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ARKTIKA.1 (Short Story): My Name Is Viktoria
By Christie Golden. 2017
An immersive introduction to the dystopian world of ARKTIKA.1, the upcoming VR videogame from the developers of Metro 2033, Metro:…
Last Light, Metro Redux, and the upcoming Metro Exodus. Viktoria can barely remember life before 2081. It’s painful to think of the time before the Great Freeze, when humanity finally paid its due for plundering the earth, plunging the world into frigid cold, scarcity, and decay. Yet humanity has found a way to carry on. The remnants of civilization persist in settlements like ARKTIKA.1, where Vika tends to survivors with her Mamochka and Papochka, protecting their fledgling colony from the threat that lurks in the snows. The yaga—vicious, deformed cannibals made monstrous by disease—prey on the surviving communities, spreading their affliction as they go. And Vika’s parents are the only scientists left who can stop the contagion. Called upon by the Citadel Security defense corporation, Vika’s family makes their way to a research facility near the Equator. Only there, with mercenary protection and superior laboratory equipment, can the two scientists hope to make the discoveries that might protect ARKTIKA.1. But when shots ring out through the cold, their research expedition becomes a mad dash for survival. Because saving the world means nothing if they can’t save their daughter.Redeemable (Ebook): A standalone Peter Cotton short story
By Aly Monroe. 2013
REDEEMABLE is a standalone short story in the critically acclaimed Peter Cotton series following the fortunes of British spy Peter…
Cotton as he navigates the treacherous uncertainties of the post-war world. For all readers of John le Carre, Robert Harris, Eric Ambler and Graham GreeneFlash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories
By James Thomas, Robert Shapard. 2006
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror
By Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto. 2020
A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel…
and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder.In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches. But what also makes Tiny Nightmares so bloodcurdling—and unforgettable—are the real–world horrors that writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Lilliam Rivera, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott weave into their fictions, exploring how global warming, racism, social media addiction, and homelessness are just as frightening as, say, a vampire’s fangs sinking into your neck. Our advice? Read with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack. Featuring new stories from Samantha Hunt, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Rion Amilcar Scott, and more!Christmas is Murder: A chilling short story collection
By Val McDermid. 2020
'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' Daily Express__________The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a…
master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales.From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered beneath a silver birch tree, to an author who is haunted by the spiteful presence of a jealous writing partner, the characters McDermid conjures are enigmatic and dangerous, never above suspicion.Follow Tony Hill and Carol Jordan as they track a deadly killer who is preparing to strike on Christmas Day, and lose yourself in a festive exclusive - a recently unearthed case for a classic detective duo, set as the lights are going out across Europe.These evocative, atmospheric tales will shock and delight. This is the perfect book to curl up with as the frosty winter draws in and each night gets darker than the last, written by one of our greatest living crime writers. __________Praise for the Queen of Crime Val McDermid:'Brilliant . . . Sensational . . . Unforgettable' Guardian'Compulsively readable' Irish Times'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review'As good a psychological thriller as it is possible to get' Sunday Express'It grabs the reader by the throat and never lets go' Daily MailFool for Love: The Selected Short Stories
By Deborah Moggach. 2022
In one new volume, an irresistible collection of stories from two previous works, SMILE and CHANGING BABIES, with additional stories,…
previously unpublished in audio.'What informs Moggach's excellent stories is not just the exactness of her observation, but the quality of warmth and affection' Sunday TimesFrom swimming on Hampstead Heath to house-sitting with troublesome dogs, or illicit afternoon trysts in Soho to pedicures in Florence with recalcitrant teenagers, this collection of short stories includes some previously unpublished in audio, and covers the gamut of human nature - our foibles, our loves, our desires, hopes, ambitions and failures.Rich in observation and speckled with a delicious dark humour, FOOL FOR LOVE confirms Deborah Moggach's place as one of our finest observers of human life.'I love clever books that make me laugh. Deborah Moggach, queen of social comedy, is on top form' Cathy Rentzenbrink(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group LtdThe Oxford Book of American Short Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates. 1992
Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-six tales that combines classic…
works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Along with a few classics, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark Twain's "Cannibalism in the Cars," a story that reveals a darker side to his humor). From Melville come the juxtaposed tales "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," " From Flannery O'Connor we find "A Late Encounter With the Enemy," and from John Cheever, "The Death of Justina," one of Cheever's own favorites, though rarely anthologized. Also included are Charles W. Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Sarah Orne Jewett, William Carlos Williams, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston. Contemporary artists abound, including Bharati Mukherjee and Amy Tan, Alice Adams and David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason and Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich and John Edgar Wideman. Oates provides fascinating introductions to each writer, blending biographical information with her own trenchant observations about their work, plus a long introductory essay, in which she offers the fruit of years of reflection on a genre in which she herself is a masterVirgins: a collection of Outlander short stories (Outlander)
