Short stories tagged with Captivity
Listing 8 stories.
A young girl who becomes blind, deaf, and crippled in the name of science, finds herself falling in love with her caretaker.
Sly, a monkey with human capacities, is growing increasingly upset with his containment. All he wants is to be treated with respect.
A man imprisoned for murdering his brother drifts between his visiting wife, his memories of life outside, and his friends in prison as he struggles to find meaning in his captivity -- in everyone's captivity.
An aging man returns to Salt Lake City to bury his aunt. When he realizes that the funeral home has taken over a building that formed the center of his high school social life, reminiscences, revelations, and regrets overwhelm him.
When a young man signs up to fight in an intergalactic war in exchange for his citizenship, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the killing technology they’ve given him to murder the enemy.
A man is threatened into marrying a remarkably beautiful woman, only to discover she's a serial killer and member of a deadly cult.
A quasi-reformed stalker worries about the influence of his creepy behaviors on his son.
Two young sisters, along with other girls, are taken captive by soldiers and taken back to a city to be groomed into wives. The ghost of one of the girls who did not survive follows and haunts the sisters throughout the years, ultimately pushing one of them to kill the murderer.