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ECHO
ECHO
Flash fiction
Maisie Archer
May 21
What's Hot
Build-a-girl
Build-a-girl
My shortest relationship
Tales of a Birch Tree
Mar 5
ACCOMPLICE
ACCOMPLICE
Flash fiction
Maisie Archer
Apr 6
Midnight Chronicles: A Trip Through the Hills of Vilangan
Midnight Chronicles: A Trip Through the Hills of Vilangan
Haunting Secrets Revealed
Rajesh Poovathum Kadavil
Dec 4, 2023
It’s a Bird
It’s a Bird
It really was him all along
Paul Mansfield
Jun 28, 2021
Freshest Stories
The Day-Night Runner
The Day-Night Runner
A Story of the Day and Night
Evan Skarin
May 16
BITE
BITE
Flash fiction
Maisie Archer
May 10
The Memory Keepers
The Memory Keepers
Extracting the Commodity of Human Experience
Quantum Shadows
May 9
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 boring stories in a row.’ — Ray Bradbury
Write With Us
Mike Finds the Cutest Robot Ever — Buried Under His House!
Mike Finds the Cutest Robot Ever — Buried Under His House!
The tiny dirt covered robot speeds past. Up and down the hall, through the kitchen, and around three more times, before stopping.
TR Gerski Author Monty Python Lover & Goose Petter
May 4
The Look in Their Eyes
The Look in Their Eyes
You gotta go
Misha Seeks
May 3
The Seagull Cafe
The Seagull Cafe
A fishy affair
Reuben Salsa
Apr 5
A Space Between
A Space Between
Final Transmission
Reuben Salsa
Mar 28
From Novice to Wordsmith: Mastering Daily Writing Practice with ChatGPT
From Novice to Wordsmith: Mastering Daily Writing Practice with ChatGPT
Summon a writing coach and improve your fiction skills daily
Zane Dickens the Instigator
Mar 22
Restraint
Restraint
Someday, I wished, I could call her My Home and she could call me the same.
A.K. Lazarus
Mar 20
Asynchrony
Asynchrony
A.K. Lazarus
Mar 13
Why Preparation Beats Discipline: A Lesson That Rewrote My Life.
Why Preparation Beats Discipline: A Lesson That Rewrote My Life.
It’s school rush hour, cars are zipping in and zipping out.
Zane Dickens the Instigator
Mar 7
Ashes of Hope
Ashes of Hope
Rock Blank, Andorra
Tales of a Birch Tree
Feb 26
Papel Picado
Papel Picado
Lines of drying undergarments flapped in the wind like papel picado, transforming the usual bleakness of Tlapitalco into something…
DS Racer
Feb 22
How I Finally Finished My Novel in 15 Months Of Hard Work
How I Finally Finished My Novel in 15 Months Of Hard Work
The unsexy guide to actually getting the damn thing done.
Zane Dickens the Instigator
Feb 6
Dancing at the edge of oblivion
Dancing at the edge of oblivion
Photo by Yuichi Kageyama on Unsplash
Tales of a Birch Tree
Jan 23
Spectral Justice Unleashed
Spectral Justice Unleashed
Ethereal Retribution
Rajesh Poovathum Kadavil
Nov 27, 2023
The Final Game
The Final Game
Checkmate to the Past
Vadim Dambreville
Nov 22, 2023
Veiled Midnight Whispers
Veiled Midnight Whispers
Soul's Unspoken Journey
Rajesh Poovathum Kadavil
Nov 22, 2023
Virgin Lost, Unlocked
Virgin Lost, Unlocked
The Holy Virgin undulated with the sense of something moving within her. She did not think of herself then as holy, an object of veneration…
Richard Koman
Nov 21, 2023
How Emma Met Her Prince Charming
How Emma Met Her Prince Charming
Is this love at first sight?
Benedette
Nov 21, 2023
Sunset and Coffee on the Porch
Sunset and Coffee on the Porch
In a contemplative tale set against an apocalyptic backdrop, a man grapples with the profoundness of life's moments on a rustic porch…
Paul Mansfield
Nov 17, 2023
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