Best Short Exes to Lovers Fanfics
Exes to Lovers novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 11 Short Exes to Lovers Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with exes to lovers and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
The Loss We Learned
by DeathBelle
When Suna and Osamu broke up, it wasn’t on good terms. The end was bitter, and Suna has tried his best to forget about the breakup - and about Osamu - over the past five years. He’s done well, for the most part. He rarely thinks about Osamu anymore and he’s had a successful life without him. Suna do
Crashing like a tidal wave
by photographer_of_thoughts
It feels like a dam has broken inside of him.All he wants is pizza. A donut. A milkshake.If he can’t have Ilya - if Ilya doesn’t want him - maybe he can have pizza instead.It’s a stupid thought. A dangerous thought. But it won’t leave.Or, Shane doesn’t get injured in the game and Ilya breaks it off
We Can Be Something, Hollander
by MsParker
Ilya is an asshole to Shane in Sochi. He's an asshole again in Vegas. Shane decides he doesn't hate himself enough to put up with this shit. It takes everything he has, but he ends it with Ilya. Ilya isn't having it. OR: What does Ilya Rozanov look like on his (figurative) knees?
【豆腐丝】可一再可
by Anonymous
一个“前男友车祸后记忆回到我们还没分手的八年前并住进我家”的故事，连载，HE，越写越不爱情轻喜剧，结尾还是很轻喜的。 作者/岛6.3更新ch12正文12章完结，期待kudos和comments！2026.7.6:突然想起来还没有在这里解禁番外3，发一下^^收录《可一再可》的个人豆腐丝同人志《不要回头》会在年底的cp33仅供现场～到时候会发详细的宣条 *可一再可好像是个错误的用法但作者三年前第一次用就错了所以沿袭了！*非常不完整的《被偷走的那五年》au
Polaroids
by ceruleancastle
Achilles' eyes trailed down. To the sliver of olive skin just above his belt. Between the shirt that was untucked and had ridden up. He wanted to ask– where were you? He wanted to tell him – I had been waiting. For you. “Stop staring Achilles,” Patroclus whispered, eyes still closed. Though his voic
So Let the Mountain Crumble
by cinderslice
“I can’t stand you,” Zuko says with earnest annoyance. “I can’t stand you either,” Sokka says. It sounds a whole lot like I love you. “Come on, you poor, sad baby, let’s go to bed.” Or: Sokka has been running from his broken heart for years, but when his father calls and tells him to come home, he p
to live for the hope of it all
by star_bywolf
It's been years since Mike and Will last talked. During their time apart in high school, Mike realized two things. One, he was gay. Two, he was obsessed with Will. Things were changing, they were growing and maturing. Will they find their way back together, or will some distance break them apart? Wi
Because there is no life without you
by vilucheericloud_com8
Michael Robinavitch carries the weight of a troubled past. Burned out and likely battling depression, he feels trapped in the ER and unable to walk away. But when a new class of medical students arrives and one of them catches his attention, the thought of leaving the ER disappears entirely.
The Heart Remembers: Some Memories Never Fade. Some Love Never Leaves.
by HannahG1904
This is set during and after the Girls United fire. Callie actually gets injured. Callie then talks to Brandon in the hospital after it happens. I changed Jesus's name to Mateo. Callie and Wyatt are already broken up. Mariana and Mat are dating. Read to find out more.
And Love is Love
by EclairateeSPN
Dean and Cas fall in love during one of the hottest summers in Texas history, at a time when homophobia ran rampant and a love like theirs was illegal. Their relationship ends abruptly when Dean moves back to Kansas without so much as a goodbye. Twenty years later, Castiel walks into Dean Winchest
A Song for Broken Wings
by Anonymous
The one where Peter gets caught, Sirius never goes to Azkaban, Harry is still sent to Surrey, and Remus has moved back in with his parents because the war taught him and Sirius how to love each other badly.Or: the one where Lily’s will makes them talk again.
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About Exes to Lovers
A broken-up couple finds their way back to each other, hauling the wreckage of round one with them. Unlike second-chance romances separated by circumstance, exes chose to end it — which means the reunion has to reckon honestly with why.
All the intimacy is still there, inconveniently intact, and readers love the charged familiarity of two people who know each other's coffee orders and breaking points equally well.
Common scenarios: Divorced partners forced to work one last case together, or exes snowed in at a mutual friend's cabin with five years of unsaid things and one bed.
About This List
This list of 11short Exes to Lovers fanfics spans 250,135 total words. Kudos range from 2 on the newest entries to 4,561 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (4 of 11 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Angst with a Happy Ending · Exes to Lovers · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Getting Back Together · Alternate Universe - Modern Setting.
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