short stories

A debut collection of seventeen short stories set around the world and highlighting diverse women of color who experience love, grief, violence, and hatred. Features feminist, queer, religious, and immigrant stories.

Collects a series of short fiction stories about the ties that bind people to each other and to the places they call home, including a story about a woman who, desperate for a child of her own, weaves one from hair, with terrible results, as well as a story about a future world ravaged by floods in which "experts" have discovered how to "fix the equation of a person.".

Contains seven rare stories by Dr. Seuss which were first published in magazines between 1948 and 1959, featuring "The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinnigo- Zanniga, " "Gustav the Goldfish, " "Todd and Todd, " "Steak for Supper, " "The BippoloSeed, " "The Strange Shirt Spot, " and others, and including an introduction and commentary on each story.

A collection of eight mysteries featuring detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson.

Four short stories about Garfield the cat.

Contains seven short stories featuring five teenagers looking to escape expectations, a doll that wishes to be taken home by the perfect child, and a squirrel who contemplates life and death. Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout.

"Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and inventive new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology"--.

An anthology of stories in various genres, featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators, ranging from established best selling authors to debut authors.

A collection of thirteen scary stories by bestselling and award-winning authors, including Ryan Brown's "Jeepers Peepers, " Meg Cabot's "The Night Hunter, " and others.

"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--.