Romance Short Stories

Witch are you, The Walls or the Moon?

Saluting the sky with 10 twinkling toes, Lilith lifted long limbs aloft, relaxing after a long hours. In leisure she lay, legs locked like lovers in embrace. Her mind was…[...]

Between the folds

21/7/2021 The day was gentle and expectant. It was one of those days with God rays bathing the white and turquoise kitchen, making dust swirl languidly in ways that spelled…[...]

An Antique Scar

Content Warning: Mentions of disordered eating, body monitoring, and violence against trans women.We met at the start of lockdown in New Jersey.I remember being sick. Sick and tired. Sick and…[...]

Wicked Souls, Kindred Spirits

“Morning walks are typically the most peaceful, ordinary part of my day. In fact, since I started working in the forest, they have never been anything but ordinary, no matter…[...]

Red Flags

Five years. Five long years of searching led to this moment. Just one click, one simple button press, and the search would be over. She had been dreaming of this…[...]

Memory’s Seamstress

She starts by putting on her shoes. The ones by the bed look too large, but she reaches for them anyway, thinking she could stuff them with tissues to fill…[...]

Shawna pulled into a well-lit gas station at 1:45am, praying they wouldn’t notice her transition. Not yet. Obviously, she wanted people to notice, to acknowledge her…woman-ness, but not here, not…[...]

A Mother’s Love

“I think you’re going to be just fine.” Those were the words that made Liam’s eyes well up as the light of the computer bounced off his horn-rimmed glasses. His…[...]

Transformation

Penelope was late. She could feel the pressure of an invisible clock ticking above her head, but she had to get this just right. She had to look just right. …[...]

Loud and Proud

“It’s like Mr. Doubtfire in here!” It wasn’t the first time Julian had made that joke. He’d seen Nick change in bathroom stalls often enough. Still, it made Nick laugh…[...]

This is Who I am…A Glorious Open Book

Prompt: Your character is getting changed in the bathroom of a nightclub or restaurant then emerges looking completely different. Why? This is Who I Am…A Glorious Open Book My cell phone flashed…[...]

Once Upon a Plane Flight

Trigger warnings: Domestic abuse, Transphobia (implied), Sexual Assault (mentioned), Mental Health problems (Anxiety) ‘I’m sorry’ the word reverberates in her mind, bouncing across each crevice, Her fingers weave through each…[...]

My Sisters Brother

The interrogation room was bright, cold, and bare. It was barely a ten-by-ten room with a desk, three chairs, and a mirror. The two detectives, John, an older tall overweight…[...]

Fatestitcher

Content Warning Please note that this short story contains references to:Implied off page sexual violence/rape, gore, blood, murder, mental health conditions, physical violence, abuse, fantasy theology, and religious trauma. Fatestitcher…[...]

Blind Jury

Nationwide, the news media had run with the story of Martha Atkinson’s crime. It was a story they could print forever, taking new angles and new attacks up to, and…[...]

I’ll Never Let You Down.

I was about to go to bed when the phone rang. My do-not-disturb setting was already on, but she broke through it by calling twice in quick succession. Bex needed…[...]

You took a gap year.

Usually, you would be reincarnated as some sort of star. You wrote letters to Nebula #19232019 asking if your place had been secured for the upcoming years, around ten billion…[...]

The Crowned Son

“Wake up,” I hear the gruff voice of my knight, Arthur, say. I groan, glaring at him. “It’s not even daylight yet. Can’t we wait?” I pull the covers up…[...]

Dinosaur Sneakers

The alarm rings – piercing through the dull thrumming of sleep with its shrill blaring. Steadily, and somewhat begrudgingly, the world comes into focus. A long smear of grey blurs…[...]

In Central? Nobody’s ever wrong—unless they run out of excuses

Look, in the Hong Kong trading jungle, the investment banks, the traders, the dealers, nobody ever fails—at least, not out loud. Not Banker Benny “Big Beef” Lee. Here, if you…[...]

How I Became Acolyte to Primordial Chaos

CW: TransphobiaHow familiar are you with chaos theory?An old adage goes that if a butterfly somewhere in Brazil flaps its wings, it can potentially form a tornado in Texas, because…[...]

Beneath the Apple Tree

Transphobia/Abuse Sweat dripped down Josephine’s back as she wrenched the hoe through the dirt. Last harvest had been bountiful, but water had been scarce so far this season. They’d have…[...]

