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Safety patrol: short stories
By Michael Martone. 1988
These stories focus on the lack of safety in life, equating realization of this vulnerability with a loss of innocence.…
Martone accents the fragility of human arrangements, the randomness of disaster, and the vulnerability of anyone crossing the road. In one story, the narrator, whose father worked for the phone company, recalls riding the company's float in a parade and being obsessed with telephones and securityTrust me: short stories
By John Updike. 1987
Elegantly written tales, many of which were first published in the "New Yorker," focussing on divorce, upper-middle-class American life-style, and…
suburban sex. "Still of Some Use" shows a family torn apart by divorce who momentarily come together to clean out their old attic. "Pygmalion" comments upon second wives, and "The City" captures a divorced salesman's "essential solitude." Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexCollected short stories: v. 3
By W. Somerset Maugham. 1952
Crazy women: short stories
By Jack Matthews. 1985
Collection of fourteen stories featuring a variety of "crazy" women and their husbands, fathers, sons, and lovers. In one of…
the stories a brutal grandfather counsels his sullen fourteen-year-old grandson, "Don't ever let them [women] ever get a hold on you." Another story, narrated by the lawyer who has been her lifelong friend, centers on a slightly mad, verse-scribbling spinster, whose father has just died leaving her to search his farmhouse for her inheritance. Some descriptions of sexNine women: short stories
By Shirley Ann Grau. 1985
Nine stories, all with a woman as their central character. "Hunter" concerns the only survivor of a plane crash that…
kills her family, who thereafter pursues her own death. "Ending" relates the wedding of the daughter of an affluent black couple whose own marriage is dissolving. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexCollected short stories, v. 1
By W. Somerset Maugham. 1977
Thirty short stories set in the Pacific, England, France, and Spain and written by the acclaimed British author between 1920…
and 1945. Includes the story "Rain," the sardonic tragedy about a prudish missionary and the prostitute, Sadie ThompsonShort stories, five decades
By Irwin Shaw. 1978
Taking care: short stories
By Joy Williams. 1982
Sixteen short stories about men and women caught in bleak struggles between love and death. In the title story, an…
aging preacher cares for his infant, abandoned granddaughter while his wife is dying of leukemiaThe warning: a short story
By Sophie Hannah. 2015
Single mom Chloe leaves her nine-year-old daughter's audition music in the car. They are rescued when a bicyclist offers to…
retrieve it. After Chloe brings him a thank-you gift at his work, she receives an odd warning from the receptionist about how dangerous he is. Strong language. 2015The collected short stories
By Jeffrey Archer. 1998
A compilation of the author's previously published short stories featuring a final surprise or red herring at the end. In…
"Never Stop on the Motorway," a woman alone is trailed by a maniac in a van. In "The Perfect Murder," a man accidentally kills his mistress and manages to go undetectedCollected Short Stories, Volume 2
By W. Somerset Maugham. 1951
24 stories from the master: THE VESSEL OF WRATH, THE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, THE ALIEN CORN, THE…
CREATIVE IMPULSE, VIRTUE, THE MAN WITH THE SCAR, THE CLOSED SHOP, THE BUM, THE DREAM, THE TREASURE, THE COLONEL'S LADY, LORD MOUNTDRAGO, THE SOCIAL SENSE, THE VERGER, IN A STRANGE LAND, THE TAIPAN, THE CONSUL, A FRIEND IN NEED, THE ROUND DOZEN, THE HUMAN ELEMENT, JANE, FOOTPRINTS IN THE JUNGLE, THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY23 Hindi Short Stories
By Jainendra Kumar.. 1997
Modern Bodo Short Stories
By Joykanta Sarma. 2010
No Remorse (Short Story)
By Paula Daly. 2014
A SHORT STORY FROM THE AUTHOR OF JUST WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU? Catherine has returned to the sleepy…
Lake District town of Windermere, after ten years away. Once successful and wealthy, she's shunned by her old friends and desperate for work. But there's someone that's keeping her here . . . and something that she's got to do before she leaves for ever . . .Teaching the Short Story
By Ailsa Cox. 2011
The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it…
offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre. This book offers a practical guide to the short story in the classroom, covering all these fields and more.The Postcolonial Short Story
By Maggie Awadalla, Paul March-Russell. 2013
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may…
be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today - the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.Three More Short Stories
By Madeleine Oh. 2014
Another trio of naughty stories from Madeleine Oh. A married couple celebrate an anniversary in a rather special way, a…
young woman gores to unusual and rather satisfying lengths to please her Turkish lover, and finally a young woman discovers a very specific use for a rather intriguing bed. The final read is an excerpt from Sunday afternoon with Mac a kinky novella from Elloras Cave.The Suitor (Short Story)
By Mary Balogh. 2013
Mary Balogh's charming and warm-hearted eBook original short story is a testament to the steadfast devotion of true love, as…
a young miss on the marriage mart cleverly plots to claim her one and only. If circumstances were different, Philippa Dean would be happy to fall in love with Viscount Darleigh. He is certainly the perfect gentleman and everything her parents want: titled, handsome, respectable. His blindness only reinforces his quiet power and strength. But Philippa does not love him. Her heart is already taken and there is only one thing she can do: Thwart the matchmaking plans. Julian Crabbe is desperate to rescue the woman he fell in love with two years ago. Then, he was a reckless cub, justly earning Philippa's parents' scorn. Now, he is every inch a respectable suitor and determined to prove it before it is too late. Intrude on the viscount's house party? Gladly. Interrupt the match of the season? Happily. For nothing can stop the power of a love that will not be denied. Includes a preview of Mary Balogh's delicious new novel, The Arrangement!The Neighbor (Short Story)
By Dean Koontz. 2014
Every city has its wonders and mysteries. For the Pomerantz family, the most disturbing mystery at the moment is the…
identity and the intentions of their new neighbor, in this eBook original short story--a prequel to The City, the gripping and moving new novel by Dean Koontz. The year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other's best friend, united by a boundless interest in the world beyond their dysfunctional parents' unhappy home. But even the troubled Pomerantz household will seem to be a haven compared to the house next door, after an enigmatic and very secretive new neighbor takes up residence in the darkest hours of the night.Acclaim for Dean Koontz "A rarity among bestselling writers, Koontz continues to pursue new ways of telling stories, never content with repeating himself."--Chicago Sun-Times "Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. 'Serious' writers . . . might do well to examine his technique."--The New York Times Book Review "[Koontz] has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match."--Los Angeles Times "Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition."--USA Today "Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of [Koontz's] work. . . . One of the master storytellers of this or any age."--The Tampa Tribune "A literary juggler."--The Times (London)Temporary Shelter: Short Stories
By Mary Gordon. 1987
A book of profound and candid stories by one of America's best novelistsTemporary Shelter is a collection of twenty expertly…
crafted short stories by Mary Gordon. The characters here are of diverse ages, classes, and nationalities, yet all are alike in their desperate need of safe harbor. A crippled girl must contend not only with disability, but also with her toxic mother and aunts, who block her on the path to maturity. Elsewhere, a woman afflicted by a fearful anxiety that has given her a "death in life" grapples with how not to pass the same curse on to her daughter.As in Gordon's acclaimed novels, these stories dissect fraught relationships between men and women, from the shattering effects of divorce to marriages turned numb and cold. Skillfully and empathetically plumbing her characters' depths, Gordon yields rare catharsis with Temporary Shelter.