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Message in a Bottle

by kdhingra

Short Story / Literary Fiction

April 29, 2016

30 days reads: 61

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

Summary

A family/love story set in Turkey, with reference to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

My Best Friend's Diary

by Daikazoku13

Short Story / Literary Fiction

August 10, 2013

30 days reads: 54

Comments: 1

Summary

A short story of drama, romance and tragedy

A Better Place

by Ken Siegel

Short Story / Literary Fiction

November 22, 2015

30 days reads: 51

Summary

"A Better Place" is a fictional story about a Nazi officer during WWII who learns through unexpected time travel experiences that it is not the hatred and the elimination of those different from oneself that makes the world a better place, but rather, it is friendship and tolerance among all people that makes the world a better place. Check out this author's two published novels, "The Courts of Garrowville" and "The Wrong Man from Willingham" on amazon.com. His third novel, "Strange Times in Star Luck" will be released in June 2023.

Toothache

by hullabaloo22

Short Story / Literary Fiction

August 13, 2019

30 days reads: 38

Comments: 5

Summary

Cover image: pixabay.com.

The Restaurant

by M. C. Mueller

Short Story / Literary Fiction

January 22, 2020

30 days reads: 30

Comments: 10

Shelves: 1

Summary

A short story set inside of a restaurant in which very little happens. Written at Palomar College in 2001.

No smoke without fire

by stephdixx

Short Story / Literary Fiction

November 23, 2009

30 days reads: 28

Comments: 1

Summary

A man wakes up in hell.

Billenkoek

by impetus

Short Story / Literary Fiction

May 10, 2021

30 days reads: 26

Summary

Het lot van een stiefdochter...

I am not Julia

by Alexander Temple

Short Story / Literary Fiction

August 24, 2019

30 days reads: 23

Summary

Taylor has a best friend and when she is gone, he has to replace her. How can a boy take the place of his best friend, who is a girl?

A Cherished Nightmare

by bubblehead95

Short Story / Literary Fiction

December 28, 2021

30 days reads: 19

Summary

Someone should make people understand that you need to use a perfect vision to see imperfect people? And this is where I lacked. In whatever choice of yours, we are so near yet so far like always.

The Chef

by Jack Flagberry

Short Story / Literary Fiction

December 24, 2008

30 days reads: 17

Comments: 6

Summary

I was originally planning on writing a fable, but I changed my mind part way through when I saw where the story was headed, but I think some of that still made it through. Well, I hope you all like it.

The Zederman Machine

by J. E. Abramson

Short Story / Literary Fiction

June 17, 2022

30 days reads: 17

The Perfume Maker

by Quill486

Short Story / Literary Fiction

May 25, 2023

30 days reads: 17

Summary

It is a story of an arrogant perfume maker.....who believed that he could make the fragrance which exists in the mind of people....but then everything changed

The Girl in the Sea

by NeilKSpencer

Short Story / Literary Fiction

January 09, 2020

30 days reads: 15

Summary

A couple get caught in a storm while walking at the beach.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GHOST

by vishal67

Short Story / Literary Fiction

April 05, 2010

30 days reads: 14

Summary

it is a fiction, showing memories of a dead man and explaining waht he felt and how he coped up after dying.

The Last Day of School

by Sam B

Short Story / Literary Fiction

August 24, 2017

30 days reads: 14

Summary

a story about the last day of school...

A FOOL'S PARADISE

by CASEY IMAFIDON

Short Story / Literary Fiction

October 17, 2013

30 days reads: 11

Summary

A vivacious lady on a die-hard hunt to take down a supposed internet fraudster.

Mr. Linden's Library- Harris Burdick

by Naq4writing

Short Story / Literary Fiction

April 03, 2014

30 days reads: 11

Summary

Inspired by Harris Burdick's sketch 'Mr. Linden's Library' (the attatched image), I have written a small story with an unexpected twist. Feel free to leave any comments :)

Ang Pighati ng Isang Pamilya

by nhejie

Short Story / Literary Fiction

December 20, 2011

30 days reads: 10

Comments: 1

Summary

Ang pagsubok ng isang mag-anak na ninais nilang malampasan ngunit sadyang malupit ang tadhana. WARNING : Cliche (My project in Retorika)

My Last Stormy Night at Sea

by opal8

Short Story / Literary Fiction

November 12, 2011

30 days reads: 10

Comments: 5

Shelves: 2

Summary

This is a short story of a sailors last struggle to survive a storm while at sea.

Stained

by Garrett Van Curen

Short Story / Literary Fiction

November 04, 2021

30 days reads: 10

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

Summary

A short story about the dangers of nationalism and violence against outsiders, this piece was partially inspired by my own experiences growing up in an NYC suburb in the shadow of the events of 9/11. It touches upon the occasional ugliness and cruelty of children spurred on by the larger systems of nationalism, xenophobia, racism, and homophobia baked into our cultural hegemony.