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Short Fiction

Humor Romance 5 min

The Blue Lady

Melody jostled a dust-coated box into the backseat of her car. The box had remained untouched for the three years she'd been at Harvard. Why had she insisted on bringing it to law school? She'd just ... [+]

Short Fiction

Historical Suspense & Mystery 5 min Mature Audience

Follow Me

Matt Bondurant

Elise finally succumbed to exhaustion just as the plane was circling Schiphol Airport. She was flying from New York to Amsterdam to visit an aging uncle. Elise had never left the U.S. before, had ... [+]

Short Fiction

Romance Suspense & Mystery 5 min

The Hidden Letter

Patrick Ferrer

The moment he entered the bar, I knew that Mister J. wasn't your usual guest. Maybe it was the way his eyes darted around, taking the measure of everything he saw, or that half smile as he twirled ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Young Adult 5 min Mature Audience

Mist-Ocean

Stéphane ARNIER

Bag over my shoulder, I turn around once more at the threshold of the crevice: this cave was my last abode. Giving it up is hard, but I don't have time to feel sad: the tide of mist crawls at my ... [+]

Short Fiction

Nostalgia Sorrow Portrait 1 min

Exile

Sonia Warczincela

It was dangling there, hanging from a nail in the wall on a little copper-plated hemp string. It shone softly with a crystalline silver reflection, almost translucent. Sometimes, when through the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sorrow Portrait Historical 2 min

Pitman

Hermann Sboniek

For a long time, I went to bed early, always reluctantly, grumbling, cursing, and dragging my feet. The time to go to bed was suffering, a break from life, a phase that nothing or no one would eve ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life 4 min

Such a Charming Little Garden

Lydie Jaillon

He had never seen such a thing.

Seated on the front steps of the little house with the blue shutters, Michael scratches his head, mechanically looking at the file that he already knows by ... [+]

Short Fiction

Suspense & Mystery Young Adult 5 min

You Would Never Believe It

Freya Morris

When Eliana returned to the Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta that night, she imagined that her grandfather's footsteps on the same floors, in the same hotel, after climbing the same mountain, would have ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Young Adult 2 min

The Thunder Bird

Nicole Coste

Her name is Amina. The keeper of the tribe's goats, she knows all the paths and all the trails on the great plateau of white stones that stretches all the way to the horizon. She walks and hops on ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Magical Realism Suspense & Mystery 4 min

Grandpa's Painting

Alex Maliraut

There was an old painting in my grandparents' attic. Neither beautiful nor ugly, it simply depicted an empty room with no figures, an old living room with an armchair, library, and fireplace ... [+]

Short Fiction

Portrait Sci-Fi & Fantasy Young Adult 2 min

The Promises of Dawn

Meryma Haelströme

The stallion pounded the ground with its hooves in a wild gallop, its horsewoman leaning over its neck. With no saddle or bit, the mount flew free, its mane in the wind.
Nighttime enveloped the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Portrait Historical 4 min

Lynx

André Page

McGregor lifted his tired eyes towards the vast horizon. In the distance, a flock of gray geese traced a large black cloud hanging low in the sky. Loneliness weighed down on him, and he felt ... [+]

Short Fiction

Joy Romance 2 min

House for Sale

Christiane Tuffery

"The baseboards can always be painted over."

The sentence played over and over again in Margaret's head. The real estate agent had muttered it innocently under her breath, but it stuck with he ... [+]

Short Fiction

Romance 6 min

Room 414

Élodie Torrente

How did they first meet? By the revolving door, on the beach side. It was like a scene in a Lelouch film. Being a person who hums shoobedoobedoo every time I walk into our dear old hotel, I was ... [+]

Short Fiction

Humor Suspense & Mystery 4 min Mature Audience

Grandma

Zelia Normann

The wind was blowing in gusts, buffeting the car, which swerved dangerously towards the precipice. Down below, the waves broke with deafening noise on the rocks. It was magnificent but terrifying. I ... [+]

Short Fiction

Suspense & Mystery Horror 1 min Mature Audience

My Friend Henry Banner

Raphaël Marchetti

Henry Banner is my friend. We are never apart, he stays by my side from morning to night. He will always be there for me when things are tough. The problem with Henry is that he doesn't have a driving ... [+]

Short Fiction

Nostalgia Portrait 1 min

A Butterfly on the Shoulder

Sylvie Loy

My father used to say that butterflies only land on the prettiest flowers. And on people who possess a beautiful soul.
When I was a child, butterflies often used to land on me. And that made me ... [+]

Short Fiction

Romance Young Adult 2 min

7:23 A.M.

Virginie Ronteix

7:23 a.m.
Since September, every 7:23 a.m. has been the same. First, the dull sound of an engine, then the headlights piercing the dark. The bus slows, then stops. The doors open in front of me ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Portrait Historical 2 min

Ellis Island, 23 December 1913

Patricia Vignat

They note eye color, and measure height and weight. They examine throats, inspect ears, check the state of teeth. They monitor heart beats, document genders, and write down ages. They record the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Young Adult 4 min

Blue Hair and Tulips

Luz Chapiteau

All libraries should have these luminous corners. That space near the blinds, behind the section reserved for the Quattrocento; or that seldom frequented mezzanine, obstructed by boxes and ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

The Blue Lady

Follow Me

The Hidden Letter

Mist-Ocean

Exile

Pitman

Such a Charming Little Garden

You Would Never Believe It

The Thunder Bird

Grandpa's Painting

The Promises of Dawn

Lynx

House for Sale

Room 414

Grandma

My Friend Henry Banner

A Butterfly on the Shoulder

7:23 A.M.

Ellis Island, 23 December 1913

Blue Hair and Tulips