Short stories, American
Found in 367 Collections and/or Records:
Getting thick and heavy, 1996
Ghost chasing, 2002
Ghost neighbors, 2001
God don't make no ugly, 2012
God Don't Make No Ugly is a collection of stories about characters trying to gather the courage to write, rewrite, or edit their own stories. -- abstract.
Good things could happen, 1999
Grand opening, 1990
Gravity, and other stories, 1991
Happy families are all the same, 2007
This Master's Thesis is a collection of short stories about families--most of them drawn from the suburban South--and the people they shape, limit, comfort, exclude, and sometimes destroy. Comprised of longer stories and short shorts, traditional narrativ
Heat wave, 1998
Here among strangers, 2012
Through three generations of characters and an array of narrative techniques, these six stories explore the impact of cultural expectations on our personal choices and desires. -- abstract.
Higher ground, 1997
Hit by ambulance, 2005
This collection of short stories deals with betrayal, surprise, and false saviors. -- abstract.
Honest lies, 2000
Hour to hour, 1997
How can I help you?, 2007
Many of the stories in this collection of fiction are very short, meant to offer a brief glimpse, or window, in the life of a particular character in a single moment. While there is no singular theme in How can I help you? much of the writing considers is
How close or how far, 2011
This graduate thesis is a collection of six short stories and six short short stories. The scope of these narratives covers an incredible range, sharing the journeys of a mother and daughter struggling to understand one another, a boy with wings, a killer
How I became the tiger tamer, 2015
Part of a collection of linked stories set in the Pacific Northwest that trace the history of a captive Sumatran tiger and the humans who encounter him as caretakers, trainers, and rescuers. --Abstract.
How I got this way, 2003
How the end starts, 2011
It is not so much the conclusion (a terminated relationship, a sudden disillusionment) that is tough; it is that ethereal moment between being in the throes of something, and the final, resolute ending of it. This collection of short stories and short sho
How to get here from there, 2008
This collection represents a fusion of two ideas, one conceptual and the other personal. My first subject is narration, the act of telling stories... The second subject of this collection is the process of grieving. -- abstract.