Microfiction
The Snow Weavers. Runner-Up in 500 Word Shockwave Challenge. Top Story - April 2025.
It was summer when the snow fell. I was only 8. I'd never seen snow before, except in videos and online. But from my bedroom window, I saw a white dusting. No, heavier than a dusting... A blanket, like linen laid across the yard and into the fields beyond the fence.
By Addison Alder10 months ago in Fiction
A Shadow's Grip
You hear it, don’t you? The voice outside of reason. The voice emanating from the corner where nothing should be. You decide to check it out. Unsurprisingly, your reasoning is correct. Nothing waits for you in the shadows, but the voice is still there. Taunting you.
By Josh Ripperger10 months ago in Fiction
The Pull of The Glowing Red
From her bedroom window, the night sky, a watercolor painted by nature, dazzled her eyes as Rena drifted off to sleep She awoke, from her point of view, almost immediately in a strange yet familiar place. As a cloud drifted towards her, shrouding her in its cotton-candy, white majesty, she noted the moon was closer than it was before she closed her heavy eyelids.
By Paul Stewart10 months ago in Fiction
Lake of Blood: A Warrior’s Final Reckoning
The world above had long since forgotten the deep, uncharted caverns that lay beneath. A place where light dared not tread, and where the echoes of the past whispered like ghosts among the jagged stones. It was a realm where no living soul ventured, for fear of what might emerge from the shadows. Yet, in the darkest reaches of the earth, a figure stirred.
By Abdul Wahab10 months ago in Fiction
A world that time forgot
Captain's log, star date 2225.100 Ship has transitioned from hyperdrive and we are now in visual contact with the target exoplanet. As expected, this planet in the Vega Three Four stellar system is, like our own, largely composed of water. Early spectral analysis confirms much of what our distant-galaxy survey predicted. Planetary crust comprising tectonic land clusters surrounded by contiguous ocean. Atmosphere largely nitrogen with oxygen and other gaseous elements. Organic composition confirms that there is almost certainly life present.
By Raymond G. Taylor10 months ago in Fiction
Where Promises Wait
Mira sat on the same weathered bench under the orange tree in the town square at precisely 4:30 PM every day. She melted into the rhythm of the place, part mystery, part scenery, wrapped in a fraying gray shawl and her cane resting next to her like an old friend.
By The Waiting Tree10 months ago in Fiction
As Focused As A Falcon
He was focused on the bird of prey that soared high above him, desperate to keep it in his sights. The treasure that hung from its claws, precious beyond measure, might be out of reach now, high above him, but that did not mean that it should stay that way. If he could just track the bird to where it roosted, or came to a glove...
By Natasja Rose10 months ago in Fiction
The Deal. Top Story - April 2025.
Orange smoke filled the air, blocking the sirens flashing outside from being seen. Screams from blind mouths rang out against a chorus of shouts from police. Uniforms holding guns charged through the glass doors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and disappeared into the orange fog.
By The Invisible Writer10 months ago in Fiction
"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. They are knowledge itself." Plato
Jed and Auralee worked with numbers. Both studied mysterious secrets hidden beneath numerical rules. Numbers influence and control life. But the numbers weren't working. Auralee felt they created a psychological fiction that only sometimes helps to understand the world.
By Katherine D. Graham10 months ago in Fiction
