Short stories tagged with Grim Ending

Listing 9 stories.

When three troublemakers board a bus with a plan to cause mischief, their jokes take a sour turn and ends grimly.

Sometime during the 20th century, two young boys wake up excitedly on a Florida day with the hope of seeing their estranged father, unaware of how reality will not meet their expectations.

A Filipino-American man is contacted by an old neighbor, who warns him that a ghost of their childhood may be coming for him.

A lesbian painter in the Northeastern United States evolves from the 1980s to the 2020s as she witnesses horrible tragedy, familial disapproval, and blazing-hot love.

A young girl is abhorred when her parents force her to spend time with the robot clone of her beloved deceased grandmother.

When a young boy in 1930s Kentucky turns seven years old, he suddenly finds the hefty weight of his age settling on his unassuming shoulders.

In a distant dystopian society, a woman is selected by a lottery system to undergo a trial that will determine if she is productive enough to add a number to the population.

An unwanted reunion between two women for the holiday season makes a protective mother anxious and eventually pushes her over the edge.

When an extraterrestrial bug bites a space explorer in the arm, a comical medical emergency replete with amputations and miscommunications ensues.