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A Bear’s Story, is a picture book from Eva Zonnios’ short stories for children, collection. It is a bedtime story about a young bear who wakes up from hibernation and rea A Bear’s Story, is a picture book from Eva Zonnios’ short stories for children, collection. It is a bedtime story...

Have you ever seen flashes of darkness where there should only be light? Ever seen shadows skitter past out of the corner of your eyes and looked, only to find nothing there? Forced into a sabbatical following his affair with an undergrad student, university professor Jim Grayson rents Holloway...

Manipulation of time is a recurring theme in Stephen Minot’s second collection of stories. The first four stories, subheaded “Time and Memory,” deal with characters whose perception of the world is skewed. Kraft, a social historian, becomes so drawn to a woman from a simpler era that he almost...

Both of these stories bring the past into the present, involving Germans, French, British, Spanish and Americans. The first is a mystery from 1947, the second concerns the simmering hatreds left over from the war, and how they just might be buried.These two poignant yarns come from the great collection...

I doubt that one person would claim to have written a book without help. I certainly wouldnt. Mary, my wonderful wife of 52 years, along with my family have encouraged me through thick and thin. Friends have helped in many ways. Then there are those Ive met through life whove provided the rich material. When...

GREAT SHORT STORIES is an anthology of fourteen stories comprising comedy, sci-fi, logic, romance, drama, and some fantasy tales, as well as other genres comprising great characters and novel stories. You will not only enjoy them but they will stick in your mind after you have read them as they are all truly original.

Welcome to Katalagein. I’ve been writing short stories now for 25 years and they’ve been published for 24 of those. I also write books, but that’s another tale entirely. I live with a cat, or rather, as he’d see it, he graciously permits me to live with him. As a result, and over the years,...

Saberhagen The Early Tales: Stories apart from Berserkers Volume One     A wide range of ideas are explored and worlds created in this collection of thirteen of Fred Saberhagen’s early short works of science fiction and fantasy. All the stories were written between 1960 and...

Hidden stories revealed Elemental magic and epic fantasy adventure weave through the Rise of the Fifth Order and Games of Fire trilogies, but there are so many adventures left untold. Until now! Discover stories only hinted about in the novels and more from a novella set when...

A collection of Chekhov's short stories featuring: Talent, Anyuta, The Helpmate, Ivan Matveyitch, Polinka. These stories are rich in characterisation and represent brilliantly observed slices of life. They don’t come to an end, they just peter out inconclusively leaving you to draw your own conclusions.

For the past few months, S.E. Batt has been releasing a steady stream of short stories, all of which with a fun and humorous tone to them. Now, the first three releases of his short stories are collected into one anthology for easy reading. Contains the following short stories: *Books...

Six powerful, gripping short stories from bestselling author, Amanda Prowse. Collection includes: Something Quite Beautiful The Game Ten Pound Ticket Imogen's Baby Miss Potterton's Birthday Tea A Christmas Wish. Susie has just arrived in Australia. She is clutching a newborn baby, but...

Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance and quality of his work in this medium.Three volumes of short stories were published -...

These early works by Guy de Maupassant were originally published in the 1880's. As a collection of short stories, this represents Maupassant's tales of religion, and includes 'Theodule Sabot's Confession', 'The Marquis De Fumerol', 'My Uncle Sosthenes', 'Legend of Mont St. Michel', and 'Father Matthew'....