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Dead Reckoning And Other Stories. SF with attitude! Looking for SF that's intelligent, action-packed, and humorous? This collection of ten short stories features a cast of characters all in need of some serious therapy. Hector discovers life after death ain't easy when your shorts itch and...

**“Mesmerizing and magical. . . . A stunning book.” —NPR.org “Short stories so imaginative — and yet so perplexingly familiar — they could have formed in a dream. . . . Taut, meticulously balanced and written in Loory’s direct, witty prose, his own stories take a page from Aesop:...

This is one of the ten short stories in Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López. This short story poses a novel theory as to the role of black holes in both the creation and destruction of an endless number of universes that coexist...

In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories is the new collection of sixteen fantastic, ironic tales by Terry Bisson. Terry Bisson uses the fantastic genres as do Kurt Vonnegut or Harlan Ellison, and like them, he is one of the strikingly original voices in short fiction today, with an audience that...

Get Back is a collection of twelve short stories by Don Tassone. Though most have been published in different online journals before, this is his first collection of stories in print.  These stories share the theme of discovery or actually of rediscovery, rediscovery of talents, pursuits, and loves...

The third annual volume of short stories, each originally published monthly on www.mlbuchman.com. It began in 2014 as a gift for my fans, but I quickly discovered the joy of the short form. I have a lifelong love of short fiction as a reader, but it took me until 2014 to begin writing it. Inside...

A group of short stories. All with different meanings and aims. Taking the test: A short story about the worries and struggles one goes through before, during and after a test. Girl Meets Boy: A short romance about a girl and boy who finally achieve their goals. Dear Ian: A short dramatic romance...

First published in 1846 in the present form, famous English story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's book 'Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories' is a collection of fictional short stories. The collection includes several previously-published short stories, and was named in honor of The Old...

The short stories in the collection "Many in One" seek to build bridges across countries and cultures. A product of globalization, they have literary ancestry in both the eastern and the western hemispheres. While giving the final touches to the preparations for his own prospective death...

Step back into the exciting and humorous American West with several selected short stories and the novella, Sundays Colt from award winning Old West fiction and outdoor writer Randy D. Smith. Read fictional accounts of the death of the notorious man burner of the plains, Print Olive, and the first documented...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning...

A treasure trove of Now & Later stories. This megavolume includes numerous heart-warming Christmas stories to read around the gaily decorated Christmas tree, near a warm yuletide fire, or at a festively decorated holiday table. These stories are sandwiched between two new stories: THE MAGNIFICENT,...

**Are you hungry for a new story? This selection of bite-sized short stories might just be the perfect treat for you. ** Every man and one thought, every thought and one story. Romantic, humorous, entertaining and touching, the whole world in your hands. Ordinary and extraordinary people share...

Roachkiller and Other Stories, winner of the 2013 Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology/Short Story Collection and the 2013 International Latino Book Award for Best eBook/Fiction! From an exciting new voice in noir . . . “If there is any justice in the world, [R. Narvaez] should become...