Complete Free Fiction from Simon Phillips
Every month, a new complete story opens on the website.
Monthly Free Stories is the open fiction shelf of Simon Phillips’s author platform: a place for finished stories across horror, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, mystery, modern suspense, paranormal fiction, and stranger territory between them. Each story is written as a complete reading experience, with its own atmosphere, characters, pressure, turn, and ending.
Some stories may be short enough to read with a cup of coffee. Some may grow into long, immersive pieces that feel closer to a short book. The length will change from month to month, because each story decides its own shape. The promise stays simple: one complete free story, available to read here, giving you a genuine doorway into the fiction.
This page gathers those stories in one place.
Begin with the latest story, then explore the archive below.
What Are Monthly Free Stories?
Monthly Free Stories is a continuing collection of complete fiction published freely on this website. Each month brings a new standalone story, drawn from whichever genre suits the idea best. One month may lead into a ruined house, a forbidden village track, or a family secret that should have stayed buried. Another may open inside a failing ship, a strange future city, a mythic borderland, a battlefield, a locked room, or a quiet modern place where something has begun to move out of sight.
These stories are part of the wider Simon Phillips fiction platform. They sit beside the published books, Chronicle branches, series pages, and paid reading archive as an open way into the work. Readers can find the tone, pace, atmosphere, character focus, and endings here before moving deeper into the site.
The free stories are complete pieces. They are created for readers who want to arrive, settle into a story, and leave with a full ending behind them. A monthly story may stay as a standalone tale forever. Another may reveal a world or mood worth returning to later. Reader response may help decide which doors open again.
A Proper Taste of the Fiction
The Monthly Free Stories page exists because free fiction should still feel valuable. These stories are here to be read as stories, with room for atmosphere, silence, discovery, dread, wonder, danger, and consequence. They are open to every reader, while still carrying the same care as the books and Chronicle material elsewhere on the site.
Simon Phillips writes across several kinds of fiction, with a focus on pressure, place, memory, hidden systems, strange thresholds, and people who realise too late that the world around them has changed. A free story might be gothic and intimate, built around a family house and an old object. It might be science fiction, following a ship, a system, or a future city under strain. It might be fantasy, shaped by gods, ruins, roads, old magic, or sacred places. It might be modern suspense, where the horror comes through routine spaces and familiar rooms.
The archive gives new readers a way to explore that range with ease. Start anywhere. Read the latest story. Follow a genre that already interests you. Return each month for the next doorway.
Why These Stories Are Free
This website is built as an author platform with several reading paths. Some areas lead towards published books. Some connect to Chronicle branches and paid archive material. Monthly Free Stories keeps an open doorway at the front of the site, so every reader has a place to begin.
Free fiction also gives the site a living centre. A reader can visit for the latest complete story, browse earlier pieces, then decide which deeper path feels right: a book series, a Chronicle branch, the Paid Reading Archive, or future updates by email. The free stories serve the reader first. They create trust through finished work, clear endings, and an honest sample of the storytelling itself.
There is no single genre promise here. The promise is range, atmosphere, and complete fiction. The page can move from ghostly houses to future systems, mythic ruins, war-haunted roads, strange objects, village secrets, impossible rooms, and quiet modern places touched by something older.
Story Archive
The archive below gathers every Monthly Free Story in one place. Each card should lead to a complete story post, with a clear title, image, genre label, short hook, and reading-time estimate where available.
Browse by mood, genre, title, or curiosity. The newest story should appear first, while older stories remain available for readers who discover the page later.
Genres You May Find Here
Monthly Free Stories can move across the full range of Simon Phillips’s fiction. The archive may include gothic horror, folk horror, supernatural mystery, mythic fantasy, dark fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, modern suspense, military tension, paranormal fiction, quiet psychological horror, and other standalone pieces that fit the wider author platform.
Some stories will feel close and intimate, built around one family, one house, one memory, or one object. Some will feel wider, with strange worlds, old powers, future systems, broken institutions, or historical pressure pushing against the characters. Some may connect in spirit to larger books or Chronicle branches. Others will remain entirely self-contained.
The point is variety held together by voice. A free story may change genre, setting, and scale from month to month, while still giving readers the same core experience: atmosphere, pressure, story movement, and a complete ending.
From Free Stories to the Wider Site
After reading a Monthly Free Story, readers can move naturally into the wider Simon Phillips fiction platform. The published books and series pages offer longer reading paths. The Chronicle branches offer focused story-world articles, archive-style pieces, and paid continuation material. The Paid Reading Archive gathers deeper fiction and ongoing material for readers who want more.
The free stories make that movement simple. A reader can begin with one complete open story, then choose the next path according to what held their attention. A gothic story might lead towards supernatural or horror-flavoured series pages. A science fiction story might lead towards future worlds and space horror. A mythic fantasy story might lead towards gods, roads, old kingdoms, and sacred thresholds. A modern suspense story might lead towards contemporary pressure, secrecy, and consequence.
Each story post can carry its own onward links, so readers finish one piece with clear places to go next.
Begin with the Latest Story
Monthly Free Stories is the open shelf of the website: complete fiction, published regularly, free to read, and written as a genuine part of the author platform.
Start with the latest story, then return each month for the next one.
