Spring Adventure Short Stories

Two teens struggle against a mud-trapped ATV and a total lack of cell service in the spring woods.

Kate investigates a bizarre dress code mandate and discovers the Supreme Chancellor is just a rusty, hallucinating algorithm.

A park bench becomes the staging ground for a reality-bending discussion on the physics of moving forward.

Martin watched the orange water crawl uphill, carrying human teeth and rusted nails toward the peak of the mountain.

A visual glitch in a dying town's art gallery reveals a darkness far deeper than local politics and toxicity.

Edgar watches the permafrost fail while the town celebrates a fake spring, ignoring the gas venting beneath their feet.

Viktor stares at the sky as the birds flee a storm that carries the scent of burning copper.

Ollie and Mike race through the crystalline Glass Woods to find a scrubber before their bunker’s oxygen fails.

Ed hit the mud hard, tasting rust and cheap vodka while Sam laughed at the bleeding sky.

The quantum scan tore through the floorboards. Ten years of history, down to a single keystroke.

The ground simply opened up and swallowed Chad whole, taking the van keys and the livestream with him.

The drone hovered. A plastic vulture. Gage didn't look at it. He looked at the mud.