TodayShort stories · 6 chapters
Quick Reads
A night porter takes a call from a room that doesn't exist. A wedding toast goes very wrong for one aunt. A cheap earpiece that translates what people mean. Two strangers falling for each other in the margins of a library book. A birthday cake, three suspects and one detective. And a wishing well that is tired of wishes. New originals, each one finished in under five minutes.
Chapters
6 chapters
4 minHorror · 4 min
Room FourteenFree
A small hotel by the sea has thirteen rooms. So why does the phone at the desk keep ringing from room fourteen?
4 minDrama · 4 min
Was I Wrong?Free
For two years, her boyfriend's family has thought she doesn't speak a word of Spanish. At his sister's wedding, she gives the toast.
5 minSci-fi · 5 min
The Honest Earpiece
A cheap translation earpiece for a week in Valencia. It works perfectly. It translates what people mean, not what they say.
4 minRomance · 4 min
Margin Notes
Someone has been writing in the library's copy of Jane Eyre. In pencil, in the margins, and they are very funny. So you write back.
4 minMystery · 4 min
The Case of the Last Slice
Four flatmates, one fridge, and a birthday cake with one slice left. By morning it's gone, and you have read every Sherlock Holmes story twice.
4 minFantasy · 4 min
The Tired Well
A wishing well in a small town square has heard four hundred years of wishes, and it is tired of most of them. Then a girl throws in a button.