 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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| Gadlor |
Lord of Rats  (4 ratings)
A short story that deals with human pride and the extremes it can be taken to.
| (3. Sep 2001) |
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| Michael Gallegos |
Nails (17 ratings)
On a distant moon, the remnants of an battered infantry company stage a last-stand defense on a desolate hilltop against a horrifying enemy.
| (20. Dec 2001) |
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| Betsy Gallup |
Time and Again
When Cassie becomes dissatisfied with her life, she uses time travel to do it all over again. Too bad.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| John Galt |
Blackheath's Daughters  (4 ratings)
This is a story of reconciliation in a rascist ridden country...
| (27. Jan 2002) |
Handle With Care  (4 ratings)
You have forgotten your humanity. You have made a mockery of death, and death does not leave a life untouched.
| (9. Feb 2002) |
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| Dan Garcia |
On The Outside Looking In (4 ratings)
This is a very short story about a killer. It is told from an unusual teller of tales.
| (18. May 2003) |
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| Daniel Garcia |
I Love This Game, Ace.
Luca, a sports fan discovers his ultimate passion, tennis. When he is about 15 he decides he wants too become a proffesional tennis player, as he associattes every movement in tennis to his real life.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| David Maurice Garrett |
The Isle of the Dead (8 ratings)
This is a dark tale which explores the origins of Charon, the Ferryman to the Underworld.
| (13. Jul 2002) |
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| Adrian Garza |
Sidewinder and Sleeping Death (2 ratings)
On a strange desolate world, a young archaeologist finds an object in the sand. The events that follow will forever change him and the two women he travels with.
| (11. Oct 2002) |
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| I. B. Gastly |
Father (9 ratings)
The story of a boy and his controlling, abusive father.
| (18. Dec 2001) |
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| Shane M. Gavin |
Still
Pronounced with a strong German accent, Still is an easy on the senses horror that poses the perfect arguement for not letting that old stranger at the door in.
| (20. Jan 2004) |
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| Sebouh Gemdjian |
Sitting in Hallways
A famous Bulgarian soccer player gets injured and permanently disabled by his own teammates for having affairs with their wives. Their connections with the Comunist Party pose a threat from which he runs to a Tuscarrora Indian reservation in South Carolina. With the help of the village idiot, he finds out the truth about who his enemies really are, and reclaims fame, this time by telling his story through paintings.
| (25. Sep 2000) |
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| T. George |
A Dark Disguise (32 ratings)
A mysterious cloaked man flits through the shadows of an ancient city, to carry out a vital mission...
| (18. Jul 2001) |
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| Bogdan Gheorghiu |
The Map Seller
The only way to run from the Seller is down
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Trevor Giberson |
Clotho
A very short story about feeling good walking to a blues bar in a summer rain. An allusion to ghosts and greek mythology thrown in.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Simon James Gibson |
Hemones Nightmare  (2 ratings)
A story about a captured alien who can transmit the essense of a being into another living body at the moment of death.
| (26. Jun 2002) |
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| Zach Gieszler |
Silence (9 ratings)
A story of one child's look into his short future.
| (14. Jun 2002) |
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| John Gilbert |
Earthlings Must Not Be Listed Amongst Regular Diet (17 ratings)
In a time where technology has surpassed our wildest dreams, even in the age of intergalactic cultures, the old tale 'Beauty and the Beast' lives on.
| (7. Dec 2001) |
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| Daniel P. Gilfoy |
Forest Cursed (4 ratings)
Not all Fairy tales are happy. This story happens to be one of those less than joyous ones. It is about a boy, his adventures, and the tragedy of a town that betrayed him.
| (12. Dec 2002) |
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| Paul Gillon |
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Keith hates everything. His mother in particular irritates him deeply, her obsession with gardening is a particular gripe. Until Keith discovers there is a cash prize for the winner of the local gardening competition.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
Yuki
Old Hector Drood hates noise. He loathes the noisy apartment he has to live in, he despises the people he needs to pass every morning on the way to collect his newspaper but most of all he hates the fact he is powerless to do anything. Until now...
