Category: Short Stories
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🌙 The Wake-Up That Wouldn’t Let Go
When reality blinks first, the dream keeps watching I wake up to the sound of a train horn that doesn’t belong to my street. It echoes through the bedroom like a long, wounded animal, low and aching, vibrating the picture frames. My heart slams. I don’t live near tracks. I never have. I sit upright,…
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The Man Who Stood Still 🕯️
A story about meeting the one thing you’ve spent a lifetime outrunning Fear doesn’t always announce itself with thunder or sharp teeth. Sometimes it waits quietly, patient as dust, certain you’ll circle back eventually. Elias learned this the hard way. He stood at the edge of the old quarry just before dawn, boots sunk into…
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⚡ The Day the Sky Went Quiet
When the strength leaves, the truth stays The first thing Elias noticed was the silence. Not the peaceful kind that settles over a city after midnight, but the wrong kind. The kind that rings in your ears because something that should be there isn’t anymore. No hum beneath his skin. No familiar vibration in his…
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🌒 The Weight of the Door
When the thing you fear knows your name Mara learned the sound of fear before she learned its shape. It arrived as a pressure behind the ribs, a soft grinding hum that started in the throat and slid down the spine. It had a rhythm. It kept time. It never hurried. Fear was patient like…
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🌒 The Night Before the Applause
When quitting feels logical and hope feels reckless I was five minutes away from deleting the email folder. Not archiving it. Not marking it unread. Deleting. The nuclear option. Years of unanswered pitches, polite rejections, radio silence dressed up as “we’ll keep you in mind.” I hovered over the cursor like it might confess something…
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✍️ Margins of Erasure 🌀
A character notices the pencil hovering I used to wake up the same way every morning. Sunlight on the left side of the room. A chipped mug waiting on the desk. The smell of toast drifting in from a kitchen that never appeared on the page but felt real anyway. That was before the hesitations…
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The Sound Between Doors 🎧
A single sentence, overheard by accident, rewrites a life already in motion The hallway outside Apartment 3B always smelled faintly of lemon cleaner and old carpet. It was the kind of smell that suggested effort without success. Mara had walked that hallway hundreds of times without noticing it. Today, she noticed everything. She was late.…
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💌 The Letter That Arrived After the Ending ⏳
When the past finally speaks long after you stopped waiting for it The envelope looked like it had traveled through several lifetimes just to land on Maya’s doormat. The paper edges were softened, frayed as if time had been nibbling at them. Her name, written in a handwriting she hadn’t seen in almost twenty years,…
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⏳ The Day That Refused To End
When Time Loops Around a Broken Heart The first time the morning cracked open, Leo barely noticed the odd shimmer in the air. It was one of those early winter dawns where the cold felt as if it had teeth, biting at anything foolish enough to step outside. He rubbed his arms, muttered something about…
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🎁 The Day the Sky Shifted
How a Small Package Cracked Open an Entire Life There are days that slip through your fingers like sand. Then there are days that arrive like a knock at the door. This story begins with the second kind. Elias Rowan had become an expert at surviving his own life. He didn’t hate it. He didn’t…