Fiction Stories (Page 2)

Italian stone house on the slope of Mount Etna with a large family gathered on a terrace and the volcano smoking behind them

Children Under the Volcano

The Ferrante family gathers every August at their house on Mount Etna — rebuilt three times after lava flows — until a sixteen-year-old's question at breakfast cracks them all open.

Yellow New York taxi driving on a golden brick road with Emerald City towers in the distance

Fiction

The Cab Driver of Oz

A cab driver from Queens gets dropped into Oz by a tornado and spends three years driving a Toyota Camry on the Yellow Brick Road, discovering that fairy tales have terrible infrastructure.

Female scholar reading an ancient manuscript under fluorescent light in an underground Vatican Library vault

Fiction

Silence in the Vatican Library

A paleographer cataloging sealed manuscripts in the Vatican basement discovers 300 documents proving that the silence in certain churches can speak the words of the Mass without a priest.

Elderly man holding a pocket watch to his ear in a cramped shop filled with hundreds of broken clocks

Fiction

The Prophet of Broken Clocks

Every clock in Aurelio Vega's Montevideo shop is broken, and every one tells the correct time. People come to him not for repairs but for answers that only stopped clocks can give

Couple dancing tango in close embrace in a smoky 1970s Buenos Aires basement milonga

Fiction

Tango in a War Zone

In a basement milonga during Argentina's Dirty War, a resistance courier dances tango with an intelligence operative who carries a list of seven people scheduled to disappear.

Female dentist treating a patient inside a Mars habitat dental clinic with red Martian landscape through the window

Fiction

The Dentist of Mars

Dr. Evelyn Trask is the only dentist on Mars, her market share is 100 percent, and the protein bars are giving the entire colony periodontal disease.

Ancient Greek woman standing on the walls of Troy at dawn with prophetic fire in her eyes and Greek ships on the horizon

Fiction

Cassandra’s Last Vision

Cursed by Apollo to speak true prophecy that no one believes, Cassandra watches Troy fall exactly as she predicted — and sees, in her final moment, every truth-teller who will follow her.

Elderly woman's hands tending morning glories in a small Japanese garden with Hiroshima cityscape beyond

Fiction

A Garden in Hiroshima

Three generations of women tend a garden behind a house in Hiroshima, growing morning glories in soil that was sterilized by the atomic bomb and refused to stay dead.

Humanoid robot standing before a congressional hearing panel with microphones and tense atmosphere

Fiction

The Robot Who Couldn’t Lie (Version 2)

A manufacturing defect leaves Unit 7 incapable of producing false statements. When it testifies before Congress about the AI industry, it becomes the most trusted voice in the world.

Nun writing secretly in a diary by candlelight in a medieval convent with a silver reliquary on the altar

Fiction

Ashes of a Saint

A Franciscan archivist discovers the private diary of a canonized saint — revealing she was an atheist who loved a nun and chose fire over a life built on lies.

Acrobats performing in zero gravity inside a space station module with spotlights and floating bodies

Fiction

The Zero-Gravity Circus

A retired acrobat with two blown knees launches the first circus in space aboard an orbital station — and a disastrous opening night becomes the most-watched live event in human history.

Broken-down vintage van on a deserted stretch of Route 66 with a small Oklahoma town and dramatic sunset

Fiction

The Ballad of Route 66

When her van breaks down in Delmore, Oklahoma — population 43 — a travel writer discovers the last original town on Route 66 and the people who refused to leave when America moved on.

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Fiction Stories (Page 2)

Children Under the Volcano

The Cab Driver of Oz

Silence in the Vatican Library

The Prophet of Broken Clocks

Tango in a War Zone

The Dentist of Mars

Cassandra’s Last Vision

A Garden in Hiroshima

The Robot Who Couldn’t Lie (Version 2)

Ashes of a Saint

The Zero-Gravity Circus

The Ballad of Route 66

Have a Story Only You Can Tell?

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