Regret short stories
10 stories tagged regret on NovelShort. Start with a hook; the first ending is free.
Return to Sender
A box of broken belongings revealed that Mara's ex sold her grandmother's ring and her mother secretly bought it back.
HorrorH-007The Voice in the Transcript
A daughter revisits a saved voicemail from her dead father and finds a new warning that points to a recording hidden in the family home.
RevengeR-037Return to Sender—Ten Years Too Late
A mailbox returns an unopened 2016 letter. Opening it would make a stranger remember her as the sender of a confession she never wrote.
HorrorH-045Room 19 Lets You Change One Regret
A woman on a New Mexico frontage road uses Room 19 to visit her brother in jail, then learns the motel kept the self who never went.
HorrorH-048The Camera Showed the Daughter I Never Had
A Polaroid prints a child from a pregnancy she could not continue. Naming the girl would put footprints in a real apartment.
HorrorH-046The Diner Served My Dead Mother's Usual
A night-shift cook serves a dead woman's usual at the family diner. Eating it buys one conversation—and erases a living face.
RevengeR-038The Guestbook Showed Tomorrow's Divorce
A wedding guestbook writes the couple's legal status a day early. Tearing a page would lock a dissolution she never filed.
HorrorH-044The Payphone That Called Yesterday
A Chicago woman uses a Division Street payphone that calls yesterday, spends ninety seconds taking back cruelty, and refuses to spend the rest on a warning.
HorrorH-051My Voicemail Changed After My Father's Funeral
A dead father's answering machine takes messages dated tomorrow. Listening would lock her into a fight with the wrong sibling.
HorrorH-047The Wedding Dress Remembered Another Groom
A sample gown zips itself and shows another wedding. Each minute in it unsends texts from the life she is actually living.
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