Short stories tagged with Family Reunion

Listing 6 stories.

When a mixed-race Black woman attends her family reunion in North Carolina, she is unsure how to reveal to her family that her father has died and left her all his land.

A middle-aged woman visits the house of her ex-husband and his new wife to reunite with her son after his trip abroad. She tries to remain courteous, but when her ex-husband appears aged and unhappy, she can't help but think of it as his revenge.

In a family of immortal vampires, a young boy seems more human than vampire, lacking magical powers and nauseated by the taste of blood. When the boy asks his sister to help him prove himself and impress their relatives at a large family reunion, things don't exactly go as planned.

Despite his wife's pleas for him to behave at the annual family reunion, a man finds himself engaging in hand-to-hand combat with his brother-in-law after a few drinks.

In a reimagined version of a tale from the Indian epic Mahabharata, the son of the river-goddess grows into manhood and is reunited with his father.

During WWII, a woman and her husband in the French countryside take in a young Jewish girl whose parents have been arrested. When the girl's mother is released, the woman struggles to let her go.