Welcome to the short stories section of this nook. Here the works will range from 500-5000 words. if you are looking for something shorter, try the Microfiction, or Six-Sentence Stories pages.
Don’t
Hello hello and welcome to this week’s short story, which by all accounts is strange. We are currently running a challenge on The Writer’s Mess Discord, which features a youtube drawing challenge, modified for writing. So, in May we made a playlist and this month you use a random number generator to get two songs…
Three of a Kind
So this week’s story is a little out of character, and I am not sure what I was thinking when I was writing it. It feels a little like a summary of a longer story, but follow the story of Shilah, Stephan, and Grayson, who find a different way to look at happily ever after.…
The Death of Baldur – Sci-Fi Version
Hello hello, and welcome to the short story of the week, which was written for the Mythological March Event on The Writer’s Mess. This piece is for Week 3, Norse Myths, where the goal is to take one of the Norse Myths and re-imagine it. I took “The Death of Baldur” and re-imagined it as…
The Bacchae- A Contemporary Adaptation
Hello hello and welcome to this week’s short story, which was written for The Writer’s Mess challenge of writing a Greek Myth adaptation. I decided to write about Dionysus, and do a contemporary take on The Bacchae. It’s a little odd, and in first person, which you will see again for my Norse Myth post…
Dark Discoveries
Hello hello and welcome to a dark short story. What is that I hear? What’s different than usual? Well probably nothing, but it was written for the prompt from the Belleville Writer’s Collective: ‘He might have said anything, knowing it was his final hour’ – The Buddha’s Last Instruction by Mary Oliver So follow the…
The Tale of the Travelling Bard – Part Three
Welcome to the final part of The Tale of the Travelling Bard. In this one Danny fulfils his father’s dying wish, and tells the man a story that no one before has heard, and one one will ever hear after. Settle in for the revelation of Danny’s darkest secret. As my Father lay on his…
The Tale of the Travelling Bard – Part Two
Welcome to part two of the Tale of the Travelling Bard, though it stands alone. This is the story of the bard’s Father, as he finds out what his son has made of himself out on the road, and how his son’s profession has changed the way he interacts with the bards that pass through…
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