Read a collection of Nature short stories and flash fiction pieces from the Summer Short Stories project. (Page 3)
In a smoke-choked Winnipeg, Kelli hides a forbidden moss wall that offers the only clean air left to breathe.
A reclusive beekeeper discovers his bees are communicating via radio, triggering a town-wide panic during a sweltering summer heatwave.
Victor tracks a rogue biologist using ancient trees to transmit a pathogen that targets the world's most stressed humans.
Mike watches the valley die under a yellow mist while his lungs fill with the weight of old failures.
The sun refuses to set over Falcon Lake, trapping the world in a scorching, shadowless heat that never ends.
A ranger discovers a natural dead zone where surveillance fails and families hide from the city's digital safety.
Wendy takes ten steps away from her failing marriage, only to teleport back onto the same picnic blanket.
A malfunctioning border drone mistakes a mother bear for a smuggler in the heat of a locked-down summer.
A group of friends faces a literal wall of fire when a lightning strike ignites their childhood valley during a party.