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Best Short Twilight Fanfics

Twilight novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

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Top 25 Short Twilight Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Twilight fics — 10,000–50,000 words.

1

The Boyfriend

by AverageFish

"I like the trees here," Harry said, his accent placing him far from home. "They keep my wrackspurts away." It was twilight, and he wasn't wearing any shoes."You can stay at my place," Charlie said.One night turned into teaching Harry to use the coffee machine, and then he grew used to fresh pancake

10,037 kudos 29,061 words 14/14 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
2

Magical Twilight

by Scififan33

When Edward leaves Bella in the woods someone other than Sam finds her. And what secrets are the new kid in town hiding?

8,188 kudos 29,908 words 19/19 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
3

One Day in Volterra

by UnholySpectacle

Bella Swan thought she had already lived through all of this vampire nonsense and put it behind her. She'd built a (mostly) happy, productive life for herself. However, when she dies in a car accident under mysterious circumstances, she finds herself back in her teenage body, running off to save Edw

8,164 kudos 38,389 words 14/14 chapters Mature Complete
4

The Future Mrs Jacob Black.

by JessalynMichele

Nobody told Jacob how utterly perfect it would be when he finally imprinted on his soulmate...“I could kill you in ten seconds flat.”... or how the moment could be completely ruined the moment she opened her mouth.

7,588 kudos 27,330 words 6/6 chapters Not Rated Complete
5

My Heart, Your Soul

by Seriously_awkward_amy

Harry had been a lot of things in his life, but happy hadn’t been one of them for a very long time. He and Jasper loved each other. The wolves trusted Harry to be the middle man between themselves and the Coven. Bree was learning to be her own person with Rosalie and Emmett’s support. Edward and Bel

5,507 kudos 20,136 words 11/? chapters Mature
6

Another Life, Another Love, Another—oh, whatever

by AverageFish

Izzy Swan, Master of Death, asks Carlisle to be her shrink.Edward Cullen, master of melodrama, asks his father for advice.A better love story than Twilight, told from a dad's perspective.Podfic read by RuneLore

5,343 kudos 29,051 words 25/25 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
7

It Turns in a Blink

by Moose_juice_e

After finding out that he's the Master of Death, Harry Potter is chased out of England by people he once considered friends. On the brink of death, he apparates at random, desperate to escape. Edward Cullen prides himself on being a good driver, but when a young boy suddenly appears in the middle of

4,836 kudos 11,514 words 14/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
8

Eventide

by MoonWitch96

Transmigating into the body of seventeen-year-old Bella Swan, Lorelei Caulderón can only say she would have enjoyed it- When she was eleven. At twenty-seven, she honestly just wants to go home to wifi, her dogs, and her own damn face. A re-examination and retelling of ‘Twilight’ through the perspect

4,513 kudos 21,470 words 31/? chapters Mature
9

Day by Day (Swept Away)

by rebelcongeriem

The one in which Harry decides to play magizoologist in Chile and ends up meeting a pair of vampires who promise him both a family and a place to belong.He accepts...eventually.

3,537 kudos 15,428 words 5/? chapters Mature
10

so i dream and do not remember your shape

by Sunnystar

It's a gray day in Forks, and you are a terrible bodysnatcher.   [A Jacob Black SI. Sort of.]

3,480 kudos 38,582 words 33/? chapters General Audiences
11

Brutal, but Efficient

by rudeminnesotan

Jasper never gave thought to turning someone into a vampire, but sometimes Fate decides to shove her Destiny-filled nose into things. Elly doesn’t make it easy on him by going through life fangs first, but Jasper can’t help being protective of his child. If only the Cullens could understand and acce

3,184 kudos 11,763 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
12

A Love, A Life, Lost

by pandaswearglasses

The Cullens are the perfect family. They bicker just the right amount, play baseball, enjoy meals as a family. They keep no secrets from each other.Except apparently everything they thought they knew about Carlisle's past is a lie, and now there's a new and mysterious human taking up more space in t

3,145 kudos 20,937 words 6/? chapters Mature
13

Aurora

by lecturience

Alice Lily Potter survived the war, but not unchanged. Pursued by those who regard her new prophetic ability as a valuable resource, and aren’t willing to take ‘no’ for an answer, Alice makes a difficult choice which sends her tumbling into the unknown. There, she finds a whole new world to explore…

