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2023.
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"The three stories presented here present an "examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan’s earliest to her most recent work. In 'So Late in the Day,' Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in 'The Long and Painful Death,' a writer’s arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence...
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"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this...
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"Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers--characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,"...
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New Wind Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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This collection of short stories focuses on moments in life when something turns, a choice is made, a promise kept or broken. With vivid and precise details, these quiet tales introduce you to characters whose inner lives are both troubled and eloquent. You smell the permeating odors in a rundown Chicago apartment building, touch the texture of a bear's thick fur, feel your feet scraping against the coils of a hairy rope ladder in the bathtub. These...
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Luna Blue Books
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF JUST RUNNING AWAY FROM IT ALL? In Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road, free-spirited Americans fleeing mundane and disappointing lives head south in search of a fresh start. When they end up in Playa Paraiso—a lush, unspoiled beach town on Mexico’s idyllic Caribbean coast—they discover the hedonistic and unpredictable world of the tropics. Poppa, the savvy, irreverent owner of the local beach bar, is always...
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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In this first time collaboration between authors Ran Walker and Sabin Prentis, they explore the lives of four people who occupy a brownstone in a heavily gentrified neighborhood in the city of New Hollis. With stories ranging from the owner who wrestles with the pressure to sell her building to the former DJ who is finding a new life after parole, the four stories in Four Floors examine the intersection of gentrification, hip-hop, love, life, and...
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Schaffner Press, Inc.
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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SLEEPING DRAGONS is the first volume of short fiction by the acclaimed Bolivian author Magela Baudoin to be published in English. In this collection-the winner of 2015 Gabriel GarcIa Marquez Spanish-American Short Story Prize-her deceptively innocent portrayals of day to day lives belie the unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid and on the verge of falling apart. The young woman in the title story embarks on an eco-adventure to escape a recent...
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2024.
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English
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
10) Company: stories
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Told in 13 stories, this multigenerational saga follows an African-American family and their friends as they navigate the challenges and joys of life-from the 1960s to the 2000s, from Atlantic City to Washington D.C.
11) Dragon palace
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Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny. From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty-in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don't...
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Tor Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writier, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years"--Back cover
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Traversing Z Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Dwarves and golems, Fates and minotaurs, metamorphoses, murder, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Each story in L.S. Johnson’s remarkable collection demonstrates the limitless capacity of intelligent speculative fiction to enthrall, inspire, and amaze.
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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When one thinks of classic fairy tales and folklore, it's usually the enchanted forests of Europe that spring to mind. But in Charles M. Skinner's Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, the author proves that scrappy upstart America is an equally rich source of myths and legends. This engaging volume brings together dozens of old favorites and more obscure tales, as well.
16) Being ace: an anthology of queer, trans, femme, and disabled stories of asexual love and connection
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Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories. From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters, the stories of this anthology are anything but conventional. Whether adventuring through space, outsmarting a vengeful water spirit, or surviving haunted cemeteries, no two...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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A collection of stories featuring kids who don't have much, yet carve out life lessons and minor victories for themselves in their fantastical worldsThis YA collection of Twilight Zone-inspired short stories is a stunning assortment of modern-day twists on classic fables and science fiction standards that tell of a girl who can live in yesterday, a boy who can see through mountains, and a closet monster hunter. These impoverished youth don't have...
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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A quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is the person who draws his mother's ghost out of the bullet hole in the wall near where she was executed....
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