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Best Short Polyamory Fanfics

Polyamory novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.

Polyamory 20 short fics Avg 22,770 words 10,000–50,000 words

Top 20 Short Polyamory Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with polyamory and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.

1

and you needed someone to show you the way

by SailorChibi

Tony knows what the team really thinks of him. It's a delicate balance: they tolerate him because of his money and his toys, and he gets to stay on the team and fight with them. He's okay with that. So long as he hides the fact that Steve's and Bucky's names are written on his skin in the most embar

17,939 kudos 24,421 words 4/4 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
2

Don't Say It

by bibliomaniac

Tony Stark is autistic and nonverbal. Which is fine, obviously, except for it means that Steve and Bucky don't have his words, and it only takes him a few minutes to decide they don't need to know he has theirs. That's also totally and definitely fine, until he goes and falls in love with them.

14,688 kudos 35,019 words 25/25 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
3

Twirl Three Notes and Make a Star

by inexplicifics

The Warlord of the North receives an invitation to the elven summer festival, and Geralt sends Jaskier, Eskel, and Ciri (and more than a dozen overprotective Witchers) off to be diplomatic.Or: Eskel finally gets to take a vacation. If you can call riding herd on Jaskier and the little menace a vacat

14,220 kudos 33,841 words 8/8 chapters Explicit Complete
4

Rule of Three

by starknjarvis

Darcy has imagined her soulmates a million times. Her plan for their first meeting is to punch them in the face with all her might. Her first soulmark-- “Well, at least she’s got a nice rack”-- has been plaguing her since she was born, fueling every self-conscious fear she had ever had. The second,

10,117 kudos 22,010 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
5

You Think We Need One More?

by brichibi

Bakugou, Kirishima, and Kaminari are living their best, twenty-something-year-old life. Nice, spacious house. Attractive roommates to split the mortgage with. Video game discounts. Pizza. Sex. Did we mention sex, because yeah, that's happening on the regular. But things take a turn for the "hot damn

9,377 kudos 27,593 words 6/6 chapters Explicit Complete
6

meddle about

by hopeyoustay

Rhaenyra and Laenor both knew the backlash that would undoubtedly occur should they not have a trueborn heir of their own, likely courtesy of the Hightowers. So they get...creative. Harwin very much enjoys laughing at both of them.(A cup and funnel, a turkey baster, they'd tried it all. Things final

7,201 kudos 12,613 words 4/? chapters Explicit
7

Follow Rivers

by surveycorpsjean

Bokuto is obsessive. He knows this. He knows he’s loud, and clingy, and always in their faces. He knows. But he can’t stop. He loves them, after all.

5,856 kudos 10,727 words 2/2 chapters Explicit Complete
8

Love like a common cold

by supercrunch

Katsuki remembers it, vaguely; they’d gone out for patrol and immediately gotten mobbed by Uwabami’s rabid fans. Some guy asked for a hug. He had most of his face covered, and he wouldn’t let go even though Uwabami kept telling him to stop. Yaoyorozu had seen it and Katsuki had stepped in, yanking h

4,368 kudos 25,394 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
9

The Trifecta

by surveycorpsjean

It only took an ass grab, two black eyes, and a couple beers for them to realize how cute Terushima actually is.

4,039 kudos 28,863 words 5/5 chapters Explicit Complete
10

Beckoning Blood

by Gemsom

The sickness had already wasted Cloud’s mother away to nearly nothing, and Cloud knew the illness had already settled in his own lungs. It might have been easier for Cloud to burn alive with his mother when the villages came to purge the illness from their mountain.But Cloud’s unchanging friend Zack

3,737 kudos 42,851 words 13/13 chapters Explicit Complete
11

room enough for three

by rarepairenabler

Before he met Kuroo and Bokuto, Tsukishima didn’t think he’d ever fall in love again. He couldn’t have known he’d fall for two people at the same time and he certainly couldn’t have predicted that the two he’d fall for would already have each other. OR “Both of them,” Tsukishima repeats. He hadn't r

