Litreads Stories

What does it take for a person to stand up? Or collapse completely? Society is a synonym for madness. No one is equal. It's purple over blue, and red over purple. Katie...

What happens when you can't stop the voices in your head? Louisa Simmons is just another girl, invisible to the world, lost in the abyss of her thoughts, desperate for a...

"But when one has no way of exceeding the limit of sixteen, Is death not the ideal medicine?..." ... On the night of my sixteenth birthday, my killer made m...

[COMPLETED] "And to taste death my soul awaits, the ultimate end for a twisted fate..." Ten hours into the day and ten minutes to be spared before death seiz...

Straight-A student, Ziva Kritikos, loves to learn. She's always been curious about new things. So when she wishes on a star to know more, she's gifted the ability to eat...

Highest Ranking: #1 in Humor [FEATURED, SEPT-OCT] An idealistic poet refuses to budge from the last parcel of land a developer needs to acquire in order to build a sho...

NOW PUBLISHED. What does it mean to be normal? It's such a loaded word, with about a billion different meanings, and every one of them makes Ava Collins sick. At 17, Ava...

GRAND PRIZE WINNER in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last fiction competition! A prequel to Margaret Atwood's latest novel, The Heart Goes Last, and an entry in the He...

"They say there's a process with things like this: anger and denial, then fear, then a sort of numbness as the gravity of the situation sets in. Then comes the poin...

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Thoughts transposed into poetry.

She just wanted a job, not the end of the world. Flash fiction

A drive home from the hospital awakens this couple's grief over their loss. All it took was a truck loaded with portapotties.

A story of a German boy who witnesses the capture of a Jewish girl. *fully edited, just a work I did in school.

In which I take on the nonsensical and awkward moments of life, with quotes and prose, a few (sort of) poems and some definite randomness.

In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dre...

Boy meets girl, girl falls in love, blah-blah-blah. Let me be clear with you from the beginning. This is not that kind of story. My name is Cait, and I live in the g...