Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Fiction.

The Potion
The sun caressed her hair and lit her face, creating a glow that emphasized her angelic smile. Her head always tilted to the side when she giggled. She felt the need to enunciate every word she spoke. She always smelled like a mix of Berries, Jasmine, and Neroli, and her skin was smooth, radiant, and vibrant.
By Ali SP5 years ago in Fiction
Love in a Hopeless Place
The All About Cookies Company is a company where speed and efficiency is key. No-one there seems to slow down but one woman there tries to be mindful. A demure young secretary in a blue-green brocade dress that is setting up the tea cart for the executive meeting. Her name is Petra Finn and she is carefully lining up the latest chocolate chip oatmeal cookies on the tray. She instinctively knows that her mixture of apple cinnamon with matcha green tea would be the perfect pairing with the cookies. She sets the silver teapot to the side and sets the tea cups in the bottom shelves of the cart.
By Erika Ravnsborg5 years ago in Fiction
World's End
2372 AD. This is the year when the planet earth changes and not for the better. What was once a planet full of plants, animals, rivers, and varied weather patterns is now a barren wasteland. Due to the constant pollution and over use of natural resources the world slowly dies, taking many lives with it. Although there are some human survivors, many mutations from various chemical spills have affected some plants and animals. Now 128 years later, all a person can find around them are buildings reduced to rubble, dunes as high as the sky and sand carpeting whatever there is left on the ground. People, plants, and animals are like finding diamonds. They have become rarer and rarer.
By Erika Ravnsborg5 years ago in Fiction
Singing For the Fae
On a beautiful hot summer night, I am sitting out on my garden patio with a cool glass of white wine. Other than gardening itself, there is nothing more wonderful than watching my blooms grow. With each sip of my glass, and the floral smells hitting my nose, I find myself drifting off to sleep.
By Erika Ravnsborg5 years ago in Fiction
The princess and the pirate
Fairy tales. The stories that give girls false hope. The ones that go “Once upon a time” and end with “Happily ever after.” With god mothers granting every wish and animals do your chores, how can one expect everyone to learn to do it on their own? How can we expect people to stop believing that their prince will come, that they can do it themselves. I will warn you now, if you are looking for a story that ends with the prince getting the princess you’ll need to keep looking. This is definitely not that story. However, it does contain a price, princess, and a fairy godmother. Wanna hear the funny part? It all starts with a kiss….
By Justice Cavazos5 years ago in Fiction
A new Human Race
The year had begun with weather changes that some viewed as omens of things to come, rainstorms in dry-land, heatwaves in the north, and winter-like feel in the south, others simply read it as natural planetary changes. Climate change was a constant topic on the news but nothing on the media could have prepared us all; for the Darkest day that lay ahead.
By Claudia Rodriguez5 years ago in Fiction
The Long Dark
He could not see the horizon. He could only see the burning red sky as it laid waste to the evening hours. The top of the giant sun was just visible as it sunk below the western megablock. The black buildings blazed red with fury, like giant fingers grasping at the empty sky.
By Deej5 years ago in Fiction
Before
She’d had a family. Before. Her husband with unerring patience, a man who radiated warmth like the sun, who straightened her corners and kept her from trouble. Their daughter, a wicked dance with nitroglycerin in the form of a child, tight curls always moving, laughter ringing out from her lips day and night.
By Caty Renee5 years ago in Fiction
City of Toualuse
“Hello, welcome to Toualuse! The city of perfection. Here as citizens, you must follow this wonderful life. Now remember that citizens of Toualuse”. Once the mayor finished talking, all of us were being rushed home. I’ve always hated it here. They always make you follow idiotic laws. “No dresses for males, females must wear skirts.” It’s always a stupid message no leaving your homes past 9:00 pm.
By Samantha5 years ago in Fiction
Give Me Love or Give Me Death
Give me love or give me death give me love or give me death give me love or give me death! The boys of their small city shouted it. Not to one another, or in a unanimous chorus, but in their own minds. In the narrow, sneaking margins of their gloomy days, whatever tasks filled them now. It was true, they were all still boys. Not in the way that some people call young men just boys—these were actual boys, some no older than fourteen. Some had known a life of only this, while some had seen the world before it had gone to such hell, so many years ago now.
By Jamie Kahn5 years ago in Fiction
DARK HEART
Long gone were the days when the human race dreamt of space exploration and expansion. Gone were the days when humankind fantasized about journeying between the other planets and the stars. No sane person now ever thought about terraforming other planets or covering the vast expanses of space with the assistance of antiquated ideas like human hibernation or travelling through wormholes - what childish concepts!
By Richard Essilfie-Bondzie5 years ago in Fiction
I Smiled
“You have to fight!” My eardrums still ringing, I managed to scrounge up whatever strength I had in me to incorporate myself and get on all fours. My right eye had been hit by something and I couldn’t see out of it. I didn’t want to touch it because I could swear I felt something oozing down my cheek, and I didn’t have the courage to find out whether that ooze was blood or something else. Bits and pieces of sharp, rusty metal cut into my knees and the palms of my hands as I frantically felt around the floor, tossing rubble left and right.
By Marc Simon5 years ago in Fiction