Short Stories

This is a Voice from Your Past

by Merrill Gerber

"Every woman gets a call like this sooner or later. The phone rings, a man says: 'This is a voice from your past.'" The opening of the compelling title story of Merrill Joan Gerber's collection sets the tone...

What begins with bird

by Noy Holland

An investigation of family relationships and a detailed study of language and rhythm. Holland brings deep tension to her characters while paying close attention to the lyric of her sentences.

Sarajevo Marlboro

by Miljenko Jergovic & Stela Tomasevic

These slices of life of war-ridden Sarajevo are full of humanity--they stretch the spirit.

Sarajevo Marlboro

by Miljenko Jergovic & Stela Tomasevic

These slices of life of war-ridden Sarajevo are full of humanity--they stretch the spirit.

The Reasonable Ogre: Tales for the Sick and Well

by Mike Barnes & Segbingway

By turns dark and uplifting, Mike Barnes' original fables explore the otherworldliness of relationships, family, madness and death.

The Cult of Quick Repair

by Dede Crane

A sassy collection of vivid and moving stores portraying edgy modern lives in highly-charged relationships

A Book of Great Worth

by Dave Margoshes

A series of linked short stories charts the journey of journalist and family man Harry Morgenstern.

The Day I Sat With Jesus

by Gloria Sawai

The Day I Sat On the Sun Deck is a funny, philosophical, sexy, sad and searching story that explores faith, the nature of belief, with the lightness of a meringue.

The Hour of Bad Decisions

by Russell Wangersky

Russell Wangersky's characters, caught in a variety of human circumstances, make some outstandingly bad decisions in this first short fiction collection by a prominent Canadian journalist.

Piranha to Scurfy: And Other Stories

by Ruth Rendell

Nine deliciously frightening and exquisitely crafted tales of psychological terror from Ruth Rendell.

A self-appointed critic reads books only to catch out their errors of fact and usage, which he points out...

A Mobster's Independence Day Picnic

by Beth Mathison

Everyone's favorite dysfunctional crime family celebrates Independence Day in classic mobster style in the fifth installment of the worldwide, bestselling short story series. Join them at an annual barbeque...

Patricide

by Joyce Carol Oates

Roland Marks is a Nobel Prize winning novelist with a penchant for younger women and four marriages behind him. Lou-Lou Marks, his grown daughter, is a successful academic in her own right. But her real career...

The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch

by Richard Bausch

Richard Bausch is a master of the short story--and this selection brings together ten pieces which perfectly showcase his incisive wit, perception, and artistry. "He brings to life characters and situations...

The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction

by Elizabeth Spencer

Born in rural Carrollton, Mississippi, Elizabeth Spencer has been writing masterly stories and novellas about Southerners for more than half a century. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s shorter...

Forbidden Ritual

by Saskia Walker

High-powered executive Imogen prides herself on being an independent woman who doesn't need a man. She only yields when she's with Giles, a younger colleague who shares her taste for domination and submission....

One More Year: Stories

by Sana Krasikov

One More Year is Sana Krasikov’s extraordinary debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire. With novelistic scope, Krasikov captures the fates...

Sinister Shorts

by Perri O'Shaughnessy

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Nina Reilly thrillers brings her prodigious storytelling gifts to this first-ever collection of short crime fiction. From desperate housewives to hard-boiled...

Mary and O'Neil

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2002

by Justin Cronin

Mary and O’Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they’d come to teach, each...

Beginning of the Trail

by Steven Shrewsbury & Rodney Carlstrom

A short story in the Blood and Steel: Legends of La Gaul collection, Beginning of the Trail is a preamble to the novel Overkill. Betrayed by her own blood, and beset by enemies wielding dark magic, the fate...

Backstage Pass

by R. J. Sullivan & Rodney Carlstrom

In this Rebecca Burton Short Story from the Seventh Star Singles collection, 80's pop singer Fiddle Dee-Dee is decades past the peak of her popularity. But when she's tragically killed at the hands of a psychopath,...