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

"It's my third day of being a ghost, and I feel like I'm going to starve to death again.The underworld messenger takes pity on me because I'm a chil..."
Piecing Me Together Again

"The day my birth parents found me, the reunion banquet they threw turned into their funeral.My parents and their adopted daughter, Leila, died of f..."
Before I Die Young

"For my birthday, my husband, Don Damien, gave me his dead wife’s pearls.I wore them to the dinner party. My enraged stepson, Leo, doused me in red ..."
They Won’t Let Me Go

"I was locked in the cellar by my triplet alpha brothers after my stepsister, Elsa, framed me for killing her wolf by giving her an almond cake.The ..."
The Alpha Brothers’ Shame

"When my wife, Sandra Lane, finally returns from her business trip, I pin her against the wall, my lust overwhelming my rationality.Halfway through ..."
I Was a Good Man Until My Wife Went Too Far With Him

"Justin Davidson and Eva Walker, the long-lost heiress of the Walker family, fell in love. But Eva's adopted sister, Stella, drove a wedge between t..."
Substitute No More

"Hanging in the living room is a drawing of Julia Graham's husband, son, and younger sister, Juliette Graham.Julia's son tells her, "If I add a..."
Homecoming to an Empty Heart

"My wolf was cursed. I had three days left.But my parents and my mate, Alpha Edwin, forced me to surrender my Luna title to Meggie.All because she c..."
They Chose the Wrong Wolf

"After my eight-year-old twin sister was kidnapped, my dad became the person who wished for my death more than anyone else in the world. He would al..."
Your Remorse Is Five Years Too Late

"My world fell apart on the day of my Luna ceremony.My mother and older brother approached me with bad news. My younger sister, Lilith, was cursed a..."
My Death Left My Alpha Drowning in Regret

"My mom and dad died heroically in a fire rescue, trying to protect an orphan. Afterward, my brother brought the orphan, Audrey, home. To make her s..."
After I Was Gone

"The entire world froze. Overnight, the city plunged to –40 °F.Yet, in the middle of this frozen apocalypse, my mother, my sister and her son moved ..."
My Family Regrets Their Biasness During The Apocalypse

"My sister, Yvonne Jones, tried to murder the childhood friend of a rich heir in order to seduce him. Yvonne poisoned the woman's drink and pulled o..."
My Sister Murdered Her Crush's Childhood Friend

"Before I turned eighteen, I was the adored principessa of the Moretti family.That all changed on my eighteenth birthday, when my father brought hom..."
The Daughter They Wish Was Never Born

"When my daughter, Ruth Jensen, says for the tenth time that she wants a different mother, I don't get angry. I just calmly ask her who she wants in..."
I Wasn't the Mother She Wanted

"My daughter was born with silver poisoning in her blood—passed down from me—which made it hard for her to sense her wolf, and even harder for her t..."
My Mate Pretended He Was Not the Alpha

"My father cheated. I cut him out of my life.To get my forgiveness, my father put Lucas Moretti, the Don of New York, in my bed.I fell for Lucas, fa..."
Betrayed by the Don, Claimed by the King

"When the college admission notice arrived, I suddenly developed a high fever and was bedridden. My sister encountered a kidnapping on her way to he..."
When Dad Conducted My Autopsy, My Dead Sister Returned
"Dad and my brother, Jonah Atwood, have always favored my sister, Lisa Atwood, while resenting me.At my coming-of-age ceremony, when several werewol..."
Regret Taking What's Mine? Too Bad

"I was born broken. My Alpha mother was the one who branded me.She said emotion was a sin. A weakness. Especially for a werewolf. Especially for an ..."
Sorry My Alpha Mom, I Was Born Broken

"I have three dads who love and spoil me for fifteen years.Of the three, Maxim Ulfric is the high-ranking and authoritative Alpha of the Cinderhowl ..."
Favoritism Kills

"They caught my fiancé with my sister on the night of our engagement party. Tangled in a private wine cellar.My family name was dragged through the ..."
The Don’s Discarded Surrogate

"In Evergreen Pack, turning 18 means awakening, shifting into wolf form, and being marked by your mate.But on the day of my coming-of-age ceremony, ..."
I Was Never the Favorite

"I was in love with Andy Spraggins for five years, and it left me emotionally drained.In the end, I married Philip Watson, the childhood friend who ..."