 Short Stories by Author
by A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y
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| Philip Abbondanza |
First Hand Observers
Several Classical Arts college professors travel back in time to inhabit the bodies of people living during the Trojan War. All goes well until one them takes over the body of his host, the hero Hector.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Ashley Abbott |
I'll Be Waiting
Kate Mabelle had the perfect life. She made one wrong move and it was all turned upside down.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Milane Achaea |
Imprisonment  (34 ratings)
A world inside another. A woman on the outside is drawn to a man on the inside, she dreams of a perfect life while all he wants is something that feels real.
| (20. Jun 2002) |
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| k. adams |
The Apology
Genetic engineers apologize to mutations created.
| (20. Jan 2004) |
Jenna
Boy needs to know he is wanted.
| (20. Jan 2004) |
Humble Monster
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| agamemn0n1 |
The Last War: Akula Kosmicheskiye--Prologue (26 ratings)
The last great clash of nations is about to begin and an American task force must hunt down the Soviet battleship Sovietskii Soyuz as it terrorizes the space lanes.
| (27. May 2002) |
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| C. Aguilar |
Come here Tommy!  (40 ratings)
Superintendent Robins find out why teacher and staff attendence is so low.
| (3. Dec 2001) |
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| Juned Ahsan |
Life costs a penny here (5 ratings)
based on true life facts
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Brad Aiken |
The Hill  (24 ratings)
In the spring of 1945, the tugboat Molly G makes her way up the coast of New England, carrying three local heroes returning from the war in Europe, amongst them are Skeets Tyler and the man he calls his 'guardian angel', Johnny McKenzie, who had fought with him side-by-side.
| (1. Nov 2002) |
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| Aislin |
The Losing of Mr Brooks (25 ratings)
Mr Brooks is missing. I doubt you'll believe me when I tell you where he went.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
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| Vivek Aiyyar |
The Voice In The Well
A supernatural story based in a small village in India.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Shaun Ajani and Jeremy Bierly |
The Eternal Optimist (53 ratings)
About an idealistic man, who gets involved in the preceptive reality of others.
| (11. Sep 2000) |
The Shiny Package (26 ratings)
Ian suspected something quite extraordinary. He suspected that he was being abducted, by extraterrestrials. But the reality was more strange.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Gordon Alder |
PAC-4 SPRING  (9 ratings)
Penal Agricultural Colony #4 provides a futuristic glimpse into one successful technique to rehabilitate capitol felons. PAC-4 gives carefully selected killers and kidnappers a chance to redeem themselves and lead useful, productive life as farmers similar to present-day Amish parishoners.
| (18. May 2003) |
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| Infernus Alegrio |
The process (6 ratings)
In a world true matter does not exist anymore one man takes over everything by making code. but why..?
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Christopher Allan |
Much Can Happen on Snowy Mountain (12 ratings)
The psychological vandetta of one boy in a 1890's small town can develope into main course for those with an appettite for horror and suspense.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
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| David Allan |
Tales of the Big Bamboo
The Big Bamboo is located on an overgrown piece of property south of Orlando, behind one of those indistinguishable tourist strip malls. This is not a place that attracts the faint of heart. Cliental consists of Disney employees, tourists and the occasional time traveler who, I am told, are checking out vacationing habits in the early 21st century along with looking for the real America and a brewski.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Adam Allen |
Sightings (91 ratings)
A story about someone who is unwillingly - and quite literally - courting Death.
| (8. Jan 2001) |
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| Christopher Allan |
The not so benign powers of Annie (9 ratings)
Could a lonley man, held captive in his house by his own paranoia and fear finally find love or is he destined to serve a life of seclusion and misery?
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Joe Allen |
Minimum Paige
A man travels from Jupiter to Earth, reflecting on his life along the way. Aporx. 2800 words.
