Short stories tagged with Action
Listing 29 stories.
In an apocalyptic future, a team of undead time travel back to a doomed flight to rescue the passengers on board in a routine but elaborate mission. Getting the passengers through a portal is not easy without disrupting the fabric of space-time, but the passengers, healthy and alive, are the only hope to populate a desperate future world.
A trooper in a Kentucky county recounts his early days encountering an outlaw group of little people.
An outer space fugitive on the run stops to help an old friend and becomes involved in a revolution. A fugitive pilot from Earth helps his found family escape persecution from the Coalition and gets involved in a revolution taking place on another planet.
The head of a futuristic anti-poaching organization releases endangered creatures into a poacher's apartment to allow nature to see justice served.
In a hyper-surveillance state set in the near future, a female military cyborg wrestles with extreme PTSD and guilt after unintentionally murdering young civilians on a mission abroad. After hearing a recording of the deaths, she realizes her "accident" isn't what it appeared to be, and takes justice into her own hands.
A home invasion brings out the worst in a young boy.
A grieving mother who lost her son to cancer repeatedly trespasses on a military base in an attempt to photograph dead bodies returning from combat.
In a futuristic world, one of the members of a tour group is murdered. Nobody knows who the murderer is, and as the police try to solve the case, they discover that this murderer has far more nefarious plans that can alter the world.
While trying to save a group of kidnapped children, a man becomes captured himself and must figure out how to escape.
In a dystopian society, a woman makes it her life's mission to free citizens from monitors implanted in them by the authorities. When she becomes one of the most wanted people in the city, she must avoid the path of a fierce bounty hunter.