short story

The interior of the bar burns bright alight. The sun outside fell, night rose high, and the counter is now ready to serve. Lady bartender prepped for the opening of the doors, ingredients sorted, cups on display, handkerchief for idle glass and counter cleaning handy, wondering what kind of...

Esteemed members of SV, I present you the unofficial short story competition, organized, sponsored and judged by me, Suzu. The winner will either receive a silver account upgrade for six months or $25, depending on your personal preferences. This competition's theme is: "Summer." The rules...

[Multiverses Present: Worm, Stargate, Percy Jackson] When you write, many ideas come to you. Some continue the story you're writing at the time. Others... don't. These are Plot Bunnies, and this place is my Vault of the ones I couldn't get out of my head. It is possible that one of these Bunnies...

So yes. Things you would like to see in a story. Short actions and sequences, that you can't bother making a story around. Small things, really. Here's one of mine:

The thief lives on Benediction. That was the conclusion of Iyanden’s seers and spies. Benediction. A human controlled world, dubbed ‘civilized’ by their crude understanding of the word. It is no jewel. It is but one of a trillion inhabited worlds in the galaxy. Yorithendial Hawkwing stomps...

ScottishMongol presents Over by Christmas an Alternate History Christmas Special and a celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the World War 1 Armistice

This is a place to present my stories and ideas that are either too short or too random to warrant their own threads. So far, they are NGE-only, time will tell whether some other theme appears. Currently on this thread You Should (Not) Write Weird Fanfiction - a continuation + altered ending...

Hello all! This was my runner-up entry into the September 2018 Fiction Contest for Sufficiently Newsworthy. The prompt for the contest was "Murder". === SEPARATION === *ring ring, ring ring* I knew, even before glancing at the number, exactly who was on the other end of the line. After...

It was supposed to be raining. As Taylor watched the coffin slowly rattle into the ground, that was the odd thought that kept swirling around in her head: it was supposed to be raining. It wasn’t supposed to be sunny. Losing your only remaining parent wasn’t a joyous occasion, so it wasn’t...

AN: This is my first bit of fiction that I have published on here and I'm mainly just looking for advice on improvement and constructive criticism. Hopefully you can enjoy the fruits of 3 days of boredom in a computer room. It was a truly unremarkable day when it happened. The museum to the...

Chapter 1 The low light of dusk glanced the buildings on Syracuse Way, the distant sun setting over the shimmering sea. A passerby might notice the monolithic buildings common to Atlantis were more adorned here, as the residents, mostly merchants, had the means to make their homes more akin to...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the prologue to a story I'm still working on. The other parts will be posted as soon as I write them, and once complete the story will be posted on fanfiction.net. Each scene shows an event of this AU, giving hints about the rest. I hope this does not discourage you, and...

Heyo. This is a short story I wrote for a competition a while back. Figured I might as well post it - any feedback is appreciated, hope you enjoy. “Breaking news tonight: Are we headed for war? Earlier this afternoon, tensions came to an all-time high when the United Nations council was...

Hi everybody, this is my first attempt at a fanfiction in a long while after writing a bunch of original stuff. This is meant to be a very short one-shot and as such there will be no continuation, and it's mostly an experiment I wanted to do in trying to write a certain kind of character. This...

What did I want to be? As my fingers continuously moved over the keyboard like some kind of a cold inefficient machine, my eyes stared at the screen blankly, watching it be filled with words that slowly took over half of the screen. I blinked, realizing that I needed a break, and sighed...

Various random stuff I write will be posted here.

Im writing a sci-fi story about a brilliant professor named Professor Angstrom. Angstrom has a list in his office of 10 things he hopes to invent in his lifetime. Everything and anything is possible for him to do. What 10 inventions could Angstrom want to invent? They should be futuristic and...

QM's Note: Born from the idea of... me actually wanting to Finish a Quest for once, I went with this idea for a Quest that'd only last Ten Story posts, with the voters' goal being to reach a Good Ending before that tenth threadmarked post. With speed in mind and Ten being the limit, I thought a...

Gary, Indiana--nWoD, ??? The cigarette was stuck in his mouth, unlit, as he looked upon the world. The city was beautiful, he guessed, in the way every city in the world was beautiful. That’s what it was, after all. Hunter wasn’t used to cities, not really. When he wasn’t dreaming, he lived...

So... this is a little indulgence and tidbit I've put together before I formally resume writing nUF Season 2. :) I think of it as a bit of therapeutic creativity after watching that overpowered asshole Zaheer and his band of bastards poison Korra again. It was somehow more painful on the...

A Night of Dangerous Living A cyberpunk microQuest Couple years back, Omar bolted an armour plate taken from a wrecked Russian tank to the tabletop in your safehouse. The bloody thing was so dented that you couldn’t put a mug of coffee on without spilling, and it had edges sharp enough to...

This story is set in this same universe of my own making, but the background is not required to enjoy or understand the story. The Story of a Girl: 2091 by Lynn Davis Frosted wind howled savagely and beat against the thick plexiglass shell covering a lonely maglev train station. Inside...

Just something i threw together a while ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the forests, above the marshlands, on a mountain, there is a rock. Under the Rock, a great...

A short story I did for a college course. Transtextualism, I blame my own bad time management but I had to write so much that last day and it was difficult and tiring. =w= Basically, we were supposed to take a novel we knew/read/had some kind of connection to, and then incorporate whatever...

Before we get the ball rolling, some things to know. This is a Halloween only quest. It last from sundown to sunup, my time. To note, it just went down. The plan here is for me to write a post, give you an hour to vote on it, and then I get half an hour to write it. I'll probably take a little...