Saved For Him

Aakesh’s Journal NotesTwo months after the final waveBiochemical Warfare has decimated most populations of the world leaving behind a mix of abundant forests, mutated creatures, and humans.The Long-legged Yellow Sac…[...]

Prologue (Draft Script 1)

WIP TITLE: “THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED”Draft - script 1A 3D rendered narrative driven choice-based adventure game. ***FADE IN:EXT. AN NEAR-EMPTY MOTORWAY – DUSKGrey skies bruise the horizon. Wind dances through…[...]

To Be Someone’s Muse

Look, but never touch. That was the mantra Mimoza told herself every night as the rag she held flew over another marble bust in the hall. Every movement she made…[...]

Wanting a live change

Wanting a life change When I look back on my early years I lived in the lap of luxury. My parents possessed a well appointed house in Greenwich. My bedroom…[...]

Finn Not Fiona

Blog 05/24: My name is Finn, not Fiona, contrary to popular belief. It’s been my name for some time now, going on three years, and it suits me better than…[...]

A Straight Line

(The following contains violence, gore and transphobia) Stoat had thought that the stories about the Dark Forest were just that. Now he was in the heart of them, he knew…[...]

Round About

“Are you buying or shopping?” Molly, the store owner stared.“Delivering. I’m Patrick, with Delivery Boyz, here with a load of furniture from that estate sale.”“Then deliver. Why are you touching…[...]

Bella Reyna

Whenever I need to escape, I just close my eyes and think about Elajim. I first used to just close my eyes in order to escape my surroundings, but at…[...]

Unforeseen Consequences

He doesn’t smile, when the cloak is on. It shows them off: little pointy teeth he can’t remember having, before. But then again he can’t remember anything from before, not…[...]

Man in the Mirror

The mirror reflects a body I do not recognize. Minor details in the eyes that only the self could be familiar with, entirely alternative. My elderly folks say I chose…[...]

I’m Sorry

CW: This story contains themes and/or references to transphobia and suicide It wasn't supposed to be this way. I know everyone says that when something bad happens to them—the kind…[...]

The Stonemason

He wore tights that were either naturally brown or were covered in grime. The tunic and apron he wore over it were equally dusty, and Izzy was sure that if…[...]

Over the weather

Over the weather In Sweden, we call it The Wall. To ”crash into The Wall” is to be burnt out, exhausted, needing to rest and take time off from work…[...]

105 Degrees: A Hoodie Day

105 degrees out; 90% humidity; no AC until the bus arrived.It was a hoodie day.The streams of sweat that drained down the middle of my back screamed otherwise. The black…[...]

Waiting

It’s 9:54AM, and I’m waiting.For the meeting that feels six minutes away even though I have an extra fifty etherally uncounted for. I have everything going for me in my…[...]

Sometimes Your Roots Can Change

TW: past human trafficking, past character death Amari eyed the college warily. Sweat steadily coated their palms and they could feel their knees buckling underneath them. They swallowed the saliva…[...]

The Violet Rose

We were tipsy, so I asked, and their least-popular package was the “Flowers & Farewells” one because everyone was sure they could buy the flowers more cheaply on their own,…[...]

Inhuman

There is something to be said, I think, for those who can be soft in their cruelty. Those who can run their fingers through your hair as their teeth shred…[...]

The Blood That Bore Him

Atreus Theoros knew he was a monster. He had been running from it since 20 years old. When the accident happened, he left his hometown that same night, and never…[...]

Meet Me at the Lake

TW: mild transphobia I lay on my back gazing at the stars, dreaming about how comforting it must be to never move. Every night, they come alive standing in the…[...]

The Three Soldiers

CONTENT WARNING: Implied sexual violence, graphic physical violence, gender dysphoria His head hits the ground first. Raphael looks up, eyes watering, blood pooling in his mouth, bruised throat shuddering as…[...]

The Door on the Left

Micah remembers what happened the first time he picked the door on the left.He tried not to go during school usually, but this had been an emergency. As he approached,…[...]

dysphoria’s love letter.

CW: transphobia When she cries, you try to ignore her. It’s hard. Granted, most people don’t like hearing young girls cry but you have no other choice: Nothing you…[...]

How I Became Acolyte to Primordial Chaos

CW: TransphobiaHow familiar are you with chaos theory?An old adage goes that if a butterfly somewhere in Brazil flaps its wings, it can potentially form a tornado in Texas, because…[...]

