Short stories tagged with Cathartic Ending

Listing 5 stories.

On a doe hunting trip with her father and two other men in a forest in the Northern US, a nine-year-old girl reckons with her gender identity.

When a girl is found viciously murdered in the Rockdale High School gym, rumors circulate the small town that a teenage werewolf is the killer. The resulting confusion and panic drive a wedge between the students and their parents, who wish to curb their childrens' freedoms in the name of safety.

A mother must learn to reorient her family's dynamics when the Chernobyl disaster in their hometown separates them from their grandmother, who chooses to stay inside the contaminated area.

In between worrying about the street explosions that have been wracking her wealthy New York neighborhood and grieving her late husband, a white landlord begins to suspect that her Asian second-floor tenant is building a bomb.

Mourning the death of their brother, two sisters bring back his ghost by inflicting cruel pranks on each other.