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Erikah Gilpin |
Cell Block Four
a story of a man who has been sent to prison in the 1600's. the issolation drives him to insanity and he contemplates eating his now dead cell mate.
| (18. Jul 2004) |
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| Kyle Gjessing |
Mechanical Messiah (13 ratings)
Super intelligent quantum computers are created against the will of the public. This quantum addition to computer technology renders the experimental computer conscious, and reveals the true intentions of computers and the internet. . .
| (19. Jun 2001) |
Zaigu: Part One (4 ratings)
An epic, intergalactic tale of a dying humanity and the struggle for life and peace. Zaigu takes place on a beautiful, proliferant world that has only begun to be corrupted by the hate and greed of outsiders. Part One begins the action with the escape of a Zaigan prisoner from a severe predicament.
| (17. Jul 2001) |
The Bum (9 ratings)
A simple story about a miserable, overworked, businessman who meets a wise bum who lives in nature.
| (2. Aug 2001) |
"--Don't you know talking cats don't exist!?" (35 ratings)
Everybody knows cats can't talk (or can they?), but they sure can play. How would you like to join the fun?
| (17. Aug 2001) |
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| Gogook |
Lord
The Battle for Akwarias between the armies of Lord Gogook and Buutlaars drugoon pikemen with a twist in the tale.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Chris Gonnerman |
My Apprenticeship (Part 1) (4 ratings)
The tale of a warrior who becomes a monster's apprentice.
| (14. Jun 2002) |
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| James Goodman |
Death of a King: Birth of a Nation
This is a battle scene I have written to enter a competion. It has taken alot of work and I hope anyone who reads it enjoys the story.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Christo Goosen |
Outside World (14 ratings)
A courier/thief tries to keep the past buried, living only from day-to-day. One chance encounter changes all that...
| (3. Dec 2001) |
Storm (28 ratings)
| (10. May 2002) |
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| Robert Gordon |
An Oath Forgotten: Chapter 1
The first of three chapters. This first chapter deals with an imprisoned high ranking knight. He was forced to compromise his morals when his lord asked him to commit murder. For his refusal he was sent to the cells. The cells are weighing on the knight. Will he break the Knights Oath and become an assassin?
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| R.W. Gordon |
Catalepsy (4 ratings)
Swirling with black humor and full of imagery and meaning "Catalepsy" takes us on a journey beyond the grave.
| (20. Dec 2001) |
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| Gothicblackrose |
Grandmother's Mirror
A young boy finds his fears of both the hallway mirror and his grandmother are warranted.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Michael Goulish |
Johnny Reb  (130 ratings)
| (3. Feb 2000) |
Air force one (part one)
sequel novel to Johnny Reb
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Timly Grae |
The Minting (6 ratings)
The origin of a curious coin and the unusual events surrounding it. A short tale of majic in the old Arabic world.
| (27. Jan 2002) |
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| Ben E. Graham |
Blue (5 ratings)
Blue is a story about time.
| (18. May 2003) |
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| Kathryn A. Graham |
Awakening (6 ratings)
Lieutenant Alicia Aldernay didn't like Cazamar, but her orders didn't leave room for preference. He was her mission partner. Worse, she had to accept his command in matters directly involving their mission.
| (9. Jan 2002) |
Cave-In (7 ratings)
Bernice fought her way to her knees. She tried to ignore the shrieking that scraped at her nerves long enough to orient herself, but it was nearly impossible. Her pressure suit's radio lent the awful sounds a distortion that deprived them of gender or any trace of identity.
| (9. Jan 2002) |
Cave-In! (7 ratings)
Mining is a dangerous occupation, whether on the Earth or on the Moon.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
Awakening (6 ratings)
Racism isn't a problem confined to present day. If we have problems with differences in skin color and culture on our own planet, what will happen when we are dealing with alien races?
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Peter Grant |
A Well of Soul... (10 ratings)
Humans have evolved psychic abilities, and some use those powers to further their own gains, destroying all in their path. Some use theirs to stop them...
| (27. Aug 2000) |
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| C. E. Grayson |
The Archangel Chronicles - Intro
A thousand years after the first manned space flight, humankind has spread out among the stars. But the Pax Humana envisioned by many has not come to be as political, social, economic, and ideological factions struggle for control of the habitable worlds and the network of subspace corridors that links them.
