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Introduction This is a drabble for Lana V Lynx's "I Want to Go Home!" challenge, which you can read about here: The music is "My Baby's Takin' Me Home" from "Li'l Beethoven" by Sparks
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 months ago in Fiction
"I Want to Go Home!"
When SpaceX Dragon Capsule exploded on April 20, 2019, Tom Mueller, the lead propulsion engineer, followed Elon Musk into his office minutes after Musk burst out of the mission control room.
By Lana V Lynx4 months ago in Fiction
Fostering Doubts
Author's Preamble: As noted above, this is my 22nd rejection, in my ongoing attempt to win something or have something published outside of Vocal. The following story was written for the 2025 Ligonier Valley Writers' Flash Fiction Contest. The prompt was simply, AI/robots, the light or dark side. 1000 words or less.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Revenge Is Best Served with Spite
Michael sat down at his laptop. This time, he was determined to go through with it. Unlike all the other times before, he now had someone to share his life with. Someone with whom he could find the happiness that he had been seeking for many years.
By Calvin London4 months ago in Fiction
The Cow That Outsmarted Mosquitoes
It began as a joke. In a quiet farming village on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, a man named Dr. Taro Kojima lived among his cows and his notebooks. Once a promising university biologist, he had returned to his father’s farm after losing funding for his research. The world had moved on, and so had the science he once loved.
By Wellova 4 months ago in Fiction
Ashes of Yesterday
“Evelyn… is that really you?” Marcus squinted at the figure in the dimly lit café, unsure if his eyes were playing tricks on him. Time had sculpted her differently: the bright, audacious girl he once knew had vanished, replaced by someone quieter, more measured, yet undeniably familiar.
By Ethan Cole4 months ago in Fiction
The Great Arica Deluge
At the time of “the great earthquake of ’68,” said Mr Swiddler—William Swiddler, of Calaveras—I was at Arica, Peru. I do not have a map with me, and am not certain that Arica is in Chile, but it can’t make much difference; there was an earthquake all along there.
By Alpha4 months ago in Fiction
Globophobia. Top Story - October 2025.
**I'm taking another writing course and one of the prompts that the teacher asked us to write about was using a random phobia from this website. He prompted us to write a story about said phobia that was picked at random. This is what I managed to come up with.**
By Chloe Rose Violet 🌹4 months ago in Fiction
The Rupture
My children... The Dark Lord himself has let the morbid believers of the Up-Above fool his followers into thinking that they would be taken up, and we have all had a nice laugh with all of their most pitiful miscalculations and threats to the rest of us...heathens. We know that we will be taken down at the end of this month as the demons and spirits rise up and finally make their promise real with our corporeal forms now dismissed as we all dance, celebrate and laugh with his true light-giver.
By Kendall Defoe 4 months ago in Fiction
File 17: Sue Pea – “The Lonely Child”
SUBJECT DESIGNATION: Sue Pea – “The Lonely Child” CLASS: Type III Emotional Manifestation (Juvenile / Isolation-Bound Entity)
By V-Ink Stories4 months ago in Fiction
File 16: Jarvis – “The Jar Collector”
SUBJECT DESIGNATION: Jarvis – “The Jar Collector” CLASS: Type III Material-Fetish Entity (Containment / Hoarder Variant) CONTAINMENT STATUS: Secured within Portrait Frame #024, “Preserved Obsession”
By V-Ink Stories4 months ago in Fiction
File 14: Madame Clairvoya – “The Fortune Teller”
SUBJECT DESIGNATION: Madame Clairvoya – “The Fortune Teller” CLASS: Type IV Spectral Entity (Cognitive / Psychic Projection)
By V-Ink Stories4 months ago in Fiction