Best Short First Love Fanfics
First Love novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 14 Short First Love Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with first love and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
In This Secluded Spot I Respond As I Wouldn't Dare Elsewhere
by RhymePhile
It's 1995, and Castiel's high school years are destined to be difficult: home-schooled until eighth grade, he is awkward, shy, and socially inept. The weird kid with the funny name would rather isolate himself and draw in his sketchbook than deal with the constant bullying he faces every day. Things
Cascade
by Avonne
Harry wants to touch, and Draco wants to be touched. If only they could figure it out.
Paper Planes
by annie_vi
As springs ebbs into summer, Park Jimin unexpectedly spots a familiar face at a pool party - Jeon Jeongguk, his childhood best friend and first love, who disappeared without explanation five years ago and left Jimin heartbroken.
Luminous
by Syluk
Shisui Uchiha expected to get caught and his remaining eye to be stolen, so he was ready to die. What he didn't expect was to be rescued by a feisty redhead Uzumaki and definitely not to get proposed by the said redhead on a spot.(Time Travel/Dimension Travel AU, Shisui x femNaruto)
With All My Heart
by QuinnAnderson
AU in which every time a person falls in love, a red line like a tally mark appears on their wrist. Sherlock is determined to keep himself from ever gaining one of these marks for fear that love will corrode his mental faculties. Then he meets John Watson.**A screen shot someone took of my summary b
As If Hands Were Enough (to Hold an Avalanche Off)
by theroyalsavage
Nico di Angelo has been through enough to know life doesn't always work out the way you plan. But fate is a funny thing, and, in Nico's junior year of college, it hands him salvation in the form of freckled cheeks and a smile like the sun.
Yours from the start
by chamyl
Nobody would suspect that Aziraphale, reluctant Principality and fidgety Guardian of the Eastern Gate of Eden, would have a tryst with a demon.This is a good thing. It means they’re less likely to get caught.“You’re about to say yes, angel,” murmurs the serpent behind him, hot breath against the she
Third Mistake
by almostprimary
“You will write this for me.” Joonghyuk declared, since trivial things such as questions and manners were far below his grace. He dropped the wrinkled page into Dokja’s lap.“Dear Seolhwa Lee, You are a pretty girl. I have been thinking…”Dokja pulled his eyes away from the paper immediately. It was a
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by tide (tothemoon)
Even with all of Tokyo’s new acquaintances, classmates, near-strangers, and neighbors, Haruka and Makoto will choose each other.
The Street Where No One Lives
by Grey_Harbor
The city lights its scattered lamps.And far, far away, the empty street waits faithfully for its two heroes to come home. Saitama POV. Saitama wants to take their relationship a step further.
Nunca fuimos simplemente historia
by Charlahime
Vincent Wittman es aceptado en realizar una pasantía en India y tendrá la compañía de una linda chica apasionada por la historia de su país
I love you so.
by TsundereKitty
La noche que Arthur lo drogó, creyó que se convertiría en un monstruo al perecer ante sus instintos. Un animal. Una bestia. Un alfa. Necesitaba marcar a un omega. Pero en cambio, se encontró con Eiji Okumura, un beta irracional que lo vislumbró sin prejuicio ni terror, le preguntó si estaba bien, ex
Lingering Ghosts (finnick odair)
by fawnsangel
"I am the echo of your shadow." In the industrial and bleak corner of Eight, Sophia Violet Grover lived as a Capitol darling, her punishment for surviving the games .She learned to survive by becoming something else: a million layers of not her to keep herself alive. Sophia Violet Grover another nai
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
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About First Love
The terrifying, all-consuming experience of loving someone for the first time — clumsy confessions, overanalyzed text messages, and feelings too big for the person carrying them. Often but not always set in adolescence.
First love is the only love with no map, and readers cherish the rawness of characters feeling everything at full volume with no defenses built yet.
Common scenarios: A first kiss ruined by nerves and immediately retried, or a character realizing they're in love mid-conversation and forgetting how sentences work.
About This List
This list of 14short First Love fanfics spans 374,135 total words. Kudos range from 3 on the newest entries to 11,948 on the most established. 57% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (5 of 14 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: First Love · Alternate Universe - College/University · Fluff · Alternate Universe - Modern Setting · Alternate Universe - High School.
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