Your Daily Short Fiction Fix

Author: Mishael Witty

A collection of some of my own short stories, short stories written by my friends, and some of the best classic stories that are now in the public domain. Fiction can help us look at reality in a completely different way. Get your daily fresh perspective here.
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The Ideal Family by Katherine Mansfield
Episode 4
Tuesday, 27 August, 2019

This story is a snapshot into the life of a family everyone feels is ideal ... except for the aging patriarch, who is beginning to feel irrelevant. I can easily see Rod Serling turning this into an episode of The Twilight Zone, even though he never did. The surreal aspects at the end of the story are especially fascinating.