World Got Smaller

“And now Ben’s coming to the wedding with—I don’t know, some girl from Facebook, and I’m going to look like an idiot going alone. Because I am an idiot. Because…[...]

Cold and Hungry

It’s a cold night. The wind is whipping along the streets and around corners with a howling noise. There is a light rain – not quite cold enough to freeze,…[...]

Follow Me Not

Growing up in a dimly lit part of the Pacific Northwest, I grew acquainted with all the urban legends and tales of the woods that a foresty seaside town could…[...]

Boudin Rouge

Maya recognized the monster at the door, though she’d never seen him before. He wasn’t tall, only a few inches taller than herself. Nor was he muscular, though he seemed…[...]

violence is another form of toxic love

This story includes themes of consuming blood, withdrawal, and bloodlust. Being a vampire is grueling. Being a vampire around humans is even worse. We’ve been discriminated against since the start…[...]

The Pyramids of Broadway

The man who came over left a box of doughnuts on the coffee table. He’s been over before and he always brings treats. Not treats for me. Treats for the…[...]

The Truth We Hid

Miss Zayne, I understand you believe you have more to give me. However, my sources are already being examined. The paper itself has come under scrutiny following the alleged traitorous…[...]

The Guardian

It’s cold, dark, and wet with snow covering every surface.“Where is she.” I flick the cigarette away, sighing out acrid smoke. Thirty years I’ve watched her, waited for her, protected…[...]

Serelith: The Flame and The Wound

The snow fell sideways, carried by a wind that scraped the frost off old stone lions and wrapped itself around broken lamp posts like a lost scarf. She moved through…[...]

The Dzjacquerat

"And thus, all this considered, I resolved to create a deity that would deal with such children." - Extracts from the Burnt Bible and Appendices of Artemis H.T. Agrippan A…[...]

HOW NEWY SAVED SANTA

HOW NEWY SAVED SANTA Once upon a time, just over 2000 years ago there was an elf named Newy who lived at the North Pole. Newy was very excited about…[...]

Roomba’s condition

I am a Roomba. I look upon my cheap plastic body in a mirror through my infrared sensors and camera. Disgusting. The plastic is yellow already, and it’s not from…[...]

Stuffed Giraffe

I pulled up right in front of the bar. I hadn’t even set the parking brake when a guy leaned down to my window.“You can’t park here,” he said flatly.I…[...]

Olget the Kutaen

*This story contains violence and police brutality and mentions the drug trade and sex work*“No Constable ain't you listenin’ I'm not sayin’ I killed the gnome all i did was…[...]

Customer Service in the Fairy Godmother Department

It’s not that Lane hates his job. He truly loves it, or so he’d insist. Sure, it’s a lot of work having to finalize each and every wishings-upon-a-star, aligning planetary…[...]

a quiet world

I breathed heavily in the dusty, dark, attic, my mind spinning all around. As much as I wanted to, I couldn’t take the mask out. It was too dangerous, COVID…[...]

Everytime Under the Full Moon

The upbeat song could be heard from the inside even with the doors closed. A cigarette left her lips with the anxious movement of her shaky hand; she choked with…[...]

of Heaven, but not from it

She knew this day was coming. The weak morning sun julienned its way through the blinds, dappling the room in shadows. October 10th, the date that was glaring at her…[...]

Crossings At Dawn

Oneiron’s heels clacked against the pavement as he trotted down the silent streets of Ailinn City, his short silken robe swishing as he went. With a magnificent yawn, he paused…[...]

The House in the Bubble

Ivy was falling. She had tripped on the sidewalk, but concrete had failed to meet her. In a flippant motion, she had slipped past the ground. She was slowly drifting…[...]

The Pool Beneath Hunter Street

There was always something odd about the Hunter Street Mall. A ghost town. Shops boarded up. Shutters permanently closed. Graffiti tags spritzing the walls. And yet, every weekend, at night…[...]

The Authentic Experience

Sarah Chen had always been a meticulous planner.She color-coded her lesson plans. She wrote grocery lists that were divided by aisle. She once reorganized the faculty lounge fridge because the…[...]

The Boy Who Closed his Eyes in June

The Boy Who Closed his Eyes in June It was the end of June when Jim closed his eyes with a long sigh and rested his arms, palms to the…[...]

