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All Literary Fiction Short Stories

25 Most Recent Literary Fiction Short Stories

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The Last Man Smiling by J. Allen Wilson
A short look into a unseen world...
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The Last Nawab by Iftekhar Sayeed
General Harun-ur-Rashid, deposed, has to win the next election. His philosopher-advisor, Zafar, devises the strategy of making a movie about the last Nawab of Bengal, and how he was overthrown by the British. He hopes the audience will draw a connection between the two leaders' shared fate. Meanwhil..
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The Last Word by Michael Dutton
A whimsical piece on the craft of writing fiction...
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The Last Words of a Genius by Nathaniel Tower
A genius gives his final words while the world waits...
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The Library by Tolulope Williams
Thompson has his nightmare. The fist of its kind. And it leaves an indelible mark on him..
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The Life She Wanted by Mary E. Martin by Mary Martin
Have you heard of the "Acorn Theory?" I've just been reading a book by the psychologist James Hillman, called the Soul's Code. He argues that we all come to the world with a purpose to live out and that purpose is contained within the newborn, just as an acorn will grow into a magnificent tree if th..
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The Little Coward by Maud Muller
This is part of a collection of short fiction I have been working on. Would appreciate any suggestions as to how I might find a publisher for stories like this. ..
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The Loaf -1 by Marvin Kirsh
NEWS BULLETIN COURT DECIDES: DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE STREET TO TEAR DOWN THE WALL? Genious chemist, who converts baked dough into a big money column to fix the wall at Wall Street, slams Bottom Rock with a big ink and paper suit for a News backup fraud..claim sta..
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The Lone Willow by Lisa Adams
Bareness..
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The Love of a Good Woman by Ev McTaggart
The best advice my grandmother ever got was from Marilyn Monroe..
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The Man Who Ate Dead Crows by George Lowe
The wisdom of the crows. And things are not always what they seem to be...
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The marksman by Jerry Gerrish
One of life's experiences through the eyes of a small boy...
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The Matriarch by Guy Hogan
Pittsburgh / Flash Fiction / Publication..
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The Measure of Time by Jean Sheldon
As the sand slipped through her fingers, it reminded Nicky how the years had gone as quickly. A young girl teaches her that though the sand can measure the length of her life, it cannot measure the quality...
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The Memory Lingers On by Roselyn Kachuck
This is the first chapter of a completed novel. It is believed by some that at the moment of death our lives pass before us and the spirits of our loved ones come for us, leading us through a tunnel of light to the other side. For Anna, living the end of her days with Alzheimer's disease, ..
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The Messenger by Byron Edgington
Welcome to 2217, and an Arcadian society..
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THE MIMOSA TREE - A Short Story by LiNCOLN PARK
THE MIMOSA TREE is my very first written story. The language was sanitized so that I could enter it into an EBONY Magazine short story contest. After that , it became the first story in the published, PARENTAL ADVISORY collection known as “Sculptured Nails and NAPPY HAiR”. Enjoy!..
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The Moment by Jerri Blair
A woman caught on a precipice in her life contemplates complicated question about right and wrong as she makes a decision that could change her life...
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The Moon by Leopoldo Barge Álvarez
The Moon expected me...
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The Moon Does Not Rise Tonight by J.E. Seanachaí
What do you get when you cross the moon with a train?..
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The Morning After by Tim Wilkinson
Sometimes the magic of love can be stronger than death...
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The Multi-Billion Dollar Strike by Joseph Smith
What if the entire nation went on strike, due to a multi-billionaire paying them to do so?..
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The Mystery of the Artist by Samuel Connelly
A Writing Challenge that I won first place in and was published if Faith Writer's publication. ..
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The Nap by Odin odin@aflx.com
A flash fiction/prosetry exploration: Revelations have their own agendas. ..
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The New Teacher (Circa 1981) by Greg Razran
The New Teacher (Circa 1981)..
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The night I met Daisy Bates by Norman Firth
In the hot desert night of Australia a strange visitor appears to Christian, a man on a spiritual journey with the ability to speak to animals...
