Free Short Story - Flour Power by Leslie Roy Carter 500
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Free Short Story – Flour Power by Leslie Roy Carter [Fantasy: Humour]

Flour Power (A Wild Sorceress Short Story) by Leslie Roy Carter   Innocema hurried along the garden path to the Headmaster's house, noting with displeasure the weeds that had sprung up between the rows of flowers she had so carefully groomed less than a week before. She worried that this might be the reason she had received a short-notice summons to appear before the Headmaster. The upperclassman who had delivered the note had taken great delight in making sure everyone…
Free Short Story: Rules of War by Fran Jacobs 500
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Free Short Story: Rules of War by Fran Jacobs [Fantasy]

Rules of War By Fran Jacobs The creature in the cage wasn't moving. It sat still and silent in the centre of its prison watching Arathy approach, impassively and unconcerned, with its dull violet eyes. When Arathy's father, Kyther, had returned from patrol duty and unloaded the cage from the cart, the creature had been shouting in its own language and rattling the bars that surrounded it, but it had quietened down when Kyther had threatened it with an iron…
Free Short Story Bus Ride by Margaret Pearce 500
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Free Short Story: Bus Ride by Margaret Pearce [Children’s]

Bus Ride By Margaret Pearce   "We've missed our bus," Amy said. "Little brothers are the worst pests in the world." "The biggest pests in the world," Melissa corrected. Their little brothers were found squatted by the overflowing rubbish bins. "We've missed our bus again," Amy scolded her brother Paul. "You are supposed to wait in front of the junior school," Melissa yelled at her brother Gerry. "Drop that rubbish." "This guy threw an unopened parcel in the bin." Gerry…
Free short story: Animals by Roy W. Penn 500
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Free Short Story: Animals by Roy W. Penn [Science Fiction]

Animals by Roy W. Penn I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." --Romans 7:15   "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." --Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton     1 Three and a half billion kilometers from the white star, space rippled and flowed. If there had been humans present to see, they would have found the sight…
Free Short Story: A Wedding at Faxinor by Michelle Levigne 500
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Free Short Story: A Wedding at Faxinor by Michelle Levigne [Fantasy]

A Wedding at Faxinor By Michelle Levigne  *This story takes place between Chapters of Heir of Faxinor.**   Andrixine greeted the morning in quiet contemplation, sitting on the wide windowsill of Kalsan's room. She wanted to think of it as their room, because after all, they were married now, but "their" room was a suite of rooms, waiting for them. Tonight. After their official, public marriage ceremony. She much preferred the private ceremony they had last night, just the two…
Free Short Story: Kipuka by Victoria Heckman 500
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Free Short Story: Kipuka by Victoria Heckman [Paranormal]

Kipuka* By Victoria Heckman Malama Price stepped onto her lanai, carefully balancing her tumbler of gin and her monkeypod cane. She hung the cane on the low railing and slurped a small wave of gin that threatened to overflow. Then she settled herself into the cushions of her koa rocker and eased her new lime-green rubber slippers from her gnarled toes. She tucked her mu'u mu'u around her legs, secured her tumbler in her crotch, and rocked. "Today da kids…