Short stories tagged with Cynicism

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A barista in a small Massachusetts town with a cynical outlook on vulnerability and love finds herself moved to reconsider the possibility of romance with her manager after she and her co-workers stay up late dancing with two clients, a quadriplegic man and his personal assistant, and sharing stories.

A struggling private-investigator is drawn into a lurid murder-suicide case even after he is officially off the case.

A man burdened to live in the past due to his memory condition seeks to avenge his wife by killing her murderer.

After World War II, as he skis in the mountains of Switzerland, a Jewish Frenchman recognizes a German man who once left him for dead in the snow as a child.

A depressed woman develops a combative relationship with her therapist, which leads her to take agency over her life.