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The Library of Hidden Worlds. AI-Generated.
Amir had always loved books more than anything else in the world. While other children spent their afternoons playing outside, Amir preferred sitting quietly in the corner of the town library, turning pages and discovering new worlds.
By storiesabout 18 hours ago in Fiction
The Painting That Watches You
Daniel had always believed that paintings were more than simple images on a canvas. To him, every painting was a story waiting to be discovered. The colors, the shadows, the expressions—everything carried emotion left behind by the artist.
By storiesabout 18 hours ago in Fiction
The Gentle Giant of Silver Pine Forest
In the heart of a vast forest called Silver Pine Forest, where tall pine trees touched the sky and rivers sparkled like silver ribbons, lived a huge brown bear named Bruno.
By Rahman Khanabout 20 hours ago in Fiction
Passive Ideation. Content Warning.
Your eyes resemble Dragonstone rock, born from volcanic fury and tinged not by your own volition. Fate had the cruelest hand to play; your cards were foreordained in some faraway genomic deck of hegira hereditary helplessness.
By Edward Swaffordabout 21 hours ago in Fiction
She She She
A pale and thin girl, Miriam, sat alone in her high school cafeteria. A breeze of rustic potato smells enveloped her and put her off. She had already thrown away the annoying lunch her breast-cancer-ridden mother packed her, despite knowing Miriam wasn’t eating again.
By Paul Aaron Domenickabout 22 hours ago in Fiction
Chewy On Your Boot
Marty and Steve are two grumpy old men who live together. They have known each other for years. Marty has been a bachelor all his life.
By Calvin Londonabout 22 hours ago in Fiction
Beginning of a New Chapter
Marla gazed off into the distance. She wasn't really seeing what was in front of her. The rolling hills covered in wheat that shifted and swayed in the noon day sun were a haze of blue and gold and white, without definition. Her thoughts jumbled and turned, shifting her current dilemma in different ways, seeing if, perhaps, a different angle might give her an alternate solution or answer.
By Eda Mariea day ago in Fiction
The Rule About Tuesdays...
The Rule About Tuesdays Nobody in the business talks about the rule. You learn it. Usually once. If you need to learn it twice, you probably don’t get a third chance.
By Teena Quinn a day ago in Fiction
Helena's Journey
Smoke curling through the pale orange sky over the distant hill indicated to Helena that morning was on the horizon. The fires provided warmth for the remnants of that small village whose people hunted for rats or squirrels, cooking them over crude stone pits and metal grates. Sand stretched in either direction, making supplies difficult to obtain. In the distance, Helena had become a scavenger as well, digging through the heaps of destruction that occurred when one world state clashed with the other years ago. The war yielded no winners, only broken people, pawns struggling to survive.
By Barb Dukemana day ago in Fiction
City of plague:A new Yorker’s pandemic chronicle
When Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered all non-essential businesses in New York State to shut down, Chinatown changed almost overnight.
By Petera day ago in Fiction
City of plague:A new Yorker’s pandemic chronicle
By late March of the Year of the Rat, time itself seemed to slow under the weight of the virus. Days stretched endlessly, as if the calendar had lost its urgency. Each morning looked almost identical to the one before it. The same gray sky over Manhattan. The same cautious silence on the streets below our apartment window.
By Petera day ago in Fiction
My Dad
I got my story in a magazine; it was about my dad, George Hurst. He was the best dad in the world. He loved his family and raised his children while my mum was always ill with her nerves. He cooked, cleaned, and worked down the coal mine. My dad was like me: always happy and helping others, but usually taken for granted, too.
By George’s Girl 2026 a day ago in Fiction