Short stories tagged with Female Protagonist
Listing 41 stories.
A young female aspiring writer goes to a salon and learns about the hair stylist's tragic love story. The hairstylist begs her to write the story, but the writer feels she doesn't have the skills to write such an unbelievable love story and feels jealousy toward the hair stylist.
A young Chinese woman has just been divorced by her husband and wonders what her next stage in life will be. However, her dark past makes her wonder if her life is worth living, until she meets an older gentleman.
A woman waiting tables on her twentieth birthday has a strange interaction with the owner of the restaurant who says that he may grant her one wish.
Mourning her beloved father's death, a young girl takes a vow of silence to spite her cruel and adulterous mother. After her mother begins yet another affair, the girl comes up with a plan to expose her and do right by her father's memory.
In 1950s New York, a world-renowned female pianist develops a mysterious condition that leaves her unable to play. Forced to confront her unhappiness, she decides to rent a studio at Carnegie Hall to sort out her failing marriage and career.
When a middle-aged woman’s daughter mysteriously reappears after going missing for three years, she notices something about her child isn’t quite the same.
When a prominent actor has his mind wiped and resold on the black market, a brain police officer goes undercover to find who is responsible — but in doing so, uncovers a scheme that makes her question even her own identity.
An envoy for an interplanetary agency is sent to a kingdom in which women have few rights and slavery is commonplace.
Two longtime friends move in together during the COVID pandemic. When one friend's daughter starts to confide in the other friend, the mother becomes jealous.
Tensions rise and fall as an elderly woman and her family await her grandson’s return from prison. A judgmental relative causes them to rally around the accused.