Short stories tagged with Caretaking

Listing 7 stories.

A grandfather renews the family tradition of blueberry-picking on Ragged Mountain with his grandson, showing him secret landmarks of family legacy on the way.

A woman and her brother are hiding from two violent dogs in the pantry in a house they broke in to, and she regrets bringing him into this because he has not fully recovered from his traumatic head injury.

A college professor sets out to show his elderly mother the simple joys of life and ends up learning about happiness and logic from her instead.

In a desperate bid to escape abuse in the midst of a cruel post-apocalyptic world, five girls find salvation in the arms of an imagined deity.

Two older female friends reunite after eleven years in New York and one grapples with the overwhelming responsibility of caring for her older father and how it has held her back from her dreams.

While caring for his wife in the hospital, Dickstein contemplates the legacy of his late father, the probability of his wife's future widowhood, and other familial queries brought to the surface in his wife's Freudian summer course.

Rebecca falls tumultuously in and out of relationships while trying her best to support her headstrong, severely ill mother.