Short Reads
Curated collection of short stories and micro-novels from around the web. Same genres you love in micro-dramas — now in text.

"The day Noelle Rutherford finds out she's pregnant, she braves the rain to go to a club that Chester Gray frequents. She stands outside a private r..."
Life Is So Much Sweeter Without You

"The day I decided to donate my body to science, my family gathered around my adopted sister, Hailey, celebrating her acceptance into a cutting-edge..."
If You Only Had 72 Hours to Live

"After pulling an all-nighter to finish a group assignment, I wanted only one thing: sleep.I did not even get 10 minutes.My roommate, Ronda Jones, b..."
All This Over Five Bucks

""Are you crazy, Donna Gallo?!"The doctor, Corey Dickson, stared at the plastic surgery proposal I had given him. He said in a trembling v..."
Too Late to Say I Love You

"From as far back as I can remember, I knew my mom hated me.She gives me sleeping pills when I'm three. When I'm five, she tries pesticide instead.B..."
In My Next Life, I Beg for Your Love

"My husband's sister was pregnant when she leapt from the building.Her final phone call wasn't to him. It was to me.When the police asked for clues,..."
They Stole My Memories and Regretted It

"The intern my husband brings home feeds our son hard liquor. My husband merely says I'm making a mountain out of a molehill when he finds out. Ulti..."
A Sip of Regret

"My wife forces my sister to accompany some men for drinks so she can help her first love get investments. My sister finds an opportunity to run but..."
Unforgiven: A Debt Paid with Blood

"Three years after my death, Samuel Terrason came to visit my grave. When he saw the lilies blooming around it, his expression darkened. "What ..."
A Slip in the White Room

"Every Thanksgiving, my husband, Salvatore, brings home a showgirl from one of his clubs.He makes me kneel and serve them drinks. A lesson, he calls..."
When Love Runs Dry

"A few weeks before our wedding, Rodney Luther's stepmother, Jessica Flaine, posts a photo on her social media. In the photo, she's wearing the wedd..."
A Thing of the Past

"Three months after my death, my brother is hospitalized due to leukemia. That's when my family finally remembers me after kicking me out.My sister,..."
Exploitation After Death

""Dr. Shaw! Ms. Sherwood has suffered a massive hemorrhage due to complications from childbirth! She has fallen into a coma and needs an emerge..."
Brief Was the Love

"Alpha Jakob gave me the grandest bonding ceremony five years ago. I became the world's most envied woman.Five years later, I received a provocative..."
Everyone Believed in Our Love, But I Knew It Wouldn't Survive

"As the flames engulfed my body in the underground warehouse, I used the last of my strength to call my brother, the new Don of the Moretti family.J..."
The Burned Moretti Princess

"I was about to get married, but my boyfriend of nine years had no idea. Why? All because his recently divorced ex-girlfriend waltzed back into tow..."
I Chose to Say Goodbye

"On my wedding day, my fiancé’s childhood sweetheart arrived, wearing the exact same custom wedding dress as me.They stood together, greeting guests..."
Till Betrayal Do Us Part

"In the second year of our marriage, which Brett Mason had secured through relentless means, he brought home his latest conquest—a stunning blonde.A..."
Love Fades on the Peak

""Yuliana, are you really moving abroad? You're not even going to talk it over with Charlie?" Madelyn Gardner asks.Yuliana Beckett lets ou..."
Her Homecoming Is Our Farewell

"After dating him for five years, my boyfriend, Jayden Porter, sends me 10 dollars. He asks me to buy our future matrimonial home with that money.Th..."
Once Gone, Gone for Good

"A stampede happened at my daughter's kindergarten. Timothy Horuson was in a hurry to save his first love's son, and he pulled away someone else's h..."
He Chose Her Son Over Our Daughter

""I've decided to join your pharmaceutical research institute and continue with my medical research, Mr. Clark."Melvin Clark chuckles. &qu..."
The Choice to Forget

"On our third mating anniversary, I was shocked to discover that my mate Ethan Rivers had been spending nights with his childhood sweetheart, and ev..."
My Second Chance Mate Is Alpha

"The day Jasper Carter's terminally ill ex, Natalie Klutz, gave birth, his parents—Josephine and Raymond—hired ten bodyguards to keep me, his actual..."