Summer Speculative Fiction Short Stories

A boy trapped in a burning future encounters a ghost from the past through a rift in time.

Henry touched the deer's antlers and felt only cold metal where there should have been warm, fuzzy bone.

The sun felt like a wet, heavy blanket. Maria dropped her phone, the cracked screen showing only grey.

I watched the fresh tar steam while the city erased the evidence of Van Klint’s final digital breakdown.

A mundane afternoon in Winnipeg’s Central Park turns into a biological glitch as ants reclaim the sun-scorched grass.

Joe stares at the screen as a massive shadow moves through the toxic soup of the dying ocean depths.

In a smoke-choked Winnipeg, Kelli hides a forbidden moss wall that offers the only clean air left to breathe.

The sun refuses to set over Falcon Lake, trapping the world in a scorching, shadowless heat that never ends.

Sarah stares into the fire as legal news from Ottawa threatens to dismantle the land defenders' last peaceful options.