Short stories tagged with Status

Listing 4 stories.

In Vietnam War-era America, a young boy fills his days playing a “game” in which he reenacts his father’s battlefield death in Vietnam. But fun and games soon put his loved ones in real danger.

In biblical Israel, a young shepherd must navigate his forbidden desires after spending a summer day with the beautiful and powerful daughter of a king.

After three bodies wash up on shore in her town, a teenage girl grapples with her dead twin sister's struggle with self-harm and suicidal thoughts, all while she tries to live her own life.

An old (76) man returns to his hometown in China after 66 years, to find that his mother has just passed away. With fanciful ideas of his assured prosperity in America, the village women seek to marry the old man.