Short stories tagged with Somber

Listing 4 stories.

An elderly woman finds herself surrounded by tragedy.

A somber woman mysteriously walks along the Rotherhithe docks for years. One day, she tells a stranger the disturbing story of her son who vanished at sea.

An elderly Native American woman grieves the loss of her three children to war and cultural oppression and must come to terms with her husband's complicity and proximity to the white man.

Marty, a freelance artist and self-proclaimed pretend Jew, has a religious realization as he acts as the shomer for his dead uncle in an off-beat funeral home.