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All Literary Fiction Short Stories

25 Most Recent Literary Fiction Short Stories

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Life by Lisa Adams
Aftermath..
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Life Goes On by Odin odin@aflx.com
With so much depression layering the country, there are many looking around at so much loss of life and questioning like never before. So, for cat lovers and life lovers, some flash fiction levity for optimism. (Image by pinterest)..
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Life Happens by Kathy Williams
Life happens. What're you gonna do about it? Play the hand you're dealt? Be rude obnoxious and insignificant to people? Be perceived as not very bright? What?..
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Life Insurance by Peter Cooper
Sometimes boy heroes never quite grow up to be men, even if they remain heroes...
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Life is No Fairy Tale by Peggy Duffy
I was brought to this marriage under false pretenses. I love you, is what he said. My daughter needs a mother, is what he meant. So while he traipsed off on one business trip after another, merging small companies into his corporate empire, I was stuck home, weeks at a time, with the raven-haired..
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Light Never Dimming by Odin odin@aflx.com
Some flash-fiction for those of us addicted to the written word, where there is imagination always at the ready, a fearless illumination void of boredom’s darkness. (Image by Janice Dick) ..
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Lightbulb. (Part One) by Odin odin@aflx.com
A mysterious light bulb from a brownstone being gutted drives one man up a tree...
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Lip Service by adaobi nwoye
Lip Service One day Father called me into his Chamber. “You have been so faithful to me, child,” He said. “You make me happy, just like your colleagues here. But my children nearly always make me cry. I sometimes wonder why I bother with them. On..
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Listening Warrants Hearing by Odin odin@aflx.com
Awareness of the subtleties in life requires attention, a quality of Man that continues to wane. (Image by Odin AI)..
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Literature Classes at Bell College by Leopoldo Barge Álvarez
I wanted to insist, not knowing it would take more than 40 years...
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Little Bird by Allison Alexander
A London gentleman is touched when he meets a young girl in a house of ill repute...
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Little Crow by David Schwinghammer
A farmer shoots the Sioux chief who tried to stop the massacre of white settlers that led to the largest mass execution in American History. ..
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Livin Btween The Tracks by Carolyn Baxter poet
This is a dedication to the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman.And ever one else who has struggled with daily challenges...
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Living Sacrifice by Tolulope Williams
A story of African descent about the sacrificial nature of women...
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Lobbies to Your Somewhere by Odin odin@aflx.com
Lately, my nocturnal dreaming has been more vivid than any time in my life. More questions loom with minimal answers. Perhaps there is some simple explanation, but for now, I’m paintng some flash fiction prosetry possibilities. ..
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Look For Me by Roy Edwards
Look for me in the spirit in the wind where the long grass bends and sways, where the taint of hate is not even a memory...
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Looney Meets Crazy by Odin odin@aflx.com
They say NYC has everything… well, almost everything. One thing is plentiful; surprises. Some rational, and many down-and-out looney. Definitely worthy of some storytelling. ..
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Lori by Sandy Knauer
She had to pee so bad it made her head hurt...
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Loss of Surprise and Vision by Lili Tuwai Ph.D.
A story in verse about cultural prosperity and change, love, loyalty, cherishing children and losing Vision. ..
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Lost Angel by Peter Oszmann
An unremarkable, seasonal story, reflecting upon our unremarkable society and our unremarkable ways of living...
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Lost! by Sanjay Sonawani
"what an epic vision. reading throughout, all i could think of was, how stupid is this man? you described his damnation in such a way as to stand for the damnation of all who oppose the flow of time and destiny, and who dwell upon moments of life best left behind. he could have moved on, had a wonde..
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Lost? by Danae Wilkin
The story of a man lost, or is he found?..
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Love Knows No Short Cuts by Odin odin@aflx.com
Many of us on this site write our thoughts and beliefs regarding love and its many variations. In gathering thoughts for this exploration, I came to the realization… there are no short cuts. In fact, I’m nurturing the belief now that love doesn’t die when we pass. .(Image by Odin AI) ..