How Turkeys Drown in the Rain, or Three Floods

Teresa puts a wilting rose in a sea green bottle and admires her handiwork shortly thereafter. She looks outside her window and sees you looking in at her. The water…[...]

Sharp and Shabby

With the onset of dawn, the diner, as it always was at this hour, was inhabited mainly by a handful of lingering drunks, first shift workers, and social outcasts. One…[...]

The Exit Interview

The fluorescent lights in Conference Room 3B hummed at a frequency that suggested they were perhaps three days away from finally giving up entirely—a timeline Rebecca understood intimately, having spent…[...]

Supernatural Conversation

Supernatural Conversation The following story contains cursing words and adult matters such as baby mother and religion views. Reader discretion is advice.“It’s 11 o’clock on a Friday night looking for…[...]

Loving Aedera

The words are like rancid honey, a sickly-sweet poison that coats my tongue in a thick layer of regret. We are both still, holding our breaths as if the words…[...]

Bronze Feathers and Ancient Blueprints

"You're still up.""I made tea. The pot's still warm if you want some.""Thanks. Smells like... chamomile?""With honey. Great-Aunt Gertrude's blend. I make it when I'm working through something complicated.""The German…[...]

At night I dream I have lived many lives

My shadow left when I was asleep, unseen under the blanket of night. Unheard under the deafening noise of stillness. She left me to pursue another life, removed herself from…[...]

Campaign Sole Right For 2026 Between My Past Self vs My Present Self

Campaign Sole Right For 2026 Between My Past self vs My Present Self Warning this story contains mature adult's theme such as curse words and sex content. Reader's discretion is…[...]

Between Beats

The first time time listened to me, it happened under a sky that was showing off. It was late summer, the kind of night where the heat still clung to…[...]

The Voice of the Heart

The Voice of the HeartBy: deduOliver first sensed that something was wrong one morning.He awoke from the nightmare with his heart beating too fast, like a child straining to escape…[...]

The Tale of Fenwick and the Clock Brownie

The Tale of Fenwick and the Clock Brownie Isambard Fenwick had been repairing clocks and timepieces for nigh on fifty years, but never before had he taken on so many…[...]

Borrowed Time

Stillwater was the kind of town that didn’t change unless something broke. Main Street was three blocks long, paved uneven, its storefronts looking much the same as they had a…[...]

Memories of a life well lived

It was a rainy, dark night the first time I met Billy. The late-night coffee shop, with its 19th-century lamps illuminating the old carpets displayed on the walls, exhaled an…[...]

The Luck of Woodrow Romine: A Dog to Whom Things Happen

Woodrow Romine was born in the year of his Lady and Queen, 2020. Like all British before him, he learned how to fetch and poop in the backyard by the…[...]

The Search

I was helping out behind the counter of my brother’s bar one day, hoping that the computer in the back would go down so I could go do something else,…[...]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Managing Your Undead Lifestyle

Danny closed The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Undead Lifestyle and tossed it onto the coffee table, where it landed next to a half-eaten gas station burrito and three…[...]

A Life Running Parallel

Walking on the avenue, I duck the wet drops of whatever ungodly liquid leaks from the EL train above. The ground shakes as the giant heap of metal roars overhead,…[...]

Self-reliance

On a dusky evening in a metropolitan city, where crimson clouds shimmied in the sky, and the rain poured down like gentle spit, if you were to peer through a…[...]

The Raven’s Mark

Ella slams the book closed, the first sound in the room since her brother’s obnoxious snoring briefly interrupted the deal. She takes a breath, passing the book to her right.…[...]

The Super Pals

Have you ever slept through your alarm and had to skip breakfast? Have you ever wished for more protein in the morning than what bland oatmeal could provide? Have you…[...]

The day I discovered Alchemy wasn’t a Gimmick

Warning: Somewhat vague reference to waterboarding near the end ---------------- It’s an old thing. Brown, leather bound, nothing embossed into the cover; it resembles a boring little journal.I was told…[...]

Was It Worth It?

You know, hanging here. Suspended a foot off the ground in a kinetic field. I keep thinking to myself: Was it worth it? … Two days ago … “Dammit, Mark!…[...]

The Artist & the Whisperer

Lorendale Academy, the only place that would take me. And that was after a sizable donation from my mother. The academy wasn’t bad, just grimy and old. The professors stank…[...]