Short stories tagged with Sweet Ending
Listing 24 stories.
A minister’s young daughter, whose mother suffers from depression, wears a controversial costume to an evangelical church gathering. While hiding from adults, she stumbles upon an exorcism.
In the far future, extraterrestrials wage war on Earth. Despite the aliens’ comparative strength, mankind’s tenacity fascinates one extraterrestrial soldier to the point of absolute endearment.
When a gay writer is hit over the head and knocked out by his Slovenian friend, he finds himself aimless in New York City, unable to do anything more than read about Eastern European history, retell the same story over again, and wait for his friend to return.
An injured city cowboy rolls into his New Mexican hometown, where his old neighbors pressure him into performing in an impromptu rodeo show. The event takes a dangerous turn when a young Native American boy can’t contain his curiosity.
When a married couple announces that they are getting a divorce, their best friends who are also a couple are forced to confront what this configuration means for their social life.
After it is announced that an apocalyptic event that will destroy all life in the universe, an astrophysicist and her gardener mother meet in near-future England to decide how to spend the last months of life.
On his sixth birthday, a young boy receives a surprise present that forever changes his perspective on life.
When a friend's wedding forces her to reunite with both a past flame and her former abuser, a young woman must confront some old wounds.
The child of two American expatriates in modern Zambia walks through a party, discovering the secret life that servants lead when she isn’t looking.
A maid in New York City catches stray bits and pieces of her customers’ lives as they waltz in and out of her dressing room at a nightclub.