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The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...

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. In this series we look at short stories from many...

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. In this series we look at short stories from many...

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. In this series we look at short stories from many...

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. In this series we look at short stories from many...

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. In this series we look at short stories from many...

Four classic Christmas tales ranging from Christmas in Victorian England to a staid and stolid politician who is transformed through care of a wheelchair-bound child. #1: A Christmas Mystery This is a Christmas short story taking place in the early 1900s in England with three totally...

**An engrossing collection of short stories from one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers.**Fiona Kidman first wrote short stories in the 1960s and has continued to publish them in books, magazines and journals ever since. Her style has evolved as she has explored different forms over the years,...

Michael Shaara published many short stories during the course of his early career as an author before getting his first novel published--The Broken Place. He wrote science fiction stories for the pulp magazines with names like Galaxy and Fantastic Universe, but also domestic dramas and humorous stories...

Zanzibar: seven complete short stories. A third collection of short stories from the author of Eden and An Evening with Bats and Moths. About the Author Merlinn James has won a number of short story competitions and was one of the six finalists in a national BBC TV...

Ambrose Bierce’s  Short Stories contained  58  Short Stories written by  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – circa 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"...

Everybody was young once. Even the most confident people were once uncertain, the most ferocious were once frightened, and the most competent were once naive. We all met our best friends somewhere and not always under the best conditions. In this collection of short stories from the world of...

This is short story #2 from Office Flirts! This volume features five funny, romantic short stories set in the zany workplace of Dunner Advertising where pranks rule, secrets abound, and nothing’s off-limits for the office pool. Follow the employees as they find love, laughter, and heartbreak on...

In a steampunk Wild West, women with nothing left to lose walk into the desert, and emerge soul-bonded to giant robots... A pair of bickering angels try to re-create Heaven in a Tokyo subway station... A woman warrior matches swords and wits with a demon in mythic India... These...