Short stories tagged with Mining

Listing 8 stories.

A wealthy couple picks up an old man on a desert road, and they quickly become interested in his story about an untapped amethyst mine and its potential riches.

After the death of their father, two brothers move in with their unfamiliar aunt and uncle in Harlan, Kentucky, but a bullying incident at school threatens to separate the family.

In a 1950s mining community in the western United States, death and suicide are common. A body is found in a burnt cabin, and everyone suspects it was suicide, but the truth is much more insidious.

A disabled girl who lives in a lunar civilization after the Eugenic War slips away from her class field trip when she spots a secret passageway in the castle they are exploring.

After the lights go out and she's separated from her husband, a woman vacationing in an arctic Norwegian town must save herself and fellow survivors from mythical beasts.

A young actor tours for two months with a legendary troupe through the Andes, and continues to reflect on it nine years later.

An enslaved lunar miner journeys with his friends from the center of the moon to its surface, seeking the destruction of the oppressive city above and a glimpse of the void beyond the mines.

After her father suffers a terrible accident, a farm girl from a distant planet reluctantly travels to Earth for an education.