Read a collection of Dystopian short stories and flash fiction pieces from the Spring Short Stories project. (Page 2)
A caretaker finds bullet holes in a Toronto synagogue as spring blooms, triggering a desperate search for safety.
Carl watches green weeds choke a server rack while Sam jokes about the end of the world coming early.
Jae and Marty wait out a Manitoba freeze in a dead car while the internet watches them rot.
Max stared at the flashing red battery warning, realizing they were about to hijack an entire corporate stadium.
The spring thaw did not bring life to the valley. It only uncovered what the snow had killed.
We broke into the Sector 4 dome for pollen, but the garden gave us something much worse.
Ben and Kara track a signal through a graveyard of rotting servers where the vines bleed blue coolant.
Ethan and Nora flee through a city drowning in green code as Protocol-7 begins its final, lethal reboot.
Edmund risks everything to lead Sandy through the dying vents of the bunker toward a spring they cannot keep.
The hose kicked in my hands like a wild snake. Water blasted the dirt into heavy black soup.
In a dying city, Will discovers a toxic moss that breathes life back into lead-poisoned soil and hope.
Mike and Peter crash into the city's underbelly, where survival means trading the only memory Mike has left.