Showing results for "the widow" in Short Stories

Six months have gone by since the death of Nickola’s husband Wes. Dating is the last thing on her mind. However, after a few encounters with aspiring business entrepreneur Miles, she has a change of heart. But there’s an undeniable attraction to British model Herring, who is 15 years her minor. Unfortunately, he’s the stepson of her best friend Vanessa. Will Nickola risk the possibility of ruining a friendship or deny her younger “interest” and choose Miles?

It's Halloween night and a werewolf is loose in downtown Chicago. Can the police stop this creature before the body count stacks up?

Ernest Lismore is in financial difficulties. In return for a token marriage, he is offered help by the elderly Mrs. Callender whom he had saved from a fire some years earlier. Lismore eventually agrees and they live abroad as mother and son until he meets an attractive girl in an art gallery.

Mrs. Jane Lewis, a widow, wants to marry again. But because her in-laws had been nasty people, she has promised herself that never will she marry a man with a mother, father, brothers, or sisters. She goes west because there are many single men there who are alone. She travels with the Jones family, a sprawling friendly tribe. She’s attracted to Caleb, the eldest son, but having immediate relatives seems to disqualify him. What about Mr. Tremblay who, like her, is alone? Maybe beneath his hard exterior is a broken heart just like hers?

A widow and a deacon seem to be getting awfully close to one another. At the sewing circle, gossip is of course had by the "sisters". All in all, a race is won and to the winner go the spoils.