Spring Literary Fiction Short Stories - Page 2

He walked over shattered windshields, looking for a brother who was already gone.

Renee paints the city's lungs while a bureaucrat freezing in a blizzard discovers the human cost of his spreadsheets.

A bizarre sculpture of painted moose antlers and snowmobile parts appeared on the town hall lawn overnight.

Lex navigates a burning city to save rare flora, finding beauty amid the chaos of a violent urban riot.

Arthur and Martha battle over a skeletal rose bush while their aging bodies protest the arrival of another spring.

The snow fell in the shape of human teeth, white and hard, clicking against the silver frozen ground.

A funeral for a flower lover turns into a drunken, pollen-choked mess in the bright spring sun.

Ellis navigates a muddy protest camp, scouting for a marketable face while discovering his NGO's dark, transactional secrets.

Clara uses light-reactive silk kites to communicate with her neighborhood after a neural-link glitch leaves her unable to speak.

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

The greenhouse smelled like wet dirt and failure. Rina was already inside, smoking a crushed cigarette.

A cynical actor navigates a failing TV set, a drunken costar, and a scandal involving toxic fake soil.