Short Stories

Delta Blues

by Carolyn Haines

This collection of short fiction captures both the art of the tale and the power of the blues, and is a nod at the human condition that often inspires musicians to write and sing the blues.

The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks

by Russell Banks

With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories...

Light Lifting

by Alexander MacLeod

A suite of dark, unflinching elegies for a working-class city and community driven to the brink.

Once

by Rebecca Rosenblum

A collection of sixteen stories portraying the constricted and confused lives of the rootless twenty-somethings who inhabit them.

Quickening

by Terry Griggs

The stories in Quickening crackle with energy -- they are eccentric, wildly inventive, whimsical and fantastic.

Boys

by Kathleen Winter

What are boys thinking? That's what the heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know.

Apricot Jam: And Other Stories

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking stories— interconnected and juxtaposed using...

The Dirt Chronicles

by Kristyn Dunnion

Queer hustlers, anarcho-punks, teen runaways: welcome to The Dirt Chronicles.

Gargoyles: Stories

by Bill Gaston

In this remarkable collection, Bill Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. This marvelous, riotous, Rabelaisian world contains...

Life Times: Stories

by Nadine Gordimer

"Superb...a series of masterly drawn glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa's great modern literary geniuses." -Alan Cheuse, NPR

A selection of short stories written to date by Nobel Laureate Nadine...

The Lies That Build A Marriage: Stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore

by Suchen Christine Lim

With this collection of short stories, Lim delves beneath Singapore's prosperity and coded decorum to reveal genuine people facing difficult issues that are normally strictly taboo in Asia, such as the mother...

Candle in the Attic Window

by Stiles Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles

Gothic fiction is neither dead nor musty. Twenty-seven poems and stories bring fresh blood to the genre, while drawing from old tropes. Welcome to our little house of horrors, where a movie crew searches for...

Stealing Time: Stories

by Mary Grimm

Fourteen stories, many of which appeared in the New Yorker. In "Buying a Pumpkin," a father struggles with three children after his wife leaves him, in "Research, " college girls draw up a list of boys with...

City of Boys: Stories

by Beth Nugent

Set in New York City, middle America, the beaches of Florida and rural highways, suburban kitchens, and cross-country trains, the ten stories of City of Boys evoke a haunting landscape at once familiar and strange....

I Know You Are But What Am I?

by Heather Birrell

'Birrell has a grand eye for the small detail that is the hallmark of a well-made story.' -- The Toronto Star

Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: populated as they are with lives both...

Kagan's Superfecta: And Other Stories

by Allen Hoffman

The art of Jewish storytelling thrives in this captivating collection of tales filled with memorable characters.

The stories in this collection are deeply felt explorations in to the Jewish mind and world—stories...

The Outlaw Album: Stories

by Daniel Woodrell

Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior...

A Stranger With a Bag

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

This, arguably Sylvia Townsend Warner’s most luminous collection of stories, was first published in 1966 and includes ‘A Love Match’, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as ‘a supreme example of her technique.’...

Again

by Lance Zarimba

Love is patient, love is kind, love lasts forever. An elderly couple revisits their relationship after the husband experiences a debilitating stroke. How will the change in physical abilities and expectations...

The Case of the Perfect Maid

by Agatha Christie

When her maid asks Miss Marple to intervene in the delicate problem of her rather opinionated cousin Gladys, she doesn’t think much can be done. Poor Gladys has been accused of stealing a precious brooch belonging...