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Renni Grier's avatar

Story Title: The Beautiful Who Will Be Damned

Writer: Renni Grier

Genre: Fantasy

Type: Short Story

URL: https://spiritinmotion.substack.com/p/the-beautiful-who-will-be-damned

Note: A soldier caught in a holy war has his world shaken by a hidden truth. :)

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emma girl's avatar

Story Title: Dog, Dog, Dog

Writer: Emma Newman-Holden (emma girl)

Genre: Lit-Fic

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/emmanewmanholden/p/dog-dog-dog?r=jkj3z&utm_medium=ios

Note: Grief and alcoholism and unrequited kisses.

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FranB's avatar

Story Title: Lucy

Genre: Horror

Type: Flash fiction

URL: https://francesbrindle.substack.com/p/lucy

Note: A Christmas ghost story

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Bryan Russell's avatar

Story Title: The Phlegm

Writer: Bryan Russell

Genre: Horror

Type: Microfiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/bryanrussell1/p/the-phlegm?r=11vroc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

NOTE: It might be gross. Reader discretion is advised.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Story Title: Supratika

Writer: A.P. Murphy

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://thestrangenesskit.substack.com/p/supratika

Note: A flash fiction stemming from a Fictionistas prompt: "Write a story including a ruffian and an elephant with a focus on the sentence starter 'If I were suddenly rich…'"

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Alexandra Hill's avatar

Story Title: Familiar Bonds Part 7

Writer: Alexandra Hill

Genre: Speculative Fiction

Type: Short Serial

URL: https://substack.com/@alexandrahill2/p-152029249

Note: The final chapter of my silly story about the Hat Man stealing familiars. It's all out now; free and ready for you to binge over the holidays.

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Keith Long's avatar

Story Title: Underneath

Writer: Keith Long

Genre: Horror

Type: Short story

Duke: https://open.substack.com/pub/losersflashfiction/p/underneath?r=3517l8&utm_medium=ios

Note: written for and produced in audio by the NoSleep Podcast.

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iL.'s avatar

Story Title: If you can, you must.

Writer: Ilan Lampl / Bluezone

Genre: Coming of age

Type: Short Story

URL: https://bluezone.substack.com/p/if-you-can-you-must

Note: A story about a restless teen who escapes his home for a hopeful bus ride to Edinburgh

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Story Title : Zzap64

Writer : Daniel O’Donnell / Dans Deliberations

Genre : Speculative Fiction

Type : Short Story

URL : https://open.substack.com/pub/danielodonnell/p/zzap64?r=2bfxud&utm_medium=ios

Note : A short festive tale about the past, regret and family

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Jack Nagy's avatar

Story Title: #104

Writer: Jack Nagy

Genre: Metafiction

Type: Micro/Flash Fiction

URL: https://www.scrapbookbyjack.com/p/104

Note: Best read on a desktop web browser due to formatting. An attempt to use Substack's limited editing tools to their potential.

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Matt Gerrity's avatar

Story Title: Estella's Regret

Writer: Bluebird Fiction (Matt Gerrity)

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Poetry

URL: https://bluebirdfiction.substack.com/p/estellas-regret?r=3wh4fq

A poem based on Estella's point of view at the conclusion of "Great Expectations."

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molly's avatar

Story Title: Crash Dummy, A.K.A. I Don't See Your Name On It

Writer: molly

Genre: Drama

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/njfailure/p/crash-dummy-aka-i-dont-see-your-name?r=2ejsjm&utm_medium=ios

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Alison Lloyd's avatar

Story Title: One Night in the Little Same-Old World

Writer: Alison Lloyd

Genre: Historical

Type: Short Story

URL: https://scrolling.substack.com/i/153097840/short-story

Note: A re-imagining of part of the original Christmas story

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P.K. Anthony's avatar

Story Title: Riot in His Veins - Part 1

Writer: P. K. Anthony

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Type: Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/pkanthony/p/a-humble-request?r=37581s&utm_medium=ios

Note: The action-packed opening scene to a story I’ve been very excited to work on.

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C.P. Night's avatar

Story Title: Friday Funwrite: Celebration

Writer: C.P. Night

Genre: Fantasy

Type: Short Story

URL: https://cpnight.substack.com/p/friday-funwrite-celebration?r=rltt0

Note: This is a short story based on my Friday Funwrite prompt. It was supposed to be a tale of celebration and fun where people are chased by enchanted fruit…the character, Minet, had other ideas and turned this into something on the darker side.

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C.P. Night's avatar

Story Title: The Ritzee Spacebar

Writer: C.P. Night

Genre: Sci-fi

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://cpnight.substack.com/p/the-ritzee-space-bar?r=rltt0

Note: A fun flash piece with a poker playing elephant and a self-aware droid who wants to be anywhere else (based on the Fictionistas’ December prompt).

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Nancy Waddell's avatar

Story Title: The Event

Writer: Nancy Waddell

Genre: Sci Fi Dystopian

Type: Micro Fiction/ Short story

Link: https://substack.com/@writerpublishernancywaddell/note/c-82474896

Note: Remember to look up and be ready for the blue kachina star.

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Zani D's avatar

Story Title: Abdiel: The Petty Tyranny of Trauma

Writer: Zani D

Genre: Southern Gothic

Type: Micro fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/ninestoryhotel/p/abdiel-the-petty-tyranny-of-trauma?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=h5x57

Note: A stand alone history lesson in the brutal psychology of Abdiel, antagonist from the serial Lost and Found published by the collaborative horrornoir anthology 9 Story Hotel.

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C.S. Mee's avatar

Story Title: Fiona’s Floating Bed

Writer: c.s. mee

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/csmee/p/fionas-floating-bed?r=3v8lws&utm_medium=ios

Note: This is not a story about beds

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C.S. Mee's avatar

Story Title: Mickey forced his cock into a pair of black skinny jeans

Writer: c.s. mee

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/csmee/p/mickey-forced-his-cock-into-a-pair?r=3v8lws&utm_medium=ios

Note: We continue to want what we cannot have

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Mercedes de Santiago's avatar

Story Title: The Legend of Sinardia.

Genre: Fantasy.

Type: Serialised story.

URL: https://algunashistorias.substack.com/p/chapter-26-the-wise-woman-of-the

Note: this is the 6th chapter of the Second Part of the story. We know another of the players in the civil war that is actually beginning... It is a story of High, Epic, Fantasy.

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

Story Title: 17: A Challenged Secret

Writer: The Môrdreigiau Chronicles

Genre: Fantasy

Type: Short story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/projectstarfish/p/17-a-challenged-secret?r=1mk6at&utm_medium=ios

Note: Chapter 17 of “A River Trembles”! book two of The Môrdreigiau Chronicles. Also, if you get to the end of this and want to know how that night ended, chapter 18 is already out.

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

Story Title: A Little Bit More

Writer: The Môrdreigiau Chronicles

Genre: Fantasy

Type: Short story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/projectstarfish/p/trr-a-little-bit-more?r=1mk6at&utm_medium=ios

Note: This is set in The Môrdreigiau Chronicles universe. Emrys finds an unconscious woman on the beach, and romance blooms. (Emrys is a secondary character in “A River Trembles” the second book currently being serialised and he demanded his own story.)

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Blace Alcock's avatar

Story Title: Stick Saga: Solomon - chapter 1

Writer: Blace Alcock

Genre: Literary Fantasy

Type: Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/blacealcock/p/stick-saga-solomon-chapter-1?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=3vpd6z&utm_medium=ios

Note: On their way to town, a necromancer and his companion stop and rest for the night.

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Will Boucher's avatar

Story Title: simple pleasures

Writer: Will Boucher

Genre: Lit-Fic

Type: Short Story

URL: https://willboucher.substack.com/p/simple-pleasures

Thanks for all you do :)

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Rostislava Pankova-Karadjova's avatar

Story Title: The road ahead

Writer: Rostislava Pankova-Karadjova of Airings

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/rostislava/p/the-road-ahead?r=zcxsb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Note: I could call this story auto-fiction, but there’s no fiction in it.

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Irshaad's avatar

Story Title: Freshly Laid Eggs
Writer: Irshaad
Genre: Humor
Type: Flash Fiction
URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/unfinishedspeedwriting/p/freshly-laid-eggs?r=2qufyf&utm_medium=ios
Note: The Adventures of Mr. Zetropole….

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Peter Shull's avatar

Story Title: Why Teach? - chapter 9

Writer: Peter Shull

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Serial

URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-152383533?source=queue&autoPlay=false

Note: Having driven through Dodge City instead of stopping for the big game, William visits Wichita, a place where he has a friend. Freed from the constraints of professional and hometown expectations, possibility seems to abound. What will this Friday night have in store?

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Nicholas Stavrou's avatar

Story Title: Falling Down the Red Ochre Hill

Writer: Nicholas Stavrou

Genre: Folklore

Type: Short Story

URL: https://nicholasstavrou.substack.com/p/falling-down-the-red-ochre-hill

Note: The undercurrents of re-enchantment are raising long forgotten myths from the depths, and challenging us with their ancient wisdom and rebuke

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Tom Schecter's avatar

https://shieldbreakersaga.substack.com/p/the-last-of-the-etela-chapter-6

Title: Last of the Etela, Chapter 6

Writer: Tom Schecter

Genre: literary fantasy

Type: serial

Note: We’re at the first set-piece battle of the series!

