Short stories tagged with Ruin

Listing 3 stories.

When a psychoanalyst's family forces him to give up his poker addiction, he uses the misery of one of his patients, a poker champion, to keep his need to gamble at bay.

A young man takes a woman to haunted ruins in England. They begin a happy romance until they encounter an enthralling monster and return from the ruins with portions of their memory missing.

Guilt catches up to the wife of an abusive but talented black comedian fifty-four years into their marriage, causing her to reevaluate her devotion during his 2010 comeback show in Los Angeles.