Motherhood Short Stories

Zacharias is his maternal grandfather’s namesake, though he has never met said grandfather or any other extended family members. He represses questions he has as a way of trying to protect himself and his mother, Dorothée, who is prone to bouts of depression. But he cannot ignore his reality forever and in adolescence, Zacharias begins to commit small acts of rebellion leading to a final act that goes horribly wrong and leads him to exile and a new life where he promises himself never to look back.

Judging by the popularity of her home-makeover show, Katie has it all: a sweet-natured husband, Damian, as her cohost; adorable tween daughters; a designer mansion; and a just-folks appeal that has made the happy couple home-renovation royalty. Out of the spotlight, it’s a different story. Katie’s marriage is disintegrating, her spoiled daughters despise her, and her money can’t do anything to repair her personal problems - or her professional ones.

In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come rushing back for an anxious mother-to-be as she struggles to balance her child’s needs with her own healing. Rushed into an emergency cesarean section, a woman finds herself in the same hospital where her suicidal mother died. She’s buried the trauma of her mother’s last hours--and also the dread that she might be just as vulnerable to breaking. As the new mother relives one crisis in the midst of another, prize-winning author Julie Orringer turns the joyous event of birth into a harrowing, poignant short story.

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces—death, violence, estrangement—come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details.

A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous codependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance, and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both literal and figurative—lives and loves that are cut short, the vanishing of one's youthful self.

Motherhood isn’t always what’s expected. One woman may delight in navigating the unknowable, while another may look to the past to chart the course ahead. Still another may have the urge to redefine the relationship between mother and child. For each, the journey can be heartwarming and heartbreaking, ever changing and challenging. In these provocative stories, acclaimed authors probe the growing pains that can change the lives of both mother and child in ways they never imagined.

Diagnosed as severely autistic at the age of three, Tito, nearly nonverbal, was brought up by his loving mother Soma, who taught him to read English and challenged him to write his own stories. The initial result was The Mind Tree, published in 2003, which Tito wrote between the ages of eight and 11. The Gold of the Sunbeams is an equally impressive, beautiful collection of stories, each prefaced by a charming note from Tito explaining how the story came into being.

A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre, dotado de lo que la familia llamaba “los secretos”: el poder de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y mover las nubes. La madre de Ingrid, la primera mujer en heredar los secretos, era igualmente poderosa.

An eclectic collection of fantasy and paranormal stories from Angela Lam. From the depths of desire, a woman's longing makes her a mother. A depressed vampire considers suicide against her obligation to parent a dhampir. A concerned citizen breaks into a house to steal a neighbor's grief. A bridesmaid tumbles into an awkward wedding reception. And a heartbroken child yearning for his mother's return wishes against his father's magic.

Enjoy the drama and excitement of a novel experience in compact short stories—contemporary lives moving through dark trials to light and hope. "There are many excellent stories in this collection." ~McEvoy

In the first six weeks after her son was born, Jamila Rizvi felt isolated, exhausted and frustrated - as if the world she knew had disappeared forever. Then her salvation came in the form of a letter. A dear friend - who had been there herself - wrote to tell her that she would get through this. That she was seen and supported. That she was not alone. Now Jamila wants to pay it forward to other new mothers.

படைப்பிலக்கியத்தின் நோக்கமே மனிதநேய அடிப்படையையும், வாழ்வில் ஏற்ற இறக்கங்களையும் படிப்பவர் மனங்களில் ஏற்பட செய்வதே. திருமதி சிவசங்கரி அவர்களின் இச்சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்பு அதனை செவ்வனே நிறைவேற்றி உள்ளது.

Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second...

திருமதி. சிவசங்கரி அவர்களின் சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்பின் இரண்டாம் பாகத்தில் உள்ளடக்கப்பட்டுள்ள கதைகளும் முதல் தொகுப்பினைப் போன்று சுவாரஸ்யமாகவும் ஆவலைத்தூண்டும் வகையிலும் அமைந்துள்ளன.

Uma coleção de crônicas sobre a maternidade, sobre a tarefa infinita de ser mãe, que começa muito antes do parto, sobre a expectativa e os preparativos para a chegada da criança, sobre a vida com os filhos. Divertidos, espirituosos, experimentais, os textos falam do parto, dos bebês, de alergias, raivas, choros estridentes, noites em claro e outros dilemas e desafios. Como aponta o título do audiolivro, ser mãe é para sempre. Mãeternidade traz uma série de 60 textos sobre dilemas, ansiedades, descobertas, inseguranças, idas e vindas, perrengues e aprendizados infinitos.