Short stories tagged with Political Intrigue

Listing 5 stories.

A middle-aged Asian-American woman uses silence to her advantage in navigating family dynamics and understanding the absence of love in her life.

In a hyper-surveillance state set in the near future, a female military cyborg wrestles with extreme PTSD and guilt after unintentionally murdering young civilians on a mission abroad. After hearing a recording of the deaths, she realizes her "accident" isn't what it appeared to be, and takes justice into her own hands.

In pre-Revolutionary Cuba, a senator attempts suicide by shooting himself in the stomach, leaving him unconscious but stable. To figure out the cause, his wife looks back on the harrowing moments that changed the trajectory of their marriage.

A desperate spouse introduces her wife to a game about cat politics in hopes of helping her with her dementia. But when her wife turns out to be a prodigy at the game, she risks losing her forever to the fantastical gaming world.

A mechanical mother bird tells her three children two stories: one of patricide, and the other of a human and a mechanical being and their marriage.