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Love's Tanacity by Odin odin@aflx.com
Some think that love is reserved for the young. Others believe love transcends youth. Still others believe there is no end to love. (Image by Joey Kennedy..
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LOVESICK by David Grant
A pact of romance is tested...
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low-maintenance lo mein by Guy Jacobs
Do you know this guy? Don't we all?..
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Loyal Friend by Odin odin@aflx.com
A piece of flash fiction with a bit of fantasy, a bit of friendship...
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lucky pint {LUSTY SHORT STORIES} by mark hall
ADULT MATERIAL..
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Lucy's Place by David Grant
A night of drug use ends in Idaho, or does it?..
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Lunch with Socrates by Gene Williamson
You can meet some fascinating people on a trolley or in a cozy corner of your mind...
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Macaronic language by Leopoldo Barge Álvarez
Love, Amour, Amore, Amor...
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Read excerpt from Mad Mother Mad Mother by Gillian Stokes
MAD MOTHER Doesn't any one else see this, that the little whiteboard shopping list on the cupboard door in the kitchen is alive? Or is it the magic marker pen that has a life of it's own and starts writing again as soon as the board is wiped clean. They are evil, malevolent. I don'..
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Magic by Roy Edwards
By Roy E Edwards..
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Magnifying Eye by Odin odin@aflx.com
A dark prosetry way “Pawnbroker” might have gone. Although an immoral way to right a wrong, often desperation makes a hard call. (Image by “Pawbroker.” ..
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Mail Call by Shane Collins
A series of correspondences from Vietnam..
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MAKING THINGS DISAPPEAR MORE SLOWLY by herbert lobsenz
Why writers write..
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Man and Boy (3) by Gene Williamson
Third installment in the Captain Jack series...
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Man In Galilee by Roy Edwards
I met a man in Galilee he said he was blind but could see. He said, “I am deaf and I hear every word.”..
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man saved from solitude by liaquat razvi
sindhi short story..
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Mar by D. Kenneth Ross
A young primitive early male becomes a respected leader as he courts a woman in another tribe...
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MARHEE by liaquat razvi
sindhi short story..
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Marijuana by Leopoldo Barge Álvarez
They won't be gifting no dope to have the meek masses enslaved...
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Marshfield: A Suburban Fairy Tale by Peggy Duffy
Once upon a time, and for the longest time, there was a nondescript location called Marshfield. ..
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Mary Martin Fleeting Moments by Mary Martin
I am publishing the whole of this short story as it seems not everyone who's interested has read it all. This is the introduction to the trilogy of novellas featuring Alexander Wainwright. This is a completely different world from Harry Jenkins in Conduct in Question. Yhis is dedicated to my muse...
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Mary Martin/2nd novel by Mary Martin
Final Paradox is the second in a trilogy beginning with Conduct in Question. Harry Jenkins, an honest lawyer is sucked into a web of fraud and deceit. It begins with the introduction of Norma Dinnick, Harry's elderly client. Can love and forgiveness be found amongst fraud and deceit? ..
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Mavin vs. The Tyranical Brain Tumor from Harvard and Washington-I by Marvin Kirsh
WALKING THE STREETS..
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Maxwell Street: Chicago, Illinois, 1949 by Mark Lichterman
Peddlers sold from pushcarts that lined both sides of the narrow, cluttered street. But also, some of the more ambitious and/or affluent had been able to work their way off the curbs, into one or two of the small stores that were found on either side of the street, giving that person a full, seven-d..
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me and teedra by E. Fuller
Just a short story which talks about how two people came to meet together, from their days spent in college until the time they got married...
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Measure of Downcast in Her Eyes by Peter Cooper
She teaches during the day and paints at night, but when her paintings refuse to look her in the eye, she has to make some decisions...
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Meeting Mr. Porter Part III by Buck Stonebroke
A sense of unearthliness betrays my calm...
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