short story

It was a small room inside a three-story building. There were only five people, and their money wasn’t enough for a room on the third floor as they had first intended; instead, they rented a tiny room with no windows in the basement. However, nobody complained, they only needed five chairs and hatred. Their meeting […]

I was kidnapped. They sat me in a chair in the middle of a circle and uncovered my head after they tied my legs and hands to the chair. I chuckled, a terrible mistake, because they stiffened in their chairs and some even pulled weapons. ‘Bitch, I created all of you! Try me!’ I said, […]

It was a cloudy night. His stomach was empty and growling. He curled up on the curb, waiting for the sun to come out and at least give him with some warmth. In the neighborhood, he was known as a hungry nuisance. He was fed the leftovers whenever someone felt sorry for him. When the […]

I don’t know if it is sufficient to say I have tried. Perhaps I haven’t tried hard enough. I feel the bitter taste of defeat in my mouth. Now I can even scream, but they won’t hear me. And the funny part is that they won’t hear me because they have gone through the procedure […]

780 woke up. It was a fine day. He got to shower first. 781 had not come back yet, and he wondered why. 781 was stuck at work until late and she was still in the bunk bed when he left. He did not care about intercourse; his body was still recovering from yesterday’s long […]

It was a huge prison, they said. You could not see the walls, but it was certainly a prison. The huge walls were so far away that they couldn’t be seen from the pavilions. However, the walls did indeed exist because those trying to escape would fall with a dry thump after a shot. Maya […]

To whoever finds this, I promise I am not a beast. We don’t eat children, pregnant women, animals, and most importantly, the Toolmaker. Before the Toolmaker, our days were filled with blood and savagery. More than peace, he brought us a clear standard of eating. We are forever thankful for his work to our kind. […]

Everybody knew it, the house-eater. The house-eater covered our apartment complex with a white blanket; it raised the temperature, but it also protected us from hail. Most of us were skeptical from the very start since the metal frame was buried around us, so the large white blanket came as no surprise. In the beginning, […]

It was that time of the year, and no amount of sighing or pretending to be sick would change that. Someone was brave enough to jump down the stairs and break a foot. The rest sighed in desperation. The odds increased. And when they saw their boss arriving, they knew the draw would start. Everybody […]

“Spell cream,” Celia asked the student. She drew five dashes on the blackboard. “C…r…e…e…m!” Before any other student could laugh, she lifted her hand, and they calmed down. “Are you sure?” She wrote the letters above the dashes, and it spelled ‘creem’. He looked at his classmates, but nobody was allowed to help. She said […]