Short stories tagged with Growing Apart

Listing 9 stories.

A disgruntled magazine proofreader returns to his childhood home in attempt to repair his parents' ongoing divorce.

When his beloved pet rabbit — who has seen his now-scattered family through hard times — is near-fatally injured, a man reflects on his life.

A group of five families gather at a farmhouse in Vermont over Columbus Day weekend for their annual vacation. As the weekend drags on, they begin to realize that life has become more complicated and they may be slowly drifting apart.

Across two difficult decades, two siblings come together and drift apart.

When her mother's ouija board instructs her to move from Boston to South Carolina, a young girl befriends another girl her age who is totally her opposite in all respects and treats her friend's second family as her own.

When a highway accident causes an injured truck driver to spend months at home to recover, he finds himself grasping at the threads of his marriage as his wife grows more and more distant.

After being left behind by her husband and two sons due to her alleged "boringness," a woman must learn how to cope with her new life.

A teenage boy grapples with the guilt of selling a fake relic on the Internet. As he navigates the consequences, his father and his father’s girlfriend try to make him feel better. After a series of revelations, the boy—in his attempt to free himself—falls headfirst into a different kind of danger.

A hidden photograph reveals a story about the strained fraternal relations between two brothers spanning decades in mid-twentieth century America.