Slums Stories

Slums. Not a great way to start a story of success right? Especially when you have a grudge from the higher society but still want to be a part of them. No education, ba...

After Nneka's father almost loses his life and farm, her mother mysteriously vanishes. She then moves to Lagos to live with her grandmother, but she soon finds there's m...

Charlotte was against it. Abigail was furious. "You'll get yourself killed, Hemingway" Abigail snapped, her hand trembling slightly as she packed a pistol into...

fictional short story based on a true story and inspired by the novel, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers," by Katherine Boo.

This ends now Trump!" Don Trump didn't look up from signing an executive order barreling through Social Security cuts. "Or what, Muskrat? You'll "Quit?&q...

Muto Yoshida is in a bit of a pickle. The cute girl he was dating turns out to be the world famous Sailor Moon, living conditions continue to get harder and the Latino f...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩... 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮�...

"so vou fazer pelo dinheiro, mais nada" m/n told himself. it was just for the money. all the big salaries he saw people living such comfortable lives and blowi...

Excerpt; He saw some benefits in her. Young, beautiful, fair with smooth skin and a desirable body. He brushed the tears on her face away. Innocent. That was what she wa...

The peace frays as dusk settles. At a bend in the tracks, shadows detach from the trees. Men with machetes. Gangsters. They board the train, their boots thudding like dr...

𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅...

Two young people. One city. Terror.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒇𝒆... 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒔𝒔, 𝒔𝒂�...

After the death of her grandmother, Hyacinth Aragon does everything she can to survive in the dystopian world. She had been living as a marionette doing grunt works with...

𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐉 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐬...

The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead like angry hornets trapped in glass. Kayla's palms stuck to the cold steel examination table as Dr. Voss adjusted the neural heads...

Living a life of poverty,Carson's life suddenly changes when he realizes his Grandmother is involved in criminal activities that results in a woman being kidnapped. Afte...

A motivational short story of a boy from the slum. Don't the people of the slums have the right to live? Don't they have the right to dream? Don't they can do something...

The first wave was catastrophic. The infected didn't just turn into mindless zombies. They turned into something else entirely-hyper-aggressive creatures with inhuman sp...