Story of the Week

"Marie (a very short story)" by David Rodeback

Sometimes you just want a sweet story, and our Story of the Week is just that! Told from the perspective of a 7th-grade boy, this story details the sweet excitement of first crushes and the emotions that come with first heartbreak. 

breakup
David Rodeback

Marie (a very short story)

  • 5
( 2 Reviews )

I met Marie in the hallway after school. “The race is tomorrow,” I said. “We should sign up.” “The three-legged race?” “Yeah.” Running the three-legged

Read More »

Contemporary Fiction

adventure
Dennis Mombauer

Halls of Silt and Seawater

“That’s exactly what I imagined. Isn’t it great?” Ben and his friends looked down the dunes, over the beach and the rolling waves, crashing against

Read More »

Romance

adventure
Maryandra Barker

S.O.S. Chapter Ten – The First of Many (P-2)

*** Want to start at the beginning? Here’s the link to the prologue: http://simily.co/all-stories/maryandramb/s-o-s-searching-out-souls/ _____________________________________________________________________ (Cover Photo Credit – Myself) Part Two As soon as

Read More »
steampunk
Caitlin McColl

Heart of Steel – Part 2

  • 5
( 1 Reviews )

Gideon opened his eyes, narrowed into slits from the sunlight that streamed through the large floor-to-ceiling windows. The palm and orange trees, a cluster of

Read More »
adventure
Maryandra Barker

S.O.S. Chapter Five – The Procedures (P-1)

***Want to start at the beginning? Here’s the link to the prologue: http://simily.co/all-stories/maryandramb/s-o-s-searching-out-souls/ ____________________________________________________________________ (Photo Credit- Myself) Part One Commander Torren Egress paused outside the

Read More »
vampire
Chloe Longstreet

Malik Needs Help

“Whoa!” Malik pulled gently on the reins of his horse, encouraging the animal to slow down. He hadn’t seen Trisha for almost a century and

Read More »
Black magic
Colin Devonshire

Snowed-In

“You have got to be joking?” “No, I mean it, we are stuck.” “You are telling me, I’ve travelled all this way. Bought loads of

Read More »
Blog
Evan Bond

Writing on the Stall

I’ve always been fascinated by the random writings on bathroom stalls. In fact, so are a lot of people. At least, they must be because

Read More »
fantasy
Charlotte Rodricks

Revenge of the mermaid

  • 4
( 1 Reviews )

The mermaid languished around lazily watching from the corner of her eye, as the boys played on the banks of the lake. She resented them

Read More »

True Story

accident
Gerald Washington

The Lost Poem

Oh no! What have I done? My happiness has been stung By a major error There’s nothing in my mind except terror It ruined a

Read More »
alien
Tim McDaniel

Teachers’ Lounge

 “It’s an invasion, I keep telling you,” Mark said from his desk. He pulled another essay off the stack and sighed. Cathy, sitting at the

Read More »
Qing Yang

The Girl Who Wasn’t Sara

Eric first noticed the girl as she was getting off the train. He couldn’t see her face from where he was sitting, but from behind

Read More »
TzeLin Sam

TV Shows vs Real Life

As I was brushing my teeth the other day, I thought about TV show scenes in which people would just casually have a chat while

Read More »
better
Victoria Mineva

For today’s mood

A bit of nostalgia Becoming a wish For something much better Then billing or sadness Something like this New career objective Of eternal love in

Read More »

Deadly Love

Kill me slowly with your concern Kill me gently with your kindness Rip my heart to pieces with your love Make the pain light with

Read More »

Untethered

I walk a shore,Stretching for miles ahead,But with a start and end. I leave footprints behind,And step into ones before me,Walking straight with no bend.

Read More »
TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS IN LIFE!
Walker Ikard

LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE COUNT

The little things in life always count. If you show a little kindness along the way, it will always be appreciated. It will count and

Read More »

Contamination

A story of the repair workers When the nice grey-haired physician – she looked like a secondary-school counsellor – finished, Jannike’s gaze slid out the

Read More »