Read Short Pain / Problems / Adversity Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
After losing everything on her computer hard drive to a destructive worm a woman chooses to return to pen and paper.
A near adult teen wants to avoid growing up and taking on responsibility but isn't quite sure how. Being kicked out of his second home forces him to take stock.
An young woman and an old woman, each planning suicide, chance to meet on a train, on their way to end it all, and try to talk each other out of it.
Nothing can console a famous and wealthy young woman when she realizes that she would trade it all for her first love, whom she left behind to pursue her career.
A young Philippine woman tries to find a way to survive after the death of both her parents.
A wife & mother struggles with lack of fulfillment and the drudgery of her daily routine as she agonizes over what might have been.