Short Stories

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.

Light: Stories of Urban Resurrection

by R. K Thomas

A collection of powerful short stories that dig deep into the realm of urban culture, and emerge with such intense and thought-provoking messages that they will leave the reader astounded. These stories take...

The Way Life Should Be with Bonus Material

by Christina Baker Kline

For a limited time, and at a special price, discover Christina Baker Kline's The Way Life Should Be with Bonus Material. Plus, receive an excerpt from Christina Baker Kline's new book Orphan Train, available...

The Fun Parts

by Sam Lipsyte

A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called “the novelist of his generation”

Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller...

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This early work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was originally published in 1899. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA in 1860, Gilman was the great niece of Henry Ward Beecher and Sister to Harriet Beecher Stowe....

Like a House on Fire

by Cate Kennedy

From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies,...

The Complete Father Brown Stories

by G K Chesterton

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, BBC One Daytime has commissioned a new 10-part drama series for January 2013 to bring the priest-turned-detective back to life....

Brighter Graphite

by Micahel Horvath

Two startling, quirky and wry novellas that present allegorical worlds around life, death and art. Graphite presents an otherworldly tale of a man in search of the source for the worlds most perfect graphite...

Could You Be With Her Now

by Jen Michalski

Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality in this beautiful and engaging story.

The Kelly affair

by Paul D. Brazill

The third chapter of Luke’s wondering around Europe reveals part of his secrets. What is he hiding behind drinks and cigarettes, pubs and women?

Winning the Game and Other Stories

by Rubem Fonseca & Clifford E. Landers

With an unflinching, unsentimental eye and a soupcon of black humor, Fonseca chronicles the foibles, manias, and obsessions of the people of Brazil's metropolises

Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel

by Shirley Jackson & Laura Miller

A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery"

At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years...

The Memory Coder

by Jessica Brody

When a security breach is detected, the Memory Restoration Department is called upon to do what they do best: make you forget. But with every memory that’s taken out, a new one must be installed in its place....

Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

by Breece D'J Pancake

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia....

Folk Tales of Scotland: The Well at the World's End and Other Stories

by William Montgomerie & Norah Montgomerie

The classic folk tales of Scotland were passed down from storyteller to storyteller, and from the first sentence they held the attention of the listeners and readers as though a spell had been cast over them,...

A Lovely Leave & Over the Rainbow

by Victor J. Banis

Two great flash pieces from Victor J. Banis in one volume! A Lovely Leave: If love is ever-enduring, can it matter much if the face changes? The heart sees differently from the eyes. Over the Rainbow: Youthful...

Cheyenne Madonna

by Eddie Chuculate

One stormy night in 1826, just north of Galveston Bay, Old Bull, a Cheyenne Indian who had just seen the ocean for the first time, found himself trying to outrace a hurricane. Lifted from his horse, spun around,...

Berto's World: Stories

by R.A. Comunale M.D.

Come and spend a little time with Dr. Robert Galen, aka Berto, as he traverses the memories of the tenement neighborhood of his youth. Meet the Mad Russian—why does he always carry a meat cleaver whenever...

Who's There?: A Nurseryland Mystery

by Herschel Cozine

Nurseryland's best (and only) private eye has been involved in many cases surrounding nursery rhyme and fairy tale victims, but this is the most baffling of all. How does one find a person who isn't there? This...

Dangerous Liaisons in The Kitchen, Charmel Roses's menu

by Charmel Roses

6 courses, 6 recipes developed through 6 short stories. (from: THE MAN I LOVE, First Course) Summer was over; it had run away on tiptoe. Autumn’s fresh and sometimes chilly breeze swept the lonely roads at...