Short stories tagged with Childhood Trauma

Listing 10 stories.

A young boy grows up believing that he is a detective in an imaginary city, and he quickly grows suspicious of his new neighbor. As he grows older, he ruminates on his imaginary city.

When a freakish accident turns her husband into a violent man in 1950s Texas, Loretta must decide if filing for divorce is enough or if she will need to kill him.

A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.

A sister remains a faithful friend to her brother as he navigates the strict parenting of their military father, spending his youth fighting in Vietnam, and his return home after the war as a changed man living apart from his family and forging his own path in life for the first time.

A woman in her mid-sixties becomes suddenly obsessed with a childhood trauma — and travels back to her hometown to figure out, once and for all, what really happened.

A middle-aged man who runs a landscaping company is introduced to a mentally disabled boy and takes him in as an employee. As he becomes a father figure to the boy, the man confronts his past as an ex-alcoholic and grapples with the guilt of having accidentally run over his own son in a drunk episode 9 years prior.

A depressed woman drives her friends and therapist crazy, going ceaselessly on about the childhood trauma she incurred during her parents’ divorce settlings.

A six-year-old boy visiting his extended family for Christmas on the East coast must survive the constant abuse from his toxically masculine father which sends him further and further into the recesses of his imagination.

Unable to control his impulses, a man finds his obsession with women's hair devolving rapidly into cold-blooded murder.

While college student Isobelle is staying with her Congolese immigrant uncle over summer break, she hears strange sounds coming from the room that used to belong to her now missing cousin. Behind that door lie a rotting corpse, a vengeful spirit, and dark family secrets Isobelle’s uncle thought he left behind in Congo.