STORYSTAR
Read Short Coming of Age / Initiation Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
“What Could Have Been, My Friend.”
By
Steven Wright
An older man reflects on his past and what he failed to accomplish.
You took me out to the Ball Game
By
Shirley Smothers
A short story, sung to the song TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME
The End of the World
By
Dreyri Aldranaris
The Taker was meant to end the world. But the Taker would have to first be raised within the Town.
The Drawbridge
By
Barry
Pou sevi lwa yo se pou'w bon katolik. You must be a good Catholic to serve the spirits.
He Came Home
By
Charles E.J. Moulton
The story of the lost soul, the prodigal son, who finally found his way back to find himself, realizing he had been at home all along.
Love’s How’s That?
By
BS Murthy
It's about the lovers' destiny overcoming the materialistic hurdle to their marriage
Sextillions of Infidels
By
Barry
Hazel’s car broke down twenty miles shy of Bangor with wolves howling in the underbrush and the late November sun fading away to bone-chilling darkness.