Here you will find a few of my short stories. Or links to short stories that I have published elsewhere.
Complete Bibliography
The 2058 Coober Pedy Winter Olympics (Short Story, 2016, jaydeholmes.com)
The Know-It-All (Short Story, 2020, Reedsy Contest #51)
Ground Beneath My Feet Vs. Ground Up in the Sky (Short Story, 2020, Reedsy Contest #52)
The Broken Heart Pendant (Short Story, 2020, Reedsy Contest #54)
“-Don’t Worry About That, Just Go!” (Short Story, 2020, Reedsy Contest #55)
Endlings (Short Story, 2020, Reedsy Contest #62)
The Wound-Up Heretic (Short Story, 2021, Reedsy Contest #74)
The Complete Beginners Guide to Time Travel and the Multiverse (Short Story, 2021, Reedsy Contest #91)
A Taste of Home (Short Story, 2022, Reedsy Contest #171)
Neighbour (Novella, 2023, jaydeholmes.com)
The World in a Ramen Cup (Short Story, 2023, Analog Science Fiction and Fact Jul/Aug 2023)
Hell (Short Story, 2023, Reedsy Contest #206)
A Short Guide to Lost Literary Works (Short Story, 2024, New Maps Winter 2024)
The Strongest in the Forest (Novella, 2025, jaydeholmes.com)
The Feeding and Breeding Habits of Southern Treasure Mimics (Short Story, 2025, Dirty Magick Magazine May 2025)
The World of Green and Black Series
My main fiction project on this site is my World of Green and Black series. A set of stories and worldbuilding extras that describe a partially terraformed world inhabited by telepathic alien tree fungi.
Given the scope of this project, I’ve given these stories a seperate page. You can find it here:
Blog Exclusive Short Stories
The following stories have been written exclusively for this blog, and cannot be read anywhere else.
The 2058 Coober Pedy Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics. A remote town in the middle of the desert. Experimental weather control technology. What could possibly go wrong?
Published 2016. Art by Zwei
Click Here to read The 2058 Coober Pedy Winter Olympics
Reedsy Writing Prompt Stories
I find reading prompts helpful, and have posted a few stories in Reedsy’s Weekly Writing Prompts Contests. Please click the banner below to see my profile and read my stories.
Despite being written in under a week, I think some of these stories are quite good, and will slowly re-edit and re-release them on this page. Click below to read the re-vamped versions of my Reedsy Prompt stories.
The Wound-Up Heretic
A condemned sorcerer is imprisoned atop the Tower of Purgatory, counting down the days until they go to the gallows. On the dawn of their final day though, reality begins to become a bit weird.
Click here to read The Wound-Up Heretic
Endlings
After a deadly plague destroys civilization, the Last Human on Earth comes up with a desperate plan to save the human race. But is the price too high?
A Taste of Home
It’s a big galaxy out there, yet two humans keep bumping into each other on strange alien worlds. Is this the start of a beautiful relationship? Or will the baggage of being human in this galaxy be too much to handle?
Click here to read A Taste of Home
Hell
An action-packed fight with an evil entity that may be more – or less – than what it claims to be. How helpless would one vulnerable person really be in a struggle with a monster?
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Time Travel and the Multiverse
Sarah works at the library and has been ground down by an abusive boss and her own self doubt. When a blood-stained stranger straight out of a post-apocalyptic thriller drops in to return an overdue library book, Sarah finds that there may very well be more paths out there than she ever thought possible.
Click here to read The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Time Travel and the Multiverse
Ground Beneath My Feet, Ground up in the Sky
A young child is told they’ll be sent to the moon in a rocket to reunite with their long lost parents. But the moon is weird and scary and they don’t want to go and leave everything behind.
Click here to read Ground Beneath My Feet, Ground up in the Sky
Other Tidbits
I don’t really consider this one of my short stories. One day my Aunty shared a science fiction story I told her when I was very little. Turns out she wrote it down, and I thought it was cute enough to share.
Jayde Holmes 