Short stories Books

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...

As an engineer sits across from his wife, Akansha, at an elegant restaurant, he waits for their guest -her co-worker, Sinjan. The engineer, whose favorite pastime is to observe and analyze the world around him, has no idea that his entire life is about...

Although a few of the stories are inspired by real-life characters and events, this work is mostly fiction and no real names have been used. The sole nonfiction story is called "Carefree Roses for her Funeral." The story speaks of my brief stay on...

Sharon Beza wrote most of the stories in Tales to Intrigue while enjoying her breaks at work. One exception was the "Secret Ingredient," a story that a young Sharon began writing at the age of fifteen and recently discovered it in an old shoebox. It is...

Have you slipped on anything lately? Better be careful, you might end up in a retirement community! That's what happened to Amanda after she slipped on black ice. Her move to Sunny Meadow Retirement Home is smooth enough, and her life continues in a...

This book covers a collection of twenty seven short stories. They were inspired by real characters and true experiences of the writer and several of his friends and acquaintances. Some stories have included imaginary details and do not necessarily refer...

While expressions are usually obvious to the world, at times people suppress their deepest feelings, either deliberately or subconsciously. These expressions, although deeply hidden, can nevertheless develop into powerful emotional storms, disrupting the...

The stories in "All Our Yesterdays..." and Nine Other Stories continue to explore the lives of the Cockburn family and other characters in and around the fictional town of Menninger, North Dakota, first created in the novel The Song Is Ended and...

Fate decides who walks into your life, you decide who you let stay, who you let walk away, and who you refuse to let walk out. Relationships, of all kinds, are like sand held in your hand. The sand remains where it is when held loosely with an open hand...

Ten-year-old Jessica is pedaling as fast as she can with her friend Ashleigh on her bicycle following her. Jessica wants to get home before the storm hits. But when she decides to take the dirt track with a sharp drop-off on one side, everything suddenly...

From the very beginning, I believed that every moment of our life has a story written in it, because its unpredictableness breeds countless posibilities. Its only because we are so tuned to our mechanical jobs that we do not keep a track of it. As we...

Let chase a stylized wave! Without wondering why it behaves like this. Admire it in its inconstant wandering around the ocean... and then, you can find a way... anywhere, any meetings... watching who's around you. Sure that no one's gonna be there for...

Rabindranath Tagore is the life force of Bangla literature. His contributions to the cultural life of West Bengal and Bangladesh are beyond measure. In fact, there is no area of Bangla literature that he did not touch. He composed more than 1,000 songs,...

Entertaining stories drawing on a long life of military service and work as a tradesman

¿Alguna vez has volado como Superman sobre los techos de la ciudad o te has dado cuenta que estás en clase de matemáticas en pijama, te has encontrado con dragones en el supermercado, has buscado el gato que habla latín con tu amigo mago, o te has...

Honeycomb Island had all the beauty and splendor that brought tourists from all over the world to visit. Its large Victorian homes with wrap-around porches and the gothic Nottingham window boxes filled with deep red roses, bright yellow daffodils, and...

Over the years I've had the opportunity to observe many different marriages from a close proximity. In doing so, I've learned that though they all differ in many ways, there are also many similarities. The areas of concerns that I've seen in these...

In this first short story collection "Songs on the Radio" author Amanda Hogan has created 14 short stories using the concept of each story being inspired by one song. Included are a variety of stories in both adult and Young Adult genres like romance,...

"The Art of Crafting Short Stories: A Guide to Writing and Publishing" is a comprehensive guide for writers of all levels. The book covers everything from understanding the short story genre and developing characters and plot to creating a compelling...

J. Manfred Weichsel's versatility, unique style, and refusal to be bound by genre conventions have made him a force to be reckoned with in the world of speculative fiction. Now, Weichsel invites you to strip down and expose yourself to his raw and...

In Ian Gouge's eclectic new collection, Dust, dancing, many of the protagonists find themselves thwarted: by ambition, by love, by old age. Interlaced with occasional victories, they experience both avoidable and unavoidable setbacks: the man tattooing...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

דער לייענער דאַרף ניט דערוואַרטן צו וויסן ווו איך לעבן. דערווייַל, עס איז אמת, מיין וווינונג קען זיין אַ קשיא פון קליין אָדער קיין ימפּאָרט צו ווער עס יז; אָבער אויב איך זאָל פירן מיין לייענער מיט מיר ווי איך האָפֿן צו טאָן, און עס זאָל זיין געפֿירט...

A readers’ advisory for this collection of nine stories forecasts widely scattered ghosts with a chance of rain. Caution is urged at the following uncertain places: an abandoned mental hospital, the woods behind a pleasant subdivision, a small...

A series of fantastic stories where groups of adventurers discover unknown islands and encounter magical and inexplicable impossibilities.

You will absolutely love Ken Goss's Simple Short Stories II that will tingle your imagination. You will want to make sure you pick up Simple Short Stories as soon as you finish this one.

They're all in here... Seasons, Life- Change, Wishes, Cookery, Love, Sex, Death and Obsession, Giving, Hope, Need, Guile, Motorcycles, Guns, Trees and Bananas... plus a smattering of old Japanese Brake Parts.This collection of short fiction has been a...

A new short story from the mind of author Garrett Francis.Holly's mother left before her daughter had learned to walk, and now, after so many years of silence have passed, the postcard eighteen-year-old Holly holds in her hand claims her mother wants a...

A young and ambitious writer named Jerome David Salinger set his goals very high very early in his career. He almost desperately wished to publish his early stories in The New Yorker magazine, the pinnacle, he felt, of America's literary world. But such...

The premiere collection of fantasy, horror, and macabre short fiction by writer Doug Lane, this book gathers 21 tales from appearances in magazines, online publications, and anthologies between covers for the first time. (Trade paperback edition.)

A book of fantastic and magical stories about the craziness of living now.

These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality. This...

In a thrilling interconnected narrative, You're in the Wrong Place presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly...

In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight,...

The Best Known Works of Ibsen: Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt, A Doll's House, and More showcases the essential plays of Henrik Ibsen, often regarded as the father of modern drama. This collection brings together his most celebrated works, where...