Short Stories

Middle Men: Stories

by Jim Gavin

In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays...

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Ron Rash

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash turns again to Appalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear, in unforgettable stories that span from...

Mother of the Groom

by Augusta Trobaugh

"A son is a son until he takes him a wife," the old adage says, and Winifred, unwilling to give up her precious son at all, goes to outrageous means for preventing his wedding. A new short story from the acclaimed...

Phoenix

by Chuck Palahniuk

No author can shock readers quite like bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk ("Fight Club," "Choke," "Damned"), whose meditations on the darkest depths of the American ego have been known to induce fainting fits...

We Live in Water

by Jess Walter

We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them...

Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories

by Karen Russell

From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best.

A dejected...

The Sunnier Side and Other Stories

by Charles Jackson & Blake Bailey

A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.

A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier...

Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories

by Christine Sneed

The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never...

The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen

by Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are all three of her published short stories;...

Divine Stories: Divyavadana, Part 1

by Andy Rotman

The Divyavadana is an enormous compendium of Indian Buddhist narratives written in Sanskrit from the early centuries of the Common Era, whose stories have since spread throughout Asia, as both narrative and...

Corpse

by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

The newest Walrus e-single, Corpse, is the story of a wintery Friday night gone awry when a young boy goes deer hunting in an urban park. A humorous meditation on absences, death, and, of course, love.

The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook

by Pete Hamill

In this collection of thirty-four sketches, the author captures the extraordinary range of people, experiences, places and feelings that is New York City -- the city behind the glamorous facade of Manhattan,...

Melchior A La Carte

by Ib Melchior

New short stories from the master._x000D_ _x000D_ "Melchior Á La Carte is a delight. These engaging stories are filled with wonderful, original characters and unexpected turns of events. In each one of them...

Any Deadly Thing

by Roy Kesey

Short story collection from BASS author, Roy Kesey. With incredible language and plots, Kesey leaves his readers wanting more stories.

News from Heaven

by Jennifer Haigh

The bestselling author of Faith and The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town and the people who call it home.

When her iconic novel Baker...

Every Happy Family

by Crane Dede

Humorous and heartbreaking, wise and demented, Every Happy Family explores the colourful - and sometimes repurposed - fabric of the Wright family. The stories mark turning points in the lives of the individual...

Down the Road to Eternity

by Marion Farrant

Collection of Farrant’s work dating from 1985 to 2009, including a complete new suite of 18 stories, The North Pole.

Destiny Of Nathalie X

by William Boyd

This new collection of stories is William Boyd's second, appearing some fourteen years after his first, On the Yankee Station. Once again the stories range widely across the time and space of the twentieth century....

I dont intend to complain

by Luis Landa

The characters in these stories are marked by an introspective nature. Occasionally naive, somewhat lost, they struggle against their problems without reallly solving their conflicts These stories speak of music,...

I know no shame

by Solidea Ruggiero

Human relationships in all its forms. People, like words, become intertwined in unexpected scenarios. Ruggiero's stories, which are sometimes structured like poetry, lead to the discovery of humanity from the...