A collection of young adult contemporary English short stories to read.
By Eva Suluk
Late afternoon in early May, amidst the slush and grey ice of a Northwestern Ontario spring. Two friends sit on the back of a truck parked at a scenic lookout, debating the merits of leaving home versus the comfort of stagnation.
By Jamie F. Bell
Snowflakes, thick as ash from a foundry, drift down between the iron-girdered towers of the city, settling on the skeletal branches of trees in a forgotten park. The air, tasting of coal smoke and ozone, carries the rhythmic clang of distant machinery and the soft, percussive hiss of pneumatic tubes running beneath the frost-hardened ground.
By Jamie F. Bell
The stifling Winnipeg summer heat pressed in, even within the dusty, air-conditioned chill of the Riverbend Arts Collective's archives. Maria, an intern, navigated stacks of forgotten creativity, a task meant to be mundane, but then her fingers brushed against something out of place—a plain cardboard box, devoid of labels, emitting a faint, almost imperceptible hum that resonated beneath her fingertips.
By Tony Eetak
Fred, a teenage aspiring songwriter, sits alone at a corner table in 'The Cafe on Portage' in Winnipeg, wrestling with his insecurities and a stubbornly blank notebook. The summer afternoon hums around him, a gentle distraction he both welcomes and resents.
By Tony Eetak
Mark, a teenage musician, sits hunched on a weathered park bench in early spring, his guitar case leaning against his leg like a forgotten limb. He's struggling with a profound sense of loneliness and a crumbling faith, watching the world through a distant haze. A kind older man, Tim, approaches him.