Summer would be my favorite season if it wasn’t for…
“It just doesn’t feel like Christmas if it’s this hot.”
A child tests if it really is hot enough to fry an egg on the pavement and gets an unexpected outcome.
The fires were all around us, the sky black at midday.
During a performance of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, a disgruntled thespian makes a deal with a theater critic, cursing the play.
“Endless summer is one thing, but this is ridiculous.”
“The beach? Please, anywhere but the beach.”
A Norwegian woman arrives in Australia on the hottest summer day on record.
An elderly man attempts to jump off a pool diving board like he used to do when he was young.
It’s the height of summer. You’re standing outside at dawn. Snow falls.
“If I have to hear one more time about how summer makes her feel so alive, I’m going to lock her in the deep freeze.”
“Don’t blame me, it’s too hot to even talk.”
In order to escape the summer heat, a man builds an underground house, making a disturbing discovery once his family moves in.
“That sound is how you can tell it’s going to be a killer summer.”
A group of friends have been planning their summer vacation all year, but the day before it starts, one friend disappears.
A person has had the song “Summertime” stuck in their head for a year.
“We can only do this magic on midsummer.”
It’s a perfect summer’s night. A man is walking along the beach, content. He sees a woman standing in the sea, the water lapping around her ankles. Life changes for the both of them in that instant.
To protect their only source of summer fruit, a fruitarian is forced to kill a cow.
“It happens every time he sweats. In summer, it’s just best if I’m nowhere near him.”
A couple come to the arrangement that they will only ever be together in the summer months.
It’s discovered that the solar system is growing a second sun and no one can figure it out.
For most people, summer meant sunshine and lazy days. For her, it was relentless hard work on the good days, and a literal death threat on the bad.
“Say whatever you want. I neither like Pina coladas, nor getting caught in the rain, and I don’t care what that says about me.”
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