City stories
Stories tagged “city” on SuperShort Novel.
She Has Your Eyes
A girl in the hospital hallway said he had her eyes. He'd never seen her before — until the footsteps behind him belonged to the woman who left.
BillionaireB-019Bid on Me
A fired editor buys one public evening with her former CEO, intending to expose him, but discovers the evidence he needs is hidden inside the very story that cost her newsroom.
Secret BabyS-006The Boy on the Swing
A single mother's peaceful Saturday shatters when the man pushing his nephew on the next swing is the father who never knew her son existed.
WerewolfW-021The Howl No One Claimed
A new tracker investigates a howl that echoes through pack territory every full moon — one that matches no registered wolf in the census.
Fake MarriageF-017The Holiday Card Crop
An executive hires his roommate as a spouse for a donor-report photo — until a wide crop shows two marriage licenses on the fridge, one fake and one from city hall last Tuesday.
Secret BabyS-021The Passport Companion List
An airline companion flag holds a man at the airport because a child's photo shares his face — messy unaccompanied-minor paperwork, not a crime. The mother is his college girlfriend, inbound on a connecting flight. They reunite with consent and time, not a seizure of a child.
RevengeR-023The Towed Car
He towed her car from a space that wasn't his; building security video showed the cone, the city citation, and billable hours that didn't match the timestamp.
HorrorH-029The Duplicate Grave
Flowers for her mother's plot lead her to a stone with her own name and a death date four days away. That night the county emails a burial permit listing her as decedent and her dead mother as next-of-kin.
WerewolfW-034The Kennel Form
A city worker finds her shifted image in an animal-control file and uncovers a contractor manufacturing dangerous wolf identifications.
BillionaireB-038The Stock Pledge Notice
When a margin call hits a CEO's pledged shares at dawn, the trustee of his ex-wife's settlement trust holds 3.2 percent — enough to block the lender's waiver vote.
HorrorH-039The Days Left on Her Hand
A Seattle woman who sees the days remaining in every marriage discovers a four-day countdown on her own hand.
HorrorH-033The Missing Child in the Frame
An Austin nanny finds a child disappearing year by year from family photographs and realizes the living toddler may be next.
RevengeR-034The Social Security Sibling
An IRS wage notice leads a Tucson bookkeeper to the foster brother using her identity, but the insurance charges force her to redesign what justice protects.
HorrorH-041The Unfollow Amnesia
Each unfollow erases a person from Mara's memory, until a handwritten Christmas card exposes who has been pruning her life.
HorrorH-031The Wednesday Clinic
A Portland woman follows her husband to a clinic that officially does not exist and finds a secret larger than an affair.
BillionaireB-044My Ex Didn't Know I Owned the Team
After being left at the altar, a woman buys a minority stake in a small-city baseball club and faces her ex when he demands the new owner be fired—then votes the parking land into a community easement.
BillionaireB-043The Option on My Mother's Land
A woman finds her name badly initialed on a developer's option at the feed store, learns her brother forged it for medical debt, and records a lis pendens while offering a solar lease on one parcel only.
BillionaireB-041The Morning I Took the Fall
A New York family-office deputy relives the morning she took blame for a loan, and learns whose name the COO actually needed.
RevengeR-035The Morning They Framed Me
An Austin compliance analyst wakes on the Thursday a USB of fake kickbacks will be planted in her bag, unable to say she already lived Friday.
HorrorH-044The Payphone That Called Yesterday
A Chicago woman uses a Division Street payphone that calls yesterday, spends ninety seconds taking back cruelty, and refuses to spend the rest on a warning.
HorrorH-042Twelve Hours Before She Died
A Portland daughter wakes twelve hours before her mother's fatal fall, and answering the on-purpose call ages her hands as payment.
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