Short stories, American
Found in 261 Collections and/or Records:
A bad year for almanacs, 2014
No almanac can truly predict what its year will bring. Still, the characters in these stories want apologies from their almanacs. They want their years back. By relaying their failures, triumphs, and doodles, A Bad Year for Almanacs seeks to tell these st
A changeable sort, 2002
A collection of short stories, 2001
A day in the life of : Andrea, Elena, Caridad and Sylvia, 2005
A collection of stories that represent the constant gender and class struggles that Latino women experience when they confront either their political loyalties to their mother country and, their personal dreams. -- abstract.
A dozen stories, 2005
A Dozen Stories is a collection of stories totaling twelve. -- abstrace.
A dream of ponies, 2000
A human response, 2001
A place in the sun, 2004
This collection of short stories primarily examines the conflicts between women and men and what happens when things go wrong. Through conflict and failure, the protagonists obtain a better understanding of self and with that, the ability to change.
A sack of hammers, 2004
Examines relationships between people who love each other deeply, but not always gently or kindly -- abstract.
A scrap of her blue dress, 2005
In these collected short stories, set throughout the 1980's and 1990's, ranging from Maine to San Francisco, a variety of characters find themselves caught somewhere between fantasy, what they imagine or wish themselves and their lives to be, and reality.
A simple, happy time, 2007
A collection of six short stories set in Boston, Virginia and Northern Florida. Recurring themes include father/daughter relationships, the importance of memory, and the struggle to have faith in life, whether it be in religion, relationships, or oneself.
A Whitechapel portrait, 2006
A Whitechapel Portrait is a collection of 5 interrelated stories by a portrait photographer named David Bishop. The stories stretch across David's life, from his first trip away from his fledgling family to the publication of his life's work. -- abstract
About you and the whale, 2014
Somewhere, I read that the moon and the Earth are getting farther apart all of the time. That is what my stories are about.--Abstract.
After, 2004
Alabaster dolls in the wakes of passing fish, 2001
All things gone mad, 2005
A collection of stories designed to highlight the small details that can seemingly throw one's world into upheaval. -- abstract.
Almost gone, 2005
A book of linked stories about the lives and relationships of a Portuguese-American family told in the voices of ten different characters. -- abstract.
American tramplings and other stories, 2014
A collection of short stories that primarily examine the American relationship with fear: fear of death, war, love, desire, success, failure, and the unknown. The settings are both historical and modern, realistics and surreal, familiar and foreign; each