Short stories tagged with Disasters Accidents

Listing 14 stories.

An injured man hopes to reconnect with his estranged wife, despite her love for another man.

A teacher takes her students on a field trip to a tin mine. While underground, a haunting legend foreshadows a grotesque, karmic tragedy.

A gruesome find awakens a small-town police officer’s primal urges. When his former flame is threatened, he finds his true calling.

When his co-worker dies suddenly from a rare bacterial disease, a sewage treatment plant inspector confronts great grief, regret, and sin—and ends up engaging in a sexual relationship with the deceased's vulnerable teenage daughter.

After a terrible accident, a young boy helps his friend find solace in their first love; the lake.

An aging Caucasian ex-military pilot-turned-farmer and his wife struggle to maintain control of two newly acquired buffalo, while wildfires and drought blacken the sky and the farmer's sister becomes increasingly subsumed by doomsday cultism. cults build shelters to prepare for nuclear destruction. Set in the present day.

Two knights travel from one town to another, and gather around a fire as they hide from a dragon. When the dragon finally attacks, they must face their fears.

A cynical cab driver who ferries alien tourists from a spaceport to New York City is unwillingly involved in a cover-up when a drugged-up alien throws itself from his cab and dies. Shortly thereafter, a relative of the dead alien comes looking for answers with a ship that could destroy the world.

In Johnstontown, Pennsylvania, two women, generations apart, survive devastating floods that kill their families. They meet and share their stories, but find it difficult to bond over the differences in their experiences.

A man in Newfoundland, far away from home, visits his estranged 11 year old son and enters his life without revealing who he is.