By Diana Gabaldon. 2017
Set about three years prior to the events recounted in Crosstitch, this story explains what happened to Jamie Fraser after…
his escape from Fort William. He’s suddenly an outlaw, wounded and with a price on his head, his family and home left in shambles, and his only choice is to seek refuge outside of Scotland with his best friend and blood brother, Ian Murray. As young mercenaries in France, neither Ian nor Jamie has yet killed a man or bedded a lass—but they’re trying. Taken from the anthology of Outlander short stories "Seven Stones to Stand or Fall".Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
By Paul Negri. 2003
Among the country's greatest artistic contributions, 20th-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human…
weaknesses familiar to all. It also provided fodder for other such important concepts as existentialism and even passive resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy, and practiced resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy and practiced successfully by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The 12 powerful short stories in this collection are excellent examples of writing by the foremost authors from Russia's Golden Age of Literature.Included are "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin; "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol; "The District Doctor" by Ivan S. Turgenev; "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy; "The Clothesmender" by Nicholay Leskov; "The Signal" by Vsevolod M. Garshin; "The Lady with the Toy Dog" by Anton Chekhov; "The White Mother" by Theodor Sologub"; "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Maxim Gorky; "The Outrage -- A True Story" by Alexander Kuprin; and "Lazarus" by Laonid Andreyev.Ideal for students of Russian literature, this magnificent collection will appeal to a wide audience.The Golden Prince: A Tudor Rose short story
By Alison Weir. 2023
Ahead of her spellbinding new novel, Henry VIII: The Heart & The Crown, Alison Weir invites readers to return to…
the sumptuous world of the Tudor court with this short companion story - told by the woman who knew Henry from the very beginning . . .1491, Eltham Palace. Anne Oxenbridge is still mourning the loss of her young child when she accepts the position of wet nurse to Prince Harry, the Queen's second son.Beyond the silver cradles and luxurious Turkish carpets of the royal nursery, she knows there is something special about this baby - but never expected to love him as her own.All too soon, singing and stories must be set aside in favour of books and learning. It appears that Anne's time with her golden prince is also over . . . until a twist of fate reunites her with the boy who must now become King Henry VIII of England.Includes an exclusive preview of Alison Weir's epic, enthralling and surprising new Tudor novel, Henry VIII: The Heart & Crown, coming 11 May 2023.Praise for Alison Weir's Tudor novels'A serious achievement' The Times 'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' Guardian'This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII's six wives to life as never before' Tracy Borman 'A brilliant evocation of the period' Kate Williams 'HIstory has the best stories and they should all be told like this' Conn Iggulden'Well researched and engrossing' Good Housekeeping 'Alison Weir makes history come alive as no one else' Barbara ErksineFlash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories
By James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne. 2023
A spectacular new anthology of the best short-short fiction from across the United States. It has been more than thirty…
years since the term “flash fiction” was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty. Featuring fiction from writers both established and new, including Aimee Bender, K-Ming Chang, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Bryan Washington, Robert Scotellaro, and Luis Alberto Urrea, Flash Fiction America is a brilliant collection, radiating creativity and bringing together some of the most compelling and exciting contemporary writers in the United States.Screams in the Night: Horror Short Story
By Gláucio Imada Tamura. 2022
Based on the movie "The Purge". The purge law was finally approved in Brazil. Mother and daughter race against time…
to save themselves. They just didn't expect so much bad stuff to happen in a single night.Tales: Short Stories (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
By Leroi Jones. 2014
"We owe profound thanks to Akashic Books for reissuing this important collection of Amiri Baraka's short stories. Baraka was, without…
question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement's expression of the 'Black Aesthetic,' which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late sixties. While known primarily for his plays, poems, and criticism of black music, Baraka was also a master of the short story form, as this collection attests. Tales first appeared in 1967 and is an impressionistic and sometimes surrealistic collection of short fiction, showcasing Amiri Baraka's great impact on African American literature of the 1950s and 1960s. Tales is a critical volume in Amiri Baraka's oeuvre, and an important testament to his remarkable literary legacy."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr."A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation...Worth reading to see the way [Baraka] feverishly tinkered with ways to explore a multiplicity of black experiences. An intense and button-pushing collection."--Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Amiri Baraka:"Baraka's stories evoke a mood of revolutionary disorder, conjuring an alternative universe in which a dangerous African-American underground, or a dangerous literary underground still exists...Baraka is at his best as a lyrical prophet of despair who transfigures his contentious racial and political views into a transcendent, 'outtelligent' clarity."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) on Tales of the Out & the GoneThe sixteen artful and nuanced stories in this reissue of Amiri Baraka's seminal 1967 collection fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavor to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fiction--provocative, witty, and, at times, bitter and aggressive.The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken
