Short stories tagged with Intimacy
Listing 7 stories.
An overweight journalist navigates a strange friendship with a legendary writer and finds his life curiously entwined with one of the writer's students, a fiery young girl.
A solitary young hotel clerk finds himself enticed by a mysterious, sophisticated writer. Both desire intimacy, but find their romance obstructed by unspeakable kinds of loneliness.
En route home from a dinner party with her husband, a woman reflects on the death of their young daughter and the omnipresence of tragedy in their lives.
After his older brother dies of cancer, a Dominican-American teen strikes up a sexual relationship with his middle-aged neighbor.
In the distant future, a tech genius must learn new forms of intimacy when his wife is paralyzed from the neck down.
In pre-Revolutionary Cuba, a senator attempts suicide by shooting himself in the stomach, leaving him unconscious but stable. To figure out the cause, his wife looks back on the harrowing moments that changed the trajectory of their marriage.
After their only child dies during his gap year abroad, a woman reflects on her relationship with her husband and comes to understand that they deal with fear and grief in different ways.