Motel short stories
8 stories tagged motel on SuperShort Novel. Start with a hook; First 3 endings free on this device; then $0.99 / story or subscription..
The Hotel Key That Worked
A traveler's working key opens a vacant hotel room staged with her discarded identity, and escaping requires her to prove which version checked in first.
HorrorH-049Every Room I Restored Returned One Memory
A motel inheritor learns that restoring a room returns a death's unfinished errand—until a "ghost" is covering for a developer who paid to expunge records, and she makes one room a memorial with a death certificate instead of a séance.
HorrorH-045Room 19 Lets You Change One Regret
A woman on a New Mexico frontage road uses Room 19 to visit her brother in jail, then learns the motel kept the self who never went.
BillionaireB-042The Billionaire Wanted My Motel
A Route 66 motel owner holds mineral rights a billionaire's option ignores—until his surveyors find a grave his board wants buried, and they negotiate a conservation easement instead of a sale.
HorrorH-043The First Lie on a Tuesday
A Tacoma wife relives the Tuesday her husband invented a clinic, and finds a support group, a second phone, and a reason not to follow him in.
HorrorH-091The Key That Borrowed Sleep
A night clerk finds a way to give her exhausted mother perfect sleep, then discovers who has been paying for her own peaceful nights.
HorrorH-076The Motel Bell Takes a Name
Our motel bell could erase a guest’s grievance, but afterward the guest could no longer recognize me.
HorrorH-073The Pears in Room Nine
My sister sold our motel as vacant while someone was peeling pears in room nine.
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