life of Eunice…   Oblivious to her unhappy marriage, still living in her mother’s house and unable to stop biting her nails, Eunice feels as if she has no control over her own life. When her new husband needs to make a...

DANNY BOY

Marian Matta Fiction

Danny is a young man struggling to find his place in the world and to express his own inner truth.

Dear Writer ... Revisited

Carmel Bird Fiction

People who are beginning to write fiction, particularly people living in remote places, often send their manuscripts to an assessor, and the letters in the original edition of Dear Writer were inspired by correspondence I had with writers when I w...

From Paradise to Wonderland

Carmel Bird Short Stories

The story appears in my collection 'My Hearts Are Your Hearts' (Spineless Wonders Publishing). It is accompanied in the collection by the essay which I have added here.

Hard Knots

Libbie Chellew Fiction

Short story. Jules is pregnant and constipated. And freezing. Her husband is indifferent to her constipation, Google doesn’t seem to be able to help her, and something about her childhood is making her uneasy. It must be performance anxiety – but...

The Last Wilkie's and Other Stories

Jon Steiner Fiction

Short fiction by Jon Steiner. Sample story: Jungle Train. Roisin finds that traveling across Malaysia with her partner's parents is not what she expected.

Lives of the Dead

Jane Skelton Short Stories

Although Lives of the Dead and other stories is a collection filled with memorable characters whose struggles are credible and utterly recognisable, it is the vivid and evocative imagery throughout, and the deceptively quiet and introspective moo...

Loopholes

Susan McCreery Short Stories

Read it from cover to cover, or take a dip – these 67 microfictions are all under 250 words. Humans at their most hilarious, vulnerable and offbeat.

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New Shorts to Read on Long Journeys

Big River

Libbie Chellew Fiction

Originally published by Wet Ink Magazine (March 2010)

Cigarettes As A Metaphor For Heartbreak

Tanya Simone Simpson Short Stories

A short story about lipstick, scars and moving on. "That was the true beginning of the tempest, the vortex, turbulent and wild. Ships shattering, thrown against rocks in the darkness of a storm and lifeboats swallowed whole by raging waves. A c...

Good Night Papa

Simon Rowe Short Stories

“Good Night Papa is evocative and precise, with a tinge of noir crime about it. Rowe is a fine craftsman.” (Readings Bookstore, Melbourne, Australia) “Peopled by some of the most wonderful characters ever created! A witty, vivid and highly ente...

Hiding in the Summer Haze

Gaelin Kyle Short Stories

A summer day, a time to relax, but when the radio's on the fritz, is it really just a fluke or is it someone reaching out?

Gradually Then Suddenly

Tanya Simone Simpson Short Stories

After the death of her beloved grandmother, Ella Riley inherits her home and her belongings, including a ring with a mysterious inscription. As Ella solves her grandmother's final riddle, she discovers a tale of fear, escape and new beginnings. ...

The Last Wilkie's and Other Stories

Jon Steiner Fiction

Short fiction by Jon Steiner. Sample story: Jungle Train. Roisin finds that traveling across Malaysia with her partner's parents is not what she expected.

DANNY BOY

Marian Matta Fiction

Danny is a young man struggling to find his place in the world and to express his own inner truth.

Starkbeauty

T Van Santana Short Stories

Beauty isn't always pretty. Sometimes it's stark.

Hands.

Ardir Zarati Romantic Fiction

Jackie is a violinist in America; Anne is a trombonist from France. Their only common language is music. Will it be enough to make a friendship and open a new chapter?

Colorblind

Marina Black Fiction

He knows. She knows he knows. She can't fight anymore.

Token Economy

Alexandra Fiction

It's hard to fit in when you don't want to.

The Boogeyman

Gaelin Kyle Short Stories

Admitted to a child psychologist, Tiffany is clearly under the influence of something far sinister.

Drunk on Lust

Alicia Sophia LGBT

“Je veux enrouler tes jambes autour de ma tête et te porter comme une couronne." She said to me. My cheeks turned red, like the maraschino cherry that sat in the bottom of my glass. The words she spoke were exotic and foreign. I tried to recall ...

"Subliminal"

Stacey Bolin Fiction

Blanketed by a global stream of technology - will the world discover "Neewollah Live" and what really is embedded within the Free App?

The Sleeping Revolution

Laura Besley Fiction

It's the year 2050 and Queen Elizabeth still reigns. Two advisers seem to be in on the secret...

Alone in the Dark

Daydreamer Horror

I woke up to a quite house. No Timmy, no dad, nothing at all except the barking of neighborhood dogs.......

Flights of Fiction

R.H.M. Wilde Short Stories

A compilation of short stories. Basically, this is your free-for-all if you want to see what I'm all about. A little bit of everything.

Love Lost and Found

Beabe Thompson Self-Help

Ten-thousand-year advice from an American Southerner

Forgotten Memories

Allan Bell Society

Daily writing prompt: Write a 1000 word story of wisdom and advice for people to read 10,000 years from now.

I've come to see you Mother

Carla Jayne D'Alessandro Poetry

A story told through poetry with an ending that you would not expect. Featured in my debut book 'the itch for honesty', available now: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/debut-book-the-itch-for-honesty/x/19731016

Anathema

Mattias Ahlvin Science Fiction

Maxwell has to choose between the unthinkable and the sacred. Neither is acceptable yet only one way is possible.

You and me - short stories

Laura Cordero Literary Fiction

Snapshots of moments in time.

Axe-d

TheCanMan Crime Fiction

Daily Writing Prompt: You've just got home from work and your soap has gone missing. Construct an elaborate conspiracy theory on where it's gone and why. Not my best work but I still like it

This Paradise

Andrena LeBlanc Short Stories

Collection of short stories I have written over the days, months, and years. I hope you enjoy them.

Best Classic Shorts of All Time

Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The st...

In a Grove

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates w...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scar...

A House of Pomegranates

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages wil...

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitu...

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides...

First Love

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor. This family, as wit...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". Similar works predate Poe's st...

The Outsider

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long a...

My Man Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others conc...

The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both,...