Short Stories

Bobcat and Other Stories

by Rebecca Lee

Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and...

Mirror, Mirror: SST eNovelette Series #2

by Jeremy Terry

There is a darkness residing in the Pendelton family's new dream home and it's hungry for their souls.

The First Lie

by Diane Chamberlain

An e-original short story that sets the stage for bestselling author Diane Chamberlain’s novel Necessary Lies (September 2013).

The First Lie gives readers an early glimpse into the life of thirteen-year-old...

The red man turns to green: an assortment of short stories

by Dickson Telfer

When the red man turns to green,walk yourself into a world where killing a spider triggers vivid flashbacks; where unrequited love is never forgotten; where a shopping trip to Asda is a form of counselling;...

I Got His Blood on Me

by Lawrence Patchett

The short stories in this collection follow characters that are plucked away from their normal lives to face wildly abnormal situations. An old coachman must face the death of his passenger; a missionary loses...

A Texas Jubilee: Thirteen Stories from the Lone Star State

by James Ward Lee

Set primarily during the early 1940s, A Texas Jubilee is a collection of short stories about life in fictional Bodark Springs, Texas. Through these stories, author Jim Lee paints a humorous picture of the politics,...

Escape to Africa

by Henri Diamant

Henri lived only a few short years in Europe before the family moved to the Belgian Congo, a country deep in the heart of Africa. These were the early 1900?s, at a time when the colonial era was in full swing,...

Ether Frolics: Nine Steampunk Tales

by Paul Marlowe

A collection of nine steampunk stories drawn from the archives of the Etheric Explorers Club, a Victorian society dedicated to exploring the mysteries of the etheric realm... The visions of a Russian painter...

Gun Boss of Tumbleweed

by L. Ron Hubbard

Mart Kincaid, a man in the Clint Eastwood mold, may be the fastest gun in the state, but his life is not his own.  It belongs to Gar Malone, a rancher driven by his thirst for power and more land. Now Gar wants...

A Russian Doll & Other Stories

by Adolfo Bioy Casares & Suzanne Jill Levine

This collection of traditional and experimental stories by Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata ) offers sophisticated, seamless prose, as well as magical realism...

The Orange Tree

by Carlos Fuentes & Alfred MacAdam

In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history that has distinguished Terra Nostra and The Campaign. From...

The Crystal Frontier

by Carlos Fuentes & Alfred MacAdam

The nine stories comprising this brilliant work of fiction from Carlos Fuentes all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of one Leonardo Barroso,...

Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

by Carlos Fuentes

Renowned as a novelist of unsurpassed invention, Carlos Fuentes here presents his second collection of stories to appear in English.  Where his first, Burnt Water, published in 1980, had as its underlying theme...

Burnt Water

by Carlos Fuentes & Margaret Sayers Peden

The rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City.

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by Gregory Norminton

In these forty-eight very short stories or “micrograms”, Gregory Norminton once again experiments with form, using his stylish and witty prose to examine the nooks and crannies of our distracted lives. Taken...

No Grave Too Deep: SST eNovelette Series #1

by Aurelio Rico Lopez III

Nick Sharpe is sick and tired of dodging bullets and doing his country's dirty work. Unfortunately, when a military experiment goes horribly wrong, Nick is drawn back to his old profession and brought to face...

Long Lost

by Linda Castillo

From the New York Times bestselling author of SWORN TO SILENCE and GONE MISSING comes a powerful and moving story about a troubled young woman and a decades old mystery set in the world of the Amish.

It’s autumn...

The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories

by Ethan Rutherford

Alternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic, the wildly inventive stories in Ethan Rutherford's The Peripatetic Coffin mark the debut of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction

Worried about waning...

The Get Over

by Walter Dean Myers

From Walter Dean Myers, the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, comes an all-new short story! This original 20-page short story serves as a prequel to Monster, which has been read and loved by millions...

A Guide to Being Born: Stories

by Ramona Ausubel

Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.

Major new literary talent Ramona Ausubel combines...