Short stories tagged with Pandemic

Listing 18 stories.

In an Alaskan war camp during the apocalypse, a former microbiologist butchers the only form of meat left for consumption: the corpses of her deceased neighbors.

At a space frontier, infected humans are turning into alien moth creatures and the government considers mass executing them all. A scientist who has seen signs of the moths' intelligence must fight for their lives.

When a deadly infection strikes the world, a girl and her family must make and live through difficult choices.

A 33-year-old woman living in an apocalyptic Scotland with her husband writes in her diary about the tribulations of their lives and their pilgrimage to Russia in hope of a more stable existence.

A low-income Hispanic fisherman struggling to support his ill wife risks his career and legal autonomy when he agrees to go on a fishing trip with a careless co-worker who is storing a large sum of money near the fisherman's property.

In a rural American town of the near future, a young orphan learns from her strong grandmother how to survive in an apocalyptic world of disease and climate change.

On a flight back to LA from the Philippines, a young Californian woman befriends a fellow passenger. When something goes gravely wrong, she learns that her new friend is not what she expected.

Two longtime friends move in together during the COVID pandemic. When one friend's daughter starts to confide in the other friend, the mother becomes jealous.

A deadly virus, created as an act of biological warfare, has swept the Western world, killing the majority of its citizens. When a lonely, naturally immune woman spots another survivor, she pursues him, albeit with unforeseen, tragic consequences.

A 62-year-old man has moved back to Oakland. After a confrontation with his neighbors about his aggressive dog, he reflects on his arrival to the neighborhood years ago, when his mother left him behind.