[Short Story] When Robin Park is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, her entire world seems to change. Her only constant is the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary-- a tool that comes in handy whenever she needs to define things like complex human emotions. Until she meets Vana, that is. Now it seems the dictio...
Hello dear friends. I'm Doctor Josef R. Daneeka, inventor of the Lips, Nips and Hips line of cosmetics and the Warsaw Skin-E diet pill, world renowned surgeon, generous lover of my wife, and friendly neighbor. This screed, this angry little book of lies, exists solely to discredit me, my family and my work. I have n...
Miles is the man to call if you want your wife or illicit lover dead. In a world ruled by rich men desiring young women, Miles' occupation and life are protected. Yet he is not entirely heartless. Each woman brought to him has a chance to live if she passes his test because he's looking for his angel. The one he saw a...
Nina's night at the Halloween ball goes from dull to dangerous faster than she anticipated.
[Vᴏʟᴜᴍᴇ 1 - Cᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ] Evelyn White was born with a gift - or rather, a curse: the first time she touches someone, she sees when and how that person dies. Meeting new people is sickening. Walking through a crowd is hell. Not to mention that when she opens her big mouth to tell people what's going to happen to them, mos...
Feared by his enemies and tolerated by his allies, Sedgewick Alverdyne, the cynical Minister of Magic, was content with living an attachment-free life whilst striking fear into the hearts of witches, sorceresses, and wizards everywhere. And after several hundred years of faithfully serving the royal family, he's becom...
Flirting with a patient is fine . . . as long as it doesn't go further. . . . Sabine is a talented nurse starting her dream job when she meets her newest, flirtatious patient, Ziggy. When Ziggy receives a life-changing diagnosis, he turns to Sabine for help to make it through. As their relationship turns to dependence...
A boy named Glass vanishes without a trace. His friend Atai wants to understand why. She's an artificial intelligence stuck in a computer, which makes investigating difficult-- but it's the age of the Internet, and strangers step up to help. Glass is found, but he's strange, warped, different, part of a shady religiou...
In a not so different future, a lone janitor tends a mostly empty zoo until an intern comes along and proposes some odd new exhibits.
One day, she will be a butterfly. She will fly somewhere far away. But tomorrow, she will still be here. Tomorrow, there will be bruises.
"There are a million shades of grey between their black and their white - but no one ever cares to see them." In a world with a limited view of gender, Cam Shills struggles to come to terms with their identity as neither male nor female, a shade of grey in the midst of a sea of black and white. The road to acceptance...
Jonah is helpless after a tragic accident leaves his best friend, Scott, comatose. Lost and alone, he is left to contemplate the limbo between life and death and the consequences of circumstance. Though Jonah is losing hope for Scott's recovery, he must make decisions that have the potential to massively impact both t...
M., a college sophomore, is haunted by the events of a year ago that ended another girl's life. In an attempt to clear her conscience, she writes her confession down in a battered notebook addressed to a stranger. This search for redemption is far more painful than she ever imagined, and she struggles to cope with her...
[#887 in Short Story- March 13, 2016] This is a story about the deep web, but it's more than that- this is a story about human beings. It's about the popular girl who stumbles into a world she never knew, the sick teenage deep web obsessive who's always craving something darker, and the seen-it-all hacker left a mess...
Six months old and freezing from the snow storm, she is left on the porch of a house. Just an innocent baby girl wrapped in a single pink blanket, left on the door step with nothing but a note that reads only four simple words: Her name is Mistletoe. Mistletoe's life seems blessed as the family of the house raises he...
Keenan goes by many names. The Death King is one of them. He had grown accustomed to living his life with one set plan: only talk to humans when you absolutely need to. He craves the trouble they have to offer and gains excitement from their bloodshed. After obtaining what he needs, Keenan forgets about them by their...
Six teens are devoted to a game with one rule: If a player gets tagged, they must change their life within the next fifteen minutes. The better the player, the bigger the change. One might give their car away, or punch the school bully. Another might change identities or sacrifice their virginity. Anything to keep evo...
✴Featured on Wattpad @BeyondSol profile✴ In the depths of space, a woman gets picked up by a helping--and handsome--stranger when her ship breaks after a hit and run. They end up traveling together and she even resolves to help him in his bounty chasing. As the months pass, she feels her attraction for him growing, b...
a story about them; through a series of texts. "you don't need to meet someone in real life to meet the real them" 「 copyright @simrankdhaliwal highest rank - first in short story lowercase intended for stylistic purposes 」
A beautiful young woman was missing. I knew I had a murder. I even had a suspect. But would I ever find the body? Would I ever be able to arrest the suspect without the body? Don't believe all that crap you see on TV shows. Follow me on this true crime story and see what happens in a real murder case.
The future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field. From...
Lilly Martin is not model-material, but Adam Hiller is, and it turns out he likes to wear dresses when nobody's looking, and is in fact not a 'he' at all. When their school announces a fashion designing competition, Lilly decides to kill two (or three) birds with one stone and: 1) Win the fashion competition by making...
