Short stories Books

Cliff started performing at a young age. He always loved singing and acting, and for as long as I can remember, he enjoyed portraying different characters and expressing his various personalities. He showed his passion through his short stories and...

The making of an author through Jesus Christ!This book takes you on a journey through it's pages of short stories and poems that compel you to want more! It was never thought in the author's mind that she could become something late in life. However,...

In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonely...

More of This World or Maybe Another is a collection of award-winning short fiction about four outsiders whose unruly lives intersect on the back streets of New Orleans from writer Barb Johnson. Funny and haunting by turns, Johnson's unforgettable...

The exquisitely artful fiction debut of Vanity Fair columnist Elissa Schappell is a novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman -- friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a...

"Laurie Colwin was the best kind of master: human and humorous, full of wisdom and love." --Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of All Adults HereIn these fourteen tales, Laurie Colwin explores love and marriage, friendship and loyalty, and...

From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing limo driver whose dream is to make the most of his rap-metal garage...

In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local...

From New York City to the former East Germany, from rural Virginia to affluent suburbia, the characters in these short stories grapple with love, loss, greed, perversion, and other awful truths as they try to transcend their limitations with occasional...

Heart Out is a collection of prose and poetry written by self-published author Gara Nlandu.The collection introduces various topics such as love, life, health, relationships, and friendship. An assemblage highlighting some hardships, behaviors, and...

A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa, the stories -- which are...

Arrah Wanna (pronounced Arr-uh wa-nna) – (noun) A Baptist Church camp in the mountains where a fourteen-year-old, disillusioned believer is busted for drugs.Muleshoe – (pronounced Mule-shoo) (noun) A town in Texas that one must pass through...

Expanded 30th-anniversary edition of Patricia Eakins's critically acclaimed collection of short stories, "a modern bestiary which reworks the stuff of mythologies, spanning the cultures of the planet."In addition to the 13 short fictions...

During a hot, lazy summer in Georgia, 16-year-old Trixie sorts through the complexity of her parents' marriage, jealousy towards her adorable kid sister, and ambivalence about the religion she inherited. From a generation before texting and social media,...

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE CHURCH STREET BREWERY DOESN'T ALL STAY THEREThe Church Street Brewery is located in the center of Uptown, in what use to be called Mechanicsville, a mile north of downtown. In the 1930s, during the Depression, only the rich factory...

Stories that will leave you guessing, wondering and intrigued.A small town surrounded by astonishing beauty and unspoiled wilderness...A seemingly perfect place in which to retire, to retreat, to reside...Until reality smashes the dream.A woman goes...

In A Slice of Life, Another Slice of Life, and The Rest of the Pie, average people face extraordinary circumstances, their own veritable moment of truth. They stand at the proverbial fork in the road faced with choices, whether their own...

Originally published in 1982, this title supplies a complete verbal index, listing all the words in the texts with their locations, a word frequency table, and a field of reference which establishes a page/line reference system for locating each context...

A continuation of my God in My Life journey, plus eleven short stories prompted by people in stores during book signings, recreated by the author.God for all people; some fact, some fiction.Journeying as a disciple of God for over two and a half years...

"Countless small and large outdoor joys are to be found in Bill's book, a capsuled lifetime of discovering delightful living and lore . . . " -Midwest Outdoors" . . . what a truly marvelous story teller he is and how he seems to have covered every facet...

Have you ever wondered what is at the beginning of the universe? Have you ever thought that it was perfect at the beginning? The beginning of the universe was a wonderful place, and might have been so because many weren't born in poverty or chaos. The...