Hopeful Stories

A type of story that is considered to have an uplifting or joyful tone. They tend to describe people being kind to each other, beautiful moments, or miracles (even if the miracles themselves might seem strange or unnerving).

List of Hopeful Stories

 * Two brothers meeting
 * Lighthouse, two men
 * Women praying in the woods
 * The man who made molasses
 * Dreams in the cotton field at night
 * Thirsty cotton-pickers
 * The mysterious woman who wanted to go to church
 * Man who seemed alright with his death
 * Storm that caught me outside
 * Ducks in the hotel fountain
 * Miracle growth formula
 * The seagulls and the fisherman
 * Slow-going cart around Cleveland
 * The lost ring
 * The new grandfather in Northwest
 * The metal worker in the company house
 * Beautiful butterflies
 * Unnerving lounge singer
 * Bizarre children around Kansas city
 * Hidden sideshow exhibit
 * Two girls in the haunted house
 * Astronomer in the desert
 * Stabbed and bleeding bull
 * Two musicians with interminable song
 * Morality play at the Plaza Theatre
 * Old man seeking lost things
 * Fortune-telling bird in Midwest
 * Old woman reminiscing of her lovers
 * Girl who waited for her father's plane at the pond
 * Girl whose best fried was a chicken
 * Family searching for a new life
 * Boy with the circus dog
 * 11.59 train that carried an old man to heaven
 * Man who robbed a bank for his father
 * The singing workman
 * Tiger cub born at Runciter's Circus
 * Broker who loved the bearded lady
 * Mystic who wanted to know her own destiny
 * Music echoing off the red rocks
 * Man with the peculiar drink
 * Joe, the Pullman Porter who protected trains on his run
 * Crow man holding on for a better tomorrow

Characters who ask for hopeful stories

 * Bertha
 * Rocio
 * Dehaaya
 * Rose