Short stories tagged with Apprenticeship

Listing 4 stories.

A young, beast-like creature who works as an apprentice to a god carver is tasked with carving a new god. However, the god he carves clashes with his society's values; as a result, his people take his memories from him and banish him to the wild to start anew.

On a present-day Native American reservation, a tribal judge investigates the robbery of an elderly man’s stolen fiddle. In the process, they uncover the fiddle's mythical origin story.

In a town divided by wealth, a lower class teenage girl gets an unlikely job working for a personality surgeon and goes to great lengths to protect her younger sister.

In the far future, two Ghost hunters— a woman in her 20s and an inhuman, 60-year-old male hunter— find themselves shipwrecked on an abandoned planet in search of Ghosts. As they try to piece together the reason for the planet’s desolation, the male Ghost hunter turns on the woman and the two strike a bargain.