🏆 Writing Competition LIVE!💰 $100 prize⏳ Closes in View competition →

🏆 Writing Competition LIVE! -💰 $100prize

Short stories & poems

All Poetry Science Fiction Action & Adventure Fantasy Romance Horror Crime, Mystery & Thriller YA Fiction Humour Western

Recently featured

Ruth Benning

Solstice

1 min read

(You may only use a word once in this poem, and every second line must rhyme (ABAC…))

Kosuke

An Alchemist Worth Her Salt

1 min read

“This is everything my alchemy research has surmounted to, I can’t pass up this oppor

carys

An Endless Journey

2 min read

Our legs had all but given out long ago. Our bodies ached, our lips begged for even a

K. Alejandra

Dolores, Mi Amor

4 min read

Jorge De Saláriente was everywhere. His face was plastered on every news outlet in th

Gabs😜

The Call Of The Sirens

1 min read

The sirens. They’re calling to me. I reach for my noise cancelling headphones, but

Kitten

To My Mum, I Miss You

2 min read

It’s been a year… Really? It’s been a year? Does time fly or am I so stuck on that da

Read more ya fiction writings

Faehaven Manor

kayeflayer

2 min read

Bartholomew "Barty" Buttercup, renowned paranormal investigator (in his own mind), adjusted his tinfoil hat and declared, 'The spirits tremble before my mighty EMF meter!' A couple of kids laughed at him. Unsurprisingly, this was not paranormal for Faehaven Manor, a popular tourist trap. Barty was swarmed in gadgets. He pulled a gadget that looked like a squirt gun glued on to a wrench out of his ...

YA fiction

Humour

Definition

Rose Lee

1 min read

A poet is only as good as their definition of poetry.

A poet could poem a lyric from nothing at all

nonsensical, definition of poetry that is

A poet could come up with a rhyme in no time

iteration, shows the poets true dedication

A poet is only as good as their definition of poetry...

Poetry

YA fiction

Mother, May I ?

Birdy

1 min read

_Mother, may I speak today? I won’t say anything bad to anybody._

_Father, I didn’t mean to smile or laugh, so please give me a second chance._

_Mother, I promise I didn’t hear a thing . I’ll do anything if you just believe in me. The screams and cries all blend together anyway._

_Father, please tell Mama to let me out of this cage. I apologize over and over every day._

_Brother, will ...

Poetry

YA fiction

Not Like That

Kaleigh DeMartino

2 min read

“He swears she’s just an old friend,” Jenny said, staring down at her worn sneakers. They were the same ones she wore every day as she and Max walked their usual route—Max walking his elderly neighbor’s dog, while Jenny headed to her shift at the local drugstore. The sneakers could probably stand to be replaced, but Jenny’s mom would likely disagree if she brought it up. Besides, Jenny had been sa...

YA fiction

Drama

A Lonely Ghost

Poofy Cheeks

1 min read

The human-hunter was lonely and wanted to experience life as a human.

Her family was bored as well as they have not hunted humans for a long time. They only need to absorb the dying mist from all the other living creatures that struggled and failed to survive in the city.

Since the appearance of ghost-hunters, most ghosts had been eradicated. Her family had been very conservative and shut themse...

YA fiction

Humour

The Training Day

Deonora P

1 min read

“Just as humans hunt us, we hunt them back. We’re just nicer about it. So, our targets. Abusers, murderers, rapists. And also the members of the opposing sports teams of course. Now, if that’s clear, I really don’t want to have to actually train you guys, so congratulations, you’ve passed your examinations, welcome to the world of hunters.” The tall, pale ghost grins and starts handing out badges,...

YA fiction

trapped in my mind

Selina Raphaela

1 min read

a small, blonde haired child

standing in a dark cage

catching a glimpse of the sharp ice

attached to the ceiling

tears fill her innocent eyes

leaving salty traces on her cheeks

the knife-like objects growing bigger

she tries to escape

for her own good

but she’s trapped in this spot

that felt like home once

now slowly destroying itself

a small light draws “im sorry” on her chest...

YA fiction

I’m So Sorry

Luna Moon✨🌙

1 min read

I already miss you.

Someone who I grew close to

Someone I fell for

Someone I inevitably had to leave, bc everything that’s good comes to an end eventually. You can’t have the highs w/out the lows.

You brightened my day when all I could see were the storms

I wish you the best, truly, I just thought I’d be w/ you for the rest of our lives.

You went w/ your bright sunny future & confused self & lef...

YA fiction

Romance

Tempus Fugit

Evelyn Allen Vale

1 min read

730. It's been 730 days. The palm tree that bears the marks of time on a beach that's made of the stuff of hourglasses. It's ironic, really. To be surrounded by time but not feel its weight.

My skin should be saggier than this, but I noticed it the other day. I haven't changed. I mean, I have. I have new scars, freckles, and sun spots, but I'm still me—still stuck.

GODS! When will it end? My pri...

Fantasy

YA fiction

IssyWritesss

2 min read

I left you,

Not the other way around.

I promised I wouldn’t return,

Yet here I am, still yearning,

To be lost in you,

Drowned in the ache that’s always true.

It’s breaking me—

You break me—

In the sweetest of pains,

In the sharpest of stains.

It’s all me, I know,

My fault, my choice.

You’d tell me not to blame myself,

But how could I silence that voice?

I did this.

And now I wish to return—

But ...

Poetry

YA fiction