Tragic Stories

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.

Characters who ask for Adventurous stories

• Cassady
• Dupree

List of Tragic stories

• John Chapman, his orchard, and his dog
• Louise Ames' Violin
• The boy who ran away with his father
• The drunkard lineman
• The elegant woman in the small town
• The grave robber at the burial mound
• The lingering voices of the repatriades at Los Angeles
• The old janitor in the abandoned school
• The tree with bottles on its branches
• The anonymous grave
• The street lost in Washington
• The boy and his dog
• The white deer
• The couple parted by unemployment
• The soldier who came home to find his girl getting married
• The man on the beach in Miami despairing about the future
• The dead boy in the gain silo
• Killers on the streets
• Stuck truck driver (Liang)
• The woman with the buckets of poison
• Soldier wearing uniform of his dead brother
• The farmer whose land was choked with dust
• Dead soldier at the Alamo
• Woman who had forgotten her family
• The cat and the dead horse
• 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
• The gun-shot man left to die on the streets of St Louis
• Boy who died in the fields, where no one can collect his body
• 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
• The dead passenger outside the stalled train
• Story of the rotten orchard
• Prisoner John Henry, who died working at the railroad