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Thomas Foydel's avatar

Story Title: Samir's Ruse

Writer: Thomas Foydel

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://falsechoices.substack.com/p/samirs-ruse

Note: A boy, a very clever boy...

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James Kenwood's avatar

Story Title: The Ship-watcher

Writer: James Kenwood

Genre: Sci-Fi

Type: Short Story

URL: https://jameskenwood.substack.com/p/the-ship-watcher

Note: On a distant world, an entity remembers the days of the past - and hopes for the future.

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James Kenwood's avatar

Story Title: Inescapable

Writer: James Kenwood

Genre: Sci-Fi

Type: Micro/Flash Fiction

URL: https://jameskenwood.substack.com/p/inescapable

Note: Watching the darkness encroaching, and knowing you have nowhere left to run or hide...

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Bruce Dobbins's avatar

Story title: Amidst a Devil's Beauty

Writer: Bruce Dobbins/Tidal Locked Hermitage

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://substack.com/@brucedobbins/note/p-153153270?r=351uu8

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Michael Arturo's avatar

Story Title: Your Friends Are All Dead

Writer: Michael Arturo

Genre: Crime

Type: Short Story

URL: https://michaelarturo.substack.com/p/your-friends-are-all-dead

Note: Antoine Delacorte's violent, life-changing incident in Central Park finds him bleeding on the frozen surface of a pond that once held his childhood memories; Antoine is forced to reconcile his past with an uncertain future.

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Victor Jimenez's avatar

Story Title: The Deep, Dark Sea

Writer: Victor Jimenez

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://serialassemblerofwords.substack.com/p/genre-writer

Note: An encounter leads to deadly consequences on the open sea

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Story Title: Girl in the Window

Writer: Sharron Bassano

Genre: Romance

Type: Short Serial ( two part flash fiction)

URL:

https://sharronbassano.substack.com/p/copy-the-girl-in-the-coffee-shop

https://sharronbassano.substack.com/p/girl-in-the-window-2

Note: Five minutes of the kind of romance we dream about...

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Ian Patterson's avatar

Story Title: A response to the refutation of a mechanistic worldview

Writer: Ian Patterson

Genre: Sci-Fi

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-153358730?source=queue

Note: I've been playing around with new voices and tones recently. Fans of theoretical physics and/or philosophy might like this one!

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Chris Patrick's avatar

Story Title: The Grave Robber

Writer: Paper Elephant Publishing with Chris Patrick

Genre: Horror

Type: Micro Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/paperelephantpublishing/p/the-grave-robber?r=1gq5r9&utm_medium=ios

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Cobol's avatar

Story Title: John

Writer: Cobol

Genre: Litfic

Type: Short story

URL: https://synopsys.substack.com/p/john

Note: John is one of several stories in a modern-day mythology of people and gods called Synopsys. The stories are sometimes connected and other times stand alone.

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Isha Jain's avatar

Story Title: The simple art of spending my afternoons

Writer: The Indian Story

Genre: Literary

Type: Short story

URL: https://theindianstory.substack.com/p/the-simple-art-of-spending-my-afternoons

Note: All the lies I have been told since birth.

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Elie Lichtschein's avatar

Story Title: Bern the Pedovore

Writer: Elie Lichtschein

Genre: Horror

Type: Short story

URL: https://darkquarters.substack.com/p/bern-the-pedovore

Note: A YouTuber who catches child predators becomes the prey in a monstrous turn of events.

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Oscar Ruto Chemelil's avatar

Story Title: Images of cathedrals under pouring rain

Writer: Oscar Ruto

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL:https://substack.com/home/post/p-153011004

Note: Do you remember where your folks kept all the bad things?

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Story Title: Plaid Christmas

Writer: Scott MacLeod/Son of Ugly

Genre: Noir

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonofugly/p/plaid-christmas?r=2sz29p&utm_medium=ios

Note: Secret Santa in the Scottish mob.

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J.J.A Smith's avatar

Story Title: Ashenoel

Writer: J. J. A. Smith

Genre: Horror

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://ergodicengine.substack.com/p/ashenoel

Note: This is my first attempt back at horror after a break, the holiday blues and climate change are certainly on my mind. Inspired by a Dark Tiding and the album 'A Los Camepsinos! Christmas'. Hope you enjoy!

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Miles Madron's avatar

Story Title: At the Grave of a Good Friend

Writer: Miles Madron

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://milesmadron.substack.com/p/at-the-grave-of-a-good-friend

Note: One man’s struggle with grief.

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Story Title: What's a Dragon - Chapter 24 (The Essay)

Writer: Dragon Writer Luc

Genre: Fantasy

Type: Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/dragonwriterluc/p/whats-a-dragon-chapter-24

Note: Remember that assignment right at the end of the prologue?

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