Found 1478 stories.
Stain on Love
Apr 17, 2019 · 1,834 words (7 minutes) · 29 views
Mystery Romance swearing Glasgow crime lots of crime lots of swearing
A silly short story of one gangster and the woman he loves. I am not a frequent crime writer but I love getting into it when I have an idea that works, and this short came out of the ideas of relationships and permissible bad behaviour. It's very much a crime story but there's no option for that so we have mystery and romance because those are technically present.
Elvinon's Wish
Apr 16, 2019 · 2,804 words (11 minutes) · 36 views
Humor Science Fiction prehistory artist
Elvinon is an artist of the future with all the tech he needs and the immortality to see his project through to the end. What wish could he possibly ask from an alien Jinni released from the confines of her lamp?
Into the Adlight
Apr 16, 2019 · 3,378 words (13 minutes) · 56 views
Satire Science Fiction cyberpunk scient fiction documentary punk advertising
Published in 2012, this is a cyberpunk satire about guerilla documentary-making, advertising, and data security. I have republished it here because I saw this article today, which makes it look as though the central conceit of the story might soon be a reality: https://futurism.com/startrocket-giant-ads-night-sky-cubesats Sigh.
Smoke and Mirrors
Apr 15, 2019 · 8,819 words (33 minutes) · 8 views
Fantasy Humor Satire magic funny sword and sorcery
In which our heroes handle a trapped familiar, an evil magician, and a gorgon. All at once. "Smoke and Mirrors" first appeared in Esther Friesner's TURN THE OTHER CHICK anthology, the fifth of the CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL series. I wrote a sequel to it for the last Chicks anthology. I'll post it next week!
Bane
Apr 14, 2019 · 3,307 words (13 minutes) · 23 views
Editor Jennifer Brozek wrote me one afternoon: “Help! I’ve got an anthology that’s short a story, can you write one in a few days?”“Of course!” I said, delighted to pinch-hit, even though I was leaving for Australia the following week. She wanted a fairy tale turned on its head, told from the monster’s point of view. Human Tales came out in August of 2011.
Cuckoo
Apr 14, 2019 · 5,003 words (19 minutes) · 9 views
A spinster adopts a very unusual child: a story about the different ways love can come -- and go, and what it leaves behind.
The Face of All the World Is Changed
Apr 14, 2019 · 3,991 words (15 minutes) · 59 views
Literary Fiction Science Fiction Love marriage Facebook fate new york times magazine
If Facebook can predict whom some users will marry, what does that mean for the rest of us...and for marriage?
"Peg O' My Heart"
Apr 13, 2019 · 8,251 words (31 minutes) · 30 views
Fantasy Humor Satire Science Fiction
A beloved superhero has been senselessly killed. And her dearest friends won't stop until they find out who did it- and why it happened.
Dusted
Apr 13, 2019 · 6,949 words (26 minutes) · 132 views
Fantasy Mystery urban fantasy cosa nostradamus implied sexual elements (not explicit)
A teenaged girl. An underground fairyland. And a not-quite-human PI who specializes in missing children....
