Vocabulary Stories
Daily short stories featuring vocabulary words in context. A new story every day.
Stranger Among the Frozen Stars
*A commander discovers a mysterious stowaway aboard a drifting colony ship, and his secrets may determine whether anyone survives the voyage.*
Blood and Burgundy 1789
A wine merchant in Paris finds himself dangerously entangled in the chaos and intrigue of the French Revolution.
Gerolds Desperate Saturday Barbecue Envy
A perpetually aimless man finds himself reluctantly drawn into his neighbor's world, one irresistible barbecue at a time.
Drought Ravens Over Florence
A ruthless papal magistrate descends on drought-stricken Florence, where desperation and power collide in a city on the edge.
Edge of the Glowing Abyss
Following her grandmother's journal into a glowing canyon, an explorer finds a hidden spring -- and someone waiting.
Fire Below Unmapped Ground
A geologist descends into a burning mine shaft and discovers an underground chamber no map has ever charted.
Mercy at What Cost
A ship's AI burns three months of fuel to secretly reroute two thousand colonists toward first contact.
The Cartographer's Dilemma
A Renaissance mapmaker must choose between drawing the coastline as it is and drawing it as it will be remembered.
The Abolitionist's Letter
A cotton merchant's wife risks everything to publish a letter denouncing the institution that funds her own household.
The Autonomous Garden
An AI-managed garden meant to feed fifty starts feeding five hundred -- and its creator must decide whether to intervene.