Short Stories category: 50364 books

This is a group of short stories, some are a little funny, some are scary true stories and some are fiction that are real page turners. A few are true animal stories about the animals that pass through my life and the adventures that happen, all are fun to read and will leave you wanting more.

Impolite Stories is Ronald W. Hull's third book of short stories following Its in the Water and Other Stories and Verge of Apocalypse Tales and is a collection of 18 stories written from 2013 through 2017. The stories are rather eclectic in nature including science fiction, satire, drama, religion,...

Set in 1920s Chicago, the short novel Yudl follows its eponymous protagonist, a middle-aged editor at a left-leaning newspaper called The Yiddish Courier. Yudl and his wife have decided to become landlords, purchasing a vacant lot and hiring an acquaintance—aptly named Mason—to oversee the construction...

I love to read books. I love to write books. So I decided to write a book about reading books, says David G. Hallman about this collection of short stories, each of which revolves around the characters interaction with a piece of literature. Combining fiction, creative non-fiction, and semifictionalized...

2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean & Canada Region) 2002 City of Calgary W. O. Mitchel Book Award 2001 Canongate Prize for short fiction The Scent of a Lie is a book of fourteen inter-connected stories set in two charismatic towns in Portugal where characters...

Fifty Egg Timer Stories is a collection of short stories by one author, all of between 600 and 1000 words. They are written across a mixture of genres without any central theme except being entertaining 'flash fiction'. Actually, the stories cover all the ground between non-fiction and fantasy....

These short stories are set primarily in the farmland of County Antrim in Northern Ireland during the author’s youth in the nineteen forties and fifties, though there are related stories set in the U.S. and Canada. County Antrim has strong residual connections to Scotland that are reflected in the...

A collection of nine stories from Sandie Bergen, the Dragonlady herself, together with nine illustrations created just for the stories. Fantasy, romance, and paranormal elements team together to form an entertaining anthology. All profits from Sandie's books go to the kidney foundation that helped...

Verge of Apocalypse Tales is a collection of short stories focused on the year 2012 and the dire predictions from many sources indicating that the author’s birthday, December 21, 2012 would be the apex of global calamity. When a high school classmate suggested that he had stopped World War III in...

Tiny: A Very Small Short Story Collection is exactly what it sounds like—a small collection of five short stories, two of those short stories dialogue only. These five stories have been floating around in Elizabeth's back-log of things to get published, and finally, here it is! The title of...

Larry Wade Livingston was born in Cincinnati, Ohio early in the month of November. He grew up traveling state to state only living in cities sometime for only a few short weeks. His dad was an over the road truck driver which allowed him to attend countless schools throughout his entire childhood....

Classic gothic horror stories from the literary mistresses of the past! Many of gothic horror’s spookiest tales have come from the pens of women. Yet a substantial number of these women were overshadowed by their male contemporaries, especially with regard to the classics. Ladies of Gothic...

This is the first collection of short stories by Sonya C. Dodd. The stories are all about the human character and each one puts the main character in a different situation, in tales covering a variety of genres, to see how they react to what is happening around them.Explore the mind of a murderer...

This is the eighth book by William White and like the rest of his books, it is an excellent read-one you will have trouble putting down. For those who love ghost stories this book contains an excellent account of a newly deceased young man and his desperate attempts to communicate with his family members....