short stories, american

Collects a series of short stories set in times ranging from the seventeenth century up to the present, on multiple continents, drawing upon and inspired by memoirs, detective stories, newspaper accounts, and speculative fiction to offer new takes on our past and present--from an escaped slave's thoughts on liberty during the American Revolution to a free Jim meeting, decades later, with Huckleberry Finn, his former raftmate.

An anthology of short horror stories originally published in 1998, featuring twenty tales of supernatural fear and psychological dread by a variety of authors, including Harlan Ellison, Tanith Lee, Peter Straub, and others.

A collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time.

Presents ten short stories by nineteenth-century American author O. Henry, including "The Last Leaf, " "Springtime a? la Carte, " and the title work about the Christmas sacrifices of a young married couple.

N.K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

"A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman"--OCLC.

"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this . . . anthology features original short stories from thirty . . . authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child"--Provided by publisher.

"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"--.

Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.