Summer Young Adult Short Stories

A green sky breaks the summer heat as thousands of birds fall like stones onto the Redwood floor.

A sticky blue trail leads the group deep into the scarred woods where the ground begins to breathe.

Annie watched the ice melt in Steven's cup. It took exactly three seconds to ruin everything.

A group of friends faces a literal wall of fire when a lightning strike ignites their childhood valley during a party.

The summer heat pressed against the windows like a giant hand, but inside the house, everything was cold.

I came for a story about record-breaking maple syrup and found a teenager overclocking the local forest ecosystem.

A buried brass key leads Trudy from her grandmother's garden to a dark secret under a modern shopping plaza.

A father’s high-tech maple syrup experiment unearths a metallic secret buried beneath the frozen roots of a summer estate.

The brown water swallows the blue siding of my house while my phone screen flickers on four percent.