My Favorite Short Stories So Far

So far my favorite short stories (that I've written) are Claiming the Throne, Showdown, Long Journey, Exaggerated Story, and Combat Kings. (In that order.)

    Claiming the Throne I feel epitomizes my short stories. Or at least, what I want them to be. Something, short but impactful that can be widely interpreted by the audience.

http://jalenssstories.blogspot.com/2022/08/claiming-throne.html

 

    I had a lot of fun writing Showdown and poured quite a bit into it. Which you tell by its length. It's my longest short story to date with me needing two weeks to complete it. Though nonetheless, it was fun, in my specialty of fight scenes and I feel I displayed my writing prowess in it. As I did the short stories in my top 5. (Not that any of my short stories are bad. I wouldn't release any I wasn't proud of. Check out some of my older ones. Give them some love.)

http://jalenssstories.blogspot.com/2022/10/showdown.html

 

    Long Journey will have a special place in my heart because it was pure inspiration and my first short story I ever posted. Admittedly, Long Journey was inspired by a vision I had while meditating. So I meant it when I said pure inspiration. I'm also quite fond of how each person gets something different out of it.

http://jalenssstories.blogspot.com/2020/02/long-journey.html

    Next up, Exaggerated Story. Another one I had fun with. As the title suggests, it's a true story that I exaggerated. To quote someone who influenced me "Nuff said".

https://jalenssstories.blogspot.com/2020/04/exaggerated-story.html

 

    Lastly, Combat Kings. Yet another I had fun with and was in my specialty of fight scenes. It was a much earlier product of my writing, released within the first year of the blog. Looking back at it and Sword Fight, another early product, you can kind of see the foundation for Showdown. As one of the predecessors of my writing, it earned a spot in this top five.

https://jalenssstories.blogspot.com/2020/03/combat-kings.html