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| Author | : Aliya Whiteley |
| Publisher | : Titan Books (US, CA) |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2021-09-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1789094763 |
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“Feels like a major collection” – The Washington Post A short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners. The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies; the alien invasion through our language to the Chantress and her twists on the fairy tale. Fascinating and always unexpected, Whiteley is unlike any other writer working today.
| Author | : Paula Bomer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780977934379 |
Download Baby & Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Paula Bomer is a dangerous writer. The short stories in her debut collection are subversive portraits of the modern American family. From a husband who traces his internal crisis to witnessing his wife giving birth, to a mother who forces her young son on a rainy walk through a cemetery as she contemplates the detritus of her marriage, Bomer¿s characters are hauntingly familiar. Their fear and rage, their failures and desires are our own.
| Author | : Ron Rash |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2007-04-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1466828064 |
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Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.
| Author | : A. S. Byatt |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307426637 |
Download Little Black Book of Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” —The New York Times Book Review Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
| Author | : Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher | : Emblem Editions |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2009-03-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0771008678 |
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In these ten dazzling interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences—the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. With settings ranging from Toronto, northern Quebec, and rural Ontario, the stories begin in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. Then the narrative goes back in time to the forties and moves chronologically forward toward the present. In “The Art of Cooking and Serving,” the twelve-year-old narrator does her best to accommodate the arrival of a baby sister. After she boldly declares her independence, we follow the narrator into young adulthood and then through a complex relationship. In “The Entities,” the story of two women haunted by the past unfolds. The magnificent last two stories reveal the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood’s celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. This is vintage Atwood, writing at the height of her powers.
| Author | : Diane Cook |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2014-10-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062333127 |
Download Man V. Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories that illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, and the veneer of civilization over our darkest urges. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive. In "Girl on Girl," a high school freshman goes to disturbing lengths to help an old friend. An insatiable temptress pursues the one man she can't have in "Meteorologist Dave Santana." And in the title story, a long-fraught friendship comes undone when three buddies get impossibly lost on a lake it is impossible to get lost on. Below the quotidian surface of Diane Cook's worlds lurks an unexpected surreality that reveals our most curious, troubling, and bewildering behavior. Other stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world: a pack of "not-needed" boys takes refuge in a murky forest where they compete against one another for their next meal; an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals and desirous women; helpless newborns are snatched from their suburban yards by a man who stalks them. Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people drawn together in such messy, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover about ourselves? As entertaining as it is dangerous, this accomplished collection explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and desires.
| Author | : T.C. Boyle |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2017-10-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062673408 |
Download The Relive Box and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an inimitable voice. From the collection's title story, featuring a Halcom X1520 Relive Box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past to "The Five-Pound Burrito," the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection speak to the humor, the pathos, and the struggle that is part of being human while relishing the whimsy of wordplay and the power of a story well told. In stories that span a variety of styles and genres, Boyle addresses the enduring concerns of the human mind and heart while taking on timely social concerns. The Relive Box is an exuberant, linguistically dazzling effort from a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society." (The New York Times)
| Author | : Munashe Kaseke |
| Publisher | : Mukana Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2022-07-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0578323591 |
Download Send Her Back and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Send Her Back and Other Stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant experience of black women in the United States. Equally awash with the joys of exploring a new world as well as a myriad of challenges, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in vibrant, indelible settings. Yet again, these are not only stories of navigating an at times tense US political climate, they are also marked by characters who rise to the top of their professional fields, seize the American dream, and travel the world in glee. Kaseke peels back on the inner wranglings of characters caught between two worlds, be it by stories of dating outside one’s culture and race or failing to assimilate upon returning home after spending time abroad. Uncanny. Witty. Gripping. Send Her Back and Other Stories dazzles, leaving you newly awakened to the world we live in. Awards Anthem Award – Silver Category: Research and Publications Brought to you by The Webby Awards, The Anthem Awards honors the purpose & mission-driven work of people, companies, and organizations worldwide. Foreword – Gold Winner Category: Short Stories Honors the very best of indie publishing each year. Next Gen Indie Book Awards – Finalist Category: BIPOC The largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers. Reader Views – Gold Award and Global Award Winner – Africa Category: Short Stories Recognizing the most creative and exciting new books in the industry. The award program is recognized industry-wide as a top awards program for independent authors. Nautilus Book Awards- Silver Category: Multicultural and Indigenous Among their core mission is to celebrate and honor books that support conscious living & social change & social justice. Independent Press Award – Distinguished Favorite Recognizing the industry favorites from independent publishers. Independent Publisher Awards ( IPPY’s) – Bronze Category: Multicultural Fiction Recognizing excellence in independent publishing.
| Author | : Daphne Kalotay |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2006-05-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781400078486 |
Download Calamity and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay’s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.
| Author | : Alvin Schwartz |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1985-10-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0064440907 |
Download In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Creak... Crash... BOO! Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones! Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark room.
