Short stories tagged with Beauty
Listing 30 stories.
When a village's beloved schoolteacher disappears just as mysteriously as she arrived an entire century earlier, the townspeople are left to contend with her legacy and lessons.
A middle-aged writer turns back the clock by twenty years and narrates his ill-fated romance with the beautiful but unattainable girl from his memories.
In the near future, a 33-year-old American woman infiltrates a terrorist network in the Mediterranean. Posing as harmless arm candy, she uses her cyborg implants to procure classified information, all the while struggling to evade suspicion.
A mystic woman rules over her island and recounts the journey she took to get there. From Boston as a young, Black girl to a wealthy French estate owner, nobody can seem to take their eyes off of her.
In a modern-day world, an old lady with an uneventful life finds the Holy Grail in a pawn shop and buys it, thinking it will look nice on her mantle. The next day, a knight in shining armor shows up searching for it.
A little girl sits down by her dying grandmother’s bedside to receive an important warning about how she should live her life with the knowledge that death will come to her, too.
A real estate agent obsesses over a bowl gifted by her secret lover. Over time, she becomes more infatuated with the bowl and less infatuated with her lover, yet she still must decide if she should end her marriage to be with him.
A young white girl backpacking through Kenya imposes upon a couple she tangentially knows and has a life-changing near-death experience.
As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.
On a farm in upstate New York, a new farm hand meets a girl, but things get complicated when they find out she's a minor.