JD Strunk real life stories short stories Wednesday, January 14, 2026 See You Next Tuesday by J. D. Strunk <i>13-year-old Noah has been watching incel videos, and his uncle isn't sure about the best way to talk to him about it.</i><br><br>My sister had called me the previous week, her voice heavy with despair. Apparently, my nephew, Noah, had called a girl in his eighth grade class a "C U Next Tuesday" - my sister wouldn't even say the actual word. She had subsequently found videos of Alex Spate in… Read more Labels: JD Strunk real life stories short stories 23 comments:
futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories Friday, May 30, 2025 Twenty Weeks by JD Strunk <i> A girl foolishly takes the terrible risk of walking across a grass field barefoot.</i><br><br>Maybe it wasn't a great reason, but it was the honest reason, nonetheless: I was curious. Simply curious. I had seen my brother go barefoot my entire life - had seen his summer-bronzed feet padding over soft grass, tip-toeing across hot asphalt, dusting through stick-strewn beaches - and the injustice of it all… Read more Labels: futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories 34 comments:
fantastic stories JD Strunk medium length stories pick of the month Friday, December 13, 2024 The Hourglass by J. D. Strunk <i>Young Jackson Maddox captains the Hourglass in search of the Eternal Isle.</i><br><br>It was not my idea to search the ocean for the Eternal Isle - it was Jack's, and Jack's alone. I am not an aquatic person by nature. Still, I recognized that, as an adventurer, it would have been folly for me to ignore seventy percent of our planet simply because it didn't sit well with my nerves. Jack never und… Read more Labels: fantastic stories JD Strunk medium length stories pick of the month 19 comments:
futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories Monday, November 11, 2024 All Together Now by J. D. Strunk <i>Best friends Muriel and Clarissa prepare for their community's annual ritual, and reflect on its implications.</i><br><br>Muriel tugged sharply at the collar of her dress in a vain attempt to loosen the frilly fabric crowding her neck. <br><br>"I think Ms. Dove gave me one of the Twelves' dresses," Muriel said, moving in front of the dormitory's lone full-length mirror. "There's no way… Read more Labels: futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories 15 comments:
criminal stories futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Marlowe by J. D. Strunk <i> An off-planet hitman with a grudge tracks down his latest target.</i><br><br>There is a gun to my left temple, but my thoughts are far from my own life, my own death. I think only of my mother. When my mother died - when she was murdered - it was not so much the sense of loss that galvanized me, but the sense of finality. With her passing, a line was drawn across my life. That line separated who I was from … Read more Labels: criminal stories futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories 11 comments:
futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories Monday, July 15, 2024 Blue Hazel by J. D. Strunk <i>Hazel is upset when a new classmate reveals her feelings on colour.</i><br><br>By the time she arrived home from school, Hazel Jenkins was literally trembling with anger. Her mother listened with loving bemusement as the child detailed the schoolyard indignities that had derailed her day. <br><br>Hazel held her palms up to her mother's face. "Do you see the blood? Do you <i>see</i>!" <br><br>On her daughter's ord… Read more Labels: futuristic stories JD Strunk short stories 12 comments:
JD Strunk real life stories short stories Monday, April 15, 2024 Swish by J. D. Strunk <i>Jeremy Astor becomes obsessed with making the high school basketball team, but at what cost?</i><br><br>Jeremy "Automatic" Astor stood at the free throw line. Two shots were forthcoming; two points would win the game. Even so, it was not the orange lip of the rim that was the focus of his attention. Nor was it the 400 chanting fans. Rather, Jeremy was attempting to calculate the odds of a game endi… Read more Labels: JD Strunk real life stories short stories 17 comments:
