Night Comes On (2018)

A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.

Carol Morley’s debut short uses the iconography of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – to explore the story of a girl’s relationship with her father, and…

A Texas town awakes when a high school wrestler gets entangled with a drifter and her psychopathic lover. Lives then intertwine and spiral violently out of control once he becomes…

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of…

For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In “Children in the Crossfire” four children from both…

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they’re genuinely in love, the husband’s endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.

Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers…

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being…

After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to…

The story of Ronald Reagan’s press secretary who was crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on the president and who, with his wife, became the lightning rod for the gun…

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman’s assault in front of an apartment building, and to a…