Short stories tagged with Hospitality

Listing 12 stories.

A middle aged man seeking a diagnosis for multiple sclerosis sees a friend's daughter getting a secret abortion at the hospital he is visiting.

A young pen pal unexpectedly visits a retired professor after their enthusiastic, months-long correspondence. However, their meeting in person goes much less smoothly than their previous communication.

In early America, a white father discovers a community of refugee Native Americans has taken up residence in his old home; rather than asking them to leave, he invites them to stay and break bread with him and his son.

A lesbian couple moves from America to Malacca, Malaysia, where they find jobs as schoolteachers and their relationship slowly unravels.

A young woman marries her perfect husband after two months of dating. However, once they're married she learns about disturbing accidents in her husband's past and fears he isn't what he seems.

A landlady says a tearful farewell to one of her Mexican tenants, who must leave due to an expired visa.

A mother and her two children host an Indonesian diplomat for the United Nations. A humorous moment of miscommunication allows the family and the diplomat to bond.

An imaginative, bullied young boy and an elderly, suicidal cancer patient save each other from freezing to death one day in December.

A Canadian woman lets an American exile room at her house, but warns him that he can only stay for two days.

After a white sheriff's deputy arrests a Black man in 1968, a winter storm causes him to take refuge in a garage, and the two Black brothers who work there make the deputy question his position and his morals.