Short stories tagged with Schemes

Listing 5 stories.

The life of a young Japanese man becomes intimately intertwined with his deceased best-friend's girlfriend, as they each navigate the past in search of lost time.

A girl with cybernetic advancements, having run away from her overbearing mother by selling herself into corporate slavery on the outer fringes of Jupiter, devises a plan to ensure that her mother cannot use religious laws to bring her home.

A girl and her space crew are trapped inside an alternate reality by another sentient intelligence after a mission gone wrong. She must free her crewmate and come up with a way to escape.

A recovered heroin addict begins to doubt that the man she ran away with knows what is best for her future.

A King receives refuses to listen to claims from his barons and other powerful members of his kingdom that his thirty-three daughters are wicked, for they are clever and outspoken, and they work hard to elevate the status of women and the poor, acts which the barons find threatening. When the barons kidnap all thirty-three daughters, the kind but dimwitted king must figure out how to rescue them.