| (18. May 2001) |
The Archangel Chronicles Part One: Restoration
| (18. May 2001) |
The Archangel Chronicles Part Two: The Blood Mosaic
| (11. Jul 2001) |
The Archangel Chronicles Part Three: Come to the Table
| (25. Sep 2001) |
The Archangel Chronicles Part Four: Ascent into Shadow
| (14. Dec 2001) |
The Archangel Chronicles Part Five: Voices of Stone
Part five of the Ancient Skies Arc: Daniel and Marin enter the stone, while disaster strikes on board the Archangel.
| (27. May 2002) |
The Archangel Chronicles Part Six: A Hymn to the Devourer
Part six of Ancient Skies
| (16. Aug 2002) |
The Archangel Chronicles Part Seven: Tumbling Toward Purgatory
Part 7 of Ancient Skies
| (16. Sep 2002) |
The Archangel Chronicles part Eight: Fumbling Through Delirium
| (31. Oct 2002) |
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| Francis Gray |
Three Fingered Willie
A story about a boy ignored by his drunken father, then seperated from his brother and abandoned. Billy's on his first class trip will never look at an open window the same.
| (19. Oct 2003) |
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| M.D. Greaney |
The Crossing (11 ratings)
Guilt and panic can drive a man to strange extremes. This story is based around, and draws together, two 'urban myths' that I recently heard.
| (24. Mar 2002) |
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| Lucy Grey |
Proctor: Angel of Death (Part 1) (6 ratings)
Proctor does not know who she is. Only that she is an Enforcer and has been for eternity. Her mission, to maintain life and therefore maintain death; perpetual suffering. The serial follows her from her early beginings as a programed Enforcer, her awakening consciousness and journey of self discovery...
| (14. Dec 2001) |
Proctor: Angel of Death (Part 2) (6 ratings)
Continuation of the Proctor Series ...
| (9. Feb 2002) |
Proctor: Angel of Death (Part 3) (4 ratings)
The third part of the series.
| (22. Apr 2002) |
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| Stan Grimes |
Four (1 rating)
"Four" is a fantasy short story about a small pigeon named Four. Four's early experience with the world of humans turns out to be a costly one but the world of creatures is no better. Four finds himself stalked by an unrelenting natural enemy and surprisingly saved by yet another enemy.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Aaron Gritsch |
Into the Murky Depths
A short story about a man who has suffered from night terrors for a while and this night he finds out why. Something seemingly breaks into his house a drags him to the place he fears most...the sea.
| (20. Jan 2004) |
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| Michael Guentherman |
Leisa
The story is about a group of offworld miners who had become marooned after a mysterious event causes the station to lose contact with earth.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
The Dead Man's tale
They were trapped, surrounded and soon to be overwhelmed. Simeon was the only one who could save them. But Simeon had a problem of his own - he had already been dead for three days,
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Gui |
Teachers beware (1 rating)
After 12 years of learning a mage decides to share his knowledge with the common folk. But does he really know everything?
| (17. Dec 2001) |
Urban magic (2 ratings)
You can find magic all around you, all you have to do is to belive
| (9. Jan 2002) |
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| Cyril M Gupta |
The Evaluators  (6 ratings)
Is humanity ready for interstellar travel?
| (18. Dec 2001) |
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| Gwenllian |
Walking Through The Clouds (2 ratings)
I've classed this under fantasy, but it's not really anything. It's about hope, and is very short.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| DC Gwinup |
Wading Through Red (7 ratings)
A woman leaving behind a questionable past moves to New York in hopes of a more certain future. Logging her days on paper, she attempts to put her thoughts into some kind of order. However, it seems that someone else it giving the orders in her life.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Til Gylte |
Asylum (2 ratings)
In a short story based on true-life experience, a dream, and some imagination; "Asylum" is about a group of teens looking to break into a shut down mental hospital for a little excitement.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Caiti G. |
The Troubled Sky (4 ratings)
A child is found to have the capactiy for supernatural powers. She is brought before the leader and forced to take a test to prove that she posesses the Gift -- the test is a life or death situations. If she is not powerful enough to protect herself during the trial -- she will die.
| (14. Jun 2002) |
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| Timmy G. |
First Earth Part 4
The final ending.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
First Earth Part 1
My first real story. It is based on the idea or reversed religion and Sumerian concepts. It's not that great a story, but please somebody take some time to read & give me a few pointers.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
First Earth Part 3
| (15. Feb 2004) |
First Earth Part 2
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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