Showing results for "grief" in Short Stories

Award-winning Keith Rosson delves into notions of family, grief, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with a surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity...

In this, Theodore Dalrymple’s second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid bare when taken to extremes. You will laugh through your tears.

Maya has always gotten wet in the rain. Her father never did. As a child, she watched him step out into storms and come back completely dry, urging her to “walk between the raindrops” and promising that, when she could, she’d finally know who she was and why she was here.

This is a story that provides you with a moral message, humor, sadness and a few other emotions, all packed in just a few pages by the great American writer Mark Twain. The irony of Twain is evident from the very start and refers to the name of the little bad boy from the title. His name is Jim, not like in the other tales with bad boys...

Exploring themes like hypocrisy, mental illness, individualism, toxic masculinity, environmentalism, relationships, death, and revenge, Of Grief and High Delight is certain to engage the mind and stir the spirit as it immerses listeners in vividly imagined worlds and introduces them to unforgettable characters that will bring them to see their own world with new perspectives.

“Oates is a fearless writer.” —Los Angeles Times “Oates is a master of the dark tale—stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds.” —Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by...

In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness. In "Long Distance," a man finds himself relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape. And in the incandescently wise and moving title novella, a dentist, aware that his wife has fallen in love with someone else, must comfort her when she is spurned....

This short story collection will literally carry you through space on a quest for water due to a shortage of water on earth. Go along with the astronauts and specialized teams to Mars to find water for earth. The next story on your journey will take you to Clay County, Kentucky, to walk along with Crystal and Mother Pearl as they learn about love and forgiveness in a family that has been holding back a secret. Finally on your journey, you get to watch Abby, a senior at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut, struggle through her senior year, through pain and grief and in the end find hope.

A tender, mystical story for anyone who has carried grief—or an experience they couldn’t explain. Helen has seen lights for most of her life. Now, as she nears the end, those lights return—closer, brighter, and impossible to dismiss. When she finally shares what she sees, Maya listens with the kind of attention that only grief can teach… and the world quietly shifts. Because once Helen’s message is released, others begin to find it. People who thought they were alone. People who have been waiting—sometimes for decades—for someone to say, You’re not broken. I understand.

This poignant and haunting tale begins with the narrator's journey of placing his mother in a rural nursing home—a sanctuary that feels more like a retreat. As he adjusts to this new chapter in their lives, he encounters peculiar events, including an old man conversing with an unseen companion over tea. This eerie experience fades into the background as the narrator becomes consumed by the demands of life, gradually visiting his mother less frequently.