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A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific and internationally....

A collection of thought provoking short stories by author Chris Wilson, all of which have a subtle twist in the tail. The short stories are sub divided into the following four Genre. Feeel Good Stories, Ghost and Paranormal stories, A Walk on the Darkside Stories, and Contemplative StoriesAccording...

Fast. Fearless. Memorable. The eleven stories found in Magpie: A Collection of Really Short Stories will introduce you to a motley cast of strong female characters with one thing in common: heart. Stories include Pushcart-nominated The Blemish Collector, heart-wrenching Ashes, short-and-not-so-sweet...

THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD contains twenty-one novels and short stories by Roaring Twenties author F. Scott Fitzgerald, including 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' 'This Side of Paradise,' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'  Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation....

The clowns are coming, and they're bringing their friends. Tricks, Mischief and Mayhem. Those are not just some of the themes lurking in this tome of horror, but the names of three carnival clowns. Along with them you’ll meet some of Australia’s most popular monsters and legends, along...

Temper trantrums, doomed relationships, failed businesses, Magellan's crew and house-hunting... This is, at first glance, a quite disparate collection of stories. The settings range from New York, Texas and San Francisco to Sydney, Lismore and Malaysia. The characters vary in age from three years...

In Your Smile and Other Short Stories, author Manu Peter presents four contemporary short stories that explore friendship, loss, love, family, romance, and karma. In Your Smile, a young man named Nathan chooses the rough road when faced with a life threatening diagnosis and attempts to live his life...

One of America's foremost short story writers has made available 3 of his most intriguing stories for a new promotional ebook. These 3 stories (first published in the 1980s) were chosen because they are accessible, intricately written and provocative on many levels. Also included is a long interview...

Pineapple Grove & Other Short Stories is a book of ecclectic stories from the philosophical and nostalgic to the satiric and whimsical. For the science-fiction fan there are several of those included in this collection, as well as a take off or two on the pulp type horror talesof the fiftieswith...

Collection of short stories: What Smells? -- Little girl's fascination with garbage trucks takes her on a wild ride. Revenge of the Undead -- Promoting and marketing self-published books turns out to be harder than it seems for an author and her book's marketer. Riding the Bullet...

Short Stories to Dazzle is a compilation of fun-to-read short stories. The reader will love immersing themselves into the everyday lives of the characters represented in this body of work. The characters find themselves in conflicting circumstances that are soon resolved with a happy ending. This...

In his second collection of short stories John Hanlon sets out to entertain with six short and sometimes twisted tales about growing up (or never growing up).In the title story, two boyhood friends meet up later in life and one of them discovers that if you practice deception there is usually...

Short stories have grown to be popular and have come to stay. Campers around fires spin out short stories, as well as buddies at the bar over a beer. We all tell each other stories. It’s one of the ways humans exist, and one of the ways we know we’re alive and well. In Itty Bitty Tiny Tall...

A Taste of Noir: Volume 1 includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 1 include: “Detour” This story, about a hit woman who takes out the wrong mark, was originally written...