Slice of Life

Relatable slice-of-life stories & everyday fiction. Free realistic tales exploring daily life, human connections & authentic moments.

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📚27 stories
⏱️Avg read: 59 min
Avg rating: 6.1/10
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Slice of Life Stories

Slice of Life Stories List

Across the Courtyard
Amira Solan
Dec 4, 202533 min
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Across the Courtyard

A tender slice-of-life about a rope-access technician who keeps an eccentric courtyard from falling apart. Neighbors, small rituals, and an absurd inflatable flamingo collide as practical skills bridge loneliness and build community.

3023
5.55
Maple & Third
Nikolai Ferenc
Nov 26, 202546 min
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Maple & Third

Maple & Third follows Theo’s return to his hometown when the neighborhood café where his family belonged faces sale. As deadlines and offers arrive, small daily acts—photo nights, zines, soup evenings—become the currency of a community negotiating ownership, identity, and uncertain futures. The atmosphere is intimate and pragmatic, centered on a reluctant hero balancing city opportunities with the demands of a place that remembers him.

762
6.44
Between Shifts
Delia Kormas
Nov 17, 202581 min
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Between Shifts

June, a young photographer in a compact city, wakes to a gallery’s sudden closure and navigates part‑time work, a community center invitation, and the quiet economies of neighborhood life. Between temp shifts and small shows, she seeks a way to keep making images.

1301
6.14
Between Repairs
Victor Ramon
Nov 8, 202580 min
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Between Repairs

Amara inherits a modest neighborhood repair shop and must choose whether to sell or keep it. Set among lemon oil and solder, she negotiates a fragile balance between a part-time office job and afternoons at the bench, building a repair circle and a community that keeps the shop alive.

758
7.07
Juniper & Third
Adeline Vorell
Nov 5, 202578 min
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Juniper & Third

After her aunt's funeral, Mara returns to the corner café she inherited and discovers a formal notice: an offer on the building and a thirty-day deadline. The community rallies, navigating finances, repairs and competing offers as they try to save the place’s spirit.

2407
6.06
Mornings on Willow Road
Claudine Vaury
Nov 5, 2025112 min
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Mornings on Willow Road

A pastry chef returns to her childhood street to inherit an old bakery. She must decide between a quick sale and the slow labor of keeping a communal hearth alive. As neighbors rally, repairs begin and legal protections are drafted; the town’s quiet routines and small pledges shape a fragile path forward.

2013
6.04
Marigold Mornings
Maribel Rowan
Nov 3, 2025115 min
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Marigold Mornings

After inheriting her aunt’s small neighborhood café, Maya returns home to find the place tangled in unpaid bills, repair notices, and a tempting buyout. As she navigates community memory, storm damage, and a tense investor offer, neighbors rally to form a cooperative that fights to keep the Marigold’s mornings alive.

3107
7.11
Small Things Held
Elvira Montrel
Nov 2, 202580 min
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Small Things Held

Maya, a library volunteer, navigates a life-changing choice when a job offer arrives as her community fights to save their library. As donors, repairs, and training take shape, she balances the practical work of stewardship with a move toward new opportunities, creating a fragile, hopeful transition.

2385
6.15
Mornings on Maple Street
Julien Maret
Oct 31, 2025159 min
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Mornings on Maple Street

Mira returns to her childhood neighborhood to care for her injured mother and to hold together the community cafe that anchors a block. Faced with a corporate offer to buy the building, she balances legal strategy, neighborhood organizing, and personal choices as volunteers, donations, and a conditional loan shape a fight to preserve the place’s daily life. The final chapter ties legal closure to quiet, everyday rhythms, showing the restored routine of a place rebuilt by many hands.

1864
5.5
Wash & Bloom
Isla Dermont
Oct 29, 2025139 min
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Wash & Bloom

After inheriting her grandmother’s neighborhood laundromat, Lila Morales returns to a familiar storefront and must choose between selling to an investor or preserving the shop as a communal hub. The story follows daily rituals, neighborly repairs, tense negotiations, and the slow work of belonging.

2298
4.6
A Jar on the Windowsill
Edgar Mallin
Oct 27, 202548 min
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A Jar on the Windowsill

Maya returns to her mother's bakery to help with a short-term need only to find overlapping pressures: a job offer from the city and a building viewing that could displace the shop. The third chapter follows the open morning meant to demonstrate the bakery’s worth, the negotiations that ensue with an investor and with her employer, and the small, pragmatic compromises that weave career and belonging into a viable plan.

855
5.33
Porchlight Mornings
Pascal Drovic
Oct 22, 202597 min
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Porchlight Mornings

Nora returns to her small hometown to help run her aunt’s café and finds the business threatened by outside offers. Torn between a city career and community commitment, she helps mobilize locals, forms a cooperative, and navigates repairs, governance, and family ties as the café seeks a sustainable future.

172
5.86
Porchlight Café
Sofia Nellan
Oct 22, 202569 min
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Porchlight Café

Porchlight Café follows Maya Bennett as she returns to her grandmother’s neighborhood coffee shop and faces a developer’s offer. In a textured urban corner, she must marshal volunteers, mend a fragile building, and ask neighbors to bet on a shared, everyday place.

173
6.36
Shelf Life
Thomas Gerrel
Sep 30, 202545 min
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Shelf Life

A burned-out marketer returns to tend her aunt’s bookshop-café during recovery. As she reopens routines and stages a neighborhood event, a city job offer and an outside buyer force June to decide whether to move on or help the community marshal small, practical resources to keep the shop.

215
5.98
Skylight Bread
Maribel Rowan
Sep 22, 202540 min
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Skylight Bread

Elena, a thirty-two-year-old baker, runs a tiny courtyard bakery under an old skylight that leaks at the worst time: days before a city inspection and the neighborhood fair. With neighbors, a retired roofer, and a found note from a previous tenant, she fights weather and worry to fix the roof and keep the oven warm.

183
6.07
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