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Short stories and short-short stories about traveling rock musicians that focus on the unseen, less than glamorous side of touring as a struggling rock band—the personal tolls, the grueling poverty, the gnawing hunger for fame, and the small and unlikely moments of redemption. These characters are...

Published together for the first time are 10 masterful short stories by a winner of the Derringer Award for Short Mystery Fiction. All but one of these tales first appeared in the pages of the world’s greatest mystery magazines… If you ravenously consume mystery novels by the bushel,...

Published together for the first time are 10 masterful short stories by a winner of the Derringer Award for Short Mystery Fiction. If you ravenously consume mystery novels by the bushel, if the annual Best American Mystery Stories anthology is among your must-reads, if you hanker to get your...

Spectra is the new digital magazine bringing you the best in new sci-fi, horror and fantasy short fiction, news and reviews. With four new stories from established writers and rising talent every issue, Spectra Magazine delivers the cutting edge of digital fiction direct to your favourite eBook platform....

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway bet his fellow writers at the Algonquin Round Table that he could write a complete short story in six words. The other writers ponied up ten bucks each, and Papa claimed the pot with possibly the saddest six words ever written: “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” In...

Psychological sharpshooters, fickle football fans and prodigious people who choose to use and misuse their incredible talents invite you into this collection of their jumbled-up worlds. During dark days at work where people reflect both on what could have been and on what could still be, things...

Dragonflies are said to be harbingers of rain, but they may be much more for one unsuspecting woman. A household dog finds a reprieve when Grandma comes to stay. A young man stops by an ATM at night and finds himself encountering robbersand a young woman who may not be what she seems. In Betwixt Twists...

A ship of Many Oars is a collection of nine short stories, woven on the tapestry of Indian quirks, delinquent nobility, and galloping suspense! The stories meander over the ghost infested hills of Kumaon, thru the Machiavellian minds of big time robbers and into the ravines of Bundelkhand, where Rani...

Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these stories offer a multiplicity of voices—some sentimental and melodramatic, others rebellious and...

*Includes over 10 classic short stories. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer whos considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's best at that. A protégé of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are economical...

Largo FL, July 7, 2011, PR Newswire/-- SHORT ORDERS: Food Stories and Travels is fiction and non-fiction about food in our lives. Savor these quirky, sometimes thought-provoking, slices-of-life. Haggis embarrassment Subway refreshments -- Brazil yesterday Coconut lifeline -- Everglades dining...

This is the third volume of Sweet Indulgences. These sweet short stories are designed for the busy woman who deserves a few minutes of self-indulgence—on the bus or train to work, during coffee or lunch break, while waiting to pick the kids up, sitting in the doctor or dentist’s waiting room,...

Fourteen classic short stories by the prolific English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic D. H. Lawrence. Contains the stories: • Mother and Daughter • Her Turn • Rawdon’s Roof • Strike-Pay • Things • A Modern Lover • The Old Adam • The Mortal Coil • The Blue Moccasins...

Bringing together 34 flash fiction stories from 14 authors, SPARK offers a host of stories to thrill, move, and challenge fans of short-short fiction. A woman physically at war with her mother's legacy inside her own body, a young girl given a vision of a utopic past at the end of the world, a man...