Short stories tagged with Outcast

Listing 10 stories.

A boy's grandmother diligently coaches the neighborhood grocery deliverer in his attempt to get a girlfriend.

In a family of immortal vampires, a young boy seems more human than vampire, lacking magical powers and nauseated by the taste of blood. When the boy asks his sister to help him prove himself and impress their relatives at a large family reunion, things don't exactly go as planned.

During the second World War, a fortune teller in Northern Italy discovers a headless body by the road. He investigates the murder to see if any details will also magically reveal the winning numbers of the lottery.

A group of boys is lured into a sewer by their classmate where mind tricks and riddles await them in the damp darkness.

Shortly after World War II ends, the captain of Lucky Dragon and his crew contract a mysterious disease that turn their skin scaly and hard. As the news spreads across the village, the crew's lives are changed dramatically.

A thirteen-year-old boy disappears into the woods after his birthday party.

A young girl knows something isn't right when her sister comes home from boarding school pregnant, with a strange husband. When her parents are found dead a few days later, she immediately suspects her brother-in-law and turns to the faerie tree in her front yard for help--but the faeries strike a tough bargain.

A disturbed man — consumed by fury at the world and the wickedness he believes it contains — attempts to kidnap a little girl and meets a brutal end.

As the only member of his family who is not a genius, a teenage boy lives his normal life of fishing trips and work while realizing that he is content despite his different life.

A young girl has a frightening power that brings doom to everyone near her, but she finds kindred spirits in owls.