Short stories tagged with Car Crash

Listing 9 stories.

A drug-addled hitchhiker takes a ride with a family. Their car gets in a collision, and the hitchhiker wanders around the scene, unwilling and unable to help.

A young woman makes a detour on her way home to visit a man she met on a train. Though the man is married, the woman hopes to rekindle the spark she felt during the train-ride.

A group of musicians mourn their recently deceased friend. Their complicated ways of grieving conflict with one another as they try to plan a memorial party together.

An author drives in Jamaica to share exciting news from her book publisher, but when three people materialize on a bridge before her, things take a turn for the worst.

An old woman visits the small town where she was once a waitress and remembers how she dated a wealthy college student and built a strong relationship with his intelligent mother. After realizing she didn't want to marry him, she shared a spontaneous, emotionally-intimate drive with his troubled older half-brother, who died by suicide just after.

A teenage girl's older sister dies tragically in a car crash—but when the girl wakes the next day, she has gone back in time to the morning before her sister dies.

A young teenage boy calls his sister to pick him up from a house where a group of other boys are watching a disturbing and violent porn film. When the siblings hit and kill a deer on their way home, his sister attempts to deliver the deer's baby by cutting it open. The boy reflects on the other boys' inclination toward violence, the strict rules their father sets for his sister, and his own capacity to cut into flesh.

When an alcoholic-turned-family man in modern-day Cleveland has sleeping problems due to his son’s night screaming, he is haunted by his other family that he left behind a decade prior. During a nightmare about his old family, he wakes up to an even more grim reality.

A neuroscientist on the brink of a scientific breakthrough dies in a car crash. Yet her consciousness is still alive.