Short stories tagged with Slice Of Life

Listing 39 stories.

A young woman tries to attract the attention of a colonel so that she can live a comfortable life.

Through the death of David Foster Wallace, a man considers the relationship with his brother.

To fulfill her mother’s dying wish, a woman tries to find the right man to have sex with just once.

An old woman takes a day trip through the Mexican town of La Luz. After one of her appointments is unexpectedly cancelled, she must find new ways to spend her day.

After a month of preparing, a couple finally picks the perfect day to go see the baby kangaroo at the zoo, only to greet the day with argument and thoughts of potential disappointment.

After his unhappy mother announces she will move homes once again, he and his girlfriend visit her one last time.

The landlord of a New York City Brownstone is murdered and through a series of overlapping anecdotes, one of his tenants claims to have solved the mystery.

A quiet gardener and shopkeeper defies her town's cruel gossips to shelter a destitute young woman.

A man flies back to the country of his birth and reckons with people and places he longer seems to know.