Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2024 - page 6 - all works

Short Fiction

5 min

Cushions of Carnage

I know most people stop living with their parents right after high school, but that wasn't me. I didn't move out until I turned 20. I was just so terrified of living on my own. Paying bills, buying ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

Trapped in My Head in Paradise by Alexandra Pombo

Alexandra Pombo

As my head emerged through the surface of the ocean, I was met with vision of nature. Looking west, I saw an endless array of water hitting the skyline in a perfect horizontal line. Looking east, I ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

The Calling Cat of Pneuma Lane

Antheia Tan

"Don't point at the moon, or your ears will be cut!"
My mother slapped my hand down. I wasn't exactly the curious type, nor the sharpest. When she turned away, I lifted my finger toward the ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

At The Edge of Memory

Trixie Kenner

A man she had not known was wearing the skin of the boy she had known all her life. His rust-brown eyes, the roundness of his lips, and the mole near his collarbone were the same pieces of desire ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Birdy The Witch

Yun Chen Chang

Melinda hears the wind blowing outside when her hands are buried in a bowl full of lotus seeds. If she were out in the woods, she could feel the autumn chills running down her spine. Yet she chooses ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Once in a blue moon…

Nicholas Thomas

Once in a blue moon as the moonlight reflects off the rippling waves, glittering like stars in a silk sky, I feel the thread between worlds loosen. Gaps in the seams. I wade in, slowly at first ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Blue Moon Recipe

Shannon Chow

One Blue Moon
Best Paired with: a gallon of fear and a sliver of courage
Cook time: the next six months (trust me, it's worth it.)
Wet Ingredients: 1 year of unbelief, a splash of ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

The Birds

Henry Koonce

One morning, sometime before I woke up, Rachel transformed into a flock of birds, though flock might not be appropriate, since each of them is completely unique. There's a woodpecker, a ... [+]

Short Fiction

1 min

The Wanderers of the Night

Asmita Maltesh

The moon is not enough to light up the room or scare away the "monsters." At 21, I still struggle with sleeping in the quiet and hollow darkness. It is lonely, cold, and stern—a void of nothingness as ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Visiting the Half-Moon and Other Excursions

Caleb Lim

The journal of Oliver Andrew Wong, formerly of the Yorktown Institute of Travel, class of '32
October 7th, 2034: It had seemed an unfair statement to call it a scam, but there it was. Very ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

The Moon

Dylan Rossi

What he misses most about Earth are the TV commercials, the ones where British men in tuxedos drive expensive cars and say things like Dare To Be, or the ones where a family is gathered at a ... [+]

Short Fiction

4 min

A Dreamer’s Descent into Dreams.

Ali MW

She wears a dark hooded cloak. It overshadows most of her face, sharp features deftly hidden beneath darkness. Poised, she stands carefully watching out for the slight ruffle of the leaves that sit ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

To Kill A Unicorn

Ihsan Sim

Dara Brown lay in a pool of blood and shrapnel, sputtering droplets of reddish saliva into the pristine snow as a hazy darkness began to settle over the corner of his eyes. He had witnessed a ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Sun Showers

Coco Li

The monkey was staring at me.
I looked away, stepping aside to give it a wide berth. Making eye contact with animals always made me nervous since I knew some thought eye contact was a sign of ... [+]

Short Fiction

2 min

An unexpected encounter

Evangeline Chai

When an unexpected incident occurs in one's life, is it purely a once-in-a-blue-moon event? Or is there a deeper, hidden meaning waiting to be discovered?
Allow me to recount such an encounte ... [+]

Short Fiction

1 min

fuzz

joshua tan

It doesn't come too quickly. Some say it comes without warning.
Some doubt that it's really there, that it's not something perceptible. And they'd be right. But they'd be wrong. It exists ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

As real as a dragon, as blue as the moon

Gabriel Yong

It was raining. Two men in long coats walked side by side, hands in pockets, faces behind upturned collars. The street they were on was empty except for them, their path flanked by a long row of ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

The Metamorphosis

H. Hong Jun

One morning, after a long night of troubled dreams, a cockroach awoke to unusual sensations. At first, as if still thinking it all a dream, it stood for some moments in a pleasant stupor, regarding ... [+]