Short stories tagged with Chance Encounters

Listing 7 stories.

A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.

As a Chinese-American widower and professor of philosophy contemplates the life he has provided his two daughters, he recalls a traumatic memory from his youth as a delivery boy for a Chinese restaurant, riding through the dangerous streets of New York City.

A teenage boy searches a bookstore for the perfect gay romance novel, learning an important lesson about literary representation.

One woman’s affair leads to a lifelong revelation.

When a mysterious bruise appears on the back of her head, a woman struggles to figure out why—and stumbles upon her past.

A man reflects on his countless journeys on Greyhounds—and the woman he hoped to see at his destinations.