short stories, american

A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.

Thom Jones, Andrea Lee, William F. Van Wert, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Eastman, Cornelia Nixon, Rilla Askew, Antonya Nelson, John H. Richardson, Diane Levenberg, John Van Kirk, Alice Adams, Stephen Dixon, Lorrie Moore, Kate Wheeler, Peter Welner, C. E. Poverman, Jennifer Egan,. Charles Johnson, Linda Svendsen, Daniel Stern, Josephine Jacobsen and Steven Schwartz.

"Where do authors get their ideas? And how do they turn those ideas into stories? This anthology looks at the process of taking real-life experiences and turning them into works of engaging fiction. The collection features award-winning and bestselling middle-grade authors who provide both original fictional short stories as well as the nonfiction accounts that inspired them. The contributing authors include Julia Alvarez, Karen Cushman, Margarita Engle, Dee Garretson, Nathan Hale, Matthew Kirby, Claire Legrand, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Linda Sue Park, Adam Rex, Gary Schmidt, Alan Sitomer, Caroline Starr Rose, Heidi Stemple, Rita Williams-Garcia, Tracy Edward Wymer, Lisa Yee, and Jane Yolen"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of short stories by teenage writers, exploring the theme of the outsider.

A collection of twenty stories dealing with morality, the afterlife, guilt and more, with autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story.

An anthology of stories inspired by classic horror tales features contributions by leading suspense and young adult authors, including Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake.