Rankings / Short story - overall

Items added to this "Rating Criterion":

Short Story / Grinning Gus's

Created by jhmckeogh 6 months ago

A postcard scene like you’d see from San Francisco.  Cars parked along the hypotenuse, building foundations hew



Short Story / Imagine The Non-Existant Girl

Created by groovieknave about 1 year ago

This prison without bars holds me. Loneliness. It has a TV and a refridgerator. A computer connected to the outside world.



Short Story / Purity

Created by a_bittersweet_tragedy about 1 year ago

Wednesday, September 21, 1994 2:17pm

I stare carelessly out the front windshield of this piece of shit Dodg



Short Story / Musical Bliss

Created by theone 3 months ago

“I was five years old when my parents took me to my first piano lesson. I was as excited as any five year old could get a



Short Story / Skinny Cappuccino to Sit

Created by DWVickers 6 months ago

Curmudgeon’s Coffeehouse.
“Mind if I sit here?” Sarg Thomlison stood behind the empty chair across from Telli



Short Story / Streetwise Astrolabe

Created by DByron 2 months ago

        Raymond Chandler said that anything could happen when the Santa Ana winds s



Short Story / A True Tale of a Total Idiot

Created by Tandyman over 2 years ago

A True Tale of a Complete and Total Idiot

        Yes, it is true.&



Short Story / So Far From Perfect

Created by BeautifullyDemented over 2 years ago

She stood, staring at her naked reflection in the mirror.
All skin and bones The words echoed through her mind ̵



Short Story / Wow Melinda

Created by Kristenloveskerouac over 2 years ago

She had on a pair of classic Levi’s and a shirt that didn’t fit too snugly. The girl had great breasts, though; I’ll



Short Story / Day Ex Machina

Created by IlNero over 2 years ago

A dozen men sat behind the factory and smoked. It was a hot morning, and the sun beat down upon them, the burning gaze of a



Short Story / Inside My Head

Created by liar_liar over 2 years ago

     You know how sometimes you find yourself searching for a word and you just can’t remember it



Short Story / Grace: Part the Fourth (and last!)

Created by KellyE about 1 year ago

The next couple of weeks passed by in a blur for Grace.  Her sister and friend helped to make plans for her upcom



Short Story / The Spontaneous Combustion of Flowering Plants

Created by duhleenkwint 3 months ago

        Fire:  finger-sized ghosts of it, appearing blue in the night, on



Short Story / Pigs

Created by avedis 3 months ago

Azure blue turned into yellow green beneath me, and I knew what that meant. I should, I had spent the last few days hunting



Short Story / Big Jim, the Mormon, and Hitler's Grandson

Created by placidchaos 3 months ago

“Hitler’s Grandson is Alive and Living in Denver.” That was the headline on the latest edition of the tabloid I stole



Short Story / Another Day, Another Dollar

Created by WaywardSonRising over 2 years ago

Rainwater streaked down the taxi window, blurring his view of the rundown building across the street. In the window, Isaac



Short Story / surrender

Created by magnus over 2 years ago

She came at night, when the air was still, and the only sounds were the rustle of small creatures and the mournful hooting



Short Story / The Useless Noise of Time Passing

Created by JMA over 2 years ago

Of all the people perched in the box in front of the window, you think juror number five is the most sympathetic. &nbs



Short Story / Roses are Red for a Reason...

Created by DaydreamMasquerade over 2 years ago

There are many things that happen that could be considered to be turning points in someone’s life. Maybe someday I



Short Story / Henna

Created by velvet_ink about 1 year ago

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