Short stories tagged with Ritual
Listing 13 stories.
In a retelling of the story of Helen of Troy from the Iliad, King Agamemnon's daughter grapples with rage and sorrow when her father agrees to sacrifice her to appease the gods.
A French detective adopts an Indigenous Brazilian boy interested in anthropology.
Professor gives a talk about the human appetite for death
A baseball pitcher feels the intense pressure of an important game as he looks back on his successful career and the tension it created with his distant father.
In a society where Jesus clones are commonplace, a group of Jesus clones try to awaken their holy powers by attempting to kill a teenage girl and raise her from the dead.
On the day of that girls become mermaids, one girl in particular finally figures out why she's so different from the rest.
The crew aboard a freight ship are gruesomely murdered in a sacrificial and ritualistic manner.
Having survived the apocalypse for a few years with his buddy cop, a sheriff has to reflect on what he's living for when his friend dies and the threat continues to loom outside.
In a mountainous Haitian village, a missionary has his work interrupted by an unexpected guest who is a stranger to the local culture and blends African spirituality with Christian religion.
A young boy stumbles across his grandma's bingo hall and accidentally catches the attention of the cult-like group.