Short stories tagged with Redemption

Listing 14 stories.

After a dangerous encounter with a predatory artist in the 1980s, a former artist-turned-housewife tries to imbue her oblivious teenage daughter with that same fear of men that leaves her cold decades later.

A woman and her friends attempt to steal money from a Dominican stash house in New York. Their plans go horribly wrong: the woman's friends die and she barely gets away with the money and her life.

A former book thief works with an organized crime group to steal back an Atlas which has the ability to correspond with Hell.

In a world where magical creatures have gone extinct and unicorn bones fetch a high price, one man encounters the opportunity of a lifetime, and must decide whether to risk a costly gamble.

When an alcoholic-turned-family man in modern-day Cleveland has sleeping problems due to his son’s night screaming, he is haunted by his other family that he left behind a decade prior. During a nightmare about his old family, he wakes up to an even more grim reality.

An unemployed man tricks a woman out of a dollar bill at a bar, but afterwards he feels guilty and tries to make amends.

When a young adult moves back to Connecticut to take care of her cancer-afflicted mother, she’s confronted by her solitude as she navigates her sex life, aimlessness, and desire to be a mother herself.

The world is at war: on one side, the corporate remains of human civilization. On the other, the aliens who have returned from Mars to live and regrow the Northern Hemisphere. In the midst of the war, one unnamed corporate solider realizes that their travel technology can be used to time-travel and takes that opportunity to try to save lives in the midst of this senseless violence.

A depressed woman develops a combative relationship with her therapist, which leads her to take agency over her life.

A monstrous girl is helped by her mother to lure people in so that she can eat them. After her mother dies, she must take on the responsibility herself, but is met by another woman who turns the tables on her.