Short stories tagged with Stars

Listing 13 stories.

In an apocalyptic future where Earth has been ravaged, a lonely man studies the stars until, one day, they come to him.

A New York bartender attempts to engage in a conversation about owning comets — as in, the ones in space —with his somewhat crazy customer.

When a low-budget science fiction television show successfully predicts the discovery of extraterrestrial life, its cult followers investigate its mysterious origins, only to be met with more mysteries.

A young woman attending a party with her obscure boyfriend is a witness to a dire cosmic event that thrusts her into a new, desolate existence.

When a teenage girl falls in love with a stargazer, she goes on a journey to build a kite that will allow her to float up in the stars so that her lover notices her.

After it is announced that an apocalyptic event that will destroy all life in the universe, an astrophysicist and her gardener mother meet in near-future England to decide how to spend the last months of life.

A sixteen-year-old girl in the American West experiences her sexual awakening under the veil of religion.

A newcomer in a small town joins a knitting group where she learns the trade and gossip about the recent disappearances. After she becomes a proficient knitter, she is invited to a secretive knitting group and discovers the horrific reality behind the missing people.

A woman tries to find a way for her son to survive in deep space after the apocalypse while being hunted by a beast.

A middle-aged married couple ventures out on a tour of astronomically significant sites in Europe as a devastating event looms on their horizon.