Here’s a list of Free Stories at StoryChuck.com
Short Stories
- Babysitter - When Emily Stillman babysits for a new family she discovers a horrific secret that causes her to doubt her sanity.
- Trunk of Caramel - Jeremy works as the night manager at a motel. An ideal job for a college student. But one evening when a creepy guest with strange trunk checks in, Jeremy’s life is changed forever.
- Wizard Lottery -Every 100 years the kingdom has a lottery to determine who will be the new wizard. When a simple farm boy wins the lottery and becomes the kingdom’s new wizard, he tries to fix deceptions perpetrated by the previous wizard. But will he succeed when the previous, dark wizard is in his head, controlling all of his actions?
- Three Wishes and a Bath - Ellie Goldstein’s Sunday evenings usually consisted of dinner with the parents and ducking her mother’s attempts to play matchmaker. But last Sunday her mother gave her a present that would turn her life upside down, a strange little doll that forces her to make a wish. If she could have anything in the world, what would she wish for?
- The Death Gerbil -When Dean Weathers uses his antique Brownie camera to take photographs he discovers something strange. A small black gerbil mysteriously appears in snapshots of animals about to die. But seeing the gerbil in his latest photo is both unexpected and unnerving.
- Pact of the Banshee - When the Banshee returns to the village woods and terrifies the villagers with its nightly screams, the cycle of murders start again. Young Sean Collins sets out to find and destroy the menace, but will he succeed when his friends and family turn against him?
- The Train Bandits -This story takes place roughly in the time of Huckleberry Finn. It is a boyhood adventure with bank robbers and dynamite. It explores sacrifices true friends will make for each other.
- Memory Fades – This is a short story about an elderly woman that sees something which causes her to doubt her senses.
- In the Closet – A short story about a different type of “monster” in the closet.
- Mad Goldilocks - A girl spins a wild tale to her psychologist about the time she spent camping in the woods with her family and became lost. She claims she’s the real Goldilocks … but is she?
- Fantastic Goulash in the Streets - Favel only wanted to be left alone. She was content to push her shopping cart around, ignore the other homeless, and stay out of the way of the City’s upper class. But when her friend gets involved in a revolution against the City, she’s thrust into a conflict she wants no part of. Can she protect her friend, and herself, from the City, it’s Sentinels and atom blasters, or will she disappear as so many of the lower class do?
- 2:03am Check-in – Martin ends up at a hotel without any memory of arriving there.
Flash Fiction
- The Sinister Smile - A little snippet showing a man making a deal with a devil.
- Voice Mail - A fun little story told entirely though voice mail.
- Slacker Dreams - Conner enters a contest and dreams of winning.
Novelettes
- Freshly Ghost - Being dead was unlike anything Chance Phillips had expected. For one thing, his name changed to Reo. For another, he discovered Ghosts could move through time. But when he learns a friend, a live friend, is in danger will he and his Ghost friend Jeremy be able to save her in time?
- Cleopatra’s Medallion - As the character says at the beginning, the story is about an ancient queen, an underwater king and bare-breasted maidens; a tale of mind-control and mystics and creatures of the sea; it’s about a shipwreck and a treasure and murder most foul; but most of all it’s a cautionary tale about a bull-headed adventurer who rushes into challenges without thought of risk or consequence.