Read Short Stories for Adults
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
A futuristic musical duel between two star ship captains who battle over a golden trumpet.
A dying young man looks back on his childhood and remembers a special tree.
An easy to relate to story about getting your license to drive and initiation to adulthood.
A girl climbs her favorite tree in a rainstorm and waxes philosophical with a boy who wonders what she is doing up a tree in a rainstorm.
A child princess falls in love with a servant boy that she is forbidden to marry. Later she is banished from her kingdom, and circumstances change.
An imaginative story about a lonely young girl who dreams of finding a special friend.
A teen wins a NASA writing contest and gets a trip into outer space that doesn't exactly turn out the way she had hoped.
Twleve jurors are brutally murdered after their "not guilty" verdict sets the defendant free.
A story about feeling alone in your darkest moments and then discovering someone was there for you all along, just waiting for you to ask for help.
When Ben saw the small silver thing heading for him, he tried to move out of the way but it hit him in the middle of the forehead and the lights went out.
Interesting and historically informative description of life in rural America before and during the war.
Short history of a frustrated freelancer.
The story’s about a mysterious man by the name of Prescott Simms, who happens to know more famous people than any one man could possibly know.
After losing everything on her computer hard drive to a destructive worm a woman chooses to return to pen and paper.