Short stories in the genre Political Fiction

Listing 7 stories.

A Vietnamese American man reflects on a poem that he wrote, and in doing so, contends with the weight of desire, lies, and injustice.

A man flies back to the country of his birth and reckons with people and places he longer seems to know.

After a terrible tragedy befalls an airplane, an orphaned cat is rehomed to two roommates who constantly ponder the nature of life and death.

A journalist tries to figure out the root of various digital crimes—only to stumble upon an impossible ethical question.

Throughout time and space, women struggle to gain control of their bodies.

A schoolboard debates the merits of history—and how to remember it.