Good Novels & Stories

Reborn: I Refuse to Be His Mosquito Farm

10 chapters · Good, Short

My roommate, Nathan White, says he practices extreme mindfulness and can't kill any living creatures. On the very first day of college,…

Echoes of Tomorrow: Loving You Was Just a Detour

8 chapters · Good, Short

At one in the morning, I stumbled upon a viral forum thread. The question was simple: If you had to choose between love and your future,…

My Friend Killed My Son For Revenge

8 chapters · Good, Short

Five years after Liam DeLuise went bankrupt and skipped town, he suddenly returned, richer than ever. While I was waiting in line at the…

Cheaters Never Win

10 chapters · Good, Short

At eleven o’clock at night, I was racking my brains trying to solve the last physics question when a text popped up in my phone. It was…

Dad Swears the Cat Is My Brother

10 chapters · Good, Short

When I was six, my older brother, Garrett Johnston, died in an accident. Not long after, Dad finds a stray kitten with a marking on its…

My Parents Want Me To Be My Sister's Blood Bank

11 chapters · Good, Short

CrushRead's ongoing short novel *My Parents Want Me To Be My Sister's Blood Bank* centers on a family that treats one daughter as a…

What the Budget Bought

8 chapters · Good, Short

At lunch I'd barely finished handing around the beef jerky I'd made when our department manager, Derek Pritchard, followed the smell to…

Green-Eyed Monster

9 chapters · Good, Short

During our family's trip over the holiday season, my cousin, Ginnie Lane, suggested "swapping accommodations" with an online friend. The…

A Big Present

9 chapters · Good, Short

I went home for the holiday season. However, the most annoying person in the family, Karen, had shown up with her brat of a son, Toby.…

Aria Vs. An Ambitious Gold Digger

10 chapters · Good, Short

Aria Vs. An Am! by CrushRead is a short, ongoing novel that builds its story around the friction between its two central figures. The…

I Sent My Mother To The Defendant's Seat

8 chapters · Good, Short

What happens when a daughter's pursuit of justice forces her to put her own mother in the defendant's seat? That is the central question…

This Time, Don't Laugh While I'm Dying

10 chapters · Good, Short

My brother, Adrian Lupton, always says I'm the most boring person in the family. That's because every time he plays a prank on me, I…

I Won't Stop Those Brats From Going To Famous Schools

9 chapters · Good, Short

In *I Won't Stop Those Brats From Going To Famous Schools*, an ongoing short novel by CrushRead, a determined protagonist faces the chaos…

The Dead Woman's Verdict

7 chapters · Good, Short

My grandmother is, as far as the law is concerned, a dead woman. She faked her own death so she could go off with the boy she'd grown up…

Saving Myself From My Fate

13 chapters · Good, Short

The year we were too poor to eat anything but scraps, two important figures from the capital arrived at the orphanage. They had come to…

Ten Minutes Before I Do

8 chapters · Good, Short

Ten minutes before the ceremony, my phone lit up with a photograph that made my stomach turn. A woman with sunken eyes, thin down to the…

I Fired the Nanny over a Glass of Water

8 chapters · Good, Short

My house suddenly catches fire. The nanny is burned across nearly 80% of her body while saving my son, and the doctors spend three days…

So What If the Heroine Forgot Me?

9 chapters · Good, Short

It's the fifth year of my mission to woo the heroine in this world, Aria Langston, yet she forgets my birthday once again. The person who…

How Can I Kill Them with My Broken Arm?

11 chapters · Good, Short

Thai Ginger's completed short novel *How Can I Kill Them with My Broken Arm?* builds its premise around a title that reads like a threat…

My Second Chance at Life

8 chapters · Good, Short

My fiancé, Julian Vance, was the definition of a prince charming—the kind every woman in town would kill for. He was stunning to look at,…

The Girl Who Never Came Home

8 chapters · Good, Short

When my parents came to take me home, I accidentally switched souls with Ava, a girl from the mountains. The moment my mother saw the…

Crippled Scapegoat: The Day My Sister Lied

8 chapters · Good, Short

Queenie Zeller, my sister, gets mad at Mom and Dad and sets off a gas canister in the house. They all make it out of the house unharmed,…

Banished Because Dad's Allergic to Me

9 chapters · Good, Short

I'm an energetic child, while my parents are elegant and refined. They're the type of people who don't make a sound even when they're…

Her Lies, My Second Life

8 chapters · Good, Short

My daughter was a compulsive liar. At three, she told her preschool teacher, "Mom sticks me with needles." When I rolled up her sleeve,…