
OCTOBER 2022 TO OCTOBER 2023
Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For Year Ten, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion..
Welcome to the tenth year of Storyfeather.
Below are the titles, primary genres, and taglines for each story in the order it was originally posted.
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When students in their school mysteriously drop into comas, three members of an academic and service club investigate a potential supernatural cause.
GENRE: MYSTERY

When an accident leaves two colleagues stranded in their vessel in an unfamiliar region of space, they call for help, but find they must rely on each other in the end…whatever end that might be.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

Disaster strikes a mining asteroid, where workers use and study a unique bacteria that helps produce a valuable ore needed for interstellar travel.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

Hounded by a saboteur, one humble cook struggles to ensure that his dish is not used to ruin a new and delicate peace being celebrated at a grand feast.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

Two sisters traverse oceans of plasma and vapor on a nearby gas giant, seeking treasure, so they can get the perfect solstice gift for their dad.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

A little girl brings her stickers to life with a magic word, but when mayhem follows, her aunt and brother must help her find a way to reverse the magic.
GENRE: FANTASY

Freddie’s ability to solve complex puzzles by seeing what other people don’t see attracts the attention of a puzzle-maker at a powerful company.
GENRE: FANTASY

A man discovers that all his words are turning to stones that choke or rocks that rip his throat, and his only hope for rescue is a timid boy.
GENRE: FANTASY

A prosperous beast dies, leaving behind a vast fortune locked behind a stone vault that can only be opened by a magical utterance.
GENRE: FABLE

Treasure hunters seeking a legendary jewel on a forbidding isle take along a girl who has visions and a man who escaped the isle and swore never to return.
GENRE: MYTHOLOGY

A strange calf with a strange power is born to an ordinary cow, and is cared for by a keeper who envisions an ordinary use for that power.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

Ten terrified youths are abducted by a bird with ten terrible heads, who plans for them a doom worse than death.
GENRE: MYTHOLOGY

Three brave rats embark on a voyage across a vast lake that is rumored to be haunted by a monstrous cat..
GENRE: FABLE

When a child is born cursed, his family tries every remedy they can find, but one of his siblings believes the answer lies within the curse itself.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

When a young man stumbles upon five tiny people scrambling over the body of an old man wearing an ugly sweater, his mind begins to spin a scheme.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

An inventor finds a way for a human to spawn a multitude of progeny at once, and soon realizes that she must stop her own monstrous invention.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

An inventor creates a device intended to help people with a sweet tooth eat their vegetables, but the prototype has an unintended effect.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

When a woman meets her fiancé’s family, she plays a board game to get acquainted, but things get serious when the family’s lawyer drops dead.
GENRE: MYSTERY

One triplet is drawn into a mystery involving her sisters after one of them almost kills a man and one of them seems to go missing.
GENRE: MYSTERY

A psychic with a specialty for reading auras and energies meets with a once-skeptical client who just wants answers about her husband’s recent death.
GENRE: MYSTERY

An eager young student of mythology and archaeology makes a significant discovery about a minor artifact.
GENRE: MYSTERIOUS MYTH

A woman helping her anxious friend through a work-related crisis, discovers something unexpected in the big boss’s closet…a doorway to a deserted dirt road.
GENRE: FANTASTIC MYSTERY

A young man walking through a wood meets a captivating bird then a captivating woman, but neither are what they appear to be.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

When a woman brings home a small tattered tapestry from a flea market and treats it with care, the tapestry begins to respond.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

When a series of escalating pranks on a remote space station results in someone getting hurt, the acting administrator investigates and hopes the culprit is not a pixie.
GENRE: SPACE FAIRY TALE

Two neighboring towns. One human. One fairy. Living peaceably with each other. But something had gone wrong. And it started with a papercut…
GENRE: MEDICAL FAIRY TALE

If fairies don’t have souls, then what happens to them when they die?
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

A rat named Hatcher has hatched a plan that might save his king and colony, and might doom his own life.
GENRE: MYTH & FABLE

The origin of a conventioneer’s costume is a myth that reveals the many skills and talents of the humble pigeon.
GENRE: MYTHOLOGY

A girl puts together an event that everyone thinks is a stunt to break a record, even though she told them it’s a ritual to summon a vast mythic creature.
GENRE: MYTHOLOGY

A stranger in a quiet corner of a tavern is asked to share a story, and tells a tale of a thorn that kills, a sword that heals, and a teardrop that never fell.
GENRE: MYTHOLOGY

The drama kids at Readerson Middle School put on a play about a cosmic outlaw, a land-dwelling lawman, and a potential threat looming above the Earth.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

Scientists testing a device that helps people who are struggling to sleep discover a baffling and grave side effect.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

Three friends, a lizard, a cat, and a moth, who start a private investigation agency, may be in over their heads when their foxy first client hands them a missing persons case.
GENRE: MYSTERY

When a teenage mage turns herself into a walking block of chocolate to impress her crush and can’t turn herself back, she seeks help from her best friend, a mechanical humanoid.
GENRE: FANTASY

Two agents investigating reports of a fraudulent psychic receive a frantic confession along with a new prediction for a terrible disaster.
GENRE: PSYCHIC MYSTERY

An amateur cryptid researcher vacations in a town where reports of glowing lights and eerie laughter in the woods escalate, to sightings of a monster in the river.
GENRE: CRYPTID MYSTERY

An injured rescue worker is rewarded with an experimental surgery that restores her vision, and grants her another sense that no one expected.
GENRE: HORRIFIC SCIENCE FICTION

When a suspicious laboratory accident occurs, a young botanist who’s studying a rose-like plant from an exoplanet suspects sabotage, but the true cause may be far stranger.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

Through a series of letters back home, a regular citizen describes a once-in-a-lifetime experience, encountering a vast and enigmatic creature in the depths of outer space.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

On a vacation where she can finally spend time on her art, a painter struggles, until she casts away the expectations of others and casts herself as a villain.
GENRE: HORRIFIC FANTASY

An heirloom found in an attic inspires one of its discoverers to remember a tale passed down in her family, a tale of gods and of beauty.
GENRE: MYTHOLOGY

A young dancer leads her troupe to a triumphant night, and decides that the only way for them to remain victorious is to drink a potion that will transform them from the inside out.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

A famed confectioner is keeping a fantastic secret, one whose clues are plain to see in his latest colorful confections.
GENRE: FAIRY TALE

Argh! Let me tell you about the one time our ship got swallowed by a giant eel, and how we plan to get revenge on our would-be destroyer.
GENRE: FANTASY

A non-corporeal being whose mind is tethered to a human’s must dive into the core of a star to rescue two of her people.
GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

Humans rise from the earth.
Demons drop from the sky.
A human ship and her crew are tested when they encounter danger in a demon dimension.
GENRE: FANTASY