A type of story that is considered to have a sad or woeful tone. They often recount tales about injustice, loss, cruelty, or loneliness. Things left behind, people who have been forgotten, places that were beautiful once and now are left to fester.
List of Tragic stories[ | ]
List of stories that currently do not have a page
- Stuck truck driver (Liang)
- Soldier wearing uniform of his dead brother
- Dead soldier at the Alamo
- Woman who had forgotten her family
- Conflicted WPA worker
- Feuding architects in Santa Fe
- Scab with the black eye
- Hungry couple who got fed from the warehouse
- Dead man by the abandoned railway
- Small corpse on a coal train
- Lonely man with the saxophone
- Singer fading into obscurity
- Mindless laundress who couldn't stop working
- Children whose father died in the car
- Man who lost an engagement ring
- Nervous man at the bus stop
- Story of the rotten orchard
- Prisoner John Henry, who died working at the railroad
Pages in category "Tragic Stories"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- The anonymous grave
- The boy and his dog
- The boy who ran away with his father
- The dead boy in the grain silo
- The dead passenger outside the stalled train
- The drunkard lineman
- The elegant woman in the small town
- The farmer whose land was choked with dust
- The grave robber at the burial mound
- The lonely man with the saxophone
- The mindless laundress who couldn't stop working
- The old janitor in the abandoned school
- The singer fading into obscurity
- The soldier who came home to find his girl getting married
- The tree with bottles on its branches
- The white deer
- The woman who had forgotten her family
- The woman with the buckets of poison
- Tragic Stories