Short stories in the genre Action
Listing 8 stories.
A snarky teenage boy attending a high school for intelligent students in space discovers that his favorite professor has been fired, and he soon begins receiving mysterious messages claiming that he is in danger. The boy and his best friend go into hiding and must find a way to escape before being captured by the school's many soldiers.
While investigating the mysterious suicide of a djinn, a young female special investigator with the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities ends up in an intense battle to stop a plan to destroy humanity.
When a salesman runs out of gas on a road in rural Pennsylvania, he is suddenly shot at by a farmer who thinks he is in a war.
A former felon takes on the responsibility of resolving a failed weapons deal to save his brother's life. With his associations in organized crime and the FBI, he attempts to make things right once and for all by involving both groups in an unexpected master scheme.
A white teacher and her Navajo students try to protect the last eagle on their territory from a hunter in a helicopter. They end up engaging in direct combat with the helicopter, with the eagle even participating as well.
A crew on a steamboat is passed by a sailboat in the Mediterranean and seek to restore their honor by engaging in a rowing race with the crew of the sailboat.
In a futuristic lunar colony where stored memories and accessible clones ensure someone can resurrect themselves infinitely, Fox has been murdered three times. Determined to survive this time around, Fox must catch her murderer before they catch her.
Angel, a bullfighter during the Spanish Civil War, must fight a match after hearing of his brother's sudden assassination.