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Archive - July 2026

Story Vault Open to Public until 8pm Central

Story Vault Open to Public until 8pm Central

It’s the final day of Havok’s Flash Peek weekend! To celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday and the midpoint of our Encore season, our entire collection of over 2,000 flash fiction stories is open to the public. So many great stories to choose from! Genres and monthly themes listed below. You can also search using the

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It’s the Havok “Flash Peek” Weekend!

It’s the Havok “Flash Peek” Weekend!

Five popular genres packed with five-minute reads Free to the public until 8pm tomorrow (CST) (tap or click any image to browse the stories) You’ll find quite a few mashups here–thrilling fantasy, mysterious science fiction, wacky thrillers, and just about any other crossover you can think of. With 1,700+ stories (and more added every weekday),

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The Toad Prince

In her pink dress, with her golden hair, the girl looks like a rose—if the flower was human.
I stepped behind a pillar edging the palace portico as she approached. Dashed inconvenient, but I don’t want to shock her when I turn green and slimy.
She paused on the other side of the pillar.

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A Taste of Lightning

Although she’d finished smoothing soil over her seeds and was growing wetter by the second, Gerda was in no hurry to leave her garden. She savored the rain. Too little had fallen the year before, resulting in meager fare ever since.
I’m lucky to have that much. She smiled. Well, I do have a good luck charm.

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All the Comforts of Home

“It’s dangerous to stay here.” Lili gazed at me with red-brown eyes. “We should go.”
Leave the comfort of Steve and Talia’s house? I had to calm Lili’s fears before she ruined the good thing we had going.
“We’re house flies,” I protested. “If we weren’t meant to live in houses, why call us that?

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