Short stories tagged with Breaking The Cycle
Listing 4 stories.
When it's her turn to give her body over to the blood bees, a girl makes a different decision.
A girl challenges the spider which has, for better or for worse, remained inseparable from her family and her ancestors for generations.
Shipwrecked on a planet whose extreme environment speeds their heart rates, generations of humans age rapidly, living only 8 days each and warring with one another for a cavern that extends the human lifespan to 11 days. When a young man and his girlfriend make it to the only remaining, functional ship, they find that, on the ship, their heartrates and lifespans are extended to normal.
A Palestinian woman searches for a way to break a cycle of patriarchal expectations and her own sense of malaise to find her own path in life.