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Kat Allen |
Around the Way Girl
Everyone knows her. There is a girl like her in every neighborhood. She's the one that's hanging in the park after dark, drinking on a forty, talking loud, with the extra short skirt on. She's the chick girls love to hate and the boys love to be with, just not in the daytime.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Rezoane Amade |
Them - Part 1 (7 ratings)
A Story about creatures that tried to destroy a planet which is not earth. Only few peoples know about it and struggle to fight the creatures in their dimension.
| (26. Jun 2002) |
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| Amanda |
Forbidden Forest (15 ratings)
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Ames |
Anniversaries  (1 rating)
It deals with another kind of anniversaries, the one that break your heart
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Cornelia Amiri |
Samhain Calls
From ancient druid lore springs the tale of a Selkie warrior.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Maedonis Andafarus |
To End in Peace (26 ratings)
The End has come. Man is long gone but his descendents still remain, though few in number. The universe itself is on the verge of destruction, and one being alone does not fear. This is the tale of the last day of Sentience.
| (14. Jun 2002) |
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| Ander |
I'm here, Aren't I? (36 ratings)
Light reading. Humor mixed in with some speculative fiction and alternative history undertones.
| (11. Jul 2001) |
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| Robert Anderson |
Beyond the Edge (19 ratings)
| (31. Mar 2000) |
An Island in Space
Two disabled ships drift ever closer to the coming battle between their desperate crews.
| (20. Jan 2004) |
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| Robert Anderson |
Once, King. (34 ratings)
An Elven noble, and death bed companion of the ancient King, hears the confession of his sovereign. What he hears changes his view of his race and King.
| (1. Nov 2002) |
Eight (9 ratings)
A short mystery seen from the words in a small child's diary.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Kailleaugh Andersson |
Inside Closed Eyes (8 ratings)
A piece of short horror fiction where in a man encounters a mysterious and threatening stranger who is not what he seems to be by stereotype.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Nigel Andrew Anderton |
They Came (8 ratings)
An alien craft arrives at first the population is amazed but as the aliens become more and more subversive they realise that the end is nigh. In the attachment is just a portion of the story, it has a major twist at the end. Excuse spelling, Havn't spell checked yet.
| (13. Oct 2002) |
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| Alex.Holly.Ander |
(Jeremiad) The War called Peace (2 ratings)
A man yields to the delinquencies of his mind, and finds himself a stranger to reason, and a murderer, a modern day Jack the Ripper, a blasphemous puppet of Evil. Another man struggles with the death of faith; an aging detective who knows, 'with wisdom comes sorrow'. In his eyes the world is a circus of the mad, and the big top is on fire, crumbling to ashes, leaving him empty, and feeling naked and alone. He begins to self-destruct, filling the void with alcohol and self doubt. The two are on a collision course; through the folds of The War called Peace.
| (12. Dec 2002) |
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| Andra |
Touched by Something (3 ratings)
The story I am going to share with you is something that was told to me by my mother as being something that really happened to her as a child. Something that to this day remains to be explained.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Enrique Andreu |
L'Enyorance
A young woman must return home to confront her past after spending 17 years on an alien planet.
| (19. Oct 2003) |
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| Andrew |
Blaze of Glory (31 ratings)
On a honeymoon with his wife, American Sector Policeman Joe Warner, finds an end to life, and that it doesn't matter that he lives or dies.
| (15. May 2001) |
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| Fallen Angel |
Clouding of a fair maiden
The heart is something no one ever knows the truth about. About being lsot and wanting to run from your fears, but how they always catch up to you in the end of it all.
