Short Stories

12 stories available in Short Fiction / Literary Realism

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The Worst Best Evening
A waiter arrives immediately and asks if we would like still or sparkling water. I say sparkling. Clara says still. The…
Humour Short Fiction / Literary Realism
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The Night Before
The interview is tomorrow at ten o'clock. It is now eleven-fifteen at night and I have read the company's website so ma…
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The Long Table
Petra is always fifteen minutes late and always brings flowers that she has clearly just bought from the petrol station…
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The House on Mulholland
The man in the orange shirt has been telling the same story for twenty-five minutes. I know because I have watched him …
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Something in the Trees
I had heard it. Something in the trees to the north, something large moving slowly. A branch breaking, then another. Th…
Adventure Short Fiction / Literary Realism
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Roads and Rosé
The motorway south of Paris is not beautiful. It is flat and grey and full of lorries. But then, slowly, something chan…
Adventure Short Fiction / Literary Realism
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Lost in Translation
A woman comes toward me. She says something in Dutch. I have been learning Dutch for four months and I understand appro…
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Just Me and the Road
My instructor gets out of the car at exactly 11:04 on a Tuesday morning, and suddenly the passenger seat is empty and t…
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Gate 14B
Boarding starts in forty minutes. I know this because I have checked the departures board eleven times in the last half…
Short Fiction / Literary Realism tragicomedy
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Don't Open the Door
The footsteps stopped outside the bedroom window. I did not look. You should understand that I made a conscious decisi…
Horror Short Fiction / Literary Realism Southern Gothic
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Back to the Motherland
The airport smells the same every time. Not bad, just familiar — a mix of cleaning products, coffee, and the particular…
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Cathedral
This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So, he was visitin…
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