Read Short Character Based Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Max Tittlebaum, a dedicated English teacher, may lose his job due a relationship with a two-hundred year-old French prostitute.
Elliot Slotnick is dating Marilyn Moneghan, his chiropractor’s assistant. He’s a neurotic Jew and nerdy academic; she is a devout Catholic, who believes in divine intervention and watches Wheel of Fortune reruns on late-night television.
Most people imagine Donny Cantrell a modern-day Don Juan, a devil-may-care Lothario, but first impressions can be deceiving if not dead wrong.
Ernie Levinson wants to marry Shifrah Fienberg, but the Israeli woman’s background prior to coming to work at Levinson's Whole Food Market remains an impenetrable mystery.
As though the topic makes for polite dinner conversation, eight year old Benjamin Carter announces that Mr. Jacobson, the elderly widow, who lives on Bickford street, is a weirdo.
A man must survive the psychologically taxing journey of colonizing a new planetary body; intense isolation is essential for this decades long trip.
Mrs. Chowdhary named her youngest daughter after Saint Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus. Unfortunately, Terry has more in common with Attila the Hun than her nineteenth century namesake.
In a lush forest, a lion and a bear argue over who should drink first from a small lake, until a clever fox resolves their conflict with a riddle, leading to mutual respect and friendship. The story highlights the value of intelligence and cooperatio