Short stories tagged with Old Age
Listing 24 stories.
After witnessing a wife wracked with grief stand over her husband's dead body, a priest is filled with anxiety at the thought of both his own and his loved ones' mortality.
A somewhat estranged family grapples with the impending death of their mother.
In 2038, a woman visits her estranged father’s retirement community to find that he has replaced her with a robot in the form of a little girl.
An old woman reminisces about her twenties in NYC and her relationship with the family down the hall after she meets the younger daughter on a plane one day.
A woman married at the age of sixteen sits in an out of the way cottage with her elderly husband longing for a life with other young people.
A boy in Pennsylvania watches his dad slowly come to the realization that his pre-fatherhood dream of being in the circus will never happen.
A father reflects on his parental failures and his growing age as he drives through California on a rainy night.
A man dismisses his mentally-ill wife’s worries over the frequent appearances of skinned rabbit corpses in their yard until she suddenly goes missing.
Burdened by the memories of her time in Nazi-occupied Poland, a woman destroys her antique shop in New York and moves to Florida, but is still haunted by a persistent researcher and visions of her deceased daughter.
While waiting for an unrequited love to return, an elderly woman ruminates on her role in discovering an elegant alien technology. She feels death approaching and regrets not seeing her love again before she passes—only for him to arrive in the nick of time.
