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This book was written for my mother, Louann Goodnight Dillon. She has encouraged me to try new things my whole life, like writing this book. It is a collection of poems and short stories from different parts of my life experience.

From a National Book Award–winning “master of short fiction,” a collection of “sharp, funny and insightful” stories (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Three middle-aged women set off on a vacation in Italy, but are sidelined along the way by terrorist activity. In post-Katrina, New...

Because of his frank and honest portrayal of human sexuality in the controversial works for which he is best known, e.g. "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" and "Women in Love", D. H. Lawrence was not widely respected in his day. In fact at the time of his death he was considered little more than a pornographer....

Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's third collection of short stories focuses on Jews in various states of exile and expatriation—strangers in strange lands, far from home. These dozen tales, by an author whose stories have been selected for more than fifty anthologies, including Best American...

Rafael Sabatini an Italian writer best known for his historical romance novels in the early 20th century.  Sabatini had many best-sellers including The Sea-Hawk, Scaramouche, and Captain Blood.  This edition of Casanova’s Alibi and Other Short Stories includes a table of contents.

A collection of five short stories consisting of creative non-fiction, fiction and fantasy.

This anthology of thirty-four short stories by twenty-five writers from thirteen countries reflects its title, ‘Pangea’, meaning ‘all lands’ or ‘all earth’. The writers featured include journalists, scientists, a lawyer, a costume designer, a magazine editor, a crofter in the Scottish...

Bernie Madoff. Charles Ponzi. Nigerian princes. We recognize the names of famous con artists, but can we detect the con artists right in front of us? In three short stories, Sophia Han explores how we can be deceived by people we think we know. - My Boyfriend, My Thief: A woman searches for...

Prison planets never had much going for them and when the prisoners themselves start running it you can expect it to go to Hell in a basket. That’s why the Angel in ‘Floater’ is so good at his job, because he has to be. But he never expected that he would be so good as to be thought capable...

Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks out the precious moments of her characters' lives against deceptively commonplace backdrops — a St. John's hospital cafeteria lit only by the lights in the snack machines; a half-built house "like a rib cage around a...

A collection a great, classic American short stories.

Mehbub Gulley Short Stories from India is an anthology of stories about the lives of ordinary men and women in India, their existential dilemmas and their angst. Some of the stories are about life in the civil service. What happens when poor and studious Samuel from Alleppey gets selected to the Indian...

This book is a compilation of Best Panjabi Short Stories authored by GURDIAL SINGH (Jnanpith Award Winner), translated into English language by RANA NAYAR, prof., Dept. of English, Punjab University, Chandigarh. He has won 'CHARLES WALLACE Indian Trust Award' and the 'Commendation award for Translation'...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. A widespread favourite of scholars, critics and...