Short Story Shelf

Click on the category below to peruse your short story shelf of choice.

science fiction * fantasy * fiction * experimental

Science Fiction

The white statue of a gargoyle wearing a gas mask juts from a corner crenellation.

Mask

A young person in a pin-stripe suit adjusts his tie

Miller vs Robot

A black woman wearing beaded jewelry and an intent expression adjusts something offscreen with her hands.

Kadaa’s Child

A woman in army green and a blue headscarf peers through binoculars at a desert landscape.

Shrike

Grayscale hands press against a class, showing the whorls of their fingerprints. Everything in the background is black.

Rust Ship

A blond woman appears between a cleft in the rocks, dawn light sending lens flares across the image. She wears climbing gear, and the scrub-brush landscape is visible far below her.

Rock Face 4783

A brown paper covered in hand-written text curls up into a ragged edge

Remnants

Fantasy

A brooding purple sky shot through with a forked bolt of purple lightning.

Renn at Night

A tiny fairy wren pecks at the ground, it's fluffy rump to the camera, tail straight up in the air.

Piccolo & Carafolas

A sailing ship with three masts sits in a calm blue harbor, with a village on the hill behind it.

Rapscallion

A silhouetted dragon emerges from the edge of the image, breathing fire against a clouded evening sky.

Dragon’s Liar

A block of creamy cheese, edges ragged where it's been sliced.

Bovinophobia

Fiction

Espresso drips from a machine into a brown cup, creating swirls on the surface.

Café & Coats

An old man with a walker and spectacles walks along, mouth open as if in loud protest.

Protest

A small child creates a pyramid from sand. Only his hands are visible.

Chesterton Tours

A sea of antennas emerges from a city, spearing into a blue sky slowly being overcome by storm clouds.

Eevy Menkos

A schoolgirl stands beside a pond strewn with pink flowers. Only the bottom of her skirt, her long black socks, and her shoes are visible.

Curfew

Red, gray, and black reflections swirl in a puddle marked with ringed wavelets from raindrops.

Rain on the Blacktop

A girl in a bright red puffy jacket holds a multi-colored umbrella and laughs uproariously

Laughing Ace

A white rocking chair stands along on a large porch framed in white.

Commotion

A stack of yellowed newspapers

News

A striped circus tent extends into the night sky, spotlights illuminating its peaked top

Alice

Two sparrows perch on a hand that clasps a chunk of bread between the thumb and index fingers. Their beaks are covered in crumbs.

Death, Mr. Spencer

Two pinkish greenish trout swim through a river, mouths open

King Mo

Experimental

Two elegant swirls of zucchini adorn a small bowl of rich broth

Hambre Town

Pixelated towers of red, orange, and magenta emerge from a pixelated black sea

Eketeen

A pocket watch with Roman numerals and an ornate rim lies open on a piece of textured wool.

The Maze

A close-up of a leaf, backlit and golden, with a delicate lacework of veins branching out from the stem

Vigil

A thick, knotted rope lies on a boat gunwale, fuzzed in splinters.

Unmoored