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A Paper Fan by Bernie Brown

February 13, 2015 by Every Writer

I stared at the computer screen, the recipe for blueberry cobbler staring back at me as my daughter’s voice, plaintive as a puppy’s whine, pleaded, “Please, Mom, why can’t I go?

Filed Under: short story

Girl with Pearls in Her Eyes by Fanni Sütő

May 15, 2019 by Every Writer

Girl with Pearls in Her Eyes

here are ghosts on the Underground.You don’t notice them because they look just like you, or a ticket inspector. They clutch their lost life as

Filed Under: Classic Short Story

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

February 19, 2010 by Every Writer

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

Filed Under: Featured

A Dream of Armageddon by H.G. Wells

April 16, 2019 by Every Writer

A Dream of Armageddon by H.G. Wells

The man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby. He moved slowly in spite of the urgency of his porter, and even while he was still on the platform I noted how ill he seemed. He dropped into the corner over against me with a sigh, made an incomplete attempt to arrange his […]

Filed Under: Featured, Wells, H. G.

The Moth by H. G. Wells

April 14, 2019 by Every Writer

The Moth by H. G. Wells

Probably you have heard of Hapley—not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia, Hapley the entomologist. If so you know at least of the great feud between Hapley and Professor Pawkins, though certain of its consequences may be new to you. For those who have not, a word […]

Filed Under: Wells, H. G.

The Garden Party by Kathleen Mansfield

April 24, 2018 by Every Writer

  And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up […]

Filed Under: Classic Short Story, Short Short

Telekinesis for Beginners by Michelle Lee

August 21, 2017 by Every Writer

Telekinesis for Beginners

At the ripe age of 21, Ariel lives in failure of that first step. She’s filing papers now, an administrative assistant at the Dropbox headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley. She watches the computer engineers check in and out behind the front desk on the third floor, and all day this plagues her with a sense of inadequacy. She thinks about her upbringing in an upper-middle class

Filed Under: Fantasy Story

The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry

August 10, 2017 by Every Writer

The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry

“O. Henry” was the pen name adopted by William Sydney Porter. He began his short story career by contributing Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking to McClure’s Magazine in 1899.

Filed Under: Literary Story

Chasing Zero by Jean Ryan

March 29, 2016 by Every Writer

Garret has a head cold. Naturally he’s in a foul mood. His world has stopped

Filed Under: Short Short, short story

Trick or Treat by K. A. Hardway

September 29, 2015 by Every Writer

She had finally done it. She had become a cantankerous old lady.

Filed Under: Horror Stories, Horror Story Contest 2015, Scary Stories, Short Short

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