Best Short Hurt No Comfort Fanfics
Hurt No Comfort novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 19 Short Hurt No Comfort Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with hurt no comfort and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
Living with Thorns Crushing My Heart
by writerllofllworlds
He was not an idiot, and soon enough, he noticed it too. When Mina broke up with Kiri, Katsuki was the first one at his side. He stayed in the redhead’s room for hours, consoling him and giving him a shoulder to cry on. He canceled training with Izuku to get Kirishima back on his feet. He pushed bac
So Close
by Baybee00
A devastating on-ice collision changes everything for Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, and everyone who loves them.
Drown In My Ocean of Black Box Dye
by brigreenie
He clicked the pen his therapist had given him, opening the first page. In big letters, he wrote, “Reasons To Live: 1-100.”Then, he flipped to the middle of the journal. He paused, felt-tip inches from the page. This was gonna be another mistake to add to his long-running list, wasn’t it?Caving, he
Sunshowers
by IzzyMRDB
Percy has a rather bad habit of being able to see the future. The old lady down the street is going to lose her cat, Mom is going to make pasta for dinner, Zeus' Master Bolt is going to be stolen by Luke, he's going to get a C+ in Maths.As you can tell, this causes problems. Especially since he was
Trust is Nothing
by maverickk
Percy Jackson had been left, alone, in Tartarus. His trust in his best friend was shattered. His loyalty was owed to no one. His energy went into keeping himself alive, and if he had to delve into darker and more deadly powers, so be it. But now he's out, and he has work to do.In which Percy Jackson
one half of a whole
by interstellarisms
Eva feels like the breath is knocked out of her lungs when the man walks in. Dirty blond hair. Blue eyes. Sort of like… if Ryland Grace was hit by a car several times. It was undeniably him. “So you’re Eva Stratt,” The man says gruffly, slamming both hands on her desk. He looked exactly like Ryland,
[Access]
by Teobot
Izuku blinks up at Shigaraki Tomura. Shimura Tenko. A host of other names he’s heard from Dabi. Sensei’s- All for One’s protégé.He’s not much older than Izuku is.-Caught unaware by the recent turn of events, Izuku must make a decision: stay and help, knowing that it will hurt his family and friends,
our dreams turn into jokes
by gin (tabanthas)
Arata's poisonous voice floats to his ears - you can only improve if you learn from your betters, Shinonome - and Akito knows he's lost, even before he digs out the card slipped into his bag. He grits his teeth, punching the numbers into his phone with more force than needed."Hey, bastard," he force
Have You Always Turned the Other Cheek?
by realpoutydadsurvives (brainwitchletty)
Chris Redfield is back with the BSAA after finding out he and Leon had been betrayed by and lied to by people he considers his family and he-- He is not handling this well at all.
Trying to Start a Fire with Matches in the Snow
by brainless_marta
Wilson needs to let it all go. The only place better than the bar? House’s place. He goes, sits right beside him, watches a shitty programme, — is that his best friend suffering? Maybe the stone cold Dr. House wasn’t that cold after all.
The Restricted Section
by Narglefanfics
By her sixth year at Hogwarts, Regina Mills has already lost everything that mattered. Rumplestiltskin steps in to shape what’s left. When Emma Swan arrives as a new transfer student, she's drawn to a girl who’s already chosen the dark. GoldenQueen. Slow burn SwanQueen. Endgame SwanQueen. This will
Little Fires
by threeborzoisinatrenchcoat
Every year one male and one female tribute are selected from each district and sent to their deaths. For 75 years, the Games have run unchallenged and unchanged, 24 tributes go in, and only 1 victor comes out. The only vaguely ‘fair’ thing about the system was that you only had to participate once.
kindling
by Anonymous
Sometimes, Caleb fears that being capable of inflicting so much pain and suffering without even getting off to it is the sickest thing about him.caleb and molly play bdsm chicken. neither knows the rules & they both lose.
The Dream of Prince Vegeta
by Kala_creator
When Raditz kidnaps Gohan and loses the coordinates for earth, Vegeta is left with a stark choice: let Frieza kill the child, or claim that Gohan is Vegeta's son. Unwilling to let Gohan's immense potential go to waste, Vegeta enters a dangerous game of deception that will put more than just Gohan's
of nightmares and other soft things
by genderisascammadebytheshadowgovernment
“Hello, darling.” This has to be a dream. A nightmare. Some twisted figment of his imagination. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It isn’t a dream.
Summer of Doom 2026
by Bloody_Willamina
Multifandom Prompts for June of Doom 2026.
The Waterfall
by Madelie
Before the watershed, there was once a waterfall.
Monologues from the Gallows
by virginsuicly
✶ 74 ADD, PANEM Sentenced to exile amid the coal dust of Panem's poorest district, twenty-one-year-old Peacekeeper Atticus Ledger expects only monotony. Instead, he is handed a secret directive from a shadowy Capitol handler: observe, evaluate, and report on the cracks forming within District 12's f
Wanderfalke 3/3
by RandomLoner_1412
The final installment of the Wanderfalke series, in which grief, love, and a gang of lost souls face the end of everything, and the start of something.
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About Hurt No Comfort
The first half of hurt/comfort with the second half deliberately withheld: characters suffer and the narrative offers no rescue, no soft landing, no fixing. The tag is a promise to readers that the pain will not be cushioned.
Sometimes catharsis requires a story that doesn't flinch or console, and readers seeking that full-weight ache use this tag to find authors who will follow through.
Common scenarios: A character dying alone with the apology they never got to make, or a betrayal fic that ends on the discovery with no reconciliation chapter coming.
About This List
This list of 19short Hurt No Comfort fanfics spans 457,693 total words. Kudos range from 2 on the newest entries to 20,550 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (9 of 19 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Hurt No Comfort · Angst · Hurt/Comfort · Character Death · Whump.
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