Dark Twist Stories

This is about the South Park episode featuring the Chinese restaurant and the sushi bar. A Japanese sushi bar opens right next to a Chinese restaurant in South Park. The Chinese owner of the restaurant gets angry at the appearance of a business rival. The Chinese owner complains, "Americans can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese culture! If this keeps up, I'll be out of business!" The Chinese owner starts harassing the Japanese sushi chef in various ways related…

A horror writer Joe Hill's novella "Loaded." A female employee shoots and kills her boss at a jewelry store in an American shopping mall due to a romantic dispute. A security guard, who is the textbook definition of an NRA member currently separated from his family for threatening them with a gun, rushes to the scene. However, mistaking a Muslim woman in the store for the culprit, he shoots and kills her along with the baby she is holding. He…

An 15-year-old sci-fi short story I read on a creative writing website. It only featured female characters, though the author was male. It was set in an era where people could casually own vacation homes, workplaces, and research space stations in outer space, much like building a villa, office, or lab on Earth. A family of researchers was continuing their work on their own private space station. Only the mother, the head of the family, remained on Earth, while all…