Read Short Character Based Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Jason Devlin’s family is falling to pieces. Clarice Copparelli, a middle-aged neighbor, offers a way station where he can stop for a rest and refurbish his damaged faith in humanity.
A poor family in a coastal village confronts the challenges of survival, centered around the father's crab-hunting season and an encounter with a lurking monster, while highlighting their resilience and the mother's protective strength.
Since returning from the war in Vietnam, Mickey Pisludski wears a chain of armor piercing, machine gun shells draped around his thick neck. Like so many gold, sharks’ teeth, the shells fan out across a khaki T-shirt with a gash under the left armpit.
The story it’s an honor of my mother her favorite thing to tell me growing up was about the time she met the gypsies in Arkansas
“Nok. Nok. Nok. Aram noks but nobody seams home.” Abi Petrosyan, an Armenian auto mechanic who emigrated from Azerbaijan in central Asia, just joined a creative writing workshop and things aren’t going well.
Students at Riverton High School are celebrating black heritage week. The English teacher, Alex Fulton, intends to comply with the school’s agenda but on his own terms not those of Melba Jackson, the DEI chairperson.
As a boy I used to like to visit graveyards and I find myself talking to the people whose names is on the stones so this story developed in my mind kind of want it
Eighty year-old Morris Abrams can talk perfectly well but prefers not to, while Maureen Crowley prepares for an elaborate wedding she has no intentions of attending. What’s going on here?
Screwie Louie, the fourteen-pound Lhasa apso, is the perfect sounding board for Otis Sander’s misanthropic pronouncements regarding a world gone ever so slightly berserk.
Your story tells of a life that I have seen many times who are the people but not God
A story about a boy who saw some parrots that were in captivity and wanted to save them.