Short stories tagged with Defeated Ending

Listing 6 stories.

When a young girl in a contemporary northwestern American town dies, one of her neighbors and former friends rethinks her relationship with death.

A Midwestern woman reflects on a past heartbreak from 1993 that led her to check into a tacky hotel, drink her worries away, seduce a married late-night radio talk show host, and doubtfully come to a personal realization.

When a former anti-war nudist files for divorce from his hippie-turned-middle-aged conservative wife, a figurative nuclear war fires up between the two suburban parents.

A New Yorker tired of the cold seeks to make the most of the year’s first spring breeze with her resistant husband.

In a post-apocalyptic Vermont of the near-future, a former writer picks up her old craft once more in an attempt to document the before and after of her resource-starved, disease-plagued world.

A teenage girl in 1970s England falls in love with a boy who introduces her to Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan. What starts off as an innocent relationship, however, turns into something that neither of them will ever be able to erase.