Short stories tagged with Fight

Listing 14 stories.

After kicking her husband out and changing the locks, a mother imagines he is still living with her, distant and uninterested in sex. Lying in bed, she conjures up old memories and imagines new ones, grappling with questions of selfhood, identity, womanhood, and motherhood. One night, her real husband returns, and she lets him back in.

A trooper in a Kentucky county recounts his early days encountering an outlaw group of little people.

After a lawyer's wife leaves him, the lawyer returns home from work to learn from his son that there is an intruder in their home.

A teenage boy must embrace his geeky nature to win over a crush from his suave competitor.

A young, unhoused couple is washing cars outside a fair when the man picks a fight with a car full of men for a dirty remark said to his girlfriend and ends up with a shattered cheekbone and bruised eye. Later, when some Boy Scouts offer him money to see the his girlfriend's boobs, she agrees, as long as he's not there. After, she hides with the money, prepared to leave him.

Three generations of men grapple with the effects of unemployment and lost hope over Thanksgiving.

A young man meets a woman who has eyes all over her body, and he soon discovers how the eyes are acquired.

A young girl living with her grandparents is spectator to the conflicts between the members of their restaurant family—including their vicious guard dog, to who she forms an attachment.

In a world of gods and demons, two young girls leave their village in search of better fortunes and adventure.

After three years of being attacked with racism and hatred, a Black man decides to put his coworker in his place.