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All Literary Fiction Short Stories

25 Most Recent Literary Fiction Short Stories

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After the Empire by Roland Allnach
After a disastrous campaign of conquest, a city lies broken, and the last of its soldiers returns. With hope lost and the future grim, he seeks to find meaning among the ruin...
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After-life by Shreekumar Varma
This is a form I used years ago, winning a consolation prize in my native language, Malayalam. This is the mini story. I've planned to collaborate with a friend on a book of such stories...
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Against Mental Health by Robert Levin
If I ever see a shrink again it’ll have to be under a court order...
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Ahead Walks the Past by Odin odin@aflx.com
Times of chaos and challenge can be the most spiritually powerful… if we are brave enough to find solace and rest in their space of uncertainty. (Image by pinterest) ..
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Ain't it Funny How Time Flies? by Ev McTaggart
Memory is a strange thing..
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Airshaft Luxury by Odin odin@aflx.com
We sometimes forget the comfort imagination affords those of open hearts and minds. For some, especially as they grow older, imaginings may be all they can call their own. A prosetry exploration. (Image by pinterest) ..
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Alien Encounter During Evensong: Part Two by B. B. Riefner
Ansell's quandary expands. ..
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Alien Encounter During Evensong: Part One by B. B. Riefner
A confused tourist attempts to find solace and answers to profound questions in a cathedral. An alien or an angel disguised as a tramp offers advice and comfort which seers and burns...
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All Hands on the Deck by L Hippler
A short scene from Canton -- a novel under construction...
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All's Well... (32) by Gene Williamson
Installment 32 of the Captain Jack series...
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Almost a fine evening. by Ikenna Okanya
This is a story of young Christian who gota bbeating of his life in a bid to practice his Christian faith, which say's. Help those in need...
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Am I ready? by Odin odin@aflx.com
2nd chances come along once in a while for both a man and a bitch. (A prosetry exploration/flash finction.) (Image by Alamy)..
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Amboy and Tallahatchie by Borne Wilder
Excerpt from the Novel, Hot Edge of the Rainbow..
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An Abortion, Doc, Please! by Mark Lichterman
“Please, Doc!” she said in a soft, pleading voice. “Doctor Schaffer, please!” Imploring, “You can do something...” Hesitating before asking, “or send me to someone who...” “ ‘Abortion’? You are asking me for an ‘abortion’!” Taking hold of her upper arms, his fingers digging painfully into t..
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An April Afternoon by Amit Saha
A story about love, death, time and writing...
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An Untold Story by Susan Beck
This is one of my shorts that are in a category that I call Untold Stories. I hope you enjoy it :)..
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Anamoly: the excerpt by Thea Atkinson
Anamoly is scheduled for release in December 2010. Feel free to contact me to let me know what you think..
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Angelica by Shireen Jeejeebhoy
A neighbour and her parents brings back memories for a woman in her golden years, and she wonders what place a child and an old woman have in North America...
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Anniversary Darkness by Odin odin@aflx.com
Some flash fiction suggesting a person is often left with only non-sensical nocturnal escapes for conjuring up memories gone, or yet to come. ..
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Another Man's Treasure by Adam Powers
A story anout a man that makes a decision that he's not quite certain was the right choice...
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Another Time, Another Place (excerpt) by J. R. Dewesse
What if it took three life times for love to finally have a real chance?..
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Read excerpt from Any Way You Distort It Any Way You Distort It by Mary Deal
I>Inspiration and plagiarism defined./I> B>This story will appear in the Spring 2007 edition of Mississippi Crow Magazine. Visit the editor's site here: A HREF="http://authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=43643">Nadia Giordana/A>/B> ..
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Anybody Home? by Linda Frank
An abandoned house seeks the only company she has, the animals and humans who invade her. Heart warming and thought provoking..
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Around the World by Stan Law (aka Stanislaw Kapuscinski)
By the author of "Enigma of the Second Coming" and "The Avatar Syndrome". Around the World was shortlisted in the CBC Literary Competition. ..
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Arousing Mountain Crescendos by Odin odin@aflx.com
Climbing mountains sometimes creates experiences that resort to dreams and then jettison one into the awakened trans-level of said experience. As I get older, seems they visit me more often. Image pinterest) ..
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Arrival by Odin odin@aflx.com
Whether one is contending with grief, disappointment, loss, or even on occasion, trusting happiness, there is always a journey of discovery before any denouement is realized. (A prosetry exploration - Image by Beth Savage)..
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Arriving Gate Nine (2) by Gene Williamson
This is a sequel to Captain Jack...
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Artistically Speaking by Leigh Binder
A story about friends, lovers and what it takes to remain as one or the other...
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As Do Twins Live In Other Realms Or... by - - - - - TRASK
SOME Good Things Have Always Happened In My Life Of Holy Hell....
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As I Lay Dying In Reno by Randall Barfield
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As It Was, This Is by Dale Hudgins
another work of mine in progress, I work on these as it comes to me or I choose to or both...
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As More To Greatest Story Ever Told-Simple And Sweet... by - - - - - TRASK
ME,TRASK I am Not In This World To Be Loved Or Cursed But, Curse Me You Decree Will And By Satan Devil You Still Do Until... You Still Think That Only People In Their Youth Deceive Themselves... While I Do Not Comment..
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Ashes, Ashes by Carol O'Dell
You might not want to get carried away spreading your loved ones ashes--things might go awry...enjoy this magical tale. Originally published in Words of Wisdom Review..
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Read excerpt from Ashworth's Cove Ashworth's Cove by Leslie Thompson
Three examples of the citizen's of Ashworth's Cove display what life in this city is like...
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Author Adventures in November by Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke
A blog post on my adventures as a new author..
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Authorised Bullies by Michael LeFevre
Safeties are supposed to protect children from bullies but some can use their position to be bullies themselves. Eight year old Josh finds this out the hard way. ..
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Automaton Checkpoint by Odin odin@aflx.com
The time is rapidly approaching when we very well might be relating with robots and automatons as AI versions of ourselves. ..
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Awakening by Doug Davis
Set in the wake of a tragedy is a tale of one man's own perception of his actions being altered by the awakening of truth...
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Baby Pink Plastic Moses by Kathleen Clauson
A perplexing story of a haunted young woman. Does she suffer from madness or does she grieve the loss of a baby?..
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Bacground Material for Israela by Batya Casper
Background material, not included in Israela. A letter written in late 1940s,Israel...
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Back in Cincinnati (21) by Gene Williamson
Installment 21 in the Captain Jack series...
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Bad Boys, Bad Boys by Jerry Ratch
Chapter 1 of the story before my novel: Wild Dreams of Reality...
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Bad Day Made Worse by Danny Mac
Carrie finds out a day can get worse. ..
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Baggage by Byron Edgington
What fear has done to all of us. It's revealed carry on baggage we never knew existed...
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Be A Grey Rock by Ruan Mills
Part 2 Echoes from the darkness..
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Be Human by Jack Kuperman
I entered this story into contest where the first sentence is obligatory. I didn't like the sentence, so that's how I went around it. ..
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Be Still My Hand by Sandy Knauer
If I’m lucky he’ll need CPR before we leave...
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Be thankful for friends in all forms by Jerry Engler
Many readers have been telling me they consider this to be a classic story in its own time, a wonderful historic Thanksgiving story of the one-room schoolhouse . Some have said this one story was worth the price of my first book by itself. It deals with never being ashamed of a friend--a friend tha..
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Beach Story by Randall Barfield
"Then, you're not exactly Mick Jagger either." ..
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Beautiful Green by Lisa Adams
Earth...every day..
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