Stories are a special genre of literature that illuminate lives, experiences and feelings. They inspire, entertain and help you find support in difficult life situations. Reading short stories promotes empathy, understanding of different perspectives, and provides inspiration for your own life.
Grandpa sat at the table, an old laptop covered in banana stickers in front of him. On the screen, the words were frozen: “No internet connection.” He stared at the text in silence for about ten seconds, as if waiting…
The square fish pressed its nose against the bucket and didn’t want to get inside. It wasn’t slippery but rough, as if made of small stones, and its edges tapped quietly against the side of the boat. The fisherman looked…
The monitor flared up sharply, as if someone had switched on a light right in his eyes. Labubu flinched and pulled his hand away from the mouse. The room was warm, even stifling, but the screen breathed cold. His fingers…
For a long time, I was convinced that bedtime stories were something optional. When I had the energy, fine. When I didn’t, nothing critical would happen. The day was already filled with talk, explanations, and household chores. The child wasn’t…
The emerald color appeared not in the sky, but on the windowsill. Labubu noticed it with his peripheral vision while trying to remove a burnt pan from the stove. The spot was thick, matte, without a reflection, as if someone…
How Labubu Got Lost in Minecraft Labubu woke up to the sound of sand crunching beneath him. Not the soft sand he was used to, but square and dry, as if made of small tiles. He sat up and looked…
He didn’t turn on by command. It happened by accident. And that’s exactly what would have scared humans the most, if they were still here. Among mountains of rusty metal, cracked casings, and the empty eye sockets of other robots,…
Once, my grandfather didn’t come out to see me off when I was a little boy going to school. It wasn’t the first day of classes, but I was still nervous. My schoolbag was too big, and the road seemed…
I often think that my grandfather taught me not how to live correctly, but how not to be afraid when something goes wrong. At the time, I didn’t understand it; it seemed to me that he was just silent, just…
They say a common turnip never grows just for no reason. And if it has grown larger than a house, it means the world wants to tell you something. That morning, the grandfather went out into the garden and stopped…
They say that in one of the Roblox servers, between code glitches and the flickering of neon lamps, a war occurred that no one writes about in the updates. A war where the rules changed every minute, and victory depended…
There was an apple tree standing near my house. Old, crooked, with a hollow like a tired heart. It hadn’t borne fruit for twenty years. And everyone said it needed to be cut down, because what use is a tree…
Once, in our village, there lived a man named Karpo. Hard-working but stingy — he had a lock and key for everything. Especially for his barn — where grain was stored, lard hung from the rafters, and a jar of…
One morning, the wolf woke up so hungry that even the wind seemed to howl inside his belly. He sniffed the air — the forest smelled of snow and fear. “Today I surely won’t stay hungry,” he said to himself…
They say that every forest has a wolf living in it, but only one of them knows the true price of freedom. No one had ever seen this wolf in daylight — only a shadow gliding between the trees like…
No one would believe it, but it happened in the middle of the night. A little boy named Timko woke up to a strange sound — the quiet clicking of keys and a faint rustling of pixels. The computer on…
They say that at night, when the toy shop grows quiet, one of the shelves begins to breathe and whisper. I came closer and heard: “Don’t touch the egg unless you’re ready to hear your fear.” And then I saw…
Imagine the quiet before sleep, when the night spreads its wings, and the room is lit only by the soft glow of a nightlight. And in this moment, instead of noisy gadgets or loud cartoons, a child hears a voice…
I’ll tell you this: in my life I’ve seen plenty of strange things, but to find a ghost cow with red eyes standing in the yard in the middle of the night — that even made me crouch down for…
Have you ever heard of an entire city disappearing from a game map — not because of a bug, but as if someone simply turned off the world’s memory? That’s exactly what happened that night: on the server where construction…