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Soul Weaver
Soul Weaver
A Divine Link
Jessica Frayne
Jul 3
What's Hot
Build-a-girl
Build-a-girl
My shortest relationship
Birch Tales
Mar 5
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
Microcosm’s Formatting Guidelines
Microcosm’s Formatting Guidelines
How to format your story so that we don’t hit Reject
Zane Dickens the Instigator
Oct 16, 2021
Freshest Stories
Lost and Found
Lost and Found
Short story
Maisie Archer
Jul 2
ECHO
ECHO
Flash fiction
Maisie Archer
May 21
The Day-Night Runner
The Day-Night Runner
A Story of the Day and Night
Evan Skarin
May 16
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 boring stories in a row.’ — Ray Bradbury
Write With Us
BITE
BITE
Flash fiction
Maisie Archer
May 10
The Memory Keepers
The Memory Keepers
Extracting the Commodity of Human Experience
Quantum Shadows
May 9
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
ACCOMPLICE
ACCOMPLICE
Flash fiction
Maisie Archer
Apr 6
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
Birch Tales
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
Birch Tales
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
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