Kuwaiti writer Taleb Al-Rifai takes us, with an average of two excellent short stories from each collection, through a diverse and amazing narrative journey, spanning a time period of nearly four decades in total.
Un femicidio nunca resuelto, la búsqueda de un niño perdido, una violación en manada, un violento triángulo amoroso, un torero amateur herido de muerte, los pensamientos impuros de un monaguillo y el encuentro con una prostituta son algunas de las historias que integran esta colección de relatos breves.
The New York Times-bestselling author "e;has created the tales here with experimental glee, yielding an astonishing assortment of mutated manuscripts"e; (Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of The Loop).
Ein Arbeitsloser, der Suizid begeht, eine verlassene Limousine vor dem Gemeindehaus, eine Frau im besten Alter, die sich schon lange nicht mehr ins Schwimmbad wagt.
(Al-Otaibi Dreams) is the fifth collection of very short stories by Egyptian author Mounir Otaibi, who won the State Encouragement Award for his first collection in this genre, (The Spirit of the Story).
The seven stories comprising In the Valley of the Kings limn hard lives in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania, depicting with lyrical precision the moments in which lives shift or unravel, or achieve a fragile kind of grace.
The seven stories comprising In the Valley of the Kings limn hard lives in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania, depicting with lyrical precision the moments in which lives shift or unravel, or achieve a fragile kind of grace.
From the mind of Ellen Glasgow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and master chronicler of the American South, comes a chilling classic that merges Southern domestic realism with profound psychological horror.
From the adventurous mind of Frederick Marryat, the famed naval officer and prolific author, comes a chilling and influential early tale of lycanthropy that is a cornerstone of Gothic horror.
In Hide Island, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores themes of love and crime, memory and identity, abuse and redemption, and the contradictory battle between our fierce struggle to live lives worth remembering and our desire to disentangle ourselves from a past we wish to forget.
2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction 2023 Houston Chronicle Notable Book 2023 Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read ';An emotionally taut and often haunting collection.
The Mistress's Dog is an engaging collection of twelve short stories by David Medalie, including two award winners - 'Recognition' and 'The Mistress's Dog' - and a Foreword and afterword by Michael Titlestad.
Between Cloud and Horizon: A Relationship Casebook in Stories is an examination of what defines the relationships that define each of us, and the myriad forms they take, in a story collection that doubles as a casebook of how we interact with each other.
Between Cloud and Horizon: A Relationship Casebook in Stories is an examination of what defines the relationships that define each of us, and the myriad forms they take, in a story collection that doubles as a casebook of how we interact with each other.
Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, Susan Lowell's Two Desperados is a collection of southwest-flavored stories that feature a blacksmith, several smugglers, a mule, a jaguar, a runaway groom, a murderess, a witch, a basket weaver, a Gremlin, three cowboys, and a ghost.
Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, Susan Lowell's Two Desperados is a collection of southwest-flavored stories that feature a blacksmith, several smugglers, a mule, a jaguar, a runaway groom, a murderess, a witch, a basket weaver, a Gremlin, three cowboys, and a ghost.
