Tragedy Novels & Stories

As right now I felt hopeless, growing more and more distressed when their eyes began searching for our presences below. I glanced hastily at the surroundings, regarding the swamp field all round while searching with forced breaths for some kind of miracle or a place to run and hide from the clouds of imminent destruction. In a flash I caught sight of it but instead of what I seeked, I found something much worse, something that had my heart plummeting at the sight of the newly discovered tragedy.

Another pause. “At first everybody understood.” The sadness in her voice deepened. “Then it slowly became unhealthy.” Ava felt her chest tighten. Because that made sense. Far too much sense. People often imagined tragedy arriving like a storm. Sudden. Violent. Obvious. Reality was usually different. Most tragedies developed slowly. Quietly. One decision at a time. One fear at a time. Until nobody noticed how far things had gone. Margaret folded her hands. Then looked directly at Adrian.

Kathleen's hand trembled and her lips moved but nothing came out. "What are you doing?" Vince spread his hands on either side of his body in frustration. He had to get her the hell out of here, Vivian was coming. "Why are you doing this to me?" she sobbed hysterically. The weight of her situation suddenly fell upon her like a stone and crushed whatever was left of her composure. “I am ruined!” "I am not doing anything to you. I never promised I would marry you. Did I?” He shouted, fearing he may have said something to that effect while drunk.

Welsh then took Jeremy to his house, then she took Ethan home. Mr.Welsh and jonz, went to the house address they both saw on the ID CARD and the police database. Mr Ralph and Jonz at Hazel's house, knocked on the door. "Are u Hazel's wife" Jonz asked Hazel's wife Still mourning the death of her husband, "Yes" Hazel's wife replied while crying. "I know now is not a good time but can we ask u a couple big questions" Jonz asked, "Yes sure, why not" Hazel's wife replied". Then both men entered Hazel's house, "Do you know anybody that would harm ur husband?" Mr.Welsh asked, "No, My husband was a good man" Hazel's wife replied with tears on her face. Mr.Welsh feeling sad for the poor woman asked

Over the next few days, I kept seeing news about his company on my phone. At first, people only discussed how strange it was to hold a funeral at the office. Then, information leaked about the company's poor-quality products and major defects. Some people even spread rumors just for clicks. Like waves building up higher and higher, Daniel's business collapsed within a few weeks, and he was left bankrupt. He also became a recognizable figure everywhere he went. Cameras practically followed him, so he had to wear a mask, though people still recognized him. The once high-and-mighty boss had become a rat in the gutter.

Thanks to her, I was dragged along to witness this bloody scene. My mother was grinning with joy. However, tears began to stream down her face as she laughed. "Vanessa, my precious baby, I wronged you! It's all my fault!" As she cried, she laughed again. "Are you seeing this, Vanessa? I have avenged you! She is going to die!" Meanwhile, I felt a chilling emptiness in my soul. The moment Alice died, her spirit floated away from her body. When she noticed me, she fell silent for a moment before saying, "I'm sorry for all those years."

The air seemed heavy with grief, the silence punctuated only by the stifled sobs and the echoes of the emotional storm that raged within. The profound loss, encapsulated in the demise of Sebastian's father, permeated the atmosphere. Each beat of sorrow, reflected in the tears that fell unabated, became a poignant reminder of the fragility of life. In this poignant moment, grief became a shared language that transcended the boundaries of the physical realm, weaving through the threads of connection and shared sorrow.

“Now that was a cool film.” “Agreed, but the original Greek play was a hundred times more hardcore than anything Ray Harryhausen came up with. Tragedy has the same themes as horror, they’re all about what happens when you challenge the natural order, or societal norms, or whatever. It always goes tits up, whether you’re Doctor Faustus summoning demons or Mocata in The Devil Rides Out.” “They’re both pretty fatalistic aren’t they, tragedy and horror I mean.” “Yes, horror is the only modern genre that’s as fatalistic as classical tragedy. But one is considered by critics to be the pinnacle of fictio

The one person I loathe the most in this entire world, is my fucking mate. What the hell kind of screwed up fate is this? I think I need a stronger word than tragedy because it does not begin to cover this….tragic turn of events? Disastrous, catastrophic, devastating turn of events? No…not even close to describing what I was feeling at this very moment which was slowly killing me from the inside out.

It is a map of how we got here, and the map leads forward, not back, and the forward path is lit by the match we have just struck. The house holds its breath around us. The kitchen wing is setting the table for dinner, and the dinner hour is approaching, and the formal dining room is lit with candles and set with polished silver plates, and the household is moving through its rhythms, and none of them know that the heir to the Armenise syndicate has just chosen a translator over his blood oath, and the choice is irrevocable, and the consequences have not yet begun to arrive. But they will. The candle in the chapel is out, and the ledger is waiting in the dark, and the fuse is lit.