Short stories tagged with Accelerating Plot
Listing 5 stories.
A five-year-old girl and her mother go into hiding with some less-than-savory friends at an upstate New York cabin. While there, the girl sees the ghosts of a past tragedy and, for the first time, confronts the insecurity and inexplicability of her own life.
A Korean-American immigrant and her husband struggle to process a miscarriage.
A woman allows her grandchildren's road trip games in the Canadian backcountry. Distracted by her own nostalgia, she unwittingly takes them to a strange, unfamiliar house.
A burned-out State Department official takes a job at what he thinks is a new, Black-only civilization, only to discover a horrifying case of wholesale cannibalism.
Unable to sleep, a famous musician watches television and consults his friends and family in the middle of the night as a mystery torments him: who is the man calling his girlfriend and spreading lies about him, and what does he want?