Best One-Shot Grishaverse Fanfics
Grishaverse one-shots under 10k words — complete reads in one sitting. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 One-Shot Grishaverse Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Grishaverse fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
born under a lucky star
by Keira_63
On her eighteenth birthday, Alina’s guardian tells her she’s a very special girl born under a lucky star, and that the two of them will change the world together.
Faith
by LeFay
“I need to tell you something,” she says one night as they sit at the chessboard. When her silence stretches on, he steeples his fingers and rests his chin on their tips, looking up from the game to meet her eyes, “Go on.”
Grasping a Root in the Stumbling Dark
by IcarusOfAThousandDays
"It goes thus— There is a man who cannot die. ... You wake with Mal’s foot digging into your shin." ... What is power worth in another girl’s hand? What good is it if you close the fist? What kind of person finds a door in death and leaves it shut because the key was stolen? What kind of person hear
Chambers of the Heart
by tirkdi (InsectKin)
Zoya learns to love. It’s not what she expected. (Not the first time, or the second.)
The whites of your eyes burn from across the room
by BlackBarnOwl
Her life with Mal should be taking off, but haunted by dreams of another life an inescapable cold dogs Alina's steps, splitting them further and further apart.
Fandom High
by LiterallyScarlettDragna
Several fandoms mix and go to school together!
The bill is fxcking gnarly
by BloomArcayna
The sun summoner discovered in a brothel and taken away with an extensive debt and many secrets. What could go wrong?
The Bridge of Spies
by Blue_Neptune
Aleksander walked slowly, feeling the sand burn the soles of his feet and the sun beat on his exposed forearms. He was much too pale for this climate, but he’d known from the start that he’d follow her to the end of the world - were she to ask.He got closer, one step in front of the other, a strange
The Watershed
by Madelie
“And now you want me to marry you? Now that I can shoot light, NOW you want me to be your WIFE?!”The boy prince took in every one of her accusations, every pained, and angry and justified barbs thrown his way. Took them straight to his heart.Then the boy in him retreated and the prince returned.
magic buried deep in my heart
by midwinterspring
Aleksander Morozova, Os Alta's most famous mage, is looking for a bouquet. (Written for the prompts "greenhouse/flower shop AU", "shapeshifter AU", and "urban fantasy AU".)
That's not how love works
by mistchrome
There were no magic words, no specific actions, no moments of revelation. That’s not how love works. It grows quietly and without warning; it grows along a path strewn with thorns, traumas and friction; it grows without heeding reason. This is the story of how love blossomed between Zoya and Nikolai
Hide and Kill
by Anonymous
Kirigan traps Alina in a game of Hide and Seek within the Fold.
lucky ones
by Anonymous
Nikolai Lantsov was a lucky bastard.
The Sacrifices We Make
by daya_luna
Nikolai Lantsov is the leading expert on Astrophage. Zoya Nazyalensky is in charge of Project Hail Mary. She is ready to do anything necessary to save Earth, even if that includes sacrificing the scientist she's grown fond of. Little does she know, he is also capable of sacrifices.
life is a highway
by Anonymous
“You’re joking?” “Alas, Nazyalensky, I cannot drive.”
i'll leave my window open (i know you hate to be alone)
by nifffty
Alina Starkov decides to cheat death. She gets more than she bargained for. or, What if I snapped my fingers and made a modern day Grishaverse AU where all that time still passed. What then.
Love at First Scientific Emergency
by daya_luna
Nikolai was still struggling to comprehend that any of this was actually happening.One day, he had been teaching a classroom full of seventh graders about sound waves. By the next, he'd been kidnapped, shoved into a hazmat suit, and instructed to conduct extensive experiments on an alien life-form t
The Bet
by adranysa
"You'd better pay up. Though not for the wrong reasons. I was not seduced.“ Genya and Zoya reminisce about an old wager.
Nothing Came For Them
by Skullsz
no more sacrifices...
A Matter of Heartlessness
by queensmanor
Beneath ocean tides, secrets hide. Above such unpredictable waters, hidden truths may come to light and become impossible to truly ignore. Inside of what may seem an ordinary vessel cabin to some individuals, two people who redefine extraordinary discuss matters that one would rather bury beneath th
"It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care"
by Greenishh_Lettuceee
After the Os Alta's attack, fjerdans bomb Balakirev, Zoya tries to save a person that is dear to her, but, at what cost? THIS FIC IS NOT ABANDONED I’m just in a voleyball camp and I don’t have time to write
Six of Crows (Genderbent)
by RJLupin2011
In Ketterdam, there is the crew known as the Dregs.And above that? There are the Crows.-Naj Ghafa is the Wraith, who struggles to keep his faith with his job, and his complicated feelings for his dangerous employer.-Jess Fahey fights against her secret as a Durast, and her issues grow once she risks
Eternal Love & Power
by Vadnakasme2187
She approached him without faltering, sure about her decision. Despite her reluctance to help him, she would never bear being the cause of her friend's death. She looked up at him and when their eyes met she saw the hungry look in his eyes and the desire beneath it ------ Alina doesn't turn away. Do
Anyone would be a better general
by Greenishh_Lettuceee
“Do you think if I only cared about grisha I would have accepted being this kingdom’s general? Would I have mourned Lilyana?” Zoya took a step back “If I only cared about grisha, would I have cried when I believed you were dead because of Elizaveta?” Zoya and Nikolai fight over what to do after the
Handle With Care (Or Punch Immediately)
by ApolloniaAlexandria
Kaz Brekker’s foolproof museum heist goes entirely sideways when his prize's former owner—a 19th-century king miraculously preserved by magic—wakes up from a two-hundred-year nap. Now, Kaz is stuck with a living historical artifact who has a punchable smirk and absolutely nowhere to go in the 21st c
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About This List
This list of 25one-shot Grishaverse fanfics spans 80,983 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 72 on the most established. 56% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (10 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Angst · Fluff · Post-Book 2: Rule of Wolves · Alternate Universe - Modern Setting.
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