Short stories Books

Go on a series of journeys, each messier than the last, to meet a cast of Curious Women and Other Creatures. It is less a prodding-of, and more a splitting-and-dancing-in-the-entrails-of, the idea of 'woman as monstrous' - an idea that variously brands...

Derek can't be trusted......but he's so sexy Alexis is tempted to break her own no-men rule.When he makes her a risqué offer in a bar, will she accept the challenge, or tell him to get lost?She's a successful business owner burned by love, certain she...

These are normal lives. Children swallow teeth. Husbands masturbate into toilets. A Black man does field training with a white militia in the Pine Barrens. People protest the carceral system and loathe their siblings all the while. Urinary tract...

"Most of my life has become wrapped up in stories, and I sometimes get a case of vertigo when I'm put on the spot and have to tell the unvarnished truth." The Showcase aspires to tell the truth about a particular time and place-Philadelphia in the...

What scares you more? The monster under your bed or the one staring back at you in the mirror? Authors C.M. Chapman and Larry Thacker blur the lines between the kinds of monsters that roam the earth in their latest short story collection, EVERYDAY,...

A book containing short stories and personal essays touching on some of the most salient experiences of the author's life. Written from a position of aloneness; existence is experienced from the outside of social structure and commonality. The theme...

"Women - will men ever understand them? Maybe not, but like Ish we spend our life trying."- Edward Squires, Not Quite a Novella"I was there along the sidelines, so I can attest the truth of Bill Burkett's words," says editor and anthologist Hollis George...

Get Back is a collection of twelve short stories by Don Tassone. Though most have been published in different online journals before, this is his first collection of stories in print.  These stories share the theme of discovery or actually of...

Anyone who has walked the streets of London knows how profoundly history haunts the city. From its monuments and memorials to its blue-circled plaques, London wears the past with style, decorum, and acertain spirit. London Spirits pays homage to this...

Three times Aurora Award-nominated author Hugh A. D. Spencer collects more of his previously published short fiction in this fun collection. Featuring a series of interconnected stories about the Progressive Apparatus, a sometimes anti-muse, sometimes...

The forty stories in this collection will yank the reader from rage to triumph, sorrow to joy, cruelty to compassion. The mundane becomes shocking, the ordinary becomes strange. The characters are your grandmother, your child, your sister, your friend,...

A.G. Harmon’s Some Bore Gifts is an eclectic collection of stories spanning the traditional to the satirical, with a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and characters that includes tree cutters, department store pianists, museum guides, physicians,...

A thought-provoking excursion to life's last breathErnest Dempsey's second collection of short stories The Blue Fairy takesa subject that has been dreaded for centuries - 'Death'. It is one of the fewworks of fiction, which neither treats the subject as...

Ninety-six-year-old Tilly's great-grandchildren insist she try something new to keep her brain active. The cute little virtual game Hero's Journey seems harmless enough. And Tilly quite enjoys catching butterflies and swapping gifts with...

Like Jazz, any attempt to arrive at a precise, all-encompassing definition of the stories in Automatically Hip is probably futile. However, within these artfully-crafted, often-irreverent, and darkly humorous pieces are characters who share one...

From childhood to old age, the remarkable women of She Receives the Night bear the burden of the world’s darkness and carry it toward the light. Robert Earle’s dazzling stories illuminate the decisive moment in a woman’s...

Peter M. Ball made his debut as a speculative fiction writer in 2007, but he'd already been writing for two decades by the time he turned his attention to producing short stories. This chapbook brings two early, formative short stories back into print,...

Matter transporters, dead worlds, and ghostly encounters. Parallel worlds, time-travel, and dangers that lurk in the shadows. Little Labyrinths brings together 17 vignettes and microfictions from one of Australia's premier authors of science...

In these twelve tales, good friends go on an unexpected journey of discovery to Sweden at Midsummer, a young girl explores her love of the dark, a group celebrates an unusual anniversary and a woman is faced with past trauma attending her best...

Vanessa loves her job as a chiropractor, except sometimes her work takes an unexpected turn...A Pain in the Neck forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

Larry's been the supervisor of the apartment block for as long as the tenants can remember.And he knows all their secrets...The Last Super forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

THROUGH THE GARDEN GATEA collection of 24 short storiesShirley can't see the beauty Hugh pictures in the patch of bare earth, but is happy to help him bury the flower bulbs as deep as she keeps her secret. The Adkins always put on a brave face, something...

Eleanor has a traditional garden her grandchildren will love; won't they? Mrs Dalrymple's country home seems the perfect refuge for Daryl and there's no reason Emma can't call the big house home, is there?Homes and gardens aren't always peaceful havens...

The Butterfly Bruises is a collection of poems and stories regarding animals, the ocean, miscommunication, childhood, Northeastern versus Southern American culture, family, nature versus technology, and the imagination of the introvert. In these lyrical...

A man carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of his shirt. During World War II, a young soldier searches the houses and barns of the families with whom he grew up. An astronaut wonders whether she can adapt to life back on earth. In her...

"You have to understand," says the woman, "an incorcism is nothing like its counterpart. No bells and whistles, no drama. All it takes is willingness, which you already have in spades."Strange stories about strange things for strange people. Tales of...

Автор коротких рассказов Вениамин Иванович Александров, начиная свой жизненный путь, по крупицам собирал истории из жизни приятелей, друзей, коллег, сотрудников по работе и окружающих его лиц.Смешные, наивные, добрые случаи, маленькие трагедии и...

In a slaughterhouse a group of men find they can tell fortunes from entrails; an invisible shark haunts a children's book author; redemptive magic is discovered in the ancient chalk horse of the Oxfordshire hills; a woman vicar is possessed by the soul...

This is the second book in the Aberrations Series, a collection of ten new, short stories to tease and tickle. How would you feel if you came face to face with a contract killer? I did, and it formed the basis for my title story . But then, most, if not...

Angie Freeland has practised as a professional psychic medium for almost twenty years. Her natural gift became evident to her as a young child but it wasn't until many years later she decided to understand better the ability she naturally had. She has...

When the light faded and the day was no longer suitable for painting and drawing, stories and thoughts would often be written in the evenings. Then came the global pandemic, the world changed, and suddenly it no longer seemed appropriate to be writing...

A widow plans her husband's funeral feeling as much resentment towards him as grief. A mother believes her young son has the DNA of a long-dead ex-boyfriend. A woman becomes obsessed with a drifter who stands in the same spot every day in her...

The sacred Mirror room is an evocative collection of insightful, emotionally charged short stories from the pen of Multi-award winning author Garth Madsen. Based around themes of intimacy, family, loss and longing 'The Sacred Mirror...

《岁月青青》是中篇小说，收在这本小说集里。集子的名字也叫"岁月青青"，另包含11篇短篇小说。各篇内容都是现实主义的，涉及人之常情，以及一些心理学现象，不涉及政见。

Often, life is compared as a sea where humans balance their ups and downs as a Kayak rider. Many moments make us make and some moments gift uncontrollable sobs. But what about those moments when even a small situation seems like a never-ending problem or...