Short stories tagged with Social Justice

Listing 6 stories.

A Vietnamese American man reflects on a poem that he wrote, and in doing so, contends with the weight of desire, lies, and injustice.

In the near future, celebrity DNA is the hottest commodity, purchased to create celebrity clone children. For undercover operative Thatch, investigating these “hacksperm” kids is as important as it is perplexing as a figure from his past clouds his every thought.

After being sent to Cambridge because of a recent suicide attempt, a young man from the South is offered a sexual way out of his depression.

In a futuristic utopia where equality and nonconformity are celebrated, the social bliss is complicated when criminals attempt to access the society’s dark past.

Apollo is an ordinary kid at a party, a crime fighting justice-seeker, a victorious basketball player, a police officer doing his job, a scared boy running from a villain. His story begins again and again, and he's different every time — but every time, his story ends in the same, terrible way.

"Zimmer Land" is a theme park that lets adults explore themes of justice and crisis management through live role-playing simulations, such as foiling a terrorist plot to bomb a train. A young black employee of the park begins to think something is amiss when some of the patrons come back again and again just to "kill" him.