Short stories tagged with Inventions

Listing 4 stories.

Days after announcing an invention that will change the fabric of his futuristic world, an inventor goes missing and two detectives must find out where he is and what his supposedly groundbreaking invention was.

When a flu epidemic leaves people with proteins that make them as hairy as chimpanzees, an American college student and a Mexican scientist in New York City work to develop a cure for mankind’s newest affliction.

A woman very pregnant with her ex-fiance's child must decide whether or not to evacuate a futuristic Nigeria, where a genetically modified super-plant has led to extreme pollen tsunamis and a rare, deadly pollen allergy.

Haunted by the ghosts of those he killed in the Congo, King Leopold II hires an inventor to create a machine capable of cleansing him of unwanted visions.