Short Fiction

Short FictionShort Fiction SHOWCASE
Short fiction stories are often called “flash fiction” or “dime stories” – 500-word pieces with a beginning, middle, and end. Many of our member authors participate in dime story events that require their short stories to be read aloud in three minutes or less, a writing challenge! For fun, see if you can read aloud in three minutes or less the short fiction stories written by our member authors.

Article-IconTrue Maria Part II | Read More…
by Jodie Keenan

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True Maria Part I | Read More…
by Jodie Keenan

Two Reporters Report Abduction | Read More…
by Jim Simmons

ALIVE | Read More…
by Kathryn Atkins

Our Critique Group | Read More…
by Terry Redman

The Progress of Was | Read More…
by Trager Watson

An Immovable Beast | Read More…
by Carol Celeste

Second Chances Part 3 | Read More…
by Jeanette A. Fratto

Second Chances Part 2 | Read More…
by Jeanette A. Fratto

Second Chances | Read More…
by Jeanette A. Fratto

The Apocalypse | Read More…
by Carole Wagener

A Very Special Lunch Date, Part Two | Read More…
by Jeanette A. Fratto

A Very Special Lunch Date, Part One | Read More…
by Jeanette A. Fratto

Pitch Man | Read More…
by Joan Raymond

Foul | Read More…
by Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

Flight at Sunrise | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

She | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Metamorphosis | Read More…
by June Kino Cullen

Cayenne and the Diablo Kid  | Read More…
by Constance Cassinelli

Morning in the Park | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

High Seas Encounter | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Foul | Read More…
by Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

A Not Scary Pumpkin Story | Read More…
by Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

Night Duty | Read More…
by Jeanette A. Fratto

The Night Liz Met Bigfoot| Read More…
by Linda Salholt

Flight at Sunrise | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Camp Story | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Boxcar Babes| Read More…
by Diane Neil

She | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Waldo’s Tale… As HE Saw It | Read More…
by Sue Andrews

When We Gather Together | Read More…
by Diane Neil

Why I Quit Barbering – a “Horror” Story| Read More…
by Diane Neil

A Not Scary Pumpkin Story | Read More…
by Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

Soot and Stone Pt 2, A Fae Tale of the Otherworld | Read More…
by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

Soot and Stone Pt 1, A Fae Tale of the Otherworld | Read More…
by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

She | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Linda and Liz Meet Aliens | Read More…
by Elizabeth Babcock

Conversations with the Fair Young Maiden | Read More…
by Constance Cassinelli

A Single Thread of Magic | Read More…
by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

Morning in the Park | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

The Night Liz Met Bigfoot| Read More…
by Linda Salholt

Two Reporters Report Abduction | Read More…
by James Edward Treacy Simmons

7.1+ | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Obsidian | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

How the Scorpion Lost Its Tail and Got a New Name | Read More…
by Maryann Butterfield

Truck | Read More…
by Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

Excerpt from Into the Breach | Read More…
by Jonathan Yañez

An Immovable Beast | Read More…
by Carol Celeste

Dinner Conversation | Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Foul| Read More…
by Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

Him/ Her | Read More…
by M J Sewall

The Reckoning Prologue: The Birth of a Leader| Read More…
by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

Brett| Read More…
by Kathryn Atkins

This Old Man| Read More…
by Donna McCrohan Rosenthal

Bane and Balm, Part II| Read More…
by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

Bane and Balm, Part I| Read More…
by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

Excerpt from House of Wolves| Read More…
by Jonathan Yañez

Rudolph| Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Deer Season| Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Excerpt from “Oescienne”| Read More…
by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

Excerpt from the novel “Of Angels and Men”| Read More…
by Jonathan Yañez

Stopping by the Woods| Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Camp Story| Read More…
by Robert Mariner

Boxcar Babes| Read More…
by Diane Neil