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July 23, 2025

Flash Fiction Matias Travieso-Diaz

Mad Scene

Oh, happy day! At last, I am yours, at last you are mine; God gives you to me. Every pleasure is more gratifying, life will be a smile from merciful heaven for us! Salvadore Cammarano / Gaetano Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, Act III, Scene 2 Arturo, an…

July 23, 2025

Horror Stories Markus J

The Mystery Inside The Fog

The darkness, a shroud of terror. The house`s emptiness called to my mind's fears and it was feeding my imagination. I buried myself in my beds covering blankets. “there... as snug as a bug in a rug," I said to myself and tried to think about anything else…

July 23, 2025

Flash Fiction George Vu

The Best Movie Time Ever

After finishing dinner, they hurried to the Major Cineplex Hall to catch the movie. It was already 7:40 pm, and they were cutting it close. The automatic ticket machine wouldn’t allow them to purchase tickets as it was more than 30 minutes after the showtime.…

July 08, 2025

General Stories Michael Barlett

Dance Of Death

CHAPTER ONE 1940 Chief Inspector Kenneth Langford offered the Commissioner a crisp salute, and then walked back through the labyrinth of passageways to his own small office. Langford was a member of the London Metropolitan Police, commonly referred to as…

July 08, 2025

Poetry Markus J

The Winter Blues

the winter blues has a grip on me, all so tight Its icy tentacles wrap around me and squeezes freezing my fingers and toes with its nasty frostbite staving off the cold is a battle, an endless fight it brings forth an assortment of nasty diseases The winter…

July 08, 2025

Horror Stories Sushma R Doshi

Deliverer Of Messages

A loner in my childhood, my scrawny and weak figure prone to being bullied by sturdy and robust boys, I tended to wander around places frequented by few. Those curvy roads which fell into darkness after evening without street lights, the area near the pond…

July 08, 2025

General Stories L Christopher Hennessy

With A Side-Eye I Cherish

for Brittany ma amour Up to my neck in sadness for something just out of reach and she came along and fired up my life with kisses and the physical. The moment I looked into her eyes I didn't want to share her with anyone else and keep her all to myself. In…

July 03, 2025

Poetry Markus J

The Days Of Future Dreams

the days of future dreams the flames once rose high thinking our lives would end up supreme thinking our future seemed a far of dream but in the end nothing is what it seems many times the winds of changed has blown this way one minute we`re lapping the cream…

July 03, 2025

General Stories L Christopher Hennessy

Bad Girl

Part 1I lost the entire manuscript when I assassinated my laptop with sauvignon blanc as I rubbed the lower back of a woman who dozed drunk on my bed, sweating. She was crazed, somewhere between screaming and lying about the orgasm. Bree was a miracle to me,…

July 03, 2025

Horror Stories Nelly Shulman

Black Is Our Colour

“I swear she could have been you. Look! This girl is your long-lost twin.” Fi nudged me, and I smiled. “Never had or wanted one.” I stood up. “Let’s go, or the bargain hunters will clear the shelves before us.” We dived into the vintage emporium across the…

July 03, 2025

Poetry Markus J

The Transformation

"I need a brake" words that twisted my heart- shattering the dream that we would never part. I asked myself 'what ever did I do wrong? sad, gloominess could`ve easily been my song. I wouldn't let the anger and misery grow or cultivate- uprising feelings I…

July 03, 2025

Flash Fiction Benoit

Jae

It was Jae’s birthday today. She turned eight. What a beautiful sunny girl! Hyo planned a surprise or two; Li, his wife, did too. Birthday cake, a puppy and … Don’t forget, they grinned just before he drove off. Traffic was intense. A long call came from…