Short stories Books

Eight more short stories of rural and village life in late nineteenth century Silesia, and especially of the trials and tribulations of school teachers. "Somewhere on your path stands fortune and it waits for you! It waits for you, just do not walk past...

Mercy for my lovers is a collection of bullet-style confessions.Aiming for the head and heart with it's sleek design.Although an easy read, it is not always gentle.You may consider how you ate so many bullets and survived.

In this collection of published and previously unpublished stories of horror, Phil Slattery offers a look into the minds of people who perpetrate horrors, from acts of stupidity with unintended results to cold-hearted revenge to pure enjoyment to...

The 24 stories in Bayou Memories are concerned with the Cajun people and culture that influenced my background. Most of the stories are set in South Louisiana. In a previous collection, I concentrated on the erosion of the old Cajun culture I knew as a...

Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two women drive from Melbourne to Sydney to see the...

The master of creeping unease and unrelenting consequences is back. The vain and the cruel, the indifferent and the excessive, across ten tales of cut corners and grubby compromise, Bob Franklin turns his fairground mirror on contemporary Australia, with...

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories,...

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the...

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short...

In a neighborhood on Chicago's outskirts, Fabio and Lucia Comingo have built a new American life--and struggle to comprehend the influences that distract and change their restless young sons. Through this masterful evocation of a time and place, Tony...

From the winner of the National Book Foundations' 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters comes a "sweet, funny . . . thought-provoking" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) collection of short stories. As in his most recent major fiction...

"A first-rate collection of novellas that will break your heart and fill you with hope at the same time." --Denver Rocky Mountain NewsIn the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes Wives and Lovers, from the author the Boston Globe...

This riveting debut collection of short fiction about women cops comes from the author's real-life experience as a Baton Rouge police officer. In an entirely fresh and unique voice, these stories reveal the humanity, compassion, humour, tragedy and...

What would you do if someone you didn't know had revealing pictures of your wife? They name the price to pay if you want to keep things quiet. The demands are simple and they don't want money...Kinks & Hijinks explores 7 stories centred on the...

A selection of stories based on a variety of conversations and discussions set in various Montreal area Cafés. The wide-ranging conversations and discussions include tourists from Vermont inquiring about Montreal 'steamie' hot dogs, a...

The wild indigenous critters of the west coast of Canada have stories too, just like me and you. The characters presented in this book, Bobby Bear, Ollie Otter, Ms. Katie Cougar, and Reggie Eagle, have personalities, feelings and emotions, and...

The Trail Fairy is a book for children aged 2 to 102. You will meet some amazing animals who live in the forest, learn to keep their home clean and be amazed when the Trail Fairy comes to visit. But most of all you will spend time with the most precious...

This collection of stories brings together a wide cast of characters, all connected to the Ozarks - natives and transplants, young and old, wicked and innocent, troubled and happy, God-haunted and just plain haunted. These stories range over human...

"The many different people you will become already live inside of you..."Nesting Beasts is a collection of poems, prose, and short stories by Naiche Lizzette Parker woven together as an illustrative and surreal coming...

The Shadows Share is a collection of short stories addressing what happens when we suppress and hide the dark sides of our psyche/being.  Each story deals with the shadow side of people and how it compels them to act and think in ways contrary to...

Russell Edson's debut collection of stories and poems, Ceremonies in Bachelor Space, was first published in November 1951 by the now defunct Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Ceremonies in Bachelor Space contains 31 odd, surreal poems and...

En su conjunto, estos relatos abordan tanto la cotidianeidad de la vida en la patria adoptiva como en la patria natal, con sus dificultades, complejidades y absurdos; mientras que por igual juega con cruzar la línea divisora entre el sueño y la realidad...