Short stories tagged with Deceit

Listing 11 stories.

When a battalion of soldiers knock on a mother’s door at dawn, she fears her secret identity will be discovered.

After unannounced absences, lies, and a switched kitchen appliance, a woman in 1950's New York discovers the truth about her boyfriend and the life he is hiding.

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

A man trying to find meaning in life has an affair with a girl. He struggles with whether he should tell his wife.

A woman confronts her boyfriend about suspicious behavior involving another woman and discovers that she cannot trust anything he says.

An unemployed man tricks a woman out of a dollar bill at a bar, but afterwards he feels guilty and tries to make amends.

In an environment where the earth is devouring itself and human beings and producing valuable drugs, a successful drug-harvesting team tries to escape a deal with a powerful businessman but face terrifying consequences for defying his orders.

After his estranged wife is murdered in a jet ski accident, a husband embarks on a journey to avenge her.

After a chance encounter with a mysterious teenage girl, a lonely woman gets pulled into the girl's sinister family drama.

A young Irish girl and her lover decide to retrieve a valuable ring from a grave — but both the girl and her lover are greedy and overwhelmed, and their night of grave robbing does not go as planned.