Literary Short Stories | Short Stories
Dec.08.2012
A truck driver with the I.Q. of a child drives his empty rig up anddown the Interstate as an homage to his dead mother (“Deadheading”),two convicts seek redemption by helping a group of horses gettheir freedom beyond the gates (“Penned”), a pawnshop owner sensesthe painful past of the many objects...
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Nov.04.2012
IRON weaves a compelling coming of age tale set during the agony of the Soviet Union. Rape, prison and death are always around the corner. Every day is a new game of Russian roulette. There is no tomorrow.
Rebellious, savage and hungry for love and all things real, Zabrisky's characters live on...
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Jun.15.2012
Through intertwined short stories, 98 Wounds dissects the inexorable dualities present in every moment that matters: pleasure and pain, contentment and longing, sacred and profane, living and dying. In between all of these, solace, understanding, and occasional regret—if not resolution—can be...
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Apr.02.2012
My Mother Was an Upright Piano: Fictions builds on the strengths of Tania Hershman's first collection of short stories The White Road and Other Stories, which was commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. Hershman's fiction is inspiring, thought-provoking and witty. Her...
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Oct.19.2011
The Trouble With Change is a suspenseful crime story about a college student, Sondra Taylor, who dreams of being the first in her family to graduate from college. With little money in her pocket, and a meager scholarship to school in the city, she sets out against the odds to do so. ...
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Oct.19.2011
Checkered Fences is a heartwarming romance about a high school student, Diane Jones, who dreams of her independence and becoming the first in her family to complete college, unlike her mother who married at just thirteen years old. However, Diane’s old fashion father has other plans for Diane...
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Sep.26.2011
This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. ...
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Jul.19.2011
Art From Art: A Collection of Short Stories Inspired by Works of Art.
Paintings, sketches, sculpture, fiction, film, music, photographs, graffiti.
38 writers, 38 stories - each inspired by different works of art, and 38 images - inspired by each story, and created by the graphic design firm,...
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Jun.05.2011
A collection of poems and short stories by California authors. In Broken, a young mother desperate to remain connected to her dead daughter, steals a van with devastating consequences.
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Mar.22.2011
In this new, expanded edition of her prize-winning collection, Midge Raymond explores the indelible imprint of home upon the self and the ways in which new frontiers both defy and confirm who we are. Including new stories as well as a reader’s guide, FORGETTING ENGLISH takes us around the world,...
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