Short stories tagged with Beauty Standards
Listing 7 stories.
In a future decimated by rising tides and extreme weather, the people of Earth have been displaced from their land and look to the sea to establish new civilizations. In order to survey the ocean and explore its resources, the U.S. Navy enlists an all-female cohort of “military mermaids,” whose human limbs and organs are genetically modified into fins and gills.
A twelve-year-old living in Texas is diagnosed with tuberculosis and goes to a tanning salon.
When she meets another girl in detention, a girl considers what it means to be beautiful.
A young Black woman grows up to the realization that the snakes living in her hair have a special power imbued to them by history.
An extremely attractive man is fascinated by a woman he describes as 'unattractive.' He is certain that he will be the one to end their relationship - but as time passes, he learns that breaking a heart is also a kind of heartbreak.
When her older sister comes home for the summer, a girl contemplates girlhood and what it means to be a teenager.
The three wicked mothers of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White team up to regain their confidence and exact revenge on the daughters who betrayed them.