Rankings / Publishable short story

Items added to this "Rating Criterion":

Short Story / Spare Any Change?

Created by anonymous 2 months ago

“Can you spare any change?” asked a homeless man as the crowds bustled past him in Union Station near the U.S. Capitol.



Crime, Thrillers & Mystery / Lex Talionis

Created by jeremycage about 1 month ago

Lex Talionis
by Ian Campbell

Lenny Kovakis arose from the dead one Friday morning with a mother of a



Journal, Diary, & Blogging / STATE INSTITUTION BLUES

Created by phoenixwmn 2 months ago

Watching the blue-ish tv glowing
Cooly in the dark,
A movie about a woman
Committed to a mental instituti



Short Story / contest submission

Created by Treatsa 2 months ago

        Raven knew it was almost time for dinner when the whole camp became quiet w



Sci Fi & Fantasy / A Journey Through Helheim

Created by LLee 2 months ago

A Journey Through Helheim

I.
        
  &nbs



Flash Fiction / Santas, Sweetly

Created by DByron 2 months ago

Professor walks in near-pitch shadows. His hands are eyes that read the alley wall—cold bricks, garbage dumpsters, a



Horror / A Balanced Diet

Created by wesguptill about 1 month ago

Three meals a day.
That’s all I allow myself. No in-between snacks, no sneaking clandestine bites. I eat them



Short Story / Going Nowhere

Created by zoli 2 months ago

               GOING NOWHERE  



Sci Fi & Fantasy / Starclaw

Created by MaxPower1272 2 months ago

Written by
Eric Gonzales
MaxPower1272@yahoo.com

STAR CLAW
THE SPIRITS



Short Story / A Perfect Night For A Threeway

Created by raynola 26 days ago

        We were three.
        I was



Short Story / Alcohol

Created by higginbot about 1 year ago

    It’s three a.m., and I can’t sleep.  I can’t sleep because of the dog.



Short Story / From the dismal sidelines – War

Created by Whisper about 1 year ago

From the dismal sidelines – sidelines, what a green word – men could be seen running rampage, gun-in-hand madmen. The f



Romance / elysian fields

Created by bittersweetmemory 2 months ago

elysian fields
     by: hannah o.

i had a garden then
so long ago
i



Short Story / Robert and Delilah

Created by thefarmerswife about 1 month ago

“It’s all rather ridiculous, really,” she said to the dog as she stood in front of the mirror,  “getting



Non-fiction / Reefer Madness

Created by db_metallo about 1 month ago

                Reefer Madness



Sci Fi & Fantasy / The Brightest Setting Sun...

Created by TabulaLife 3 months ago

The Brightest Setting Sun…

1             



Short Story / Pink Purse and Organutans

Created by kanto222 2 months ago

One of the most intimate moments I spent with my stepfather involved a fake pink leather purse, three Duracell D-size batte



Short Story / Heaven:Smart dress No trainers

Created by Mozart over 2 years ago

Robert Mozelewski

I died a few years ago thoroughly expecting to go to heaven having lead a pretty low key



Short Story / Celebration

Created by codycooper 2 months ago

                   Celebration



Novel Treatments / Legacy- "What am I gonna eat?"

Created by tessieinc 2 months ago

The hot wind ripped skin off his face and the desert sunlight bored right through his sunglasses, humping the back of his h