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Step into a world of imagination with our collection of fictional short stories. The Daily Bizz offers a variety of tales that will captivate and inspire. Experience the magic of storytelling through fictional short stories crafted to entertain and engage readers of all interests.
Short Stories
Explore your imagination with the help of our short stories written by the Daily Bizz and submitted by our readers.


The Springbok: Part 7
It took months before Ben felt like the silence in Canada was something he could live inside, rather than just survive. At first, it had felt like the absence of home. But slowly, carefully, it began to feel like its own kind of presence, different, but not empty.

Roy Dransfield
Jul 183 min read


The Springbok: Part 6
Canada was quiet in a way Johannesburg had never been. Not just because of the snow, though it muffled everything like cotton, but because the air itself seemed gentler. No gates clicking shut behind them. No dogs barking in the night. No distant pops that could be fireworks or gunshots.

Roy Dransfield
Jul 183 min read


The Springbok: Part 5
They didn’t make an announcement. There were no dramatic speeches, no suitcases dragged through the driveway. Instead, the idea of leaving crept in like a draught through an open window, slow, barely noticeable, until suddenly it was everywhere.

Roy Dransfield
Jun 194 min read


The Springbok: Part 4
It started like any other evening. The lights flickered once, twice, and then went out. The television died mid-sentence, plunging the lounge into silence. Ben sat cross-legged on the floor, halfway through a drawing of a dragon curled around a crumbling city. His mom cursed under her breath, fumbling for the matches.

Roy Dransfield
Jun 183 min read


The Springbok: Part 3
Ben still played with Tshepo after school, but things had begun to shift. The warmth that once existed between their families cooled, not because of anything the boys had done, but because of the unspoken fears creeping in from outside. The street they lived on had become a boundary, one that marked not just geography but the slow unravelling of trust.

Roy Dransfield
Jun 173 min read


The Springbok: Part 2
The signs were subtle at first. The corner café where Ben used to get peppermint crisps closed one Monday without warning. A hand-scrawled note on the door read, “Closed until further notice,” but everyone knew what it meant. They’d been robbed, again. Probably at gunpoint. Again.

Roy Dransfield
Jun 172 min read


The Springbok: Part 1
Ben du Toit was ten years old when the weight of the world began to press on his narrow shoulders. He lived in a fading white suburb of Johannesburg called Kensington, where cracked sidewalks ran beside high fences and broken gates. His father, Willem, a former electrician, now sold used appliances out of their garage. His mother, Elsa, used to teach Afrikaans at the local school before she was retrenched.

Roy Dransfield
Jun 112 min read


The Last Ride
Everything changes when a biker takes his last ride.

Roy Dransfield
May 252 min read


The Ashen Sky
Are the dragons all gone? Or are they sleeping beneath the cold earth.

Roy Dransfield
May 232 min read


The Wish Department : A Bigger Wish
Ring of the Slightly Larger Wish It had been three weeks since Elsie Barlow wished for a strawberry yogurt and accidentally tapped into...

Roy Dransfield
May 32 min read


The Wish Department
Ring of the Smallest Wish Nine-year-old Elsie Barlow had a wild imagination and a tendency to dig up her mother’s garden in pursuit of...

Roy Dransfield
May 32 min read


Treemendous Trouble
Trevor the Tree In the quiet village of Thistlewick, where the most exciting thing was the annual Cabbage Rolling Championship, something...

Roy Dransfield
May 22 min read


Shadows of Belfast
Chip Shop Set Alight In a grey corner of Belfast, 1993, fifteen-year-old Jamie Kerr walked the alley behind the chippy with a packet in...

Roy Dransfield
May 22 min read


The Shadow Hunter
A world full of darkness can only breed more darkness. The shadow hunter is lurking in the shadows waiting.

Roy Dransfield
Feb 284 min read


Crimson Skies
Britain has had enough and now blood and fire must sweep through the country to start anew.

Roy Dransfield
Feb 262 min read


Earth and Fire
World War 3 is always a question of when. Sit back and enjoy of how it all unfolds.

Roy Dransfield
Feb 263 min read


Road To The Throne
Do you like motorcycles? Then you are sure to love this short story of power and the struggles to get it.

Roy Dransfield
Jan 253 min read


The Infernal Cross
A demon from hell rises and begins a slaughter. What will stop Malzorath?

Roy Dransfield
Jan 245 min read


The Dragon Tamer
Dive into a short fantasy about a boy and his dragon.

Roy Dransfield
Jan 185 min read


The Siege of Wynthorpe Keep
Discover a gripping story about a dangerous endeavour to acquire a keep by any means necessary.

Roy Dransfield
Jan 175 min read
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