Short Stories

The River Swimmer: Novellas

by Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved and critically-acclaimed authors—on a par with American literary greats like Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. His latest...

Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women

by Aamer Hussein

Pakistan’s finest women writers – Jamila Hashmi, Mumtaz Shirin, and Fahmida Riaz, amongst others – introduce us to the compelling cadences of a rich literary culture. A naive peasant is left with a white...

Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women

by Urvashi Butalia

Women’s stories in India have been handed down from generation to generation, enriched and embroidered along the way. Political change and the arrival of print culture meant that storytelling was pushed into...

Mundo Cruel: Stories

by Luis Negron & Suzanne Jill Levine

Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned...

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

Professor Dr von Igelfeld #4

by Alexander Mccall Smith

Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he...

By the Pound

by Marcus Bleecker

Whites, colors, darks. It seems like doing laundry would be a fairly simple task, but for many people there just isn't the time. Enter a place like By the Pound, where you can simply drop off your clothes and...

An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories

by Barbara H. Solomon & Jr., W. Reginald Rampone

Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating...

A Pair of Jeans and other stories

by Qaisra Shahraz

In this vibrant and moving collection of short stories by award winning author Quaisra Shahraz, she demonstrates yet again her abilities for storyline and plot which are always gripping - The Elopement, The...

The Rescuer

by Joyce Carol Oates

Lydia is a graduate student in cultural anthropology—a fellow at a prestigious university, with a bright future ahead of her. Harvey, her brother, is a seminary student driven by his god-besotted studies....

Intestate

by Charlie Jane Anders

By now, it's hard to tell how human my father still is. But we're still family. What that means...is another question.

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Mariposa

by Nancy Springer

Aimee believes everything in her life is great. She's got a boyfriend who's terrific (in bed and out), a penthouse apartment, and everything else a girl of privilege could possibly want. Well, except for a soul....

The Stranger

by Herschel Cozine

Whenever Luke Clayton rides in on his horse, the townspeople scatter and disappear. But there is always an exception: a young, brash kid who wants to lay claim to the title "the fastest gun in the west." When...

Scarecrow

by J. David Bell

The most brilliant man in all of Oz is the Scarecrow, who can explicate, cogitate, ruminate, and pontificate with one hand tied behind his stuffed back. But, when a young girl with silver shoes arrives in his...

Season of the Macabre

by Damien Kelly & Patricia Terry

By Damien Kelly - winner of the Octocon 2011 Short Story competition (with "Intervention Paradox").

- A frightened child, turning to the only person who can save him.

- A prison full of vicious inmates, generously...

The Girls

by Victor J. Banis

If you ever thought that animals can't know true love, you never knew the girls. This emotional short story from legendary author Victor J. Banis will appeal to both dog lovers and all fans of Banis' writings....

Silicon Tales

by Ella Price

This book is the 'always there' book for your bedside table. It's ideal to dip into as a late night distraction from your day's stresses, or to break the monotony of a morning commute. And it's likely to spark...

Make It, Take It

by Rus Bradburd

Witty and insightful, this isn’t the college basketball we hear about on TV. And Bradburd knows what he’s talking about.

The Jurors Who Knew Too Much

by Gail Farrelly

Sixty-somethings Lorna and Ike are jurors in a murder trial. They soon find they like each other and begin hanging out together in the courthouse. When they realize they may have some inside information on the...

Mr. Elkins and the Zombies of Elbert County

by Thom Adorney

When John Bell tells his family that he saw zombies crossing their farm one October night, he asks them the keep it quiet so as to not cause a panic. But when his first daughter, Cecelia, draws a picture of...

A Splendid Wife

by Amber Dermont

This short story is excerpted from the upcoming collection of stories Damage Control by Amber Dermont, to be published in March 2013.

One by one, the wives of Portsmouth, Rhode Island are disappearing from...