Best One-Shot Night Vale Fanfics
Night Vale one-shots under 10k words — complete reads in one sitting. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 One-Shot Night Vale Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Night Vale fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
by EzraBlake
“I can't believe you did that.” “Kissed you?” Carlos asks. He feels Cecil shudder under his hands. “Yes,” he hisses. “Right there, where anyone could – oh, beautiful, perfect Carlos, I never thought you were kinky too!”Or, Cecil's erogenous zones are in nonstandard places.
More Than Weather
by JumpingJackFlash
Cecil is tongue-tied when he's with Carlos, but he's never at a loss for words when he's on the air.
What We've Got Here
by Margo_Kim
Carlos's reaction to the first date involves a lot more anguished cries than Cecil's, though to be fair, they're only anguished cries of "Why did I do that, why did I say that, why am I allowed to interact with other people" so they're still better than at least eighty percent of Night Vale's late n
Sweetest Sound
by Dracothelizard
For the following prompt on the kinkmeme:Whenever he turns on the radio, Carlos can feel Cecil's voice touching him, molesting him...fucking him, if he lets it.He thinks it's incredibly hot. But Cecil has no idea that his voice is doing this.
A Beautiful Thing That I Couldn't Escape
by Chash
As it turns out, explaining Cecil to his mother is much easier than explaining upstate New York to Cecil.
Instinct
by Mixxy
Carlos has managed to get a hold on his incubus side over the years. It's not the happiest existence, fighting against nature every step of the way, but it's necessary. After all, feeding on life energy through sex? It's not so good for the other person. If Carlos has to be an abstinent sex demon, t
Mostly Void, Partially Stars
by Infinite_Monkeys
The Avengers' search for Loki takes them to a small desert town where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and the single mother of an eight-legged horse can join the PTA.
inspired by your laugh to wait for things
by gyzym
Maybe in Night Vale, where everything else works a little bit wrong, love works a little wrong too. Maybe in Night Vale, where time occasionally stands on end and gravity pulls slightly less than usual every second Thursday, someone like Cecil, a love like Cecil's, could come without any strings att
Lemon Pie - He's Coming Through
by paperclipbitch
Carlos is absolutely objective. It’s just that it’s quite hard to stay objective when you’ve got Hooded Figures living in your kitchen, radio news reporters stalking you with somewhat dubious baked goods, and everything is so soaked with chemicals, radiation and dark magic that half the time your f
The Voice of Night Vale
by cafecliche
Cecil is, at worst, not much longer for this world. (And at best, a bit high-maintenance.)
The Job Fair
by sabinelagrande
Clint isn't entirely sure that it's a coincidence that the car breaks down right outside of Phil's hometown.
Inhuman
by Twigwise
Both Carlos and Cecil are keeping secrets. Carlos dismisses his own in light of the theory that his boyfriend is more than what he appears. As with any theory, it bears investigation.
The Knowable Universe
by novembersmith
“Let us approach a much more modest question: not whether we can know the universe or the Milky Way Galaxy or a star or a world. Can we know, ultimately and in detail, a grain of salt?” – Carl SaganorImmediately following the events of Episode 25, Carlos realizes he’s been asking the wrong questions
How I Survived My Summer Vacation, by Tamika Flynn, Age 12 3/4
by thingswithwings
The first book on Tamika Flynn's Summer Reading Program Sticker Chart is Lord of the Flies.She doesn't really like it.
The Rat and the Ruby Slippers
by indigostohelit
Carlos is having the strangest dreams, and the strangest headaches, like there's something he's supposed to be remembering. Not to mention the intern's wedding coming up, and that new chemical StrexCorp wants him to develop. It's going to be a busy week.
Pas De Deux
by copperbadge
Cecil has an unexpected bonus. In his pants.
A Red String in the Stars
by fall_of_grace
We’re getting a few calls into the station regarding our announcement of the Sun’s early retirement. Frankly Night Vale, I think you’re overreacting a little bit. Humanity has been around for millennia already, I’d say we’ve had a pretty good run. And this way we all get to know exactly when we’re g
State of Mind
by KissYourDouble
Carlos has always known that he has a thing for being hypnotized, but he’s never had the time or opportunity to explore it. At least, not until now.OR, Cecil’s Voice is literally hypnotic, because there’s not nearly enough mind control kink in this fandom
Somewhere Else
by fight_me_for_an_apple
I had been searching for a TMA WTNV crossover where after the end of TMA, the Somewhere Else they end up is Nightvale, but realized no one was doing the the way I wanted. So basically this is my "Fine, I'll do it myself" moment.
A very strange summer
by frog_with_a_rainbow_mushroom
I don't even know anymore, enjoy my stupid crossover fic i guess
The Rhythm That We Create
by perfect_cecilos
Cecil asks Carlos if he'd like to try a new kink now that they're living together.
Back From The Edge
by Catelia
Jonathan Sims wakes up in a lab, in a town, in a desert, under a hot sun. He wakes alone, save for a suspiciously handsome scientist. He wakes without Martin in sight. Cecil Gershwin-Palmer is used to things going wrong in his broadcasts. He lives in Night Vale, after all, he's used to everything ge
Summer Reading Program
by Leopard_Gecko_King
Jon has been living in Night Vale, USA, with his cousin Carlos since his grandmother died. Now Summer has come around and he decides to enroll in the Summer Reading Program, life-threatening Librarians no concern for an Avatar like him. (Featuring Tamika, a Lietner, and some interactions between Jon
Three Worlds in a Scuffle
by samwinchesterslaptop
"Well, listeners. As we enter our intermission, it appears we have a few new arrivals to greet: from a distance. I'd advise the angels, that do not exist, to steer clear of the Impala currently rolling through our humble town. As for that distant whining and the suspiciously British blue police box
The Infamous... Intern?
by constantlysleepdeprived
After Thunder Bringer, Odysseus ends up in a friendly desert community, where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while its citizens pretend to sleep.
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This list of 25one-shot Night Vale fanfics spans 95,843 total words. Kudos range from 8 on the newest entries to 7,443 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (13 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Typical Night Vale Weirdness · Crossover · Anal Sex · Mind Control · Night Vale.
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