Short stories tagged with Protests

Listing 9 stories.

After a painful breakup that leaves you feeling incompetent, you opt for a chimera-transformative surgery that does exactly what the name implies: transforms you into a part-lion, part-goat, part-serpent creature. In a dystopian world that idealizes animal beauty over human beauty, you hope that the change will protect you from getting hurt again.

A young man secretly fathers a child that he grooms from afar to be the perfect child he can use as a control in his experiment comparing the white experience and the Black experience.

Remi and her classmates at an all-girl’s boarding high school in Nigeria protest the changes made to their school by their new principal, but they fail to foresee the tragic and unfair consequences of their efforts.

Fresh out of rehab, a recovering addict goes to live with his brother in Detroit who he hasn't seen in six years. He begins working at his brother's obstetrical clinic, where he encounters pro-life protesters that will stop at nothing to get what they want.

When a former anti-war nudist files for divorce from his hippie-turned-middle-aged conservative wife, a figurative nuclear war fires up between the two suburban parents.

Two women are both brought together and separated by race throughout the course of their lives in this chronicle of a complicated friendship.

A teenage boy receives an artificial intelligence implantation in his brain that possesses the voice of his deceased best friend.

A soldier who is part of an intergalactic missionary battles her own disbelief and the arrival of rebel forces.

When her civilian and vigilante superhero life collide, a young girl must decide whether to risk her life for her girlfriend's racist father who repeatedly threatens her own.