Short stories tagged with Ancestors
Listing 20 stories.
When it's her turn to give her body over to the blood bees, a girl makes a different decision.
A Black, transgender, college girl spends the week agonizing over cookies she’s baking to impress her dorm mates and seeks assurance from a portrait of her aunt.
A girl ponders the rightness of her ancestors' decision to stop the government from taking their land—by destroying their land.
A young woman living in California in the near future reflects on the disasters that have destroyed most of the world around her. She finds comfort amidst the chaos through special abilities that she inherited from her ancestors.
A girl challenges the spider which has, for better or for worse, remained inseparable from her family and her ancestors for generations.
A tale of betrayal reveals that some people can't be trusted––and some people may not be people at all.
Throughout her life, a young woman from the future has gathered evidence about her ancestors to understand the way they lived before and during the era when society was reimagined.
In an attempt to mend her family's generational trauma, a young Black girl embarks on a four-day therapeutic retreat that will end in reconnecting with their enslaved ancestors.
A Black woman returns to her childhood farm home with her boyfriend, and tries to get him to understand what the land means to her.
A group of young Black women known as the "Furious Girls" are ostracized by their town because of their often destructive ability to create fire. However, when a natural disaster looms over the town, the girls must return to save the people they love.