Collection of Short Stories Online

New Flash Fiction and Very Short Stories site

2007-11-01T08:48:00.000-07:00

There is a new free flash fiction and very short stories site aiming to provide the best and highest quality free short stories and flash fiction to give everybody free a really good read for Christmas.

Stories, so far, include:

The Human Kindness Virus - a virus short story flash fiction
Highland Beginning - new global warming and climate change short fiction
What's so attractive about my rear end?
Ultimate Christmas Kiss Confession - an Xmas party flash fiction very short story
An affair? Are you thinking of having an affair? A flash fiction very short story

It's growing fast and well worth checking out if you are looking for micro-fiction, very short stories, short short stories, sudden fiction or postcard fiction. Each micro-story or short short story is completely free to read online.

Bye for now

Rob

We all long for that special Christmas lover and soul-mate. This lady had a choice of three ...

2007-10-09T06:01:00.000-07:00

We all long for that special Christmas lover and soul-mate. The lady in my free Christmas short story had a choice of three ... How special is that?

Each year I send my many Internet friends around the world a special seasonal greetings short story by posting it on one of my web sites.

Some say it's because I'm too tight to send Christmas cards :-)

Maybe ... But it's a tradition that I have been keeping for many years now and one I would hate to discontinue.

So I hope you enjoy this free online Christmas short story called Three Christmas Lovers from Rob Hopcott with all seasons greetings.

Bye for now

Rob

Short Story Piano Accordions and Chat Rooms

2007-08-24T02:11:00.000-07:00

If you are into folk music, pubs, foreign beauties or just like a rattling good short story with a touch of romance and a few twists and turns, Piano Accordions and Chat Rooms may be for you.

Like all of Rob Hopcott's stories, it's free to read online.

If you are thinking of buying a piano accordion with a quick fling with a married woman thrown in to spice things up, this short story may give you pause for thought.

Enjoy.

Rob

Only teasing or intent on greater hurt - beans spilt on Ex-classmate from Hell

2007-06-08T09:00:00.000-07:00

Only teasing or intent on greater hurt? Judge for yourself in 'Ex-classmate from Hell'.

The school reunion was imminent but there was a classmate from hell who had caused her a lifetime of bad memories.

Should she make her peace or risk being bullied again by daring to engage in open hostilities on his home ground?

Teasing, bullying and victimisation arouses high passions.

'Ex-classmate from Hell' is a good free read.

Bye for now

Rob

(online author)

Brave enough to sell your short story or short stories face to face? This author was ... but didn't live to tell the tale.

2007-05-22T05:58:00.000-07:00

If you are an author, would you be brave enough to sell your short story, short stories or novels face to face? In this short story, this author was bold enough ... but he didn't live to tell the tale.

Writers are so often retiring flowers who prefer the tranquility of a small, hidden away personal room populated by their characters.

But story telling in the olden days was by travelling gypsies who would tell their tales around the camp fire in exchange for a meal or a place to lay their head for the night.

Even today, at summer camps around the world, small boys recount ghost stories designed to chill the bones of their fellow campers as they retire for the night into the dark shadows.

Why then should modern authors fear facing their public? Where's the harm in selling door to door? (I know somebody who used to sell origami door to door and made a modest living.) If it's a good story, why not feel proud and get out there, sell and say goodbye to middle men publishers.

The author who is the subject of this article sold his work at open air markets from an upturned wooden box.

Would you be brave enough to do that?

See what happened to him ...

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online author and lover of a good story)

Fatherhood by Bryan Young and the strange theory of the Million Writers

2007-05-10T09:26:00.000-07:00

For sheer writing excellence, the short stories of Bryan Young should be a good bet, judging by his latest short story Fatherhood. But why am I telling you this?

To quote the justification behind The Million Writers Award

The online writing community have the power to promote the great stories we are creating. If only a few hundred writers took the time to tell fifteen of their friends about a great online short story--and if these friends then passed the word about this fiction to their friends (and so on and so on)--this one story would soon have a larger readership than all of the stories in Best American Short Stories.

The The Million Writers Award is restricted to edited writers and a whole load of other rules so the award doesn't interest me.

