Read Short Character Based Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Ernie Levinson wants to marry Shifrah Fienberg, but the Israeli woman’s background prior to coming to work at Levinson's Whole Food Market remains an impenetrable mystery.
As though the topic makes for polite dinner conversation, eight year old Benjamin Carter announces that Mr. Jacobson, the elderly widow, who lives on Bickford street, is a weirdo.
A man must survive the psychologically taxing journey of colonizing a new planetary body; intense isolation is essential for this decades long trip.
Mrs. Chowdhary named her youngest daughter after Saint Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus. Unfortunately, Terry has more in common with Attila the Hun than her nineteenth century namesake.
In a lush forest, a lion and a bear argue over who should drink first from a small lake, until a clever fox resolves their conflict with a riddle, leading to mutual respect and friendship. The story highlights the value of intelligence and cooperatio
Not unlike her marriage and personal life, Sylvia Mandelstam’s literary symposium in Moscow is an unmitigated fiasco.
Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his fractured life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain.
Morris Weinstein needs an apprentice at his woodworking business. Seventeen year-old Salina Smithers just finishing high school and wouldn't know a table saw from a table wine.