Short stories tagged with Protest

Listing 8 stories.

Like many other Australians, a twenty year old autistic woman is unfairly saddled with panic-inducing amount of debt by the government. She uses the revolutionary spirit of her ancestor to embolden her to action.

A desperate man in the Air Force reserve in the 1960s struggles with his belief in fighting for the US during the Vietnam War but fears that objecting may lead to his imprisonment.

A grieving mother who lost her son to cancer repeatedly trespasses on a military base in an attempt to photograph dead bodies returning from combat.

When a young Puerto Rican woman finds herself working retail as part of her prison sentence for participating in a protest, she discovers that laughter may be her most powerful weapon.

Girls are being recruited to obey the Lost Boys and Peter Pan as servants and a young girl chooses to take a stand against this misogynistic system.

When the 1979 June 4th Revolution in Ghana spreads across the country, the people of a small town quickly change from hopeful to fearful as life becomes violent. To cope, they must turn to the most powerful presence in their lives.

In the near future, people are born with the ability to shape shift, and those with the ability quickly rise to fame in the modeling industry. One model sees injustice directed toward her black peers and devises a plan to showcase black beauty at the biggest event of the year, Fashion Week.

Two sisters host an environmental activist who is conspiring with one of the sister’s husbands to unlawfully destroy ranch property and free cattle in Wyoming.