Short stories tagged with Ominous Plot

Listing 6 stories.

In 2017, a young boy in suburban Maryland is stuck watching his grandfather, an alcoholic former advertising executive who still sees the ghost of the son he killed.

A young boy in 20th-century Los Angeles bides his time before the apocalypse by doing nothing out of the ordinary.

A sixteen-year-old girl in the American West experiences her sexual awakening under the veil of religion.

Attempting to have fun for once, a teenage girl witnesses death at an oceanside beach party.

After being grazed by the bullet of a stalker's rifle, a man questions why everyone in town acts so calmly about the incident and wishes he had gotten shot properly.

In the near future, an energy crisis compels humanity to take advantage of the one source left untouched by industrialization: the past.