Short stories tagged with Independence
Listing 22 stories.
A young boy finds a clearing while exploring the wilderness and meditatively observes the nature around him.
A Vietnamese near-centenarian living in New Orleans reminisces on wars he experienced, ideas he held, and countries he saw during the 20th century with the help of the ghost of an old friend: Ho Chi Minh.
A strange young man shows up to a town and falls for a girl's Aunt Moon. Things take a turn when he mysteriously disappears but life goes and he makes a surprising comeback.
Set around the 1940s, a thirteen-year-old boy pursues the purchase of a puppy he saw in a newspaper ad, and receives an unexpected sexual experience from the woman who sells him the dog.
A sixteen year old albino girl who kills monsters with the guidance of an angel gets into a deadly riddle contest with a werewolf and ultimately betrays her angel to survive.
Two men with very different roots meet through their work in an Oregon Cannery and decide to buy a fishing boat together. After their first boat capsizes, the two split up for a while, until loneliness brings them back together to try to fish again.
A woman navigates her new life and her relationship with her criminally insane husband, who killed her three children.
A young boy runs away from home to visit his older brother in the city, and, becoming worried about his brother, decides to stay in Vancouver with him.
A recently divorced woman moves to her deceased grandmother's seaside house in California, hoping to start a new, glamorous life.
Before she can become a full sorceress, a young and talented female magician must pass her sorceress trials and overcome the dangers of Pride, Stagnation, Pain, and Panic.