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Read Short Survival / Success

Read the best short stories online by short story writers of all ages from around the world,
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.

You Only Live Once By Mahalakshmi

Breaking free to live life as you want to

The beautiful Nothing By George

Banaya and Ameen share a plan to win their families over

“The Constable of Lamar” — As Told by Ju By Rich Puckett

The story is both fact and fiction of an American hero

Burning Down the House By Ed Staskus

Burning Down the House

Buried Memories By Shelly Garrod

Certain incidences occur for four different people, and they have no recollection of what happened. This is a poem.

Part II: The Scars that Stayed By Mieyo Vesper

Scar from the woman who are trying to survive

Koyaanisqatsi By Yuki

Koyaanisqatsi

The Visit By Claudia

Some things are meant to be

She had no idea how she got there By Mahalakshmi

A daughter's struggle

The Secret Runaways By Konstantine Tsiagalis

A musing about wholeness, redemption, and common humanity.

The Story Mary Elanor Wilkins Freeman By Shirley Smothers

Thank you to Barry for inspiring me to research and write this story about Mary Elanor Wilkins Freeman.

The chain that cross the ocean By Abraham Dowaity

All about African

Number Seven? By Lea Sheryn

Damaris Greenham catches the King's attention

"Bear Claws." By Kevin Hughes

It would be another century before donuts were invented...until then Bear Claws ruled.

I had a good day today. By Kevin Hughes

Sometimes, when you are seventy, a good day happens.

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