Travel Short Stories

Imagine a young ER doctor confronting a patient in the Lonely Pines Hospital emergency room in 1981 Ohio, where both of their lives might be turned upside down and spun in a completely different direction. This riveting medical sci-fi story will have you wondering if you’ve ever experienced a similar bizarre incident, and how time, space, and historical events may be more fluid than we ever thought possible. Beware; a strange visitor may already have your number.

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features a bunch of bizarre and strange tales of the paranormal that can happen to you in your travels. Strange things do happen, and mostly they are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys.

A father tries to help his son - the only family member he has left - pursue his interest in finding the legendary Santa Anna Gold. The only problem is, the boy wants to go back in time in order to locate it. Sometimes the things a father will do for an only child are limitless.

This quirky, futuristic romp into extreme consumer activism pits time-traveling sentient giraffes and lions against each other in a society where corporations have total control. Who says crime doesn't pay?

In the future, the war between men has ended; but the battle for Earth's survival has just begun. Dr. Tennyson Chaucer and the crew of the Daedalus must test his theory and slip their earthly bounds, but has mankind's reach exceeded its grasp?

When Clare picks up an odd stone, she never expects to be...transported? Hundreds of years in the past and thousands of miles away, Clare is lost. Will her new friends Andrew and Harold Marshall help her to find the way back, even if they do not believe her? And more importantly, can she trust these strangers?

Philip un americano se pierde en un idílico paraje en la Bretaña francesa. Mientras está cazando, por casualidad se encuentra con Jeanne (la Demoiselle d’ys) que le invita a ir con ella al castillo donde vive, el Castillo d’Ys. Aunque a medida que avanza el relato la relación entre Philip y Jeanne va estrechándose, vemos como personajes extraños a todos los habitantes del Castillo. Inesperadamente Philipp es atacado por una serpiente y.

Indigo and her friends, Bobby and Sarah, reside in a homeless community by the river until the local police raid the area. Scared they will arrest them for trespassing the trio escapes in different directions. Things look bleak for Indigo until she reunites with Bobby who finds a stopwatch which allows them to travel through time. After meeting up with Sarah, painful memories take Indigo and her friends on a grand adventure none of them see coming.

During the years before WWII, Adolf Hitler had started multiple secret weapons programs. Colonel Meier is one of the officers selected and tasked with a defense weapon agenda. It is in this short story we learn how Colonel Meier discovers time travel and begins the Die Glocke project along with the secret mission Project Umschreiben.

Professor Otto Bendner vom europäischen Kernforschungszentrum CERN erhält den Nobelpreis für Physik. Seine Entdeckungen im größten Teilchenbeschleuniger der Welt verändern alles. Bendner freut sich über die Auszeichnung, aber die massive Kritik der Öffentlichkeit an seinen Experimenten sorgt ihn. Dann wird er in Stockholm von einem geheimnisvollen Kollegen kontaktiert. Eine verrückte Zeit beginnt.

What if a simple trip to a street market resulted in a brand new life? What if stumbling over a flower cart led to a whole new identity? What if a misstep caused your entire existence to be wiped out, only to start over hundreds of miles, and years, away?

Mr. Peacelove just wants a cruise for less than four thousand pounds. Yet, it's murky waters down at Fabulousness Travel Agency.

Worlds collide when a time traveling New York mobster travels to ancient Egypt, before the Great Pyramids are constructed. He brings the Pharaoh many small, insignificant, unassuming, modern items like an iPod, a six-pack of beer, and the Encyclopedia entry "How the Great Pyramids were really built". Does he change the course of history, or does he set the present course while becoming an Egyptian God?

Se vi svegliaste una mattina scoprendo di essere nuovamente il bambino che eravate, mantenendo tuttavia intatti tutti i vostri ricordi attuali? Se questo universo alternativo vi offrisse la possibilità di non ripetere più gli errori di cui vi siete poi pentiti? Di sfruttare le opportunità che avete mancato? Quali azioni potreste intraprendere per evitare tragedie a voi già note? Avendone la possibilità, che cosa decidereste di modificare nella vostra vita e nel mondo?

Ethan Duke, attorney at law, must discover a way to control the butterfly effects of time travel that have taken him hostage, using the tools familiar to him: reason and logic. But time, and those who manipulate it, just might have other ideas.

This love story for nerds initially appeared in the author's anthology Elemental Tales and Other Unusual Adventures.

There's a girl in Tim's room that claims she's from the future. Should he believe her? A short story about future glory.

From one of the most prestigious literary science fiction writers in modern times, Robert Silverberg's Hunters in the Forest explores a distant future where vacationers travel back to the time of dinosaurs; one such traveler finds himself questioning whether to return to civilization. Browse more Silverberg.

Bertram Bile wasn’t always like this. At primary school, he had friends, kind teachers, and great grades. But everything changed when he started his new school. His parents split up, his dad went missing, and his mum lost her job. Now, he’s bullied by his classmate, Angus, and his evil geography teacher, Miss Petrenko. His dad had been Miss Petrenko’s first love, but she never forgave him for dumping her for Bertram’s mum when they were kids themselves. Bertram feels sure that Miss Petrenko knows more about his dad’s disappearance than she’s letting on.

When Matthew retreated to an isolated mountain village in Spain, he was looking forward to peace and quiet. A friendly old man, a pushy old woman, and an invasive swarm of hornets had other ideas. A humorous, lighthearted series of five very short stories.