Short stories tagged with Dissatisfaction
Listing 10 stories.
A man who unknowingly talks to himself wonders why a woman who is satisfied with her marriage is having an affair with him.
A French detective adopts an Indigenous Brazilian boy interested in anthropology.
After a man's suicide, his former wife and sister live together. at odds with one another as they differently processes their feelings of grief.
When a modern man sitting in Lagos traffic receives an email from his ex-lover of lifetimes ago, he reevaluates the facts of his prosperous but ultimately empty life.
A young writer attends a writer's workshop where she begins a relationship with an author whose books she loves. But after they move in together, she finds that his life begins to suffuse every aspect of hers.
Terrence and Ruth, a middle-aged couple, move house for a fresh start - but their new house is in disrepair. Ruth contends with sickness, unfulfillment, and her staling marriage while laboriously cleaning it.
A woman develops a risky love for her son's pediatrician, despite the fact that they are both married.
A woman who is bored with her life becomes captivated when a photographer mistakes her for the woman who owns the boarding house across the street.
A U.S state department official encounters an infatuation on his trip to Eastern Europe that ends in despair.
After a visit to the tropics, a woman returns to her husband and New England home. She struggles with the transition back to her regular life after she realizes that she felt happier and more at home in the tropics.