Short stories tagged with Marriage

Listing 400 stories.

In San Francisco, a Chinese grandmother teaches her granddaughter how to pickle the memories she no longer wants to carry with her, much to her daughter’s chagrin.

After watching his father's infidelity slowly poison the family dynamic and his mother's happiness, a young, gay Afro-Latinx boy meets his father's mistress.

When a bartender discovers that bug bites give him dreams, he attempts to solve his marital problems by making his wife experience the dreams with him.

A man and his girlfriend go to a cabin on the beach where a ship of Fae changes their fate.

A lost man finds his way back to his family after realizing he does not truly wish to be alone.

In mid-20th century Paris, a young woman ends her engagement, hoping to be with another man. When things do not go as planned, however, the young woman struggles to meet both her own wants and desires and her parents' expectations.

After several divorces and the death of his daughter, a man receives a terminal diagnosis himself, and ends up exploiting his impending death to amuse himself. At his deathbed, however, he is granted a moment of clarity where he can finally be his true self.

A middle-aged man awaiting divorce papers meets up with an old acquaintance from high school and gets into a heated argument with the friend’s wife.

A middle-aged Asian-American woman uses silence to her advantage in navigating family dynamics and understanding the absence of love in her life.

Ten years after leaving, a woman returns to Ireland and finds her longtime crush now married with children.