Short stories tagged with Army

Listing 18 stories.

A middle-aged man awaiting divorce papers meets up with an old acquaintance from high school and gets into a heated argument with the friend’s wife.

A squirrel monkey defeats the competition and fulfills her dream of becoming an astronaut. Based on the true story of Miss Baker, one of the first animals to be launched into space in 1959.

A strange young man shows up to a town and falls for a girl's Aunt Moon. Things take a turn when he mysteriously disappears but life goes and he makes a surprising comeback.

When an Iraq veteran goes missing, his friends reenact their wartime routines to lure him out of hiding.

A WWII army officer begrudgingly sticks his neck out for his fellow Jewish trainees' right to go to shul, which opens him up to manipulations from a trainee who tries to control his fate in the army and avoid deployment in the violent Pacific theater.

During his leave, an American World War II soldier visits the family of one of his fellow British soldiers. While he expects a warm and doting environment, he is instead greeted by a circumspectly cold group of British people.

Near the end of World War II, five police officials investigate a series of murders.

A group of Marines recall their horrifying memories of fighting on the Pacific front of World War II, while a journalist attempts to glorify their experiences for his readers.

An Iraq soldier who struggles with PTSD is discharged and begins to babysit his ex-girlfriend’s daughter. When he pretends to be the young girl's father to win the girl tickets to a performance, his secret becomes difficult to keep.

When a woman’s husband accepts his army commission for World War II, the woman can only watch with despair as her husband's battalion joins the ranks of those expected to perish in war.