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2026 Summer Short Stories

Summer Adventure Short Stories

Read a collection of Adventure short stories and flash fiction pieces from the Summer Short Stories project.

Summer Adventure Short Stories

9 Titles
Blue Barrel Drift

Blue Barrel Drift

by Tony Eetak

A heatwave kills the grid, forcing two rivals to paddle life-saving insulin through forty kilometers of burning wilderness.

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Broken White Plates

Broken White Plates

by Leaf Richards

Detective Morgan Kane faces a brutal summer crime scene where family secrets bleed into the humid Echo Bay night.

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Cardboard and Freon

Cardboard and Freon

by Jamie Bell

She carried the unbruised tomatoes into the sterile kitchen, the silence of the house pressing against her ribs.

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Cardboard and River Mud

Cardboard and River Mud

by Jamie Bell

The river swallowed the street, turning the summer pavement into a hungry, dark monster that ate everything.

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Cascades and Steel Spine Pines

The air turned to poison and the trees stopped breathing, so we started running toward the high mountain bunker.

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Central Park Asphalt

Central Park Asphalt

by Jamie Bell

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

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Copper Taste and Static

Copper Taste and Static

by Jamie Bell

Leo watches the sky fracture over a summer city while the first real screams replace the digital silence.

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Dead Pixels in the Dirt

Dead Pixels in the Dirt

by Jamie Bell

Leo visits the community garden during a heatwave, only to find his deleted memories leaking through the soil.

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Ditch Ice Power Core

Ditch Ice Power Core

by Jamie Bell

The ice didn't sweat. It just sat on the workbench, humming like a bad fluorescent tube.

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