Top 10 Short Ghoulcy Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Ghoulcy fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
We Don't Have To Be Friends
by rickgression
(BRIDGE BETWEEN S1 FINALE AND S2) Lucy had the sort of face girls in the movies had: clear skin, big eyes, and neat hair. Pretty — beautiful, actually, but not as a matter of compliment. Beautiful in the way she’d make a good price at any given market if he was inclined to sell her. Beautiful in the
Kinda Like a Cowboy
by Cantique
“I’d be real careful with that line o’ thinkin’,” he warns, raising an arm and bringing it to brace against the wall beside her head, all but pinning her to it. They may not be physically touching, but they’re so close to it and he’s looking at her like she’s a meal (which should be concerning becau
trouble like a mugshot
by DittyWrites
"Hey, Cooper." Lucy called, fingers rolling across her bare forearms as she sat with her back to the wall, legs crossed in a neat pile. "You awake and listening to me?" "Hard not to with those foghorn vocals." A grumpy response, muffled by the hat, rang back at her. "What are you yapping your flap a
A Distinct Lack of Exploding
by gotfanfiction
Lucy had had. A thought. (What do you get when you combine a bitter, irradiated divorcee with a self-widowed, aggressive optimist? A whole buncha bullshit, that's what.)
Beauty Prefers The Beast
by WriterPug
A young woman and an old Ghoul are moving across the wasteland.They're hunting a man and hunting for the truth.They're gonna find more than that.Lucy has always been too curious for her own good.And she's always wanted things she wasn't supposed to want.
where the nuclear sun rises
by mitslits
It was wrong to want her, he knew that. She was young, but more importantly, she was naive. He wanted to take that naivete between his teeth and grind it up until there wasn't a shred of it left.The old Cooper would hate the things he'd done to her. The old Cooper could never forgive himself for tak
start carvin'
by littlefoolswritings
Little Lucy throws him a blank look, the same one he’s been seeing on that pretty face since the showdown with her father. “I want to keep going.”There’s that stubborn tenacity buried under her too-soft flesh. He argues back, “I’m tired. Ain’t you tired?”(or, Ghoul discovers Lucy has a method to get
he's a devil, she's a demon (he's a doll)
by Bitumz
She was grieving, just as he had when the one he'd trusted most in the world had shown their true colors, spending the days mostly silent until some human urgency or another arose, otherwise trudging along behind him as if the path his boots left was the only one she knew. As if his rope was still s
Strike A Bargain, Light A Match
by DittyWrites
A collection of all my wicked little Cooper Howard fics comprising all the nasty and questionable filth that I want to see this ghoul take part in.(And one filthy Maximus fic since I don't have anywhere else to put it at the moment)
Ten Fingers, Ten Toes
by Rulimaquina
Lucy remembered being young, a little girl. Her vault suit covered in dirt and the heels of her hands scrapped, bleeding. It seemed like the worst that could ever happen to anyone, like her entire existence had been turned on its axis, like the end of the world to a child. Then, her mother standing
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Why Read Short Ghoulcy Fics?
Novella-length Ghoulcy fics — roughly 10,000 to 50,000 words — let writers fully develop a single AU, trope, or relationship beat without sprawling. Plenty of time for setup, payoff, and a satisfying ending; not so much time that you're juggling fifty bookmarks.
Great for trying a new author or testing whether you'll enjoy a sub-genre before diving into something longer.
About This List
This list of 10short Ghoulcy fanfics spans 249,681 total words. Kudos range from 1,085 on the newest entries to 3,203 on the most established. 70% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (8 of 10 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Post-Season/Series 01 · Rough Sex · Canon-Typical Violence · Dirty Talk.
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