176 Free Online Short Stories


  1. Adams, Tracina Jackson, "Making A Sparrow"
  2. Adrian, Chris, "A Tiny Feast"
  3. Ahmed, Saladin “Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela”
  4. Alfar ,Dean Francis "L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)"
  5. Ambroz, Angela, "Sharukh And The Tibetans"
  6. Anvil, Christopher, "The Claw And The Clock"
  7. Asimov, Isaac, "The Last Question"
  8. Asimov, Isaac, a feghoot
  9. Atwood, Peter, "All In"
  10. Baldwin, DeeDee, "Austenbook"
  11. Ball, Peter M "Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens"
  12. Ballard, J G, "The Dying Fall"
  13. Barker, Clive, "Lost Souls"
  14. Barnhil, Kelly "The Confessions Of Prince Charming"
  15. Bear, Elizabeth, "Tideline"
  16. Bergeron ,Nick "Dumpster Diving"
  17. Bester, Alfred, "Star Light, Star Bright"
  18. Biancotti, Deborah, "Conversations"
  19. Bierce, Ambrose, "One Summer Night"
  20. Bisson, Terry, "They're Made Of Meat"
  21. Bixby, Jerome, "Its A Good Life"
  22. Bloch, Rober, "The Beautiful People"
  23. Bobet, Leah, "The Parable of the Shower"
  24. Borges, Jorges Luis, "The Circular Ruins"
  25. Brindle, Jamie, "The Big Deal"
  26. Brown, Simon, "A New Song For Odysseus"
  27. Brucato, Paul, "I Feel Lucky"
  28. Bull, Emma, The Joshua Tree
  29. Bunker, Karl, "Murder"
  30. Calvino, Italo, "The Daughters Of The Moon"
  31. Castro, Pablo A "Reflections"
  32. Chapman,Jason K "Brief Candle"
  33. Chiang, Ted, "Exhalation"
  34. Clarke, Arthur C "The Nine Billion Names Of God"
  35. Connolly, Tina "Turning The Apples"
  36. Cope,Samantha "Cowboy Angel"
  37. Craven, Sean :"Tourists"
  38. Crowder, Nathan, "Deacon Carter's Last Dime"
  39. Crowder, Nathan “Memory in the Time of Bones”
  40. Crowder, Nathan "None Left Behind"
  41. Crowder, Nathan, "Fists Of Felt"
  42. Cunningham, P E, "Snake In The Glass"
  43. Czechowski, Terry, "Mrs Misaki's Eyes"
  44. Dahl, Roald, "Man From The South"
  45. de Bergerac, Cyrano, "Cyrano's First Flight"
  46. de Bodard, Aliette :"After The Fire"
  47. de Bodard, Aliette, "The Dragon's Tears"
  48. de Bodard, Aliette, "Memories Of My Sister"
  49. Dedman, Stephen, "Spin"
  50. Dedman, Stephen, "Vigil"
  51. Dowling, Terry, "The Man Who Lost Red"
  52. Dowling, Terry, "Nobody's Fool"
  53. Dowling, Terry, "Privateer's Moon"
  54. Duncan, Andy, "Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse"
  55. Dunsany, "Idle Days On The Yann"
  56. Edwards, Sarah L, "The Tinyman And Caroline"
  57. Emson, Thomas, "Sequence"
  58. Fenn, Jaine "Angel Dust"
  59. Fenn, Jaine "High Ground"
  60. Foss, Richard, "Incarnation In The Delta"
  61. Fowler, Karen Joy, "Always"
  62. Fowler, Karen Joy "The Last Worders"
  63. Fowler, Karen Joy, "What I Didn't See"
  64. Gaiman, Neil, "Cinnamon"
  65. Gardner, James Alan, "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story"
  66. Gentle, Mary, "The Road To Jerusalem"
  67. Gleason,Elena "Erased"
  68. Gotlieb, Phyllis, "Among You"
  69. Granade, Stephen, "Hobbit 419"
  70. Green, Christopher "Father's Kill"
  71. Greer, Kanna, "Plastic Forks And Wooden Geta"
  72. Gunn, Eileen, "Coming To Terms"
  73. Haldeman, Joe, "Angel Of Light"
  74. Hareven, Gail, "The Slows"
  75. Heinlein, Robert, "The Menace From Earth"
  76. Henderson, Sarah, "Tongue"
  77. Hoover, Kenneth Mark, "Haxan"
  78. Hoover, Kenneth Mark "Till Death Do Us Part"
  79. Inman, C S, "Prince Of Wolves"
  80. Irwin, J J "Still Living"
  81. Jackson, Shirley, "The Lottery"
  82. Jamneck, Lynn, "Outside the Box"
  83. Jemisin,N K "Non-zero Probabilities"
  84. Johnson, Kij, "26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss"
  85. Johnson, Kij "The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles"
  86. Johnson,Kij "Spar"
  87. Jones, Gwyneth, "The Tomb Wife"
