Wordrunner Echapbooks: 12 books

The seven luminous stories collected in Robert Mouthrop's "Grace" range from lightly comic to darkly complex. The voices are diverse — hopeful, angry, uncertain, amused, despairing — even where loss is profound, there are grace notes.Sample from "Mrs Mellors":"In mid-March she had...

View love and marriage from every angle except Happily Ever After in these five stories and two novel excerpts. Ford sympathetically captures the emptiness of faded love, the disappointment of affection misplaced, the humor of narrowly-escaped misalliance. Many err but none are mocked in this sparely-written, humane collection.

In these five vivid, unsettling tales, Bache has created flawed characters who might be related to any of us. They are the family black sheep you helplessly love or hate — here so finely drawn you will never forget them.

This fiction collection is about relationships made, missed, flawed, chosen or avoided. Seven stories explore the vibrant and troubling connections between people and the worlds they delight in, be it nature, art or literature -- ranging from the cloning of a woolly mammoth to a romantic encounter in a London bookstore.

In this powerful collection of short fiction from “down under” — by turns, beautiful, disturbing and funny — Goldsmith gives us resilient characters who push or are swept beyond the lines of acceptable or customary behavior; some of them live in barely sustainable emotional territory. A pregnant...

Jim Beane's five riveting tales of the Eastern seashore depict the elemental beauty and terror of of salt air and wild water and its impact on the harsh, often stormy lives of coastal dwellers who fish the sea, service boats, surf breakers and work in the building trades. “Across the Bay” explores...

A collection of new and selected early poems exploring the ground of memory, vision and the illuminations of everyday life.

A novella in stories: In this subtle and nuanced probing of family dynamics, a brother and sister find themselves “in the middle of the kind of stillness that comes from size.” She wants to disappear; he likes mysteries.From the title story: “The sunrise over Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni...

A cycle of linked short stories about love, loss, and the difficulty of communicating emotion in any language. Two men and a woman (Jesse, Roy, and Julie) lead complicated intertwined lives; whether funny, sad, ecstatic or outraged, theirs are pitch perfect voices.

In the six tales of Nowhere is Always Somewhere, short story master Robert Earle again creates compelling characters caught up in life’s dramas all over the world: Americans imprisoned in Bolivia…homeless kids forging a relationship under a bridge in L.A. …a man whose writer daughter understands...

Milbrodt's stories probe the impact of job choices on the lives of a love-lorn circus clown, a racecar driver/pole dancer, a retired sideshow fat lady and her “skeleton man” friend, a 60-year-old, cliff-jumping caregiver, and two shopping mall security guards who are single parents.From...

In this disturbing and powerful, sometimes bitingly funny, short story collection, award-winning author Dorene O’Brien explores the disasters and misadventures that shape or distort lives — among them the plight of a young girl held captive in a remote cabin, an elderly woman bewildered by dementia,...