Tear Jerker Stories

Writing prompt of humans who pack bond with anything, including the darkness itself. A flash fiction that is a little dark and deals with depression.

Matti McEwan runs a failing business, but fate hands him a way out. His salvation also brings death, romance, and heartache his way. Can he survive what's thrown at him? 21 chapters.

Average Joe was damaged in the First World War, shot down for the third time unlucky, often quipping that losing a leg and an ear he was "less than average" and at 43 was a confirmed bachelor. Then he met heavily pregnant widow Anjelica, "call me Anjie", but Joe thought she was an angel. And she was until her first husband turned up Out of the blue like a bad penny. Unusually, this story starts at the End rather than the Beginning.

Can two outcasts of society teach each other how to survive in a world that has left them by the wayside?

A tale of two women, sisters, and how one finds herself on a mission to find the other gone missing in a foreign country. They face dangers and ordeals which brings new meaning to their solidarity. In the end, one question remains. / (Reviews)

A short little text of my memory of September 11, 2001 after the 20th anniversary of that horrible event.

An injured war hero returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. A cop on the wrong side of a bad decision based on lust for another's wife. A beautiful nurse with her own agenda. Sometimes,you don't know what you've got til it's...yours

A little guy's journey through life takes some unusual twists and turns.