Short stories tagged with Plague

Listing 12 stories.

In a convent, a young nun’s internal war between desire and religion comes to a head when she makes a new, devious friend.

A young girl marries a wealthy Comte and moves with him to his castle where she befriends his son and becomes bewitched by the mystery of the castle's tower, the donjon. While the Comte is off serving the King, the girl finds herself breaking the one rule surrounding the tower and facing its consequences in an attempt to save her friend.

A young girl in a post-apocalyptic world must deal with living near a boy who ate her family when he was infected by a ravenous plague.

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.

A plague targeting Black citizens sweeps the nation causing chaos and despair.

An assassin travels to another planet to kill the last living member of a human population that grows to be ten feet tall. After a crash landing, the assassin is confronted by the giant's humanity.

When the Grim Reaper breaks into a treacherous mansion, he unwittingly enters a trap that forces him to confront his violent past.

When a mysterious deadly plague descends on the earth, four friends are engaged in a life-or-death struggle against an alien race attempting to fumigate the earth.

Sent on a mission from the emperor, an expert wine-taster travels the countryside, seemingly oblivious to the war and death around him.

Tiny Pelican Island is one of the few parts of the world still free from the deadly gray pox in 2080 - save for their own patient zero, the plague doctor's six-year-old niece. In order to save her family and her island, the doctor must join the cutthroat race to find a cure.