Short stories, American
Found in 367 Collections and/or Records:
The beauty of scars, 2011
The Beauty of Scars is a story collection. A recurring theme is a the gap between who the characters are and who they perceive or wish themselves to be: again and again in these stories, the characters struggle to maintain the delusions they have about th
The beginning of their evolution, 2002
The best gift ever : a collection of prose and cons, 1992
The blacksmith's boy, 1995
The chain saw artist and other stories, 1995
The confines of home, 2003
The dark backing, 1996
The desk clerk at the Holiday Inn Pasadena welcomes His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 2001
The dummy & other stories, 2013
While these stories are not linked, there are common themes. There is longing, there is adventure, there is longing for adventure. There is mischief. And there is some very, very questionable parenting. -- abstract.
The economics of love, 1999
The edge of a nearby something, 2010
The stories in The Edge of a Nearby Something examine and explore ways in which the characters seek to reconcile the traumatic events of their lives--happenings in the past and present--with their own complex and psychological experiences and philosophica
The edge of the continent, 1995
The firebird, 2007
In this collection of five stories, linked by various characters and locations, musicians struggle to balance their artistic ambitions with their familial and romantic relationships. -- abstract.
The frozen sea, 2007
These stories are about choices, and how a person's decisions can resonate in unexpected ways, both in one's own life and the lives of others. The characters in these stories each confront the aftermath of their own choices, and face feelings of guilt, s
The habit of false starts and other stories, 1997
The history of forests : and other stories, 1997
The history you've been trying to write, 1996
The impossibility of desire, 1996
The irresistible aroma of Stacy Kaplan and other stories, 1998
The stories collected in The Irresistible Aroma of Stacy Kaplan are about possibilities--for love, recovery, friendship, children--sometimes realized, sometimes thwarted, but always as necessary as oxygen.--abstract.