Adventure

City of plague:A new Yorker’s pandemic chronicle Pt 23.
A small pandemic incident that taught me an unexpected lesson about work, responsibility, and knowing one’s place. One morning during the long months of pandemic lockdown, I received an unexpected phone call from Ms. Lin.
By Peter15 days ago in Fiction
Dasher Diligence
Murphy is awakened by his “Bad to the Bone” alarm clock on his phone so he can start his day. “Oh wow I got a major headache. I probably shouldn’t have ate all that junk food last night, but what can I say? It was Friday night and I wanted something cheap and greasy. It ain’t my fault that Chinese food hits so good after a long Friday’s work. Needless to say, my arms and legs feel heavy like weights have been tied to my limbs so every time I move I feel a jolt of pain.”
By Joe Patterson15 days ago in Fiction
Through And Beyond Smoke
If it’s one thing Jyllmon hates, is driving through the road in extreme darkness. To him, it felt like a horror movie where he had no idea what’s to come. It could be a random deer dashing through the streets, or a helpless woman being chased through the woods, or just simply a broken down car.
By Devond Devoe15 days ago in Fiction
The Fae King. Top Story - March 2026.
It began with a girl. Black-haired and sweet and gone too soon. It is the way of mortals to die, of course. Most pass within a few decades, unless they can be tempted away to fairyland and persuaded to stay there. Even then, mortals live only as long as they can go without visits to friends or family that allow time and the weight of years to catch up to them.
By Natasja Rose15 days ago in Fiction
The Tragic Tale of Jedfrey Mulligan. Content Warning.
Jedfrey Mulligan stood 6’8’’ in his stocking feet and weighed a good 280 pounds on a good day. Once he won a race at the county fair, running a quarter mile - it was a horse race. The county fair discontinued the eating contests, as did each of the towns all around, because he could outeat anyone within 250 miles. He could lay a man out flat with one swing from his mighty left fist and perform a hundred-fifty pull-ups with his right arm. He could lift a wagon and change the wheel and axle without aid, and once lifted his neighbor's ox and carried it home, over two miles away.
By Mother Combs16 days ago in Fiction
Into The Great Beyond
Outside the airlock viewport, nebulous tendrils of incomprehensible colors slithered. Captain Leshford undid his oxygen hose.
By Matthew J. Fromm16 days ago in Fiction
City of plague: A New Yorker’s pandemic chronicle Pt 22.
A quiet story about fear, groceries, and how the internet became our lifeline. During the pandemic, Manhattan’s Chinatown felt like a city holding its breath.
By Peter16 days ago in Fiction
City of plague: A New Yorker’s pandemic chronicle Pt 21.
A family story about distance, marriage, and the strange quiet that forced us to speak about what we had long avoided. When the pandemic arrived, it did not knock on the door politely. It barged in.
By Peter16 days ago in Fiction
The Glacier Thieves. AI-Generated.
The rope snapped taut as Kira's crampons bit into the glass-smooth ice. Forty meters below, the crevasse yawned like a throat lined with sapphire teeth. She didn't look down. Looking down was how people died.
By Cordelia Vance17 days ago in Fiction
That Day, I Became Someone Else. AI-Generated.
I didn’t plan to change my life that day. If anything, I was trying to hold it together. It was a gray Thursday in late October—the kind of day when the sky feels low, like it’s pressing down on the city. I remember standing on the train platform, hands in my coat pockets, watching the same crowd I had watched for years.
By Peter17 days ago in Fiction
Challenger
https://shein-style-offer.top/fiction/challenger-hr33y10aad Here is Chapter 1 for the beginning of the story Chosen as the challenger was rushing through Persephone’s mind as she rode in the car to Golgotha. The bumpy roads only made her stomach worse. Even hearing her parents' stories of their time at their challenges, the first challenges that were not fatal, yet even all the cooperation was not enough for Adrian Minosoke. His rule started the current games. The fatality aspect and the choice of one challenger to face ten deadly challenges over the coming years. The last Oleander had fallen to their death, and the challenges became deadly since then. Persephone sat in the car, looking at the guard, knowing each was ready to meet the Challenger Series quota. This trial was the real challenge, with many saying the Games were controled, especially Oedius. This year’s hope was Persephone not even one of the unassessed climbers from the territory. It was no longer about exploring the old courthouse; now it was a televised event of epic proportions. Persephone sat back, wondering about the horrors she would soon see in the Challenger Center. Her father and mother had been here before, but before the Challenger Series began. Persephone attempted to distract herself from all the work she had left unfinished in her father’s shop, leaving it to Oedious. Everything had gone wrong, and now, as a legacy, she was thrust into the spotlight. Only the love of her family occupied her thoughts as she was preparing to fight for their freedom and her territory. As the trip dragged on, Persephone’s brown eyes closed as she rested before the biggest challenge of her life.
By Sarah Danaher17 days ago in Fiction
The Last Lantern in Briar Glen
At dusk, lanterns bloomed along the crooked streets like golden flowers. They swung from porches, shop signs, and shepherd hooks beside garden gates. They glimmered in windows and bobbed in the hands of late travelers crossing the old stone bridge. Even the great clock tower at the center of the square held a lantern behind each of its four faces, so that the village seemed wrapped in a soft amber heartbeat all through the night.
By Sudais Duranky17 days ago in Fiction