Short stories tagged with Class Struggle

Listing 5 stories.

When two very different women suffer a car crash, a one-sided friendship soon becomes a bitter court battle which ends in tragedy.

A Black teen in dystopian Boston works sealing cracks which open underneath the city, threatening to swallow it whole. During one shift, he sees through a black-hole-type crack to an alternate reality in which his queer desire is fully realized.

In an apocalyptic world where the rich have abandoned land to live on cruise ships, a rock star jumps off her ship and is washed ashore. She strikes up a grudging friendship with the reclusive island-dwelling woman who rescues her.

Using the pension from their beloved father, three German sisters stay at a boarding house in France and pretend to be wealthy ladies. The trio spot a handsome Englishman, and the eldest girl delicately crafts a story to prevent him from discovering their impoverished upbringing.

A family of Russian immigrants living in rural New Hampshire during the Great Depression become entangled in communist values when the local mill goes on strike.