Summer Drama Short Stories - Page 3

The ice road was rotten. The town was completely dark. Harlan had one last tank of diesel fuel.

Leo and Maya confront a brutal summer drought while grappling with their internal capacity for resilience and survival.

A high school gym becomes a battlefield when a developer arrives to buy out the souls of the displaced.

A rising river forces a mother to choose between a dying house and a hidden elder's secret.

Melissa wiped soot from her cracked phone screen, watching the drone footage load as the valley filled with smoke.

The bulldozer idled at the curb. I dropped my phone in the mud and stood in its way.

Arnie gets stuck in the marsh while trying to save a heron, forcing an unlikely alliance with a developer.

Harlan returns to a house that no longer knows him, finding a bright yellow lock on his front door.

Kenny navigates a crumbling Ottawa with a drive that could crash the banks while his family falls apart.