Spring Dystopian Short Stories

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

Len and Toby need ten thousand caps for rent. Instead, they find neon nylon and a warlord.

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

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

The sky was screaming with their names. Jenn ran until her lungs tasted like pennies and the city burned.

State Security was two minutes away. Tariq had a cracked screen, a stolen drive, and a terrible choice.

He traded three weeks of rations for a handful of dirt and a frozen block of illegal meat.

The tarp was slashed, the compost was gone, and I was going to kill him with a trowel.

Gary stood by the perimeter glass, watching the April snow melt into a toxic, greasy wet black.

Sid wore a face that was not his own while the robots searched the trees for a heartbeat.

Barton watches the Iron Orchard's grid tighten as a secret leak reveals the horrifying truth behind Spring Cleaning.

Kenny navigates the rusted ruins of the Forks, carrying a seed packet that pulses against his hip like life.