Litreads Stories

Lust, deception, revenge, love--all in a day's work for Isabella Measures, intern to the powerful CEO of Silicon Valley's Alpha Incorporated. But when the hot billionair...

Boy meets girl, girl falls in love, blah-blah-blah. Let me be clear with you from the beginning. This is not that kind of story. My name is Cait, and I live in the g...

In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dre...

Melissa and Kyle had never met until a flight they were both on stranded them on a tropical island in the South Pacific. Alone, with no one to depend on but each other...

An introduction and comprehensive guide to the Literary Fiction Network: what we do, what we believe in, how we help writers and readers, how we plan to grow the communi...

This will be a series of shorts, either short fictions, poetry or prose. They will occasionally be snapshots from my blog, but often the result of writing prompts that I...

Solace is a short story series. Each story is a new character with a new dilemma and a different solution. It's a series about sadness, loss, betrayal, pride, death, h...

Fisherman Joe is a classic country-side tale about a fisherman named Joe who spends his days trying to catch lampreys because of the lassie that broke his heart.

"They say there's a process with things like this: anger and denial, then fear, then a sort of numbness as the gravity of the situation sets in. Then comes the poin...

"This is me. This is my story. This is my life," said I. "But how about me?" you asked. "This story may be about you," I replied. - One Sho...

Highest Ranking: #1 in Humor [FEATURED, SEPT-OCT] An idealistic poet refuses to budge from the last parcel of land a developer needs to acquire in order to build a sho...

[COMPLETED] "And to taste death my soul awaits, the ultimate end for a twisted fate..." Ten hours into the day and ten minutes to be spared before death seiz...

Do we ever realize, at the moment that it is happening, that what is unfolding is to become the defining and pivotal moment of our life? Or does this realization only co...

At the center: there's Rumi, a young boy who grows up in a normal family- yet flinchingly is devoured by the absence of his parents' relationship. Over the years of a si...

A compilation of contemplative, literary short stories that centers on subjective ideas and perspectives about societal and subliminal-self aspects

Myth and reality are one. Conspiracies, ancient and modern alike, manipulate every aspect of life, every interaction. Everyone lives blind to secret masters and secret...

Is Mike in the grips of hallucination, or haunted by 'Gerald' ~ an 18th century fop? It's not an easy one to grapple with in the midst of a ruthless hangover but maybe...