Short stories tagged with Cynical

Listing 3 stories.

A former doctor is called out of his alcoholism and cynicism to help others—first when his nephew is shot, then when a tornado devastates the area.

In an unspecified country destroyed by war, a former chef-turned-political prisoner escapes his chains and steals the identity of a physics professor.

A desperate young woman in a dystopian New York City pleads for a miracle to the Saint of Sidewalks and wakes up the next day a saint herself.