short stories

The ten short stories in The Centurion and the Songbird retell stories from the Gospels, each from the point of view of a character in the narrative, providing an "inside" perspective on the Gospels. Stimulating and engaging, these stories read deeply into the biblical tales, bringing the Bible's message and characters to life and opening hearts to new, imaginative understandings.

These stories raise many more questions than they answer. The endings are ambiguous, leaving the situation hanging.

These stories raise many more questions than they answer. The endings are ambiguous, leaving the situation hanging.

These stories raise many more questions than they answer. The endings are ambiguous, leaving the situation hanging.

These stories raise many more questions than they answer. The endings are ambiguous, leaving the situation hanging.

Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat," "Mazel and Shlimazel," and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp.".

Contents: Looking for Kelly Dahl, Orphans of the Helix, The Ninth of Av, On K2 with Kanakaredes, and The end of gravity.

The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- On being crazy / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The overcoat / John P. Davis -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke -- On friday morning / Langston Hughes -- So peaceful in Contents: the country / Carl Ruthven Offord -- And/or / Sterling Brown -- Fighter / John Caswell Smith -- The homecoming / Frank Yerby -- How John Boscoe outsung the devil / Arthur P. Davis -- Solo on the drums / Ann Petry -- Mama's missionary money / Chester Himes -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Exodus / James Baldwin -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray -- Contents: (con't) The senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller -- A matter of time / Frank London Brown -- Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- The convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- The winds of change / Loyle Hairston -- The screamers / LeRoi Jones -- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- On trains / James Allen McPherson -- Marigolds / Eugenia W. Collier -- Steady going up / Maya Angelou -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The organizer's Contents: wife / Toni Cade Bambara -- Jesse / Rosemarie Robotham -- The wife / Jennifer Jordan.

Representations of authors from a diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Collection of short stories, poems.