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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

9 Titles
A Beautiful, Catastrophic April

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

Horror Read →
Artisanal Mud Claws

Artisanal Mud Claws

by Leaf Richards

A disgraced influencer mistakes dog tracks for a forest demon, documenting his own embarrassing collapse in a damp cabin.

Psychological Read →
Bees and Jet Fuel

Bees and Jet Fuel

by Jamie F. Bell

Tomas watches his bees bring back glowing chemicals before a black-clad team arrives to steal his lethal hive data.

Utopian Read →
Binary Petal Rot

Binary Petal Rot

by Eva Suluk

Wendy pricked her finger on a server-shaped orchid and watched the spring sky turn into a static-grey screen.

Coming-of-Age 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 →
Damp Playing Cards

Damp Playing Cards

by Jamie F. Bell

Steve dealt the damp cards onto the folding table. The snowmelt dripped outside. Jenna stared at her hand.

Speculative Fiction 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 →
Dying Snow

Dying Snow

by Leaf Richards

Elias finds an old woman chanting over a muddy grave as the winter snow finally begins to rot away.

Thriller Read →
Flesh Rot

Flesh Rot

by Tony Eetak

My stomach turned over when the screaming started. The adults were too busy arguing about the dagger.

Horror Read →

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