Short stories tagged with The Great Depression
Listing 9 stories.
After his mother passes, a middle-aged man reminisces on the relationship between himself, his mother, and their house in rural Pennsylvania.
A man reflects on his childhood growing up in Memphis during the Great Depression, specifically his relationship with his best friend. As he remembers his friend's odd relationship with his family, unusual approach to romance, and alluring charm, he begins to realize how different they were and still are.
Two adult sisters reunite only to relive the trauma from their tumultuous and life-altering childhood.
In 1920s Kentucky, the death of his wife leaves a farmer sorrowful and overwhelmed by his two young boys, leaving it up to his brother and parents to step in.
A young girl falls in love with an artist, but he is in love with another woman who is eventually responsible for the death of his art, leaving the girl wishing that she could save him.
An unemployed writer receives a Christmas card from a woman he knew briefly three years ago - the unexpected overture triggers him into sending a torrent of letters filled with confessions of love and declarations of indifference.
When a middle-aged man reconnects with his uncle, he recalls their time spent on his grandmother's estate during his childhood in the 1920s.
When a teenage boy is sent away for the summer to live with his aunt and uncle, he quickly realizes that he has feelings for his cousin. The boys must navigate their newfound attraction and their own emerging adolescence.
A young woman struggles in her role as both mother and wife. Her unhappiness with her life seeps into her very being, and causes her to act out in strange ways.