By Conrad Aiken. 1960
This indispensable volume, which includes the classic stories "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" and "Mr. Arcularis," is a testament to the…
dazzling artistry of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers A young woman passes through the countryside to visit her dying grandmother for a final time. A cabbie, exhausted from a long day's work, fights to get an intoxicated woman out of his taxi. A man on his way to a bachelor party tries to come to grips with the brutishness that lies within every gentleman--and finds that Bacardi cocktails do nothing to help. A master craftsman whose poetry and prose offer profound insight into the riddle of consciousness, Conrad Aiken thrills, disturbs, and inspires in all forty-one of these astute and eloquent tales.The Istanbul Exchange: A Yael Azoulay Short Story
By Adam Lebor. 2013
Meet Yael Azoulay, the brilliant and beautiful behind-the-scenes negotiator for the United Nations. Tasked with persuading an Afghan warlord—and friend…
of hers—to surrender to the Americans, she is quickly pulled into into a dangerous world of secret rendition, torture and arms trafficking to Syrian rebels. The high-stakes game soon turns deadly as Yael finds herself up against a shadowy agency of the US government. Everything depends on her next move....Fool for Love: The Selected Short Stories
By Deborah Moggach. 2022
Short stories from the acclaimed British novelist who &“writes unflinchingly about family life, divorce, children, and the ups and downs…
of relationships&” (The Independent). Witty, insightful, and keenly observant, the stories in Fool for Love revel in the complexities of modern relationships. From the joys and trials of marriage to the thrill of escaping into an illicit affair to mothers managing recalcitrant teens—or worse, adult children who unexpectedly return to the nest at mid-life—each revelatory tale is told in the wise and darkly humorous voice that is Deborah Moggach&’s trademark. Containing stories previously unpublished in book form, this collection confirms Moggach&’s place as one of our finest observers of human life. &“Quirky, sassy, well-crafted . . . Moggach at her best.&” —Times Literary Supplement &“What informs Moggach&’s excellent stories is not just the exactness of her observation, but the quality of warmth and affection.&” —Sunday TimesAhead of Time: A Collection of Short Stories
By Henry Kuttner. 1953
Ten classic sci fi and horror stories by “one of the major names in science fiction.” (The New York Times)…
From Hugo-nominated Henry Kuttner, one of the twentieth century’s most respected science fiction writers, comes a collection of stories described as “just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get” (J. Francis McComas and Anthony Boucher). These ten science fiction stories include: “Or Else,” “Home is the Hunter,” “By These Presents,” “De Profundis,” “Camouflage,” “Year Day,” “Ghost,” “Shock,” “Pile of Trouble,” and “Deadlock.” “[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas.” —Ray BradburySeason of Fury and Wonder: Short Stories
By Sharon Butala. 2019
Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In…
Butala’s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The stories in this book are the stories of women who have had experiences; women who have seen much of life and have felt the joy of success and the sting of shortcomings; women who hold opinions and come to conclusions about the lives they’ve lived. But Sharon Butala gives us more — not only is each story an observation on aging, each story in Season of Fury and Wonder pays tribute to a classic work of literature that has had an impact on Butala’s writing. Among these writers are Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, James Joyce, Shirley Jackson, Anton Chekhov, Alan Sillitoe, Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe. The result of Butala’s effort is a series of deeply felt tributes to these writers, to the creativity and their power to inspire.The Art & Craft of the Short Story
By Rick Demarinis. 2000
The Art & Craft of the Short Story explores every key element of short fiction, including story structure and form;…
creative and believable characters; how to begin and where to end; and the generation of ideas; as well as technical aspects such as point of view; plot; description and imagery; and theme. Examples from the work of a wide variety are used. The author includes five of his own stories to demonstrate these topics.Hot Night, Alien in Tree: A Short Story
By Robert Silverberg. 1990
An unsuspecting newlywed finds himself the subject of alien scientific study in this humorous tale from the Hugo and Nebula…
Award–winning author. After an evening out to dinner, one sultry midsummer eve, Charlie finds himself in the right place at the wrong time: lying underneath an oak tree after making love with his new wife. But while Maria drifts off into dreamland, Charlie finds himself being watched by a one-eyed alien in the branches above. No leering voyeur is this alien; it&’s here on research purposes only and has been lucky to observe human copulation. Now it has a favor to ask of Charlie: a personal demonstration. To make the situation more palatable, it transforms into one of Charlie&’s beautiful ex-girlfriends. To keep the alien&’s eye from wandering to his sleeping wife, Charlie will have to make the ultimate sacrifice . . .