Spring General Fiction Short Stories - Page 2

The shovel blade struck solid iron, sending a jarring vibration straight up the fiberglass shaft into Ben's jaw.

Under the painted horses of a carousel, a hacker and an engineer fight to unlock the city's frozen wealth.

A discarded phone reveals photos of a life we never lived, making the humid spring air feel heavy.

Max stared at the flashing red battery warning, realizing they were about to hijack an entire corporate stadium.

A musician navigates the melting brown slush of a Winnipeg spring while a strange silence haunts the pigeons.

Larry and Sarah clash over urban development in a damp city park until a resident changes the political math.

Nina ditches her tracking tech to find a silent forest where the digital world cannot reach her heart.

Elias wakes in a cold hull, the scent of phantom lilacs fading as reality's sterile grip takes hold again.

A muddy boy and his grumpy sister hunt for spring inside a high-tech neighborhood that is falling apart.

Kenzie leads her squad through a pollen-choked Manitoba wasteland where flowers boo their failures and dogs hunt for blood.

A stranger crashes the family egg hunt with a gold relic and a claim that ruins their inheritance forever.

Trevor finds a dead-drop during a bookstore egg hunt and must navigate toddlers to stop a scandal.