Short stories tagged with Employment

Listing 5 stories.

A city employs people to act strangely to order to make others feel normal.

A Scottish Foreign Scholar tries to help the beggars he encounters at his university in India, but finds his outlook on life greatly changed by the sincerity of those he once looked down upon.

An unemployed writer receives a Christmas card from a woman he knew briefly three years ago - the unexpected overture triggers him into sending a torrent of letters filled with confessions of love and declarations of indifference.

As the only member of his family who is not a genius, a teenage boy lives his normal life of fishing trips and work while realizing that he is content despite his different life.

A man travels home with his wife and daughter to visits his mother. When he develops an unwanted, unintentional attraction towards his mother's maid, he slips into intense reflection on the nature of gender and life itself.