Short stories tagged with CONSTRUCTION
Listing 9 stories.
Fondly recalling memories at the motion picture theater, an old man blurs the lines between past and present.
In the 1990s, a 19-year-old aspiring actor-turned-construction worker develops an affinity for crack cocaine, making him doubt the promise of his future.
In a Priory community by a yellow lake, a young man works for his mother's acquaintance to build the basement of her beach house. He is pushed to complete the project before the community summer solstice celebration, though the celebration turns out to be a rather cheerless, mundane success without necessitating the finished basement anyway.
When a tragedy occurs at a construction site on Good Friday, the devout foreman's religion fails to save him or his men.
Forced to relive her plunge from the North Tower again and again in the afterlife, a victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City looks for a way to end her horrific cycle of death.
A ghost catcher is worried she'll be kicked out of the family business and, because of this, feels that she has one last chance to have a smooth and successful job.
A carpenter in an alternate universe determined to do his job does not realize what he will have to give up for money. The monsters he once though were dangerous become his friends, and the people he works for become the monsters themselves.
Two Chinese-American brothers buy and repair a broken-down home for their parents to move into, but they deeply disagree on how to execute their plan.
The body of a sixty-three-year-old Mohawk woman's little brother is uncovered at the construction site of a fast food company fifty years after his death, which prompts her to grapple with questions of assimilation and memory.