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

• The anonymous grave
• The boy and his dog
• The boy who died in the fields, where no one could be called to collect his body
• The boy who ran away with his father
• The cat and the dead horse
• The children whose father died in the car
• The conflicted WPA worker
• The couple parted by unemployment
• The dead boy in the gain silo
• The dead man by the abandoned railway
• The dead passenger outside the stalled train
• The dead soldier at the Alamo
• The drunkard lineman
• The elegant woman in the small town
• The farmer whose land was choked with dust
• The feuding architects
• The grave robber at the burial mound
• The gun-shot man left to die on the streets of St Louis
• Hungry couple who got fed from the warehouse
• John Chapman, his orchard, and his dog
• The killers on the streets
• The lingering voices of the repatriates at Los Angeles
• The lonely man with the saxophone
• Louise Ames' Violin
• The man on the beach in Miami despairing about the future
• The man who lost an engagement ring
• The mindless laundress who couldn't stop working
• The nervous man at the bus stop
• The old janitor in the abandoned school
• Prisoner John Henry, who died working at the railroad
• The scab with the black eye
• The singer fading into obscurity
• A small corpse on a coal train
• The soldier who came home to find his girl getting married
• The rotten orchard
• The strange street lost time in in Washington D.C.
• The stuck truck driver
• The tree with bottles on its branches
• The white deer
• The woman who had forgotten her family
• The woman with the buckets of poison
• The young man who wore his dead brother's uniform