Short stories tagged with Coping
Listing 10 stories.
A soldier stationed in Tunisia during World War II reflects on how his perception of death has changed while he buries two of his fellow soldiers.
A grieving mother who lost her son to cancer repeatedly trespasses on a military base in an attempt to photograph dead bodies returning from combat.
A group of musicians mourn their recently deceased friend. Their complicated ways of grieving conflict with one another as they try to plan a memorial party together.
In rural Nebraska, a 13-year-old boy and his best friend visit a broken-down car that belonged to the friend’s older brother, who died by suicide the previous year. The boy tries to make sense of his friend’s grieving process and understand his own surprising actions in the face of grief.
When the child of a young couple goes missing, the police and the townspeople blame the child's mother and wonder if she could even be at fault for the disappearance. A series of new and old discoveries plants seeds of doubt in the father's mind such that, even after his daughter is found, he worries his daughter isn't safe around his wife.
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 Vietnam War-era America, a young boy fills his days playing a “game” in which he reenacts his father’s battlefield death in Vietnam. But fun and games soon put his loved ones in real danger.
Much to her twin daughters' chagrin, a widow mourns her husband as she gardens, writes, and, most of all, drinks the time away.
A middle-aged baby nurse goes from case to case, coping with feelings of paternal grief as she "loses" the children she works with. A middle-aged baby nurse takes on a new patient, but the price she must for the joy of a new baby is dealing with the unpleasantness of the baby's family.
When her deceased son's ex-girlfriend writes asking to visit, a mother buried by her grief and pinned down by her alcoholism attempts to confront her demons.