'harsh stories' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which a person tells a story with an effect of making the listener feel uncomfortable, hopeless, or negative. For example: She told me some really harsh stories about life in the city.
It also gave him another chance to rewrite the harsh stories of his boyhood.
His Teeth, performed by the ex-offenders of the Only Connect company, fills a former Baptist chapel with harsh stories, based on real-life accounts, of illegal immigration and 21st-century slavery, machetes, prostitution, heroin, beheadings.
You will also tend to find instances of the stubborn-peasant landscape film, with stately rhythms and long silences, in which natural beauty compensates for harsh stories of deprivation and struggle.
"Such a harsh story," she said.
So, too, a harsh story of deprivation and anxiety like "Wendy and Lucy" — about a young woman and her dog drifting toward Alaska in search of something better — can lift us out of ourselves.
Gwyneth Hughes adapted the novel and has talked of a tradition of viewing Thackeray's 1848 novel as "a harsh story... about a naughty social climber", whereas her Becky is "a poor orphan who needs to get on – if she doesn't, she'll starve".
It's a similar but not as harsh story in Japan where the system drops to 24,980 Yen or $325 USD.
A couple of weeks ago he took the Wall Street Journal to task for a rather harsh story by posting a retort on the company's blog, in which he once again neglects to discuss anything that would meaningfully improve customer relevance, but goes to great lengths to highlight moves that are clearing perpetuating, if not accelerating, declining performance.
Perhaps sharing Mathews' view regarding the daunting challenge of adapting the harsh story of Push, Stevens' observes that "Daniels and Fletcher no doubt intended for their film to lend a voice to the kind of protagonist too often excluded from American movie screens: a poor, black, overweight single mother from the inner city".
But she has also taken on harsher stories, such as Elie Wiesel's Holocaust classic, "Night," and, notoriously, James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces," a memoir of addiction and recovery that turned out to be largely fabricated.
