Ravyn Karasu
-Author-
-Site Updated-
7-13-2024
Short Stories
The short stories here are ONLY available as E-books. You can own a paperback copy by purchasing the collection title that contains them.
Resonance
-Children's Drama-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
Anya is heartbroken when she is left at an orphanage by her father. Despite being surrounded by other children, she is sad, frightened, and lonely. This touches the heart of an old granny house spider who takes pity on her and goes to great lengths to show Anya that she does have a friend in this place.
Sugar Baby
-Drama-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
Courtney had it all. She gave up everything in order to be the sugar baby to a wealthy man. Courtney is fast learning what could await her as her free ride comes to an end.
Bokor
-General Fiction-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
Paul is a real jerk to everyone he encounters. He's a cheapskate, racist, sexist, and just plain unpleasant. It is only a matter of time before his terrible behavior offends the wrong people and karma catches up with him.
Warm-Hearted
-Emotional Drama-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
December looks in on the family she loves so dearly and reflects on her feelings of love and resentment.
Baby Doll Eyes
-Dark Fiction-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
Edith doesn’t remember much of her life before being rescued by her knight in shining armor, Evan. However, she can’t understand why people keep giving them strange looks or why Cory, Evan’s best friend, doesn’t like her.
Brother
-Drama-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
A horrible misfortune has left four year old Duncan alone in the cold with no parents and nowhere to live. He has to depend on his brother, Abel to look after him and help him get through this difficult time of his life.
The Black Train
-Dark Fantasy, Teen Horror, Paranormal-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
When Benjamin is grounded, he decides he’s had enough of his family and tries to run away to the circus. He gets as far as the train station where he meets Stewart, the friendly station master and learns a thing or two while waiting for his train.
Le Gardien du Secret
-Drama-
Collection: The Karasu Kollektion
When her parents told her to watch out for the people she meets on the internet, 15 year old Monica disregarded the warning. She believed those bad things could never happen to her. She changes her tune very quickly when she meets up with the man she has been having an online relationship and whisked off to Paris where he forces her into the sex industry. Though able to escape, she ends up unable to see where she is going and cannot understand the French
language. She then wonders if she’s able to trust this strange mute Parisian man to care for her.
Cookie
-Juvenile Fiction-
Collection: Sweet Stuff
Who would have thought the words inside a simple fortune cookie could carry so much weight? That’s what happens in this short story when a rescue is needed.
Inspired by true events, this story goes to show that anyone can be a hero so long as someone needs one.
Fizzy
-Juvenile Fiction-
Collection: Sweet Stuff
Terry Hamilton really thinks Barbara Taylor is swell. If only he could just get up the courage to talk to her and ask her out. Luckily, their friends notice the attraction between the two and decide to set them up on a date to make them talk to one another. Terry and Barbara then have to get over their nervousness to make this surprise date a success.
Milkshake
-Juvenile Fiction-
Collection: Sweet Stuff
Tyler loves fast food and dreams of one day creating a business of his own. After a mysterious restaurant appears, Tyler samples some of the food and releases a Burger Fairy. She tells him that she is willing to grant him several wishes. What will he wish for?
Reflection of Fortune
-Dark/Psychological Fiction-
Collection: This & That
Nina's life is unbearable to her. She has an abusive husband, she's poor, and she has three ornery children.
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In need of a positive boost, she sets out to find a special mirror, a family heirloom, in order to reflect on what her life is and what it could have been.
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It's then up to Nina to decide what to do with the reflection and the hand she has been dealt in life.
Unkind: A Short Story
-Juvenile Fantasy-
Collection: Sweet Falderal
True love has the power to overcome any difference; Understanding has the power to build any confidence.
Kida is the youngest princess of Foxhill and Mateyo is the reluctant young king of Harewillows. Both feel they are unprepared for their royal roles and responsibilities. To cope, they often slip into a naive mindset of acceptance and romantic notions. When Kida and Mateyo meet each other, they finally begin to grow a new confidence in themselves and their royal opinions.
Run
-Juvenile Fantasy/Contemporary-
Collection: Sweet Falderal/This & That
A quadriplegic narrator bemoans the loss of their body and artistic freedoms. Miserable at losing a personal connection with The Muses, the narrator wilts away in hopeless depression. Then the narrator appears in a strange void in an out of body experience where they meet their beloved Muses and once again feels something worth chasing.