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2026 Spring Short Stories

Spring Gothic Horror Short Stories

Read a collection of Gothic Horror short stories and flash fiction pieces from the Spring Short Stories project.

Spring Gothic Horror Short Stories

7 Titles
A Beautiful, Catastrophic April

The flight was canceled, the battery was dead, and the hallway was five feet longer than before.

Horror Read →
Black Pine Sap

Black Pine Sap

by Eva Suluk

The root didn't just grow. It moved. It twisted around the white tulip and snapped it in half.

Utopian Read →
Drywall Dust and Bad Geometry

The cops called it a mistake. But random crossfire didn't arrange itself into words you couldn't read.

Literary Fiction Read →
Forever is a Trapdoor

Forever is a Trapdoor

by Tony Eetak

The ink bled down the velvet walls, smelling of cheap musk and the heavy rot of thirty years.

Romance Read →
Signal Rot

Signal Rot

by Leaf Richards

The radio spat a burst of white noise, followed by a voice Ella hadn’t heard since the funeral.

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Smashed Carbon Blocks

Smashed Carbon Blocks

by Jamie F. Bell

The spring thaw did not bring life to the valley. It only uncovered what the snow had killed.

Dystopian Read →
The Blue Light Burn

The Blue Light Burn

by Eva Suluk

Yuri stares at a screen until his eyes bleed. Outside, the spring mud holds a secret that moves.

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