Stories

When teenage logistics clerks Leo and Julian accidentally trigger a catastrophic reality warp at work, an enigmatic, waistcoat-wearing capybara named Barnaby steps in to help them untangle the timeline. Their reality-bending adventure ultimately leads the boyfriends to unexpected corporate power and a very lavish upgrade for their favorite grumpy resident at the local zoo.

This one comes from Prompt #71.

Write a short story featuring only one character. No secondary characters at all. You might drop them in the woods and see how they fare, or come up with your own idea, but only one character is allowed.

Fraser Vogel knew it was dangerous to parachute in high winds. He wasn’t left with too many options in his Cessna 182 Skylane when its yoke seized and the engine failed.

Jump or crash? Pretty easy choice.

Following the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Robbie is forced to move from England to start a new life living with his uncle’s family in Canada. Homesick, confused, and missing his close friend, it soon becomes apparent that Robbie is carrying a lot more baggage than he arrived with.

Scenes and moments between the main story "Jewel in the Dirt" and its sequel "Too Much Too Few".

The chapters are not chronologically, but will have a timeline explanation.

A forbidden, slow-burn wedding saga about a mouthy younger brother and the man he was never supposed to want.

Cwtch is a Welsh word, translated into English it means a hug, but the meaning is deeper and more profound than a simple hug. When you give someone a cwtch you also give them a safe place and this is what twenty something Londoner Harry gives Welsh farmboy Aled. The story tells how two souls find each other, and recognise one another immediately. It is attraction, but also love at first sight, although true love is never easy.

This story is also published under the title Eighteen Years by E K Stokes.

Caught using his dad’s Fleshlight on Father’s Day, Luke expects the worst. Instead, the forbidden toy becomes the thing that pulls them together in the hottest, tightest way possible.

When your voice is too loud even to your own ears, then write the words down so they won't hurt that much.

So I realized writing helps more than talking, although I have no talent, I still want to call these poems.

When a time-traveling capybara named Barnaby accidentally crash-lands onto an 18th-century sailing ship, his bizarre cargo of futuristic textbooks and modern contraceptives sparks a passionate romantic awakening between two young, brilliant shipmates.

Some people have their lives together.

Other people spend twenty minutes trying to get their lives together when all they really want is to close a document without having to argue with their computer, themselves, and several imaginary witnesses.

And then there are some documents that simply don't want to be written. They fight back like an old boyfriend you forgot you left in the closet. So the choice is yours to decide with who you want to sleep.