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November 24, 2025
Science Fiction Stories TJ Tuner

Tex Beckett

When Tex Beckett received a phone call, on his cellphone, from his ex-girlfriend Nina, to come over. Tex decided not to ask questions. He just drove from where he was to Brooklyn. That had been ok with him. One problem Mr. Beckett confronted is where he's…
November 24, 2025
General Stories Hossam Belal

Hold Your Position

Sometimes it is difficult to please a person, and as a person, I have the courage to say that nothing truly satisfies us. When summer comes, we hate the hot weather and call it an oven on Earth. And when winter comes, we hate the bitterly cold nights and…
November 24, 2025
Science Fiction Stories L Christopher Hennessy

Red Hills Of Mars

- for Vivienne - The colony had been designed for fifty souls. Fifty voices to echo in the domes, fifty hands to tend the hydroponics, fifty hearts to beat against the silence of the red planet. But after the accident, only two remained. Sergio Alvarez—the…
November 24, 2025
Crime Stories MacKenzie Stowe

Golden Boy: The Murder Of Dalton Beam

I don’t know how to explain this, or anything. I know what I saw, I know what I heard and I know what I smelt the night someone murdered Dalton Beam. He was basically everyone’s golden boy. I remember the night Dalton was murdered. I remember all the cries,…
November 23, 2025
Flash Fiction Toby Comeaux

Alex Doiron Sees The Elephant

As Alex Doiron marched along with the rest of the 5th Louisiana infantry he thought to himself; “This isn’t as fun as I thought it would be”. In spite of the fact that he was wearing new socks and fairly comfortable shoes, his feet hurt and it felt like there…
November 23, 2025
Crime Stories DJ Macdonald

Over The Sea To Skye

Ingram was sitting in the London pub, with a pint of brown and mild as he waited for his old mate, Hutch. They had served together in the war, and now both worked for the Security Services, with Hutch working as a bugging specialist. Ingram had found a cosy…
November 23, 2025
Flash Fiction Yuan Changming

Retreat From The Party

To repay the hospitality my kinsmen had shown since my return to Jingzhou, I invited them all to a grand dinner party in a big restaurant near the northern gate of the city wall. To follow the local custom, I provided my guests with two meals and several…
November 23, 2025
Horror Stories Sani Ibrahim

The Quiet House On Hemlock

The silence in the house between 2:00 and 2:10 AM was not peaceful; it was a physical presence. Sarah had thought the real estate agent was joking, or that it was some eccentric old owner’s bizarre form of poetry in a legal document. But the clause in the…
November 22, 2025
Science Fiction Stories Sani Ibrahim

The Last Archive Of Wilbur Finch

The memory was a fossil, buried in a stratum of deprecated code deep within the Global Mnemonic Cloud. Elias Vance, a mnemonic janitor, had found it during a routine data-scour. His job was to expunge the digital ghosts that clogged the system: forgotten…
November 22, 2025
Fantasy Stories Salami Femi

Infinity

Samson materialized silently on the front porch of a suburban home. He straightened his suit, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door. A young girl, no more than eight, opened it, her wide eyes scanning the tall, dark man standing before her. “Mum, Dad,…
November 22, 2025
Mystery Stories Derek McMillan

The Body In The Land Rover

We held our weekly meeting in Scoresdale. It was convenient for myself and Constable Colin Burgos though less so for Constable Clare Turner. It was our first meeting with the new CSO Francis Skinner, a former member of the RAF Regiment. He didn't mind making…
November 22, 2025
Science Fiction Stories L Christopher Hennessy

Something Out There

The sugarcane field was older than memory. It stretched for miles, a rustling green sea that whispered even when the wind was dead. Locals said the soil was cursed—too rich, too dark, too wet. Crops grew fast, too fast. The cane stalks were thick as wrists,…

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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