3,113 kudos 35,332 words 11/? chapters Explicit
14

Not to alarm you but I think I’m about to have a coronary

by CuriousAussie

“If I wanted to break your heart,” Rosalie says finally, venom in every word, “I would have done so the moment you opened your mouth- before you could prove to me what an idiot you are. Why is it,” she then adds, “That no one ever worries about breaking my heart?”OrBella meets Rosalie Hale and decid

2,845 kudos 23,975 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
15

Family First

by say_no_more

Charlie Swan and James Potter are half brothers. When Harry needs a safe place to stay while recovering from an injury, he turns to his family in Forks, Washington for help. Charlie is eager to welcome his nephew to his home, but he hopes Bella can handle the strangeness which is their family, espec

2,571 kudos 34,505 words 13/13 chapters Mature Complete
16

Crossing and Uncrossing Lines

by audreyii_fic

Bella and Jacob try to navigate the holiday season - and their own hormones. (Standard New Moon AU: Cullens never come back. Grown from a drabble prompt into a full story.)

2,511 kudos 15,882 words 3/3 chapters Explicit Complete
17

Beacon of Light

by TBVikingAddict

When Victoria sends Bella back in time, she's recruited into Maria's newborn army. There she meets the Major, who's never encountered a newborn quite like her. In the absence of everything familiar, Bella glues herself to his side. So what's the Major to do when a determined newborn decides to claim

2,464 kudos 34,817 words 6/? chapters Mature
18

Twilight: New Dawn

by Ciel_of_the_Night

When Lillian De Clarke, budding violinist, is hit by a speeding car and dies, she thinks her life is over. But, as it turns out, fate may have known what it was doing, after all. (A rebirth/transmigration fic centered around the town of Forks, and its sparkly inhabitants).

2,373 kudos 27,383 words 7/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
19

It had to be Jessica

by Tanner_Clark

When I woke up as a completely different person in a fictional world, I knew there were a lot of things that needed to be changed. But I didn't want things to change in this way.

1,932 kudos 48,803 words 21/21 chapters Mature Complete
20

Dayspring

by cheshire_carroll

Peace does not last in Westeros and childbed is a battlefield that spares neither peasant nor queen. When Sansa Stark bleeds out amidst spring’s sweet song she does not expect to wake again, let alone in the dayspring of youth, but the gods are as cruel as they are kind.Forged in the crucible of win

1,807 kudos 12,327 words 4/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
21

Stolen

by Mirkys_Concubine

While visiting his father Harry really didn't mean to steal his half sister's fiancé… it just sorta… happened.

1,344 kudos 24,441 words 6/6 chapters Mature Complete
22

Begin Again

by candlelitcupofcoffee

The slight rain shower created a cross breeze that brushed against her cheeks and caused her to shiver. Because the shiver couldn't possibly be from the lupine way Sam was now regarding her. {This is a Bella x Pack story and is Nsfw so if you're underage, don't read. This is AU post New Moon/Pre Ecl

1,341 kudos 10,242 words 8/? chapters Explicit
23

Tuesday

by queenofallswans

Bella Swan has always believed Edward's protectiveness was love. Then Rosalie Hale asks a simple question: What do you want? An unknown vampire is stalking Bella, the Cullen family is falling into chaos, and Bella suddenly finds herself spending more time with the one vampire who never wanted her ar

148 kudos 19,734 words 6/? chapters Not Rated
24

Twilight Breaking Dawn: Living Things

by applerubber

Bella dies while giving birth to her baby boy. And Jacob doesn't leave the Cullen house after she never woke back up.Edward should still hate him and Jacob should still hate him in return like they always have. They should just go back to being enemies again.Somehow, against all common sense Jacob B

139 kudos 26,819 words 21/23 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
25

In My Room (1981 version)

by charlieswan755

what if Charlie Swan was Bella   Updating literally every day

135 kudos 46,364 words 16/? chapters Not Rated

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26,819
median words
44%
complete
10,037
top kudos
~1.8 hours
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This list of 25short Twilight fanfics spans 654,193 total words. Kudos range from 135 on the newest entries to 10,037 on the most established. 44% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (9 of 25 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Reincarnation · Self-Insert · Romance · Angst · Female Harry Potter.

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