Summer Adventure Short Stories - Page 2

I stared at the nine-dollar price tag on a bruised apple, my stomach cramping with cheap noodle salt.

Len stares at his dying phone while the car overheats, forcing three friends into a signal-free mountain wilderness.

Qin discovers a downed stealth jet in a dying cornfield, meeting a pilot with a terrifying digital secret.

Toby fights the humidity and a ticking clock to finish a mural before the wrecking ball arrives at dawn.

A tactical team enters a bisected building where space and time are remapping into something unrecognizable and deadly.

Vicki tracks a memory thief through a humid summer, only to find the daughter he thought was dead.

He woke to the smell of hot dust and old urine, his ribs grinding against the subway tiles.

The truck idled in the heat while they stared at the shattered glass of the abandoned research station.

A water tanker crashes into a summer sinkhole, threatening a northern town's survival as the permafrost turns to mud.