Microfiction
Invited to the Devils Table
for https://shopping-feedback.today/writers/tales-from-beyond-the-haunted-letter-challenge The quiet countryside shook with the thunder of a fighter plane that cut through the air, awakening the threat of war that holds the cold of death that has, over the eons, seen the ice of many a winter .
By Katherine D. Graham4 months ago in Fiction
Parental Fear
The Knock She sat restlessly on the couch staring blankly at the TV. Her daughter, at the mall with her friends, was 10 minutes late, and her son, at his friend’s house, was going on 5 minutes late already. She shifted between angry and scared with each second of the clock.
By Timothy A Rowland4 months ago in Fiction
The Library at the Edge of Dreams
M Mehran No one knew when the library appeared. One morning, the townspeople of Merrinfield woke to find a tall glass building standing at the edge of the river — a place that hadn’t been there the day before. It shimmered faintly, like sunlight caught on water. There was no sign, no doorbell, only a single line etched into the glass:
By Muhammad Mehran4 months ago in Fiction
You Thought I Was Gone. Top Story - October 2025.
Dear Susan I would have knocked on your door, but I thought I would write a letter instead. "Look in your mailbox"!!! I am no one in particular, just a voice from your past. However, I am just as alive as you are.
By Susan Payton4 months ago in Fiction
I’ve Had Enough
“Okay, Alice enough is enough. You asked me to do you a favor and hide in this closet until this Wonderland thing blew over. Well, it’s been five years, and I want out. I wasn’t a skeleton when you locked me in, but I am now. You must know that we skeletons never stay hidden forever.
By Mark Gagnon4 months ago in Fiction
Free Me, Please!
To the now-adult children who were read Kolobok in childhood: Greetings from the Fox's underbelly. Literally. I've been ghosting here for as long as parents continue reading my story to their children. Quite frankly, I am fed up. Sorry for the pun but I want out. So hear me out.
By Lana V Lynx4 months ago in Fiction
Electrocuted At Dawn ⚡
Dear Administrator of Hell, You are the one I would have preferred to murder, but your daughter worked in a pinch. I don't know if I should have brought Audra into this tragedy or not. I admit that. But she had your DNA, so she couldn't have been totally innocent.
By Lightning Bolt ⚡4 months ago in Fiction
