Short Stories

I Wish I Never Met You: Dating the Shiftless, Stupid, and Ugly A Novel

by Denise N. Wheatley

Preston the Project Mishap

Ernest the Undercover Sugarbooty

Marvin the Married Man-Boy

Forrest the Foul Fiancé

What single woman hasn't been desperate enough to risk it all in an attempt to find True Love?...

Easy for You: Stories

by Shannan Rouss

In this debut collection, Shannan Rouss delivers ten sharply etched stories set against the endless freeways and twinkling lights of Los Angeles. Each one provides a momentary glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants...

The Apple's Bruise: Stories

by Lisa Glatt

From the bestselling author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, a moving, disturbing, and utterly original collection of stories that examine a universe where memory and fact collide, and the imagination fills...

Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

by Amy Hempel

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

What You Can't See

by Allison Brennan, Karin Tabke & Roxanne St. Claire

THREE GRIPPING TALES

FROM TODAY'S BRIGHTEST STARS

OF DANGER AND SEDUCTION

Allison Brennan

Demonologist Anthony Zaccardi can't save the twelve priests brutally slaughtered at a California mission, but he's determined...

Madame De Treymes, And Three Novellas

by Wharton

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Screwjack: A Short Story

by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson’s most searing and unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is simultaneously eerie and feverish, debauched and affecting.

Never before—and perhaps never since—has modern man’s melancholia...

Joseph Andrews/Shamela

by Henry Fielding & Judith Hawley

"‘Kissing, Joseph, is but a Prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young Fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?’ Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding’s first full-length novel, depicts...

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy & David McDuff

Our ambitious program of new Tolstoy editions continues with two collections of powerful stories

The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories...

Billy Budd and Other Stories

by Herman Melville & Frederick Busch

"Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include "Bartleby," "The Piazza,"...

The Early Ayn Rand: Revised Edition: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction

by Ayn Rand

This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction-including her previously unpublished short story The Night King-ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the...

Come Together, Fall Apart

by Cristina Henriquez

These eight short stories and novella travel from Panama's dusty city streets to its humid beaches to create an affecting portrait of a country in transition. They illustrate family bonds and generational conflicts,...

Billy Budd and Other Tales

by Herman Melville

A master of the american short story

Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

Miracle and Other Christmas Stories

by Connie Willis

The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis capture the timeless essence of generosity and goodwill in this magical collection if Christmas stories.  These eight tales-two of which have never...

King and Queen of the Universe

by Kurt Vonnegut

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just...

Little Drops of Water

by Kurt Vonnegut

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just...

The Nice Little People

by Kurt Vonnegut

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written...

Deathbird Stories

by Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection....

Ellison Wonderland

by Harlan Ellison

One passionate moment has ruined Kristin Taube's pristine reputation. Now Jack Cameron owes her the innocence he stole away when he snatched that first kiss. When Kristin flees her home to begin a new life as...

Approaching Oblivion

by Harlan Ellison

Laura Nichols is always up for a challenge and the job Justin Roman has offered her is the perfect showcase for her talents. Not only is he dubious of her ability to complete the restoration of his Louisiana...