Short stories tagged with Environment

Listing 23 stories.

When a pair of scientists studying the Badlands observe strange behavior in nearby animals, they too begin to fall under an evil influence that turns them against each other.

A 13-year-old boy growing up in a Catholic orphanage in the slums of Bangkok learns that he is the final incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu and must battle the dragon Jade to keep the world green.

A woman hunts down the wishes she freed ages ago, through the centuries, out to the American west. There she finds, a boy born of wishes, whom she must save before he harms those he think has wronged him.

After Earth experiences a long and extreme drought, a privileged woman in South Africa watches as her local city bows down to a slave system that convinces people they are free.

A group of friends experienced in river navigation brave an infamously dangerous set of rapids, though some of them are more thrill-seeking than others.

In the far future, HIV cases skyrocket in South Africa, and chemists develop an expensive new drug that must be taken annually by those with the disease. When clinics start raising prices, a man attempts to steal the drug for his friend, only to be confronted with an ugly truth about the industry.

After their grandmother’s death, two cousins travel to her cabin in the woods, only to find she’s been hiding the truth about one cousin's missing sister and the forest spirit that haunts the area.

An aging Caucasian ex-military pilot-turned-farmer and his wife struggle to maintain control of two newly acquired buffalo, while wildfires and drought blacken the sky and the farmer's sister becomes increasingly subsumed by doomsday cultism. cults build shelters to prepare for nuclear destruction. Set in the present day.

California has seceded from America, and Molly and her daughter Phoebe run a bookstore that straddles the troubled border of the two countries. When outright war breaks out, Molly and Phoebe must protect their customers - American and Californian alike - but the customers are not all willing to get along.

Three men who have waited all year long for rainfall in Arizona instead happen upon a woman with a knack for inducing showers in the form of music.