Short stories tagged with Neutral Ending

Listing 9 stories.

A disgruntled magazine proofreader returns to his childhood home in attempt to repair his parents' ongoing divorce.

Two people die of drug overdose and flu and never meet each other, never get married, and never live their seedy, disappointing lives.

While enjoying his time in Sri Lanka, a man invites his parents for a visit, and what should be a perfect vacation suddenly devolves into a chance encounter with a murder scene.

After his grandson gets fired from yet another job, an old man watches the boy resort to a deceitful scheme in order to make money, causing tension to run rampant through the household.

Desperate to feel some sense of human connection, an old man begins to look into the secrets of the land he owns and the people who lived there before him.

Despite his wife's pleas for him to behave at the annual family reunion, a man finds himself engaging in hand-to-hand combat with his brother-in-law after a few drinks.

After an elderly Black woman suddenly falls ill, her three half-daughters reunite in their old home in Alabama to be with her.

An elderly man realizes his troublesome son is the only thing keeping him going.

In 1938 Vienna and on the cusp of World War II, a young boy spends every Wednesday at his aunt and uncles home, where no one calls him by name and instead addresses him as "the Guest."