Short stories tagged with Meaning Of Life

Listing 6 stories.

A middle-aged woman leads a traveling circus act through the Midwest featuring 26 monkeys who climb into a bathtub and disappear and then reappear on her bus after the show. The impending death of one of the key monkeys causes her to wrestle with the meaning of life.

A disabled, non-devout man tries to love God more than his wife who died after an angelic visitation from Heaven causes her to bleed to death.

When a fourteen-year-old boy moves with his family to a farm town, he reads a book that leads him to have a crisis of faith and he begins to question what really happens after death.

When a bus is taken hostage, a woman comes to terms with her death.

A pilot that crashes in the middle of the Sahara Desert comes across a young boy who tells him he is a prince from a distant planet who has explored the cosmos, discovering that what is essential to life is invisible to the eye.

On the day her husband leaves for a work trip, a middle-aged woman hosts a dinner for a few guests at their house. During the meal, one of the woman's friends introduces her guest as a fortune-teller, which makes the hostess uneasy, a feeling that only increases as the night goes on.