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The Nudist: Part 1 of 5: G rated by Mark Lichterman
Not really knowing what to expect at one thirty on a Friday afternoon, I did see a number of scattered blankets along with a number of, really, naked people. ..
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The Nudist: Part 2 of 5: PG Rated by Mark Lichterman
Strange, but I, along with most men,I would think, would feel that in a situation such as this, at a place such as Elysium with dozens of nude women of all ages, shapes and sizes... Most men would think that they had died and gone to heaven. ..
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The Nudist: Part 3 of 5: PG Rated by Mark Lichterman
The woman dunked herself in the semi-cool water and, water streaming in silver rivulets against her black skin, diving beneath, she swam the length of the pool. ..
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The Nudist: Part 4 of 5: PG Rated by Mark Lichterman
Surprised that a woman I met no longer than a few minutes ago was making this kind of an admission. Although, truth be told, standing with ones erection poking onto one’s thigh could tend to make friends of strangers rather rapidly. “Your husband’s ‘fooling around’, that’s why you’re here, ..
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The Nudist: Part 5 of 5: G rated by Mark Lichterman
Knowing if I did this thing – because it had happened in the past – if I did take this one step further, Oh, God, but I wanted to! If I went into a room with Lita and made love to Lita, feeling as I was feeling for this lady that I’d met little more than an hour ago... ..
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The Odd Journey of Jonas Witherspoon by Michael Timothy
A friend of mine wrote this story and I wanted to share it with you. The Authors name is Mike Albans. I would love to hear feedback from others. ..
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The Olive Garden... by Dominic Caruso
Maybe it wasn't an Apple! Maybe it was an Olive.....
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The Osgoode Trilogy by Mary Martin
Now that the three novels in The Osgoode Trilogy are published, I'd like to post here three or four chapters of each novel [and maybe more]just to intrigue you. You know that Dickens and other authors serialized their work and so, why not now, especially when we have the technology at hand. I h..
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The Otter Spirit and the Storm Spirit by Hal Granum
An otter hunters adventure with the storm spirit in the Bering Sea...
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The Party At The End Of The World by D.J. Ludlow
What does a world do when it begins to realise that there is nothing left for it to do? That it no longer has a purpose or reason to exist? Indeed that it soon may no longer exist at all? What if you had the chance to leave the world you have lived in all your life for a new world - and a n..
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The Pasta Smuggling Ring by Sharon Brunner
People from the lower peninsula smuggled pasties to the upper peninsula claiming they are made in the upper peninsula...
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The Perfect "10", An Excerpt from Love Lessons by Terren Grimble
The Perfect "10", An Excerpt from Love Lessons..
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The Piano by Raanan Geberer
My somewhat imperfect experiences learning the piano from my father as a child, and its aftermath...
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The Pilgrim's Shell by Chris Tinniswood
Ray Coomb revisits a tea-shop from his childhood, armed with a copy of Proust and a heart full of grief for the death of his father. He is looking for closure, but what he finds... is a miracle. ..
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The Pipe Dream Minus Smoke by Janet Buck
Adult so-called "wisdom" meets its match of charming innocence in an entertaining tale of a wannabe mother devoting her day to a child who craves answers to questions about the way this world turns...or turns away, to be precise. *First appeared in The Danforth Review. ..
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The Prada Shoes by Alexandra Román de Hernández
Valeria embraces her future while wearing her favorite designer shoes, for she thinks they will make her dreams come true, or will they?..
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The preacher by Leopoldo Barge Álvarez
Café Manuela...
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The Predator by Byron Edgington
Fear dredges up painful memories, some that are hard to see...
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The Priest by Brendan Gisby
A story from Venice, Italy, inspired by true events...
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The Product by David Arthur Walters
Jim Jones shall become the richest man on Earth..
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The Promise of Palavers by David Taylor
I am Edmund Jaeger, I am Edmund Jaeger..
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The Protective Gates Man by Victoria's Poetry & Voices of Muse
It was suggest that I try my pen at a fictional story matter, so here is my efforts at trying to develope a story topic, and a couple characters......
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The Resting Place by Sayword Eller
On a carpet of green she lays.....
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The Revenge. by Durlabh Singh
Humorous short story of a revenge of a couple on each other with unexpected results...
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