Short stories tagged with Story Within A Story
Listing 7 stories.
When an ignorant farmer with a toothache seeks out the help of Paul Revere, he accidentally starts the American Revolution.
Loanna asks her Iya why everyone calls her two-headed and Iya tells the story of what happened just before Loanna was born; how she bartered with the god Ajala to receive two heads instead of one.
After a school shooting, a teacher and her students struggle to process the trauma and constant fear of death lurking around the corner at any moment. The presence of death looming carries over into the teacher's personal life, including her book club and the friends who attend it.
As a Chinese-American widower and professor of philosophy contemplates the life he has provided his two daughters, he recalls a traumatic memory from his youth as a delivery boy for a Chinese restaurant, riding through the dangerous streets of New York City.
A daughter and a mother wonder what the lesson of their story is.
A TV critic begins to have trouble telling the difference between her own, real life, and the lives of the characters on television.
A replacement storyteller entertains their patron with a tale of the magical kingdom of Sosun, where a king consumes dragon hearts to boost his virility, an act that will eventually lead to his own demise.