Short stories tagged with Fear Of Death

Listing 5 stories.

After his retirement, an older man struggles to come to terms with his own mortality and begins to imagine death all around him, particularly when he hears coyotes howl near his house in the night.

A middle-aged writer attends a friend's party while his wife is away with the children, but he struggles to enjoy his time as he finds himself caught uncomfortably in the middle of the arguments, declarations of love, and existential crises of the other guests.

Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.

A young girl reluctantly goes on a picnic that swiftly goes awry - she witnesses the death of a stranger. However, the experience brings her closer to her grandmother.

The family of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's hires a Medical Care Android to take care of the woman as she nears the end of her days. This Android isn't just any ordinary robot, though — it can impersonate the woman's family members so accurately that the woman is convinced that her family is always with her, doting on and caring for her.