2,799 kudos 24,595 words 7/7 chapters Explicit Complete
12

Absurdly Happy

by Sarolonde

If anyone had told Kei ten years ago that he would be in a relationship with these two idiots, Tetsurou and Koutarou, and the angel, Keiji, he would have given them a lopsided smirk and told them where they could shove their stupidity. Then, three years ago, when the four of them sat down for a very

2,390 kudos 18,085 words 2/2 chapters Explicit Complete
13

To Build a Home

by rarepairenabler

“You’re gonna be living with them?” Iwaizumi asks, sounding more concerned than necessary. “With the two neighbors you’ve been crushing on for the better half of the semester?”What.Ridiculous. He does not have a crush on Bokuto and Kuroo. They’re just friends. Good friends. The fact that Bokuto’s bu

2,369 kudos 14,968 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
14

Repair

by coraxes

For months life went on as Adrian expected: Trevor and Sypha off having adventures while he made peace with his family's ghosts. Fortunately for him, Trevor and Sypha aren't quite as accepting of his new life plan as he thought. At least in part because they don't know what they're doing.

2,348 kudos 10,705 words 4/4 chapters Mature Complete
15

Running in Triangles

by NoelleHolidayStanAccount (TerminalMiraculosis)

Noelle fell fast and hard for Susie. Embarrassingly so, really—while she can ace a math test or whip up a five-paragraph essay in short order, she’s incredibly out of her depth when it comes to romance. But after her strange dream in the library, she’s determined to give it her best shot.Kris has be

2,219 kudos 35,920 words 10/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
16

The Seduction of Straight Boy Solace

by stxrksfics

"So is everyone on this floor queer?" Nico says in bemusement. "Except for Hazel?"His sister glares at him indignantly. "That is a completely unfair accusation. Were Piper and I not both in separate loving relationships, I would totally bang her."Piper unabashedly winks towards her, from the couch i

1,260 kudos 10,736 words 4/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
17

Blood and Magic

by Takara_Phoenix

Vampires have come to Beacon Hills to kill Chris and Allison, to kill the last Argents, because an Argent had killed the late Lady Gajos. This was not how Stiles had imagined revealing that he was a vampire and, by technicality, the lord of Beacon Hills.

1,023 kudos 15,928 words 2/3 chapters Explicit
18

The Couple Downstairs

by violentdarlings

Erik is not thrilled when a couple of swearing, possibly alcoholic uni students move into the flat below his. But somehow, the couple downstairs become the best thing that's happened to him in a long time. Erik/Christine/Raoul.

931 kudos 11,095 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated Complete
19

The Buried Life

by orphan_account

“You thought he’d be amazed by your cleverness, didn’t you? Faking your death, two years on the run. You thought about how proud he’s be. How impressed.” She moved closer, almost toe to toe. “That’s what kept you going. Showing off for John.”

924 kudos 29,186 words 7/7 chapters Explicit Complete
20

playmaker (crossing the edge)

by bluespiritfox

Jet has known about loss all his life. He’s known it from the time he lost his home, his mother, from the time he lost the captain position, and from the time he pushed away a love that could have been. He’s familiar with the pain that comes with it—the slow suffocation from it. He knows how to deal

244 kudos 20,849 words 2/2 chapters Explicit Complete

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About Polyamory

Romantic relationships among three or more people, written with the negotiation, jealousy management, and abundant communication that real polyamory requires — or with the easy harmony fiction allows. Covers triads, vees, and whole-team arrangements.

Poly fic refuses the assumption that love is a competition with one winner, and readers enjoy dynamics where the answer to a love triangle is simply 'both.'

Common scenarios: A love triangle resolved when the two rivals realize they like each other too, or an established couple carefully courting a third who assumes they're joking.

About This List

24,421
median words
85%
complete
17,939
top kudos
~1.6 hours
median read time

This list of 20short Polyamory fanfics spans 455,399 total words. Kudos range from 244 on the newest entries to 17,939 on the most established. Nearly all (85%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (11 of 20 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Polyamory · Threesome - M/M/M · Alternate Universe - College/University · Alternate Universe - Soulmates · Soulmate-Identifying Marks.

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