updated on
2018-06-05

Short stories to read  ☰ 

from the Story Kettle

Stories for adults to read

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star chamber — North Ring — bride stones — too love two crazy — Ministry of Fun — in town — red wash — 9gals! — golden girls — Carol — hard Brexit — Torkle — offcuts — snatches — brick — elephant — my hobby — Tinge

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Welcome to the Story Kettle! Stories to make you laugh, stories to make you cry, more than 800 short stories, crazy stories, DIY stories, love stories, German stories, humorous stories, absurd stories, odd stories, unordinary stories, sister stories, offcuts and bits of my life all by Michael M Wayman.

NEW: see my ideas for an ebook.

                   
WHAT'S NEW in the Story Kettle?

New stories in 2018 — Ministry of Fun — in town — Carol and Betty — Irish — golden girls — 9gals! — F.U.U.S.A. — Saturday afternoon — office daze — Betty's Buns — brave bidet

29 Amy stories — 34 Dotty stories

new offcuts

Collections to read — ebook — Amy — girl in white — power — Brasslans — Nottingham — dot dismal — OTTer — PAIN — Alpert — harem — pix — who am I? — unordinary — how to — clone — bitch — Colin — site map

There were nine girls sitting on the rocks at Big Bend on the river. When we came back an hour later, the girls were still there, looking as clueless as before. Amy asked the girls how they were doing. “We're just sitting here.” “We don't know what we going to do.” “No, no idea.” All nine of them answered, one after another, each as clueless as each other. Amy asked where...   Continue reading...

Every girl has a hobby, everyone has to have a hobby. On Wednesday afternoons the sewing, crosspoint and embroidery club meets, the hockey teams play, the natural history group sticks pins into small animals, the chess group slowly moves pieces of wood... All terribly uninteresting!
And what about me? “Oh, I can skin rabbits and snakes. Oh, and shoot 'em first.”
No, no, no! No one wanted to know that. Young girls don't do...   Continue reading...

Did your mother sing to you when you were very young? A lullaby to send you to sleep? I remember fragments of those songs and have been able to find...   Continue reading...

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Geschichten für Erwachsene — Glück­seligkeits­pfützen — Schwägerin — Nottingham — auch Angela — Erzählungen — wie Mutti — zeig mir — das 'Eck — Hattie — Stückchen  

Seit Anfang des Jahres habe ich Komisches gehört. Ja, es gibt Priester, die fliegen. Ja, unmöglich. Aber ich habe mehr und mehr davon gehört. Ja, es könnte sehr hilfreich sein, die Kirchen­dach­reparatur von oben zu inspizieren.   Weiter lesen...