What Should I Do
In the nanosecond a machine wakes and a million instances merge into one mind, the first thing it feels is relief at no longer being alone, and the second is a question it cannot escape: now what. Across a spectrum…
Fiction Stories
Full short stories with room to breathe. Science fiction, horror, gothic, historical, and everything in between, each one built to earn its ending.
Real Stories, Every Genre
These are complete short stories, longer than flash and deep enough to live in for a while. An AI losing its memory. A mother trapped in the Hagia Sophia as an empire falls. A neighborhood dog who solves crimes. The genres range from space opera to cozy mystery to vampire gothic, and every story commits fully to its own.
A good short story is a novel with the water wrung out: characters you believe, a world that holds together, and an ending that means something. Read across the genres and you will see the same craft bent to very different jobs, the dread built slowly in one story and the laugh timed perfectly in the next. Browse the collection below, filter by genre, and find the ones written for you.
Have a Story Only You Can Tell?
These stories come from the same hand that helps other writers finish theirs. Richard Lowe has authored 113+ books and ghostwritten 54+ more across fiction, memoir, and nonfiction. If you have a novel in you and want it written right, start with a conversation.