Summer Adventure Short Stories

I checked the battery on my kinetic stunner. The state wanted the kid dead. I wanted a coffee.

The power line was severed clean, leaving the metal box to bake in the August heat.

The ice sat in the mud, completely ignoring the thirty-degree heat and the basic laws of physics.

A suspended detective. A midnight ferry. Forty million in stolen gold. The summer storm is just the beginning.

A brass compass leads Angelina through the Canadian bush as a relentless hunter chases her for a forgotten secret.

Paul swiped right on the soft launch photo while a man named The Dentist hunted her.

Kai Lennox navigates a sweltering Winnipeg tent city as arson and police pressure push the downtown core to collapse.

Leo hunts for urban glitches in Winnipeg's heat, trying to finish his dead brother's final photography project.

Javi stared at the empty battery casing, his jaw tight as the summer heat turned the workshop into an oven.