HeyJaredShort Shots - Home of Short Fiction by C L Broogle
Welcome to Short Shots — a bold, compact series of standalone stories that fire straight into the heart of big ideas. Each story is a contained burst of speculative fiction, designed to explore provocative questions, alternate realities, and the future.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 11
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
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- Aug 14, 2026
Latest issues
The Understudy (opens the original)
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What the Light Was For (opens the original)
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Doom-Swipe (opens the original)
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What We Don't Say Out Loud, Yet… (opens the original)
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NEXUS Inc (Part 6 of 6) - Novelette (opens the original)
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