Short stories tagged with Cliffhanger
Listing 14 stories.
An African-American doctor has successfully developed a new technology to cure several diseases and cancers, but in the face of a recent health crisis, others are finding more risky solutions that put the doctor and entire racial groups in grave danger. When the doctor is soon attacked and abducted, a stranger embarks on a dangerous mission to save her.
Paranoid that his wife is having an affair, the coach of a lackluster high school football team spirals.
A young, aspiring Native chef in New York City falls in love with a mysterious deer-woman, who convinces her to murder and harvest the hearts of white women to avenge the deaths of her ancestors.
In an alternative reality where crimes are punished with memory erasure, a man must settle back into the old life he does not remember as he tries to piece together what crime he committed.
A secret agent evades torture in a cliff hanger mystery.
A wife discovers that her husband is co-inhabiting his body with an alien visitor as part of an experiment; she comes to favor the alien lover over her unsatisfying husband.
In a school full of refugees and immigrants in early 2000s America, a teacher shares his traumas with his math class. Meanwhile, a cop tries to prevent a young Vietnamese boy from murdering a fellow student.
In a futuristic privacy-obsessed Toronto, a burlesque street performer gets arrested for intellectual property infringement for a costume she wears while trying to impress the veiled, radical privacy devotee she is in love with.
In a sprawling galaxy, a young girl joins her uncle's smuggling spaceship and survives a pirate attack by befriending the monstrous creature that they were transporting.
A young boy stumbles across his grandma's bingo hall and accidentally catches the attention of the cult-like group.