Short stories tagged with Bleak Ending

Listing 5 stories.

When his neighbor dies, a 12-year-old Black boy takes over her house, only to find himself at the center of a war between rival gangs and an uncontrollable hustle.

An exhausted husband and wife travel by foot and stop by a house to ask a woman for food. She is rude and only allows the wife to eat, but the wife saves some food for her husband so they can continue their long journey.

A man living full-time as a caveman in a historical exhibit where he isn't supposed to speak English and has to pay for his poop to be removed is pressured by his exploitative employer to report his work partner's violation of their rules, despite knowing that she needs to send her family money as desperately as he does.

A young makeup artist in 1950s Hollywood finds a cheap new bungalow to move into, but begins to feel threatened by her landlord when she finds out that a previous tenant died in the very same unit.

An artist selling his work in LA is suddenly called back to Connecticut because of the accidental death of his relative, which brings together the entire ensemble of their eccentric family.