Short Stories

Your Body is Changing

by Jack Pendarvis

Fresh new hilarity from the author of The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure.Glittering with mischief and perversity, Pushcart Prize-winner Jack Pendarvis's latest collection introduces readers to a...

Between Here and the Yellow Sea

by Nic Pizzolatto

A debut collection of short fiction from this National Magazine Award in Fiction finalist. Set in a variety of Southern and Midwestern landscapes-from Missouri's Ha Ha Tonka State Park to a crop circle at a...

Famous Fathers

by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

A gracefully disconcerting collection of stories by the winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize. Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in this sparkling debut deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak...

The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure

by Jack Pendarvis

You've met the characters in The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. They're the quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers we all know...and might even be. These characters are absurd, hilarious, and...

Beautiful Girls

by Beth Ann Bauman

A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his...

My Father

by Andrew Sarewitz

My Father is a universal narrative of a relationship between parent and child. As a young gay man struggles to find common ground with his conservative father, he inadvertently discovers a friend in the man...

A Patch of Blue

by Brian Mullally

Sometimes funny, tearful, serious or all three, these stories give the reader little chance to recover, as they change from contemporary to the historic, love to war, personal to public, offering a pot-pourri...

To Die or not to Die

by Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou

Everything on this planet dies sooner or later, yet it is how people die that intrigues us most, because we don't know how we'll make our exits, do we? The people in these eleven stories are facing death. Some...

The Dream Chasers

by Claudette Oduor

Four months to the disputed December 2007 general elections in Kenya, Lulu is living with a divorced, jobless mother prone to periodic lunacy. The radio and television are filled with campaigns, which Lulu pays...

The Porridge Incident

by Herschel Cozine

Is Goldilocks really a trespasser who broke furniture and slept in strange beds, or is she the victim of mistaken identity? Our intrepid Detective Nathaniel P. Osgood III (fresh off his success in the short...

Rather Shorts: Six Short Tales of Crime in a Small Texas Town

by Walt Shiel

A Fort Worth detective finds contentment as a small-town police chief.

Orin Cage left a 15-year career with the Fort Worth PD to become Chief of Police in the small North Texas town of Rather. Glad to have escaped...

Circling the Drain

by Amanda Davis

          Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral...

20th Century Ghost

by Joe Hill

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur...

Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Five: 7 Short Fictions and Wonders

by Neil Gaiman

The marvelous creations found in Fragile Things showcase the unparalleled invention and storytelling brilliance—as well as the terrifyingly dark and entertaining sense of humor—of the incomparable Neil Gaiman....

Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Four: 9 Short Fictions and Wonders

by Neil Gaiman

The marvelous creations found in Fragile Things showcase the unparalleled invention and storytelling brilliance—as well as the terrifyingly dark and entertaining sense of humor—of the incomparable Neil Gaiman....

Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Two: 6 Short Fictions and Wonders

by Neil Gaiman

The marvelous creations found in Fragile Things showcase the unparalleled invention and storytelling brilliance—as well as the terrifyingly dark and entertaining sense of humor—of the incomparable Neil Gaiman....

Voluntary Committal

World Fantasy Best Novella 2006

by Joe Hill

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur...

My Father's Mask

by Joe Hill

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur...

Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead

by Joe Hill

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur...

The Black Phone

by Joe Hill

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur...