Short stories tagged with Metaphor

Listing 5 stories.

When her husband leaves, a divorced woman finds comfort in her home with another version of herself.

A traveling salesman tells a story in an attempt to bore his kidnappers after he is beaten, robbed, and held hostage by two hitchhikers.

A young Black woman grows up to the realization that the snakes living in her hair have a special power imbued to them by history.

In an increasingly inappropriate recorded message to a customer, a department store clerk compares their product complaint to kangaroos he saw at the local zoo.

Left conquered and disappointed from her past relationship, a girl addresses her selfish lover who had sexually used her. The girl compares the boy to a vampire and speaks about how he has left her like an empty shell craving love and blood just like he was when he first approached her.