Short stories tagged with New York

Listing 5 stories.

After his longtime boyfriend kicks him out, a promising young illustrator moves to Arizona where he reflects on everything he’s had to do for money. As he tries to capture these memories in his paintings, he begins to understand all that he’s lost as well as what might be possible.

A woman visits a remote cabin owned by her new boyfriend. However, she begins to hallucinate images of his ex wife, who tells her to run.

After returning the I CAN SPEAK mask for babies, which plays and simulates sophisticated speech, a woman receives a lengthy letter from an overly-enthusiastic sales rep about the mask's ability to make babies more intelligent and loveable.

Daughter Helen reflects on her pained childhood and strained adult life while on a train in Germany, where she is traveling to Munich with her sick mother to get an unconventional treatment for cancer.

One of the few Asians at her startup, Yumi, struggles to say no to her white female coworker, who takes advantage of her helpfulness and uses Yumi as her personal assistant. Yumi tries to engage a Black coworker, Martha, in her quest for workplace fairness and inclusivity, but finds that their situations are not so similar.