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December 01, 2025
Flash Fiction M.S. Douglas

Second Chance

You were gone for two months when I noticed her. I didn't see it at first, because her hair was lightened and she wore it up. She didn’t wear glasses or makeup like you. Perhaps I didn’t want to admit the similarities, but once I did, I realized I had a…
December 01, 2025
General Stories Hossam Belal

Crushed By A High School Crush

I saw her for the first time in 1998. I was in high school back then, and I was about to see the literal beauty queen of the city. No exaggeration, she was stunning. She looked like the Lead Singer of Ace of Base quite a lot. One of my close friends objected…
December 01, 2025
Fantasy Stories Frank Talaber

Christmas Attractions

“What? Still no prezzie for my wife? Crap!” But no. The mailbox was resolutely empty! Okay, so I know that, as usual, I'd left it until the last minute, but that site had promised it was absolutely guaranteed to be here by today at the very, very latest! But…
December 01, 2025
Crime Stories Tom Kropp

New York Nightmare

 In 1986 Shawn was just another sixteen year old kid trying to survive on the ghetto streets of New York. His dad was a white guy that abandoned his pretty Latina mom. Her name was Lita and she was a young, lovely lady that was an illegal immigrant and she…
November 30, 2025
Horror Stories Syed Zeeshan Raza Zaidi

Voices Beneath The Waves

The wind had no mercy that night. Kund Malir stretched before me like a forgotten promise, the highway’s asphalt dissolving into sand and shadow. My car’s headlights barely pierced the darkness; the desert swallowed everything else. I had been driving for…
November 30, 2025
Crime Stories Andrea Tillmanns

Three

Michelle had fully expected to find one or two beer corpses in the tents in the garden the morning after her wedding. However, she hadn’t expected to find the body on the bricked round barbecue. Now that she saw her cousin lying there with the barbecue spit…
November 30, 2025
General Stories Syed Hassan Askari

A Guest From Moscow And Her Queen Of I.C.C

Professor Elena Viktorovna Moshnyaga always said one thing to her students in Moscow: “Intercultural communication does not live in books. It lives in people. “Anastasia believed her. Or at least she wanted to. So, when Elena told her about the short cultural…
November 30, 2025
Flash Fiction L Christopher Hennessy

Plugged In, Zoned Out

The city was a carcass. Neon signs flickered like dying stars over streets lined with broken glass, trash fires, and bodies nobody bothered to move. The cops didn’t like coming here much anymore. Too much static. Too much nothing. Too many junkies, as they…
November 30, 2025
Crime Stories Tom Kropp

Mayhem Master

As Scot walked away his sense of danger triggered. He glanced back. Out of the night in the pale moonlight numerous dark entities were converging along his flanks like wolves ringing an elk. They ghosted closer, closing in. Scot's hand under his coat stroked…
November 30, 2025
Fantasy Stories Frank Talaber

Welcome To The 21st Century, Mr. Claus

His contorted face will haunt the rest of my life, they all do, as his blood splatters adorned the wall in a macabre painting adding to the festive colors of the yuletide season. Making sure my contract was fulfilled I pumped two more silenced bullets into…
November 29, 2025
Flash Fiction L Christopher Hennessy

The Desperation Of A Man

In the drowned city of Nueva Esperanza, where the rain never ceased and the streets glowed with the like of broken billboards, Mateo lived alone in a crumbling tower. The elevators had long since stopped, so he climbed the stairs each night, counting them,…
November 29, 2025
Mystery Stories Dexter F. I. Joseph

Incomplete

She walked into the office, sighting him by the desk hunched over, seemingly looking tired of waiting for her. She made way to her seat, sat down and took her glasses off, gently placing them on the table. Watching his face and body language, she sought signs…

It was supposed to just be a joke.  Really…

Josh, Pat and Casey drove over to the house of Rachel Vessing with the intent of play a bit of a joke on her 17th birthday.  The “mooning” of the attractive redhead while singing “happy birthday” was intended to in fun.   They were sure that Rachel won’t be offended and would take the gesture in the manner intended.

Hey, it was just a joke, right?  But unbeknownst to the boys, Rachel’s father, the Reverend Josiah Vessing, was at home that night and not at bible study as was usually the case for a Wednesday evening in the fall.  The widower was protective of his only daughter so what happened was not totally unexpected.  So the boys were surprised when both Rachel and Reverend Vessing opened the door.  Turned around and bent over, the boys thought that just Rachel was there when she gasped “oh my god” at the sight of their bare buttocks.  But they quickly realized their mistake when they heard a male voice boom out “what the hell??”

Fleeing off the porch while simultaneously trying to buckle their pants, boys might have been a bit too distracted to hear the reverend’s final comment to them as they ran off his property.

 

“That is not what I was talking about last week when I said that we all need to turn the other cheek…”

 

 

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Author’s Bio:   Tom Schmidt is a Chemical Engineer working in medical diagnostics in upstate New York.  He enjoys creative writing and has been published on www.short-story.me as well as on www.fartherstars.com and in www.overmydeadbody.com in the past.  He is currently working on the “Paul Garigan Crime Mysteries”, a collection of short stories centered around a Malibu based police detective which he hopes to publish in the future.  Tom can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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