Litreads Stories

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...

WATTYS WINNER 2020 Two interconnected murders, 64 years apart. One woman's search for truth and identity. Readers' comments: 'a masterpiece', 'impeccably written', 'amaz...

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...

"But when one has no way of exceeding the limit of sixteen, Is death not the ideal medicine?..." ... On the night of my sixteenth birthday, my killer made m...

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...

"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...

The disappearance of a friend and millions of Francs worth of wine interrupts David's buying trip in France when he pauses to assist and comfort his friend's wife, Cathe...

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...

A brother's premonition and request

Turning into a bear had never been on Marcus Bay's bucket list. And when a series of (rather unusual) events leave him trapped in the body of a t...

A dark craze has gripped the streets and suburbs of South Wales. It's unlikely leader - a modest, middle-aged accountant - explains the thinking behind the mayhem which...

A collection of stories, 50 words or less, as an experiment in what can be developed--and how--in relatively few sentences.

NOW PUBLISHED. What does it mean to be normal? It's such a loaded word, with about a billion different meanings, and every one of them makes Ava Collins sick. At 17, Ava...

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...

A man who's always seen the world through an artistic lens, where boat railings are covered in vermilion paint under cotton candy clouds, would like nothing more than to...

That Which Must Happen releases on Kindle & Kindle Unlimited 30.10.2018. Benjamin is a child able to foresee and forestall events unfolding in his life and that of other...

What happens when you can't stop the voices in your head? Louisa Simmons is just another girl, invisible to the world, lost in the abyss of her thoughts, desperate for a...

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...