Short Fiction Stories - Page 10
No Reservations Required
by DaniellaM
Julian was perched on the edge of the chair. Bent forward, elbows on his thighs, clammy hands clasped together, he stared at the floor. One knee bounced rhythmically. The elegant chair was barely able to contain his wiry awkwardness. He trembled,...
- Mar, 30 2015
- Fiction Realistic Fiction
The Sceptic Turned...
by DaniellaM
I watch her peek out from the wings. She reads us, plots. She pulls herself up, paints on a false smile, and strides quickly across to centre stage. Looking upwards and out into her audience, she’s all open arms and ‘look at me!’ We applaud...
- Mar, 30 2015
- Fiction Realistic Fiction
THIS, FOR SERGEANT NTHONDO
by steve
By Steve Kumalonje
He was a Goliath built with blurred and observant eyes, strong and fearsome arms and a rather protruding belly- the one associated with prosperity and profuse peace of mind. And as anticipated from such a giant...
NATURE'S WRATH
by steve
By Steve Kumalonje
Ours is a long story. This place has its own rich history. Either ask us questions that count for something or forever hold your peace....
- Mar, 30 2015
- Fiction Realistic Fiction Tragedy
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INNOCENT ACCIDENT
by steve
By Steve Kumalonje
Time is a great savage! I am of age now and as anticipated by all and sundry in the village, it is that time I tied the knot like the rest of the girls at a great and terrific wedding to be officiated by Reverend...
BULUKUTU'S FORMIDABLE FORCE
by steve
By Steve Kumalonje
And the terrain changed following Bulukutu’s rise to the most taxing job of commanding the whole Police Force in Mchenachena....
- Mar, 30 2015
- Crime Fiction Realistic Fiction
Rose side cottage
by MinPerring90
Rose side cottage naturally sounds like a lovely cottage name. Possibly located in a quiet rural setting somewhere. At least that was exactly what all of the McCoy family thought. But little did they know what they would really be in for....
sands of time;FORGIVE THEM FATHER.
by Geoffrey kungu kinutu Jrr
FORGIVE THEM FATHER
Salome was a teenage girl who upheld good morals from childhood. She grew up in Nairobi city in the hands of her mother in a single parent family.
Soon she wrote the primary school certificate examination and...
- Mar, 28 2015
- Fiction
Limited Edition
by galaxypotato
I walked toward my seat in the plain with a bunch of books in my hands and headphones jamming into my ears like always. I placed my duffle bag in its place and sat on my place without even caring about the person who sat beside me. I opened the...
Forget Me Not
by natsume1988
"I love you, Vince." My voice as always is sweet and gentle.
Though my words seems have a different effect on him, when he suddenly stop talking. While he grew still beside me. And a tense silence engulf us. The only noise that...
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Tell Me The Color Of My Eyes
by prologue
There is a story, I'm not sure if it's real, or if, in all the years that the story's been tossed around by lips and ears, it still remains the same.
But there is a story, and it's about a girl....
- Mar, 26 2015
- Fiction Poetic Realistic Fiction
I Long for a Mother's Love (The Finale)
by manelyn
I am Loren, the daughter of Samantha who decided to leave her five years ago with her husband. I didn't expect to be back or that I will be summoned by my mother to come home. In the years that passed, I could only count in my finger the few...
LOVE WITHOUT TRUST
by kimone
The sun shines bright on his muscular face through the window he watch closely as Johnny handed his wife a brown envelope. Curiosity swept over his body as he sat down to write a report for his high school friend. Suddenly he stop, he couldn't...
- Mar, 24 2015
- Fiction
what everyone needs is love
by mystery
A story about a girl who had a working parents hardly have time for their kids.She always felt lonely.She was a bright student from school. She had one bestfriend who left school and joined some boarding schools. Now again she became a loner...
JACK TREE
by JAFAR SADIK
It was about noon when Venu got up after a deep sleep. It had been four o’clock in the morning when he got home from the airport. He comes home after a long five years from the gulf. It was five years before he had flew to the land of dreams,...
- Mar, 23 2015
- Fiction
Sightseeing at London
by MinPerring90
If there was one thing that Marie Jones absolutely loved doing it was sightseeing at London. After having grown up and spent most of her own childhood living in the heart of London. Until she was around eleven years old and her own father Jack...
Akyeaa: Chapter 17
by safohen
Akyeaa spoke with Dzifa, the leader of the camp as her followers nursed their bruises and intense headaches.
'So when did you get the drums, Dzifa?'...
- Mar, 21 2015
- Fiction
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Akyeaa: Chapter 16
by safohen
It had been three months since Ekuaba's defeat. Ankonamkrom had been rebuilt with great effort. However most of its former residents had not returned. Akyeaa didn't blame them. After what Ekuaba did, she wouldn't have wanted to return either. Now...
GOLD IN SOIL
by Omkar Nar
A farmer had 3 sons. They never helped their father in his business. So he was worried.
He thought a lot on how to make his sons work. He got an idea....
- Mar, 19 2015
- Fiction
AND THOSE TURNS
by saurabh sharma
Ryan! Wake up! His mother screamed and he opened his eyes and he was already half an hour late and he woke up and got ready for the college. Though he was late but the BREAKFAST made his morning good. He jised his mother and went to college. He...
- Mar, 18 2015
- Fiction
Gods of the colosseum part 1
by AbelCZ
Sparks flew as blades clashed. The sharp sound of metal against metal echoed throughout the colosseum. The crowds cheered as the fighters jumped at each other with the intensity of wild beasts. Jake looked away with a disapproving frown. He...
I Long for a Mother's Love
by manelyn
Samantha and her mother Loren is living a pretty quite life. During weekdays, Samantha goes to school with her mother preparing for her breakfast and things. On Sundays, they both go to church and have lunch afterwards with her mother's...
''Days I Spend Without You''
by Haya
This story is about a boy, who loved a girl of his school, He loved her dreadfully, but she was not serious about his love, As the time was passing she was bored of him, but his love was growing more day by day, after sometime at last she left...