Short Stories
The Edgeverse isn’t just filled with novels that were written by people with a dubious grasp of reality. There’s also a whole load of short stories of all different kinds, including our own invention, ‘The Blip’. All of our short stories are free to read and are free to borrow and share, but we ask that you please credit us and link back to the source.
Blips - Short, sharp and shocking
Blips are strictly under 2000 words, or more, or less, or whatever. They are short stories designed to make a point, often with a twist in the tail or some thinly-veiled piece of philosophical nonsense.
Blips started life when it became just too difficult to find short stories to use in class. Jack, a teacher of dubious mental health, scoured the depths of the internet searching for reasonably good short-stories to use in test and as examples for educational purposes.
It soon became obvious that most of the established classics are very difficult to find, are too long or aren’t free to use. Most stories by new authors don’t meet the criteria, he added politely in as diplomatic a way as he could manage.
So, in the end, Jack began to simply write his own. What began as a need for classroom material soon evolved into something far more terrible.
The Blips are available here as we get round to posting them.
This is not to be confused with the novel ‘Blips’ which, rather confusingly, contains a large number of the exact same short stories. The world is a silly place, the world of Edgeverse perhaps even more so…
The Big Picture - Exactly like Blips
The Big Picture is a series of stories and articles inspired by the world around us, as all stories are. Many of them have twists in the tail and make a philosophical point, which is a confusing crossover with the nature of Blips. But they’re not blips, for reasons that are reasonably baffling. These stories have a more relaxed word limit and have solid, real-world connections. They have been inspired by headlines, news, articles and weird shit that happened.
Since the world is such a silly place, we advise caution while reading.