Stories Unfold.
Connecting writers with a new audience, and readers with new short stories.
Trending on Short Stories
The Battle of Life
A fierce battle was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Nature soon recovered Her serenity and smiled upon the guilty battle - ground. Doctor Jeddler was a great...
Humplebee
A young man saves a rich boy’s life, but his gratitude turns to curse. He loses his job, his love, and his friend.
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed
The misadventures of a group of reluctant soldiers during the American civil war - in many ways, this story anticipates Catch 22.
The Terror of the Beautiful Is Our Terror Too
We can’t be other than we are and we are hungry for some fruit...
Prosper's "Old Mother"
Joe Wynbrook lifted a glass of whiskey from the floor under his chair and took a long draught of the spirits with every symptom of satisfaction. He proceeded. Prosper was not perfectly happy with...
The Spy
My going to Valencia was entirely an accident, and I revisited Valencia on some mysterious and secret mission. A young man, hungrily listening to my words, demanded to know why the ship rolled and...
With Intent to Steal
Shorthouse persuaded me to lend him my company after a sudden change in my attitude. One of the stablemen saw a dark substance hanging down from one of the rafters and raised his face from the gun...
The Bell In The Fog
A writer becomes obsessed with a portrait of a young girl.
The Reckoning
A couple are in agreement on the ethics of marriage but personal feelings, inevitably, intrude.
A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
The four men on Zip Coon Ledge had not got fairly settled to their morning's work, when one of them ran off to meet the advancing horseman and hand a brown envelope to their messenger. Jackson...
A Question of Latitude
Everett was a healthy, clean-minded enthusiast who soon discovered that passengers not in the service of that king held aloof from the Belgians. Dr. Stewart rode his bicycle into a native village,...
Gallegher
Gallegher was short and broad in build, wore a happy smile, and was good at amusing the Press's young men. He loved crime. Gallegher's knowledge of aliases led him to the Burrbank murder, but the...