Obscure Destinies

{{short description|1932 collection of short stories by Willa Cather}}

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| name = Obscure Destinies

| author = Willa Cather

| image = ObscureDestinies.jpg

| caption = First edition book cover

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Short story collection

| publisher = Alfred A. Knopf

| release_date = 1932

| media_type = Print

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Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932.{{cite news|title=And Death Comes for Willa Cather, Famous Author|newspaper=Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph|date=25 April 1947}} Each story deals with the death of a central character and asks how the ordinary lives of these characters can be valued and how "beauty was found or created in seemingly ordinary circumstances".Stout, Janis P. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2000. p. 256.