  88. Kaye, Andrew, "Earning His Wings"
  89. Kelly, James Patrick, "Don't Stop"
  90. King, Adam "The Near-Sighted Sentinel"
  91. Kipling, Rudyard, "The Man Who Would Be King"
  92. Kolbeck, Ann, "Dandelions And Blue Doors"
  93. Koosis ,Lisa A "Side Roads"
  94. Kornbluth, Cyril, "The Only Thing We Learn"
  95. Kowal, Mary Robinette, "Evil Robot Monkey"
  96. Kress, Nancy, "Images of Anna"
  97. Lawrence, D H "Rocking Horse Winner"
  98. Lee, Yoon Ha, "Architectural Constants"
  99. Lethem, Jonathan, "Lostronaut"
  100. Levine, David, "Tk'tk'tk"
  101. Lipkin, Shira, "The Angel of Fremont Street"
  102. Lock, Bob "The Pixelated Pixie"
  103. Love, Rosaleen, "Essence Of Ismay"
  104. Lucas, Christine, "Only the Song"
  105. Macan, Darko "Across the Kalavalahalatine"
  106. McIntosh,Will "Bridesicle"
  107. Maly,Tim "Time, Again"
  108. Markey, Sean E "The Spider In You"
  109. Marryat, Frederick, "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains"
  110. Masterson, Robertson, "Pickman's Pregeny: The Horrible Truth Below"
  111. McIntyre, T J, "The Day My Hands Fell Off"
  112. McCoy, Angel Leigh, "No. He Said No"
  113. Millhauser, Steven, "The Invasion From Outer Space"
  114. Morgan, Andrew, "Heart Of Dockness"
  115. Narayan, Shweta "Charms"
  116. Narayan, Shweta, "Nira And I"
  117. Nestvold, Ruth, "Mars: A Traveller's Guide"
  118. Niven, Larry, "Man Of Steel, Woman of Kleenex"
  119. Niven, Larry, "Neutron Star"
  120. Nix, Garth, "Bad Luck, Trouble, Death, And Vampire Sex"
  121. Park, Severna, "The Cure For Everything"
  122. Patton, Ripley, "A Speck In The Universe"
  123. Patton, Ripley, "Corrigan's Exchange"
  124. Patton, Ripley, "The House That Dirk Built"
  125. Patton, Ripley, "Rites of Passage"
  126. Patton, Ripley, "Sheep Women And Dog Boys"
  127. Patton, Ripley, "Travelling By Petroglyph"
  128. Payne, Ben, "Inside"
  129. Pinney, Daniel J "Where We Live"
  130. Poe, Edgar Allan,"The Black Cat"
  131. Poe, Edgar Allan,"The Fall Of The House Of Usher"
  132. Resnick, Mike, "Article Of Faith"
  133. Resnick, Mike, "Travels With My Cats"
  134. Rodgers, Mary, "Big Girl"
  135. Rosetti, Christina, "The Goblin Market"
  136. Russell, Eric Frank, "Allmagoosa"
  137. Saki, "Tobermory"
  138. Sallis, Eva, "Life Sentence"
  139. Sandford, Jason, "When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees"
  140. Saunders, George, "Jon"
  141. Scanlan, Adrian "Deuce of Diamonds"
  142. Schaff-Stump, Catherine "The Love Song Of Oliver Toddle"
  143. Schoen, Lawrence M "The Moment"
  144. Schwartz, Ian, "Walking Point"
  145. Silverberg, Robert, "The Man Who Never Forgot"
  146. Sizemore, Jason, "Mr Templar"
  147. Skolnik, Fred, "Shallow Grave"
  148. Smith, Cordwainer, "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons"
  149. Stone, Grant "The Salt Line"
  150. Stone, Michael "Raising Archie"
  151. Sussex, Lucy, "Matricide"
  152. Sutherland, Joel A, "The Death Of Captain Eugene Bloodcake"
  153. Swanwick, Michael, "From Babel's Fallen Glory We Fled"
  154. Switaj, Elizabeth Kate, "Sleeping Beauty Speaks Out"
  155. Thurber, James " Interview with a Lemming"
  156. Tidhar , Lavie Spider's Moon
  157. Tijam , Mia "The Ascension of Our Lady Boy"
  158. Verne, Jules, "A Voyage In A Balloon"
  159. Welch, Patrick, "Image Conscience"
  160. Wilde, Oscar, "The Canterville Ghost"
  161. Wilkinson, H Earl "The Patron Saint of Headaches"
  162. Williams, Lee, "The Kn!ghts of Slipway Seven"
  163. Williams, Sean and Simon Brown, "The Masque of Agamemnon"
  164. Wills-Jones, Ursula, "The Wicker Husband"
  165. Woolf, Virginia, "A Haunted House"
  166. Yaniv, Nir "The Believers"
  167. Yaniv, Nir “Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys”
  168. Zelazny, Roger, "A Rose For Ecclesiastes"