Short Story

The town where memories last forever：Chapter 1
Part One: The Town That Forgot How to Smile Allison Grant had seen her fair share of strange places, but none quite like Hollow Creek.
By Lucianabout a year ago in Fiction
A Walk to Remember
🌟 Meet Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan The story takes place in the small town of Beaufort, North Carolina, in the late 1950s.
By Muhammad Hayatabout a year ago in Fiction
The Kiss Quotient
🌟 Meet Stella Lane Stella Lane is not your typical romance heroine. She’s a brilliant, successful woman who works as an econometrician (someone who uses math and statistics to predict shopping patterns). She loves her job and is very good at it.
By Muhammad Hayatabout a year ago in Fiction
The Vanishing 13th Step：Chapter 3
2013.10.13 03:15 The dripping sound in the attic started again. This time I brought a building decibel meter, and the data showed that the sound source was in the load-bearing wall in the northwest corner, but there was no water pipe there at all. The thermal imaging camera showed that the wall temperature was 4.2℃ lower than the surrounding area. Wait, there was an inverted 13 in the lower right corner of the instrument panel.
By Lucianabout a year ago in Fiction
The moon that waited for the stars
The realm of Aeloria, where the moons sang lullabies and the stars spoke predictions. Long ago, before time shaped the lands, two souls were bound by fate: Lysara, the Starborn Oracle, whose eyes shimmered with stardust, and Caelen, the Guardian of the Verdant Flame, whose heart beat in rhythm with the sacred forests.
By Lajuk anjumabout a year ago in Fiction
The Vanishing 13th Step：Chapter 5
The temperature of the thirteenth step was 32.7℃, which is exactly the critical value of the dying human body. When I held my childhood self's hand, my grandfather's pocket watch began to rotate counterclockwise. On the wall of the ward in 1912, twelve beds surrounded the central staircase device, and each step was embedded with a human bone.
By Lucianabout a year ago in Fiction
The Vanishing 13th Step：Chapter 4
@Coldspring_Ghost: [Image] 1997 height marking wall paint sample test report → Lead content meets the 1978 ban standard → The latest marking uses Sherwin Williams 2023 Color of the Year "Eternal Amber"
By Lucianabout a year ago in Fiction
The Vanishing 13th Step：Chapter 2
"This house will eat up the sound." Old John from the town's hardware store threw bolts into a tin bucket, and the sound of metal collisions became muffled as if something had swallowed them. He pointed to the photo of the stairs I brought with me: "All the old houses in Cold Spring have only 12 steps, and the 13th step is for the Lingering Ones."
By Lucianabout a year ago in Fiction
The Vanishing 13th Step：Chapter 1
As I pulled up to the damned Victorian house, the rain pelted the windshield. Honestly, if it weren't for the "13 consecutive days of living in the house to inherit it" clause in the will, I would never want to go back to Cold Spring, New Hampshire.
By Lucianabout a year ago in Fiction
The Alarm Before the Alarm
The world is still asleep. The official alarms—the shrill beeps of phones, the abrupt vibrations of bedside clocks—haven't rung yet. But she is already awake, nudged into consciousness by a subtler orchestra.
By Subhasri Devarajabout a year ago in Fiction
Lilith's Blessing 17
17. Olivia blinked, rubbed her eyes, blinking again. How? Why? What? The fires and explosions lit up the sky. She felt heat from each explosion that sent debris and people flying from the open cannon decks. The Amun-Airen suffered catastrophic failure, forcing Olivia and her followers to run for cover. It groaned as it broke apart. Its bow listed port-side slamming into the spire.
By Travis J. H. about a year ago in Fiction
Pebbles
Our dashing and romantic hero, let's call him Wayne, is hopelessly in love with Jules. He's been searching for a present for a while. It must be perfect. True love demands nothing less. He waddles to and fro, nosing in every nook and cranny with his beak, beady eyes peeled.
By L.C. Schäferabout a year ago in Fiction