Summer Science Fiction Short Stories

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

Ryan stood in the doorway, holding a stolen neural-drive that promised a way out of the dying city.

A corporate team ruins a pristine watershed to lower property values, forcing a junior surveyor to choose between ethics and debt.

The air in New Calgary Station tasted like copper and old sweat. John needed a new filter.

Arnold wakes up in a precinct cell, his ribs screaming as a lawyer delivers a final, sealed state notice.

A sweltering heatwave forces three broke activists to fix a server while uncovering a corporate conspiracy in a basement.

Charlie watched the numbers drop to zero. The system was eating the money, and nobody was saying a word.

A malfunctioning border drone mistakes a mother bear for a smuggler in the heat of a locked-down summer.

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