A little girl's parents have to go overseas for work, so she is sent to stay with her grandmother for that period. The grandmother only speaks Teochew, which the little girl can neither speak not understand, so the initial generational and linguistic gaps result in friction and misunderstanding, until an accident unexpectedly brings the whole extended family closer together, and the child bonds with both her grandmother and her parents.
After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead....
When Chloe's grandmother gets diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she's forced to become a stay-at-home teen...
The local pastor’s daughter escapes youth group to go to her first high school party.
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transform...
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mans...
Two robbers, having a philosophical debate about fate, realize that their deaths are imminent.
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria...
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in th...
A samurai travels to America to seek revenge for the death of his master.
City people set off into a warm late summer night. Glances meet in a library. At a workout, two men ...
Savithri is a broadminded woman from a middle class family. She has two daughters and four grandchil...
When Wanda’s American granddaughter comes to stay with her in suburban Rome, she seeks to close a ge...
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threat...
A woman goes to the most beautiful view as she says one last goodbye to the person who meant the mos...
A detective micro-story, which is a study of a young policeman who, despite being overlooked by his ...
Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchm...
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything...
A woman faces the battle of her life when her estranged father's family tries to evict her and her g...