Short Stories for Busy People:
Volume 6
Power does not always announce itself.
Sometimes it looks like a pulpit, a promotion, a locked door, a perfect temperature reading, a warm hotel room, or a wish made from the bottom of grief.
Genre
Short Stories
Pages
112 Pages
Language
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, French
Release
18 July 2026
Publisher
Sevastian Winters
In Volume 6 of Short Stories for Busy People, Sevastian Winters delivers six sharp, unsettling stories about ambition, survival, moral compromise, and the terrible cost of getting exactly what you asked for.
From historical reckoning and corporate betrayal to supernatural horror, icy satire, and impossible bargains, these stories ask what people become when the pressure rises and the line between survival and corruption starts to blur.
For readers who like their fiction brief, sharp, and difficult to forget.
Inside You'll Find:
- The Territory of Saints: A frontier preacher turns a dead child’s suffering into a movement for justice—and discovers how easily righteousness can become another form of power.
- Access Granted: At a remote Antarctic station, a forgotten technician uncovers a hidden machine capable of moving the earth itself. The only question is whether he found it… or whether it found him.
- The Blue Hour: After unbearable loss, a mother finally gets the child she prayed for. But the bargain that brought her daughter into the world may have left the door open for everything she tried to bury.
- Warmer: A luxury ice hotel promises beauty, comfort, and an unforgettable wedding. Unfortunately, something inside the walls has been waiting for the guests to turn up the heat.
- The Cold Chain: A veteran medical courier has never lost a refrigerated load. But when lifesaving antitoxin starts arriving short, he must decide whether loyalty matters more than counting what was actually delivered.
- The Corporate Suite: Kara knows where the secrets are kept because she helped keep them. When the company finally turns on itself, she sees a way up—and exactly who she’ll have to step over to get there.