Summer Speculative Fiction Short Stories - Page 3

A rusted spoon, a dead iPod, and the unbearable heat of a summer spent optimizing adolescent brainwaves.

She found the green life hiding above the smog, and it tasted exactly like a broken heart.

Zach shoved the drone into his bag. The music stopped. Every giant screen in the room turned blue.

Heat ripples over the asphalt while three friends argue about buried poison and the price of staying home forever.

A rigid silver plague consumes the Ontario summer, turning Lake of the Woods into a massive, unmoving mirror landscape.

When the sky over Thunder Bay begins projecting the city's collective memories, Melinda hunts for a ghost in the clouds.

The heat didn't just sit there; it vibrated against the windows while the backyard trees grew three inches every minute.

Max hacks a nature pass to take his grandfather to a patch of real dirt in a plastic world.

James returns to a crumbling Brighton Beach, haunted by ghosts of the 1990s and a looming city-wide sequestration.