Overview
The Red List
Top rated Short Story (Prose) projects all-time.
#1
Short Story
· Historical
· 35 Pages
A ten-year-old boy awakens to the dangerous realities of race in 1960s America during what started out as a joyous family road trip from Detroit to the Mississippi Delta. The boy's mantra—Never think a bad thing before it happens, unless you want to live it twice—is his antidote to Freedom Summer’s perils and poisonous atmosphere of fear.
#2
Short Story
· Sci-fi
· 18 Pages
Stranded on a distant planet, a young girl and a robot must learn to care for each other.
#3
Short Story
· Fantasy
· 37 Pages
A woman with special abilities finds herself caught in a web of lies in a strange, dangerous city. The further she goes down the road of corruption, the more her body adapts and morphs to manage her newfound pain, all the while she dreams of liberation.
#4
Short Story
· Horror
· 18 Pages
A young couple’s plan to raise clones of themselves falls apart when their son exhibits psychopathic tendencies, triggering doubts about the sanity of his genetically-identical father.
#5
Short Story
· Western
· 18 Pages
Dewey's life changed the morning the red-headed boy came to the Sheriff's office begging for help, trying to escape his abusive father. The Purification explores justice a century ago, as a small town sheriff attempts to adjust to a new world.
#6
Short Story
· Drama
· 119 Pages
An Iranian refugee must convince an uncompromising liaison officer to grant him and his family asylum or run the risk of being deported back to Iran and be executed.
#7
Short Story
· Horror
· 15 Pages
The wood in the window won't be enough this time. It never was.
Based on a true story.
#8
Short Story
· Drama
· 20 Pages
A drunken restaurant review leads to disaster for an immigrant family struggling to keep their business afloat. One Star explores the dark side of social networking, and its potential to destroy lives.
#9
Short Story
· Drama
· 20 Pages
When a cynical half-Mexican teen girl with a closely guarded secret meets Rubberman, the bitter headliner of a county fair freak show, sparks and... yes, secrets explode.
#10
Short Story
· Thriller
· 27 Pages
A reclusive woman hopes for a possible reunion with her childhood crush when he mysteriously resurfaces in her hometown.
#11
Short Story
· Horror
· 66 Pages
Recounting the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, "October Seven" interweaves the known horrific details of Poe's death on October 7, 1849, with his historical exhumation more than 25 years later. This project includes many facts about Poe's death, as well as fictional horror sequences surrounding his exhumation.
#12
Short Story
· Thriller
· 16 Pages
When wide-eyed seven-year-old Justin and his young mom Sukey flee her monstrous boyfriend in the dead of night, they struggle through a rural landscape of threats and predators as they make a run for an oceanside theme park they've only ever seen on TV.
#13
Short Story
· Horror
· 27 Pages
A man broken by the death of his wife and child is possessed by the spirit of a sin-eating clown.
#14
Short Story
· Drama
· 17 Pages
Anyone can kill a man. But how do you get rid of a dead body... quickly?
#15
Short Story
· Horror
· 6 Pages
A psychic medium with real horrifying visions of the afterlife finds the only way to monetize his skill is by lying.
#16
Short Story
· Thriller
· 27 Pages
When a Border Patrol Agent is set free after killing an undocumented man, the dead man's mother seeks revenge and inadvertently uncovers a human trafficking ring in her apartment building.
#17
Short Story
· Horror
· 15 Pages
After visiting a high school reunion and not being recognized, a man slowly begins to realize he is being erased from his own life.
#18
Short Story
· Horror
· 23 Pages
An advice columnist corresponds with a mother who's experiencing increasingly strange events in her new home.
#19
Short Story
· Sci-fi
· 13 Pages
A young mother is desperate for acceptance in a world where one's entire lifestyle is determined by the brand that "accepts" them.
#20
Short Story
· Other
· 27 Pages
A howl of lost love, lost opportunity set against the backdrop of mime and street theater performance in 1971 Paris.
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