Monastery Stories

An aging priest recounts a chilling tale from his youth, investigating a suspected haunting of a small, rural parish.

The Recipe For A Holiday Disaster: ~ Take an accident prone lightning master ~ Add in the trouble-some Smith siblings ~ Sprinkle in a cake-loving ninja ~ Mix in two exceedingly logical androids ~ Add in an elf-obsessed blondie ~ Let it boil over high heat provided by the anger of a centuries old ninja master. ~ Mix well until close to explosion. ~ Put it in the oven and take cover. Best served when you've evacuated the building. Enjoy! ✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️ A Ninjago Christmas special. I don't own Ninjago.

Mattea Chandler's three-year-old daughter was abducted at the zoo while in her mother-in-law's care. After two years of searching for her daughter, Elizabeth, and suffering from retrograde amnesia, Mattea receives a devastating revelation that her daughter Elizabeth is dead and she killed her.

Winter of 2278, a Selahn rice farmer with a ravaged body from acerbic warfare comes to terms with the realistic foothold of oneself as his cancerous lungs breathe their last week of life.

When the sun goes down in Ki-Gompa, on the Sipiti River valley, in Tibet, the grand Himalaya begins its lament. The wind plays hide-and-seek through the labyrinths between mountains and valleys. But, as night falls, all, including the river and the rock, the swift flora and the scrublands become mute in a collective pensiveness. I had never heard such fruitful, talkative silence. On my bed, the floor itself, covered with a mat and a fur blanket, silenced the heart beats coming from Mother Earth. It was like everything had really stopped working, as if we all had died or lived in a timeless dimension. My chest dialogued with the chest of the broad valley. My brain conversed, silently, with an also silent universe's brain, and my blood talked with nature's blood. This way, we felt asleep effortless to be woken up by powerful mantras from monks searching for a way to escape from life's noises and insistent questions.Perhaps I'll never return to the Ki-Gompa monastery, or, maybe, I was never there.

A must read for those who love Sherlock holmes novel, The protagonist is a fifteen year old boy living in medieval age . His first case? Protecting his 3 acres Farm from a deadly storm with no tools at all!

A satirical short story on holiness and Church corruption. A necessary act, but in good faith and humour. As a catholic I hope you enjoy.

How the Greek myth was revived and the ladies in the grotto replaced with three dysfunctional monks, retired in a decadent monastery, fighting for their personal agendas, while discussing a plethora of manipulations to control the world.

When a birthday party took a wrong turn a search for truth and answers has been initiated. What Valora and Peril discovered was a promise given a long time ago. When the time comes, will everyone be willing to keep that promise? Music that inspired me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0VCNB9Ep2M

Short Story | Horror | Mystery A small monastery is staying awake at night for an important vigil only to realize that a horrifying presence is stalking in the shadows after the lights go off unexpectedly.

Set in England in the early 1800's, Music follows a young man and a young woman after their relationship has been forbidden by the man's father. The boy is banished to a remote monastery and the girl to a remote Cornish village. The story is gentle and has no excessive dark aspects in it. A quick, easy read.

This is a short story about the changes that a new Zen master made to an old monastery, where he was appointed as its new head Zen master.

In the ancient monastery nestled high in the snow-covered mountains, twins Ella and Rick train under the watchful eye of Friar John. The tranquility of their secluded haven is shattered when a frantic messenger arrives, bearing dire news from Sankentown; people are missing, and an upcoming festival may be the target of a dark force. The twins, driven by a sense of duty and adventure, leave their snowy sanctuary and confront the emerging threat. Can they save they town? Let's find out.

A young woman joins a monastery for a year.

Elements, chaotic by nature, govern the very life we live today. Our Prime world lives by these rules, we live amongst the elements in all their glory and power. Now, they have lost control, the weathers raged in ravenous tempests, and the earth cracked to devour all that lived upon it. The power had gone beyond that of immortal control, the gods themselves severed the power given to the elemental worlds. Crafted this power into weapons for mortal men, and scattered amongst the Prime World. With us.

In the 1300s AD, a young, conceited noble meets a serf living in poverty and an orphan raised in a monastery. When the three agree to change places to see what life is like on different levels of the feudal society, they discover dangerous secrets about each other that change their lives forever.

A piece of fantasy flash fiction containing Arabic influence, inspired by the instrumental The Ruins Spirits by Michaël Ghelfi.