home children's short stories crime short stories fiction short stories horror short stories humour short stories nonfiction short stories romance short stories interactive
your bookshelf | help | submissions scifi shorts
search
browse scifi
all storiesordered byrating
- home

- all stories
    list by rating
    list by author
    list by date added
    list by length

- all collections
    list by rating
    list by author
    list by date added
    list by length

- contemporary stories
- classic stories
- new titles
- authors A-Z

subgenres:
- alternate and future histories
- humorous


|5 stars |4 stars |3 stars |2 stars |
Page    1  2  3  |  Next
5 stars
  1-2
Phase in Space by Paul O'Neill
Humorous Sci-Fi tale of how the world could be.
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 1 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Time, Again by Tim Maly
"Before we met, you showed me your diary."
- Date Added: October 2006
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
  3-4
An Enlightening Book by Fernando Sorrentino
Detailing Dr Ludwig Boitus' studies of the strangely charastmatic Caliguinas bird.
- Date Added: May 2002
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
They're Made out of Meat by Terry Bisson
A conversation about an unusual discovery.
- Date Added: October 2004
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Professor Panini by Matthew Grigg
Professor Panini is too clever for his own good.
- Date Added: December 2008
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
A Most Ambitious Experiment by Mike Krath
A perfectly simple time travel experiment is made increasingly complex by the involvement of the inventor's other half.
- Date Added: May 2000
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
  5-9
The Return by Fernando Sorrentino
A man is the only witness to an accidental killing and the bizarre series of events that follow.
- Date Added: February 2001
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Tobermory by Saki
Revealing the dangers of giving previously dumb animals the power of speech. Especially cats.
- Date Added: October 1999
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Pumping Up Napoleon by Maria Donovan
Napoleon is resurrected and meets a young lady.
- Date Added: June 2006
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
  - view comments   - mark for later
Paris, at Night by Sung J. Woo
"You grow memory like a crop, and when you want to, you harvest it."
- Date Added: February 2009
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
  - view comments   - mark for later
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popular ever episode of The Twighlight Zone.
- Date Added: March 2000
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce
A brilliant scientist who believes that machines can think creates something dangerous in his workshop.
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
  10-14
The Fulness Of Life by Edith Wharton
A romantic vision of the afterlife.
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Time, Art & Criticism by Paul Trembling
What is art? And who decides? The artist or the critic?
- Date Added: November 2007
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
Intended as a short companion for Stoker's 'Dracula' we join the narrator as he begins a coach trip on the mysterious 'Walpurgis' night.
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
A frightened railway signal-man is plagued by premonitions of distasters.
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones
When the ugly girl decides to find herself a husband she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for.
- Date Added: December 2008
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
  - view comments   - mark for later
The Big Deal by Jamie Brindle
Quince sells death. No wonder he likes his job.
- Date Added: January 2006
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle
A pioneering aviator begins to suspect that the official explainations cannot account for the constant stream of in-air deaths and disappearances.
- Date Added: January 2000
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London
The story of a destructive rivalry between two brilliant scientists.
- Date Added: November 1999
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
  - view comments   - mark for later
Page    1  2  3  |  Next
PRIVACY POLICY - TERMS OF USE - HELP - CONTACT - SUBMISSIONS
Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.
Copyright © East of the Web and contributors 2002-2003. All rights reserved.