Short stories Books

The industrial cities of the Midlands and the seaport cities of England were the targets of merciless bombing raids in both wars, and our first story wanders across those two major conflicts of our time, showing the skill of quiet but deadly spy craft...

Seven women and three men leave the city to avoid the pandemic. They isolate together in the country, where they pass the time working, flirting, eating, drinking, making music, and, above all, telling stories.For some, the lockdown was a time of...

Everything is to be found in these pages, from the biography of a house, through a dark love story told by tarot cards in a cafe, to an interview of an ancient Egyptian embalmer by a modern journalist. From the humour of A Disgrace of Angels to...

Yonder Mountain; Or, the Life Between is a pleasant blend of fact and fiction; of short stories and sketches; of boyhood memories and the elapse of time between. It is written with the tender care and wisdom of a true elder who has spent his life in love...

Better Bones is a collection of lyrical hybrid stories that focuses on the way the body holds memories, desires, and self-destructive tendencies. The pieces combine real-life landscapes, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to Long Island, as well as...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This is a book about the human propensity to think about and experience the world through stories. 'Why do we have stories?', 'How do stories create meaning for us?', and 'How is storytelling distinct from other forms of meaning-making?' are some of the...

Meet the people who make it all happen---the planners, the photographers, the musicians who have helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples---as they find their own happy endings in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.

In My Worst Headache, Kring invites readers into the tumultuous landscape of their life-a life marked by an intensely persistent headache that surpassed the bounds of pain. As the severity of this enduring affliction increased, Kring was unaware that it...

“They don’t make plus size spacesuits” is a sci-fi short story collection, featuring an introductory essay. It is written by long-time fat activist, Ali Thompson of Ok2BeFat.This book is a incandescent cry from the heart, a radical turn...

Catch up with your favorite Invertary, Benson Security and Sinclair Sisters characters in this compilation of short stories. The story titles are:1. Betty’s Birthday2. It Wisnae Me3. Jena and Matt’s Honeymoon in Vegas4. Andrew...

Ranging from the riotously comic to the nostalgic, edgy, and suspenseful, these sixteen stories offer richly developed and engaging portraits of characters across the spectrum of life, all absorbed by the thrill of fly fishing. A marriage betrayal on a...

Back in print in this deluxe edition, the former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's only collection of short fiction, now part of the Ecco Art of the Story series."Imagine a writer who combines Woody Allen's sense of...

A provocative anthology of erotic stories by women, for women. "A ground-breaking collection."-- "Cosmopolitan"

Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the...

We observe nature's creatures and see how they interact with each other, the furry creatures, the birds, the beasts, and hosts of other species. We should take the time to observe and marvel at their interactions to one another, and in part to their...

"Tales of Accidental Genius proves to be a moving, humorous and engaging look at the ways people lean on and support one another. The first six stories fit together like houses on a street... [an] enthralling collection."--Paste Magazine

There is never a dull moment in this collection of short stories that will grab your attention and keep you spellbound! Peter Greene describes life growing up in the picturesque Blue Mountains of the Nilgiri District of Southern India.The pretty tourist...

Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on...

A collection of twenty-four short stories centered on the ideas and emotions of characters and explore various themes, including, isolation.

Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling contains ten darkly funny short stories by Maura Stanton. Anything can happen in this swiftly narrated book, which provides glimpses of Gertrude Stein playing Ping-Pong with a G.I. in Paris during World War II, a famous...

In the House of Blue Lights is an award-winning collection of short stories by Susan Neville. The house referred to in the title is a specific place in midwestern folklore, but the blue also refers to the blue of the globe as seen from space and the blue...

„Die Brücke" erzählt die Geschichte zweier Schwestern - Nana und Apana. Während die eine der Beiden ein schreckliches Schicksal ereilt, beginnt die zweite Schwester eine Reise, um ihren Verlust zu verstehen, zu akzeptierenund schließlich zu verarbeiten...

If you knew where I come from and what I have been through, you would understand who I am. If we focus on the human connection, our lives will be enriched. If we understand the struggles of others, it might humble us and give us a different perspective...

Nine recently discovered unpublished short serio-comedies from the 1960s and 1970s by essayist, novelist, playwright, poet, humorist, and surrealist Marvin Cohen, one of America's most innovative postmodern writers.

A woman finds a Death Curse symbol scratched into the soap scum around her sink. A young boy watches his family fall apart after the death of his father. A butterfly chrysalis hatches, under the watchful eye of a hungry cat, and a teenage grim...

Seven women and three men leave the city to avoid a pandemic. They isolate together in a local farm, where they pass the time working, flirting, eating, drinking, making music and above all telling stories. It happened in Florence in 1351, during the...

This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent...

In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic...