short stories
By monodemo
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999 Emergency
‘Hello!’ Pip bellowed as she went through the front door slamming it behind her. ‘Hello?’ she repeated but got no response. She knew someone was in...
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The Exam
She gently stepped over the dew kissed blades of grass, afraid to wake the daisies, as she made her way to the beat up, rusty brown bench. After she...
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Scars tell you where you've been
“Scars tell you where you’ve been, but they do not dictate where you’re going,” that used to be a quote I lived by. However, most people’s scars are...
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Mental awareness
I have been in and out of mental health hospitals since I was eighteen. I’m unfortunate, yet fortunate to have a mental health condition called...
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The one that got away
When I was fifteen, instead of drinking cheap alcohol behind the community centre, or smoking weed in the shed next to the school, I was at home, in...
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Do not pass go
Her perfectly manicured, blood-soaked hand, discovered in the prickly blackberry bushes beside the moss-covered train tracks by two mischievous...
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The Pocket Watch
I went shopping with my aunt Fiona not really in the market to buy anything, but it was a novelty after covid and lockdown. Both myself and Fiona...
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Conformity
I was a victim of conformity as I was growing up, but without it I wouldn’t be the person I am now. At fifteen I lost a lot of friends who saw me as...
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Shame
I had a three o clock appointment with Mr. Hamill, an orthopaedic surgeon. I went into the receptionist at ten to three, ten minutes early. I always...
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Heartbeat
In 2007, I was diagnosed with a blood condition called lupus anti-coagulant. It means that my blood clots quicker than normal. I was devastated when...
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The Best Wedding Yet!
Louise woke up on a sunny Saturday morning by her mother, holding prosecco with strawberries in it and she thought, ‘finally, the day is here!’...
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Them or Me
Leonard Patrick Boylan, or Lenny for short, was born on the 18 th of August 1990. He was the type of man who could fit in anywhere, he had various...
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Ward Round
Penelope, an intimidated twenty-seven-year-old woman, entered the sizable, sparce, clinical looking room which housed two long tables placed side by...
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The Slap
This is a very controversial story that some may find disturbing! Margaret, or Mags as she preferred to be called, was at sitting alone at a...
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The Soiree
Dede was hosting her infamous Saturday soiree in her spacious back garden for the first time in what seemed like forever, due to covid. Dede was glad...
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Forever Friend
All my life I had wanted a dog. I begged and pleaded with my parents for one, even accused them of child abuse for not letting me have one, but they...
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Pride
I was a late bloomer; I only came out at thirty-two. I was ready to come out at eighteen, but my younger brother pipped me to the post, leaving me...
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Three Strikes
Penelope nervously rocked backwards and forwards in her chair as she sat in wait of Dr Megan O’Neill. Penelope was dreading the meeting as she knew...
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The Eulogy
I cleared my throat as I stepped up to the podium, shaking, crumbling the piece of paper in my right hand from nerves, my left containing a...
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First Kiss
Way back when I was twelve years old, everyone was approaching, or had already been introduced to puberty. As per nature, there was a good amount of...
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Progression
I woke hearing ‘breakfast time’ being shouted from all angles. One of the nurses shook my arm and I let out a gasp. She looked at me and smiled, ‘c’...
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Little Miracles
‘Hi guys, it’s me your mom.’ I said softly as I looked down at my two beautiful baby boys; they were not even an hour old but what an hour it had...
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Marian
Marian woke every morning at half six; her internal clock never let her down. She was out of the bed and into her baby blue fluffy fleece dressing...
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Home Sweet Home
Penelope sat in her dark brown leather recliner pensively; she was only home from hospital a few days and was finding it hard to acclimate to her ‘...
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The Rose
I thought I would try my hand at some flash fiction. Picture from pixabay. Dan looked down at the crushed, dew kissed, red rose on the footpath. He...
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Unheard Gossip
‘Penelope, Penelope are you home?’ I called up the stairs to my daughter. I had just done a massive weekly grocery shop, as we had had nothing in the...
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Rumination
I lay in bed petrified to sleep, ruminating over the torturous class that will greet me with the sun. Every Sunday night without fail, the same dread...
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Extortion
‘Oh shit!’ David uttered as he saw the reflexion of the flash as the neighbours’ kids’ polaroid camera snaped against the shiny metal bin. ‘Caught...
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The Small Black Velvety Box
I opened my eyes on Christmas morning excited about the fact that I thought I was going to be presented with an engagement ring. I came to that...
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Enough
As I reclined on the black leather chair, dozing, reading James Patterson’s new novel in the front room, the alien sound of the letter box clunked...
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Brain Hemorrhage
As I sat on the last bus home at 4am I started to regret downing that last brain haemorrhage cocktail as if it was water. It looked like a brain in a...
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No More
Some Flash Fiction (under 400 words) Picture from Pixabay. As the family of four made short bread cookies, Dave saw Kathy rub her ever expanding...
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