Blog Posts - Short Stories

“The Story Is All Muddle” by Alexander M Zoltai ~~~~~~~~~ I must speak or history will be wrong… ~~~ She didn’t let me explain… She wouldn’t have believed me anyway… Why did they do it? Why make it impossible...

This would normally be a re-blog day; but, Aerogramme Writers’ Studio published A Guide to Short Story Contests in 2017. Since some of the contests have deadlines in January, I thought it needed published here today :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

This book is part of the latest collection of Anglo-Indian short stories published by Warren Brown. These short stories are based in “Anglo-Street”, which represents an Anglo-Indian neighbourhood, a fictional area in Calcutta. The places, charac...

Chrysalis- A Collection of Short Stories 1. Face Value: Social Killer Social Thriller- Human beings in the year 2064AD are valued by their Faces.2. Inheritance Claim: Web of Souls- No Souls Are Lost- They Are Imprisoned Forever3. Laura Attractio...

Trial by Water by Alexander M Zoltai ~~~~~~~~~ I woke up to a loud crack. There was ceiling paint and plaster fracturing—then the multiple thuds. I couldn’t believe my eyes—paint and plaster on the carpet with gallons of water! It w...

Who Is The Victim? by Alexander M Zoltai ~~~~~~~~~ The moon was dirty dancing with the clouds. James Whitlock was cruising the main drag looking for a victim. He was mad—had been since Thursday—mad enough now to punish someone. Everybody...

The Man with the Sensitive Nose by Alexander M Zoltai Dedicated to Ron Jenkins ~~~~~~~~~ It was incredibly inconvenient—washing a body in space… Lots of people just avoided it and stank. Most folks learned to live with the olfactory offen...

ResponseAbility by Alexander M Zoltai Dedicated to Sunandita ~~~~~~~~~ She couldn’t wait for her birthday to arrive. Six weeks till she’d turn fifteen. So much to do to get ready… Her friends had trouble understanding her seriousness ab...

August Summer Reads from Amazon Author Warren Brown ...

Home, Sweet Home by Alexander M Zoltai Dedicated to Jennifer Morrey ~~~~~~~~~ The report said the kids were undernourished—nearly dangerously skinny—wouldn’t eat the school lunches—said it wasn’t healthy food… Jane...

           Animesh sat on the big wooden chair in front of the roadside shop of Dorji Sonam. He had walked enough. That afternoon he took a different route through the helipad of the nearby army base for his evening walk. He was too tired.

A Witchy Brew by Alexander M Zoltai Dedicated to Adrian G Hilder ~~~~~~~~~ “But, I’m not a witch.” That was the third time Melody had said those words in this conversation with the professor. He countered with, “You still have...

I indicated yesterday that my normal schedule here (Mon-Wed-Fri, regular blogs posts by me—Tue-Thur-Sat-Sun, re-blogs from other bookish bloggers) would be different for awhile because of my moving a short physical distance but an imponderable...

Lost Birthright by Alexander M Zoltai Dedicated to Jane Darnton Watson ~~~~~~~~~ She was losing it—losing her grip and her birthright; but, she didn’t know it yet… What she did know was that her neighbors were all missing the point,...

এক গৃহস্থের বাড়িতে একটি হংস দম্পতি বসবাস করে। সকাল থেকে সারাদিন তারা নন্দী পুকুরের কালো জলে স...

I believe it would be considered by most to be very unwise for someone to openly explain the exact reason for committing an act that would generally be considered by the civilized society as a crime. And that too, in a typewritten letter. But the def...

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