Summer Speculative Fiction Short Stories - Page 2

Leo watches the Family Cohesion Score plummet as his sister refuses to stop doomscrolling during a mandatory bonding session.

When gravity quits at Gimli Beach, Baz and his friends use leaf blowers to rescue a floating dog.

My dad blocked a road to save the farm, but the internet turned a protest into a life sentence.

Two teenagers navigate the ruins of a general store, discovering moldy ledgers that reveal a lost world's forgotten connections.

Henry woke up in a room that smelled like old batteries and cold, grey metal, trapped behind lead.

Leo wanders through the sun-bleached ruins of a shopping mall, searching for people who haven't been digitally optimized.

When Troy dies, his consciousness is uploaded to the cloud, but a tiered pricing model threatens his digital existence.

I found forty grand missing in the city budget and all I got was this damp pamphlet.

Leo struggled with the humidity while his group debated if speculative design was just fancy lying for artists.