Try our Enhanced SearchShort stories by Barry Targan
Barry Targan is the author of the novel, Kingdoms, which won the AWP Award in the Novel. His short story collection, Surviving Adverse Seasons, won the Saxifrage Prize. He has additionally been a several-times recipient of Pushcart and O. Henry Prizes for his short stories, some of which have been featured in Best American Short Stories. Targan has also written poetry collections like Let the Wild Rumpus Start: Poems and Thoreau Stalks the Land Disguised as a Father: Poems.
He lives in Greenwich, New York and works as the assistant director at Skidmore College University Without Walls at Saratoga Springs.
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Two reluctant passengers on a Caribbean cruise clash with the experienced Tour Director, and their conflict indirectly leads to the entire trip becoming a resounding failure.
After a retired inventor becomes widowed, he decides to take Latin classes and falls for his teacher despite his grief and hesitations.
A man thinks back on his life as he prepares for death and wonders if his existence was meaningful, or simply fleeting.
A professor finds himself attracted to one of his students, allowing her to skip the final exams - but her resultant grade causes her to lash out at him and reveal harsh truths about his own life that he finds difficult to accept.