Summer Experimental Short Stories - Page 2

They told me it was self-care. Then the wall exploded and the budget cuts started shooting.

I found forty grand missing in the city budget and all I got was this damp pamphlet.

Steve watched the notification pop up on Leon’s phone, a brief flash of text that changed everything before dinner.

He stared at the brass coin in her hand, the metal warm against the sticky summer air.

A routine summer ferry crossing turns violent when a tactical team boards, masking a high-stakes smuggling operation at sea.

Jane stood in the center of the sweltering beige room, waiting for the grief to finally break her.

Heat ripples over the asphalt while three friends argue about buried poison and the price of staying home forever.

Randy finds a strange fungus under a rusted overpass that pulses with light whenever he hums old lo-fi beats.

When the sky over Thunder Bay begins projecting the city's collective memories, Melinda hunts for a ghost in the clouds.