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Anjeyel |
Wild Stars  (5 ratings)
A twist on Homer, the Bard of Iliad and Odyssey fame.
| (1. Nov 2002) |
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| Lisa Anthony |
Last Words (1 rating)
Murder mystery. A rich woman is murdered.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Will Antilles |
The Freezer  (12 ratings)
Waking up is not what it used to be.
| (2. Mar 2001) |
Character (30 ratings)
Trust is what we fear the most, can you trust the one you trust the most?
| (13. Mar 2001) |
Perpetual Knight (10 ratings)
The prophecy of his coming told of horrors abundant. What shall the darkness bring? Can the world survive yet another visit from...
| (4. May 2001) |
Sickness (21 ratings)
Johnny was always a great Cook.
| (4. Jan 2002) |
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| Antoinette |
The Executive (1 rating)
The story is the life of a star who becomes a human child and lives on earth for one life time. He is followed slowly by the executive: a horrible man who keeps the universe in shape by forcing an ordered reality.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Ian Donnell Arbuckle |
Hush, Now
A group of friends go to a cabin in the woods and find that the ghosts of America don't want blood or vengeance; they want us to shut up.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Stuart Archer |
2245, The Beginning (20 ratings)
On the 19th August, at 1650 hours standard, the Vega 3 Colony Station was attacked and destroyed by the terrorist organisation 'Fires of Change'. Over 500,000 people lost their lives in this savage and brutal act of genocide.
| (8. Jul 2002) |
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| Ariel |
Death Angels
The Angels known to man as death share a singele day and many stories. Old or young, many or few, deaths are happening all around the world. Be there as the angel stands ever so tall, wings folded, arms outstreched, and eyes never shifting, never blinking.
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Treize Armistedian |
Betrayal (12 ratings)
Two childhood friends, changed by time, must choose between their loyalties between the Guilds to which they have become a part of and their loyalty to each other.
| (26. Feb 2002) |
From the Cradle to the Grave
An assassin is cut off from his way of life by a mysterious Monsieur Arrow. What happens to a killer when he is between jobs?
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Ronin Ashe |
Breathing
Beneath an old house in Wales, the Prescott Research Group is digging. They are looking for a doorway from our world to another. As they dig there comes a sound beyond the wall at which they hew, a distant rumble, like the deep and rhythmic breathing of some distant giant.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Christian Ashgan |
The Consequences (5 ratings)
This is the 3rd part of my not-so-short story. It's a very classical fantasy tale about magic and heroes, monsters and vile individuals... All of you who read (all 3 of you) the previous chapters, which were published under the name Ashgan, the Weary, know what I'm talking about.
| (13. Jul 2002) |
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| Astral |
Hacker's Memory (46 ratings)
In a future world ruled by corporate empires, a lone hacker discovers a deadly secret never to be revealed...
| (9. Feb 2002) |
Digital Dreams (8 ratings)
More than fifty years after a hacker remembers the events leading to SigmaCorp's downfall, another hacker discovers Sigma's deadly secret.
| (18. Mar 2002) |
Circuit's Awakening (3 ratings)
A hacker faces off against SOSIK in a battle for his mind and future.
| (16. Sep 2002) |
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| Stuart Atkinson |
Halley - The Next Time (16 ratings)
| (18. Jan 2000) |
Fairy Graffiti (12 ratings)
| (18. Jan 2000) |
Message Home (12 ratings)
The Apollo 8 "Christmas Message" from the Moon touched millions listening back on Earth. What kind of message will be broadcast from Mars in the future?
| (8. Jan 2001) |
Merry Christmas From Mars (13 ratings)
What kind of an email letter home would a martian settler send in fifty years time? Maybe something like this...
| (4. Jan 2002) |
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| H.M. Avihail |
The Gathering of the Powers
A young, ugly, blind wizard stranded to "The Cliff of Fate" above the sea, recalls upon his adventures and the events that led up to his dreadful circumstances. A tale of rebelling society, betrayal, fantasy, addiction, and love that is sure to raise moral questions about its hero and loved ones.
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Brandon Aviram |
Rodriguez (5 ratings)
Houston Street Mangler
| (18. May 2003) |
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| Dale Aycock |
The Crystal Horse (16 ratings)
Carlus is an old man who has had a vision of the perfect carousel horse since he was a child. Aided by a magical god-daughter of Princess Sun, he finally gets to ride.
| (26. Jun 2002) |
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| Azrael |
The Endless Desert
The world has been turned into desert at the igniting of Jupiter. This depicts a day from a journey of survivors.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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