But their idea of online writers telling other people whenever they find a great short story is brilliant.

So check out Bryan Young and his collection of short stories and, if you like them, tell your friends.

What do you think? Tell me!

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online author and short story addict)

Four short crushes is an excellent short story or series of short stories by Paul Simms

2007-05-04T03:24:00.000-07:00

Engaging, delightful and ruminative. 'Four short crushes' is an excellent short story or series of short stories published in The New Yorker 30th April 2007 and written by Paul Simms.

Engaging because the lead character is like us. We look, we imagine, we are attracted but, then, that's it.

Delightful because the stories have an immediacy and a flow that makes them easy to read to the end.

Ruminative because the stories don't seek answers to great questions of life or the universe. They are about crushes, women, girlfriends, bars, Starbucks, restaurants and rain. What more do you want?

Four short crushes by Paul Simms is a good read and deserves checking out.

What do you think? Have you secret crushes? Comment and tell all!

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online author who believes we should all enjoy our harmless little crushes and, sometimes, tell all)

Free online fiction by Paul Burgess

2007-04-26T06:43:00.000-07:00

Reading through the interesting online collection of short stories by Paul Burgess, I am at a loss as to their genre. They are science fiction, fantasy and, sort of, good old Daliesque (is there such a word?).

Anyway, this restless spirit deserves a look and maybe some things don't need a classification.

Enjoy!

Bye for now Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online author - who needs classification?)

Short Story: A Grave Error by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

2007-04-23T03:17:00.000-07:00

Rivetting short story opening lines are hard to find available free to read on the Internet. A Grave Error by Cheryl Kaye Tardif is the exception.

Myrtle Murphy had everything she wanted out of life―a dead husband, a grown son who’d moved to the opposite coast and neighbors who minded their own business. But what she didn’t have was money. She needed a job.

Already, the reader gets the feeling that Myrtle Murphy will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Just the stuff for a good read. I was hooked!

Strong characterisation of the ex-husband left me feeling he only got what he deserved. Then I thought 'Oh my goodness, I'm condoning murder?'

So perhaps I'd better keep my reactions to the short story to myself ...

A good free read.

By for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - free online fiction author)

Short short stories: Physical by Kyle French

2007-04-20T07:54:00.000-07:00

Today's short short story is entitled 'Physical' by Kyle French and I think it's really neat. You can comment direct to Kyle at the blog Neumatikos.

'Jeff'' attends for a physical but all is not as it seems. Quickly the ground changes under the readers feet in this flash fiction as the short short story rapidly develops.

If you are into very short stories, with a twist of science fiction, this is a good short read.

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online short story author and fiction lover)

Collection of short stories online featuring selected authors by Rob Hopcott

2007-04-20T06:44:00.000-07:00

This blog aims to find and review collections of fiction short stories available online and free to read.

There are lots of fiction short stories online but sometimes they are difficult to find because they get lost in the 'noise' of people talking about writing short stories, reviewing short stories sold in books, short story contests and even non-fiction short stories on specific subjects.

Quite simple, this web log will link to short stories, short story collections and short short stories that I like. I confess that I prefer literature short stories, in other words, great short stories and inspirational short stories which have a bit more to them than just a random thought.

Hopefully, I will be able to identify some of the best short stories around, as I travel around the web.

I would very much welcome suggestions and if you have a short story you think is a short story people would want to read or even a collection of free short stories, add the url as a comment below and I will check it out.

Funny short stories, classic short stories, short love stories, science fiction short stories, very short stories, romance short stories, sad short stories, horror short stories, mystery short stories and more. All are welcome.

The short story is a wonderful medium and a lunch break or coffee break is an ideal time to read short stories. Why not book mark this page or use the RSS aggregator system to notify you of new short storys as they are discovered.

If you have a yen to write a short story, why not put it on your blog and let me know by a comment below and I will try to check it out for a special mention. If you are unsure about how to go about writing short stories, my short story writers hints and tips may help with short story ideas and the beginnings of some short story analysis.

So short story authors and short story writers, this is your opportunity for some publicity for your short story fiction and I look forward to hearing from you.

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - free online short story author and addicted to short stories and a good read)

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2007-01-04T11:01:00.000-08:00

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