Short Stories

A Suitcase Between Friends

by Douglas Hurd

Five hard-hitting short stories and a political essay inspired by Douglas Hurd's visit to Sarajevo in 1992. All demonstrate preoccupations with the world tensions of the nineties, observed by Hurd's acute political...

Stepping Stone / Love Machine

by Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life’s cosmic questions....

Stepping Stone

by Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life’s cosmic questions....

Just Pretending

by Bird-Wilson Lisa

A debut short story collection which explores, through fiction, the

Fantasy Score

by Tom Robertson

Treat yourself to a break from the daily routine. Imagine myths in modern settings. Is re-enacted now and do legends still unfold amid the turmoil of our times? Can ghosts and guardian angels help or harm? Do...

The Language of Elk: Stories

by Benjamin Percy

RED MOON author Benjamin Percy's widely praised debut story collection, originally published by a university press, is now available for the first time as an ebook.

This debut collection of stories, The Language...

Four Last Things

by William Palmer

"Do you know what the last four things are? In the

Christian catechism they are Death, Judgment, Heaven

and Hell. But in our secular age they should perhaps be

changed. I suggest - First Love, Friendship,...

The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories

by Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the...

Damage Control

by Amber Dermont

"Dermont’s short story collection, which follows her debut novel (The Starboard Sea, 2012), demonstrates the author’s versatility and sardonic humor…Dermont delivers strong prose and intriguing characters...

Half as Happy: stories

by Gregory Spatz

Eight stories—each as expansive as a novel—reveal the ways we hurt and heal one another. From the author of Inukshuk.

Canary

by Nancy Jo Cullen

White trash, red wine, pink triangles, and Jesus. Gay culture meets God culture in these boozy and off-color stories.

Cosmo

by Spencer Gordon

Albert Camus meets Chamillionaire in these incendiary pop-culture-infused stories.

Border Dogs: A SEAL Team 666 Adventure

by Weston Ochse

Sent to Southern Arizona to investigate rumors of chupacabra running rampant, SEAL Team 666 becomes embroiled in Mexican cartel politics, the loss of one of their own, and the machinations of an American patriot...

Slowly Downward

by Stanley Donwood

We'll leave it up to Mr Donwood to tell you about his excellent collection of 'Extremely Miserable Stories'. This is the first book I did, now republished in a new edition. This is rather an elegant publication,...

my mother was an upright piano

by Tania Hershman

A scintillating collection of 56 short stories by one of the genre's most daring exponents, whose economy of words cloaks her subtlety and power. Tania Hershman's work is powerful, spiky and off-beat but with...

The Crack

by Emma Tennant

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Look what's happened!

A crack has opened in the Thames!

Hampstead uplifted high in the sky!

Watch the turmoil spread. See the loony psychoanalysts lead their demented flock around the...

What Precision, Such Restraint

by Jourdan Phil

Stories of language, the mind, absence and the gutter.

Sailors and Sexual Identity: Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy

by Steven Zeeland

In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers.Despite...

I Want To Show You More

by Jamie Quatro

“A brilliant new voice in American fiction has arrived. Bright, sharp, startling, utterly distinctive, passionate, and secretive, Quatro’s stories are missives from deep within the landscape of American womanhood....

If a Stranger Approaches You: Stories

by Laura Kasischke

Kasischke's surreal stories verge on sci fi -- ghost girls in the backyard and changelings in the kitchen.