Short stories

"e;Crime writing with a harsh edge.

Going Down Slow includes seven short stories, two of which feature Charlie Resnick and three feature Jack Kiley.

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F.

Luana es una estrella aclamada.

Grief stricken, a sailor blames a sentient sea for the death of his wife.

First published in 1989, here is England's leading man of letters-as old as the century-at the height of his powers, the incomparable V.

Lights in a Western Sky is a collection of twenty short stories encompassing a wide variety of genres, settings and historical periods.

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.

Police Officer Patti Johnson is torn between duty and lost love.

This book shows who I am.

This is a collection of fifty poems and three short stories using religion as its theme.

This book of short stories and poems reflect the wisdom of lessons, the caring, loving, and sharing through the eyes of children, animals, and nature.

The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient Eastern empire; detail the musical education of a northern realist parish priest and his sons; travel through the West of Ireland with a couple facing various extinctions; spy on the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior; engage in hand-to-hand fighting with a classroom full of Soviet teachers; follow the adventures of an Italian girl visiting her sick boyfriend in hospital; discover how hard it can be to get a passport for your first-born; find out why everyone pretends you're not there; investigate a seemingly victimless crime; reveal reasons for a Japanese girl's committing suicide; and realize that there's no need to be forgiven for things you didn't know you hadn't done.

Domestic disturbance calls to the residence of Booth and Stacey Keiser aren't uncommon.

"e;Girl,"e; my mama had said to me the minute she entered my hospital room, "e;on the highway of life, you're always traveling left of center.

On the cusp of womanhood, Daina Tabuna's heroines are constantly confronted with the unexpected.

E' una breve storia che ti insegnerà, l'importanza di ogni persona senza contare sull' apparenza, le abitudini o il carattere.

Luana is an adored celebrity.

Stories from the city,the sea, the forest;stories from placeswhere everything is notalways as it first appears From a rain-soaked Berlin to a neon-lit Tokyo, the midwest of North America to the Parisian backstreets, a suburban London kitchen to a fishing village on the Yorkshire coast, wherever these characters are travelling from or to, they are all navigating unfamiliar ground in search of answers.

You have difficulty tolerating or accepting certain type of people?

The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s.

Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories.

In Swimming with Diana Dors Jeremy Worman digs deep, bringing to life memorable characters who remain with the reader.

These are ten totally unconnected short stories springing from a lifetime of adventures of the author.

The Caruso of Colleen Bawn and Other Short Writings is a collection of short stories and poems from the Zimbabwean author John Eppel.

Told through a number of profound voices, this intriguing collection of six short stories recounts events from the lives of four generations of a Greek family who experience poverty, violence, war, and tragedy from pre-World War II until the present.

When Elderly Miss Allie sees her new great-grandbaby for the first time, she discovers a shocking truth about her own past, a truth that causes Miss Allie to sneak away into the woods with the baby -- who, in Miss Allie's memory-addled mind, is only a heavy doll, one she can carry no longer.

Short Stories in Verse is a collection of poems that speak about the human experience.

This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise.

The Wind on his Back is a beautifully-written collection of six short stories that explore different aspects of love.

The old inn sits by a lake in an ancient forest, shrouded in mystery.

The daughter of the High King has a regal name, but she is small and plain, so everyone just calls her Wren.

Another trio of naughty stories from Madeleine Oh.

What happens when a Jewish mother from Brooklyn moves in with her lesbian daughter and partner in small town, Delaware?

What had happened to her own daughter?

This charmingly illustrated volume collects classic works of eerie and ghoulish poetry and prose from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

From blind dates to back seats to a drinking game gone wrong, the short stories in Divining Venus are linked by a series of compelling characters all trying to discern something truthful about that thing called love.

Srdan Srdic's collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author's position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region.