Short, Sad, Sometimes Speculative Stories and Interludes

They are what they sound like. Short, sad somethings that may be speculative. Updated whenever I am exceedingly sad, for the sole purpose of hopefully making other exceedingly sad individuals not feel so alone.

2026:

You Are Not a Wound That Love Can Heal

2025:

You Are (Not) a Wellspring Run Dry

2024:

Something Different Than You Are

Personal Responsibility, the Cult of

You Should Just Not

Screaming

2023:

Hope

Not Even in the Story

Do You Know the Way Out?

I’ve long debated whether I should have a recommends section on here, but the truth is I found most of the authors I love from them being recommended by other authors I’d read, so I’m going to pop this here. All links lead to the author’s website, with the exception of Nikita Gill. She did not have an independent website I could find, so I’ve linked her name to her listing on fantasticfiction.com (which is one of my favorite resources for looking up series order).

I will NEVER recommend an author who uses AI in any capacity. Writing is art and humanity, and there is no art or humanity in AI.

Without further ado, here we go (in alphabetical order by last name):