Short stories tagged with Growing Up

Listing 26 stories.

A boy wonders who his real friends are.

After being disruptive in class, a child is sent to a social worker’s office and ends up telling her she is actually a 2400-year-old child. She meets the rest of the social worker’s family and gets welcomed as a foster child, but her inability to help the aging grandfather regain his youth creates so much resentment in the family that she must run away.

Howie grows up to be a collegiate student athlete knowing that his best friend, Eddie, should have been, too.

All Henry wants is to serve as junior lawyer to his infamous father. But when their latest client happens to be the family of a beautiful girl, Henry finds himself risking his aspirations for her love.

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.

A young girl feels under-appreciated and left out during a family trip to Italy when her older sister and their college-age babysitter engage in a romantic affair.

Two little girls form a tumultuous friendship that impacts each of their life's dreams and desires in deep, unconscious ways—a fact that only becomes evident when they reconnect many years down the line.

A young boy living in America recalls his childhood in Jamaica living with his grandmother and reflects on the importance of his childhood friendships and familial relationships.

In rural Nebraska, a 13-year-old boy and his best friend visit a broken-down car that belonged to the friend’s older brother, who died by suicide the previous year. The boy tries to make sense of his friend’s grieving process and understand his own surprising actions in the face of grief.

Bullies take a young boy's shoes away from him after he has already lost his feet in a farming accident.