Alma Alexander: 22 books

The original incarnation of this collection of stories was first released into the classrooms of schools in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth... but these stories were not originally written for children.They were grown-up fairy tales, aimed at the reader who would weep over Oscar Wilde’s...

Although the stars have always had a powerful hold on her imagination, Alma Alexander is not often found in the cold reaches of interstellar space so this collection of stories is something of a rarity.One of these stories is new to this collection.One of the two previously published stories...

*An angel offers a frazzled woman a tempting choice of a more fulfilling life, but at what bitter cost?*A sinner finds that purgatory is just another form of hell, and release is centuries or millennia away.*A youth discovers that a careless act of theft has shattering consequences on...

Humans domesticated a lot of animals from the wild, bringing the beasts into the house and the barn to serve us. We chose them. But cats ... were different. They chose us. They came to live at our side, by our hearth, of their own free will, in exchange for being fed and adored, and...

When I was 10, I was taken from my quiet, safe corner of old Europe and deposited into an exotic new world. Africa, at once breathtaking and soul-destroying, from the snow-capped mountains and teeming game plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the haunted hunger-stalked dustbowls of Ethiopia and the Sudan...

Ghosts have been turning up in our stories since humans began keeping records. There are the loving ghosts who cling to us because neither the living nor the dead can bear to let go; there are the vengeful ghosts, or those with unfinished business here on our world who are less beneficently inclined....

Human lives are full of moments, bright or dark – moments when you feel your breath being taken away by the beauty of a starlit sky, or feel your heart being broken by the passing of a beloved pet, or being surprised by joy, or falling into a memory. There are moments in which you reflect on the...

On the eve of the end of the world, 20 December 2012, five friends meet in Spanish Gardens, the cafe where they had celebrated their college graduation twenty years before. Over Irish coffees, they reminisce—and reveal long-held and disturbing secrets. Each friend in turn is given a curious...

Alma Alexander released a series of "Triads", themed collections of three short stories apiece, over the course of several years. This book, "Weight of Worlds", is a gathering of some of the best of the Triads, a substantial collection of short stories from an accoplished storyteller.

In the midst of war and hate, two people from opposing nations begin a bitter exchange in an Internet newsgroup. As she watches her nation being destroyed by bombs from U.S. and NATO planes, a Yugoslavian woman lashes out at the smug American man who insists that the attack is fully justified and...

The adage 'It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' was probably coined by somebody who hadn't had their heart broken ... yet. But most of us who do our growing up and living and loving in the real world end up putting our hearts on the line, and they...

Dawn of Lackmagic Thea is now at the Ivy League school, Amford, but she senses something isn’t quite right. It has put her in a bad mood – and soon she learns what it is. Something has gone terribly wrong.  Thea and other mages sense it – magic is slowly draining away from the world. Faced...

What if all the princesses out of all the fairy tales of your childhood... were refugees? What if they didn't live lives of happily ever after but their true stories involve far greater strength, far greater loss, far greater courage than you ever knew? Here are four of those stories. Sometimes, the greatest fairy tales... are real.

A group of women, the jin-shei sisterhood, form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom. They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge...