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.

We broke into the waterpark to kill an afternoon, but the plastic tubes were waiting to kill us.

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

A cabbage cost twenty-four dollars. The ice road was melting. The final truck was gone.

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.

Melissa and Leo debate the futility of human legacy while a record-breaking heatwave melts the industrial district pavement.