Short stories tagged with Human Nature

Listing 4 stories.

An old man recalls how the death of King Kong caused him to lose someone he loved.

Aboard a human city ship headed for Proxima b, shadows begin to haunt the sleeping passengers. An engineer commits suicide, and a psychotherapist finds that these apparitions feed on human guilt. The only way to survive is to master and confront the mounds of guilt that each human passenger carries inside herself.

When a corpse is found in the forest on a rainy day, two police officers quietly curse at the dark curiosity human passerbys have toward death.

When a beautiful young girl is woken up aboard a spaceship traveling to a new planet, she must call on an artificial intelligence system for help to save herself and the 30,000 people on the ship with her.