Short stories tagged with Healing

Listing 15 stories.

After 300,000 teens and young adults commit mass suicide, a student pursuing their PhD investigates what caused the Year of Suicide, forcing them to relive their trauma and navigate the process of healing from so much death.

One night, a woman braves a treacherous journey to put her healing powers to work.

An aging woman takes care of her grandson's latest infatuation: a mystical woman-rabbit creature trying to get home.

An man with nothing begins renting a room in the home of a couple in rural Washington. As he stays with them, the emptiness he feels begins to be filled.

After his wife's tragic death, a man is visited by several small gods— including that of grief, joy, and heavy hearts — who help him go back to life as normal after his loss.

In a wild west boardinghouse, a young woman nurses an injured miner back to health while she reflects on her past relationships with men.

An autistic, selectively mute eight-year-old boy befriends a girl who secretly murders neighborhood pets. He becomes the accomplice to her sociopathic crimes, in the hopes that she can somehow lead him back to his dead twin brother.

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

Photographer Jerry Butler has an affair with one of his subjects - Brianna Riley, a famous singer with a curious and rare condition. When his wife walks in on them, he has to choose between the two.

A divorced woman reflects upon a bizarre medical experience that still emotionally binds her to her ex-husband.