Short stories, American
Found in 367 Collections and/or Records:
Interstate and other stories, 1999
It was broke when I got here, 2012
This is a collection of short stories that explores characters in danger of stagnating of imploding within their own families. Told partly from the perspective of children and teens, this collection is a map of damaged relationships, an examination of wha
It's August and they're leaving, 1999
It's coming back to me, 2009
The stories in this thesis all involve male-female relationships and the complications that arise during these relationships. -- abstract.
I've met someone, 2014
Collection of seven short stories, which are connected thematically by the idea of the encounter.--Abstract.
Jackalope love, 2002
Jellyfish and other stories, 2000
Jet trails : collected short fiction, 2010
Like its namesake, Jet Trails is simultaneously ethereal and commonplace. The stories contained in this volume are capable of bringing readers to places familiar and strange: to a shop that houses a seemingly enchanted bird or a cursed gravesite, to a dri
Just a glimpse of it : a collection of writings by Christopher Stearns, 1993
Keenness-- a collection of stories, 2003
Kleenex and raisins, 1998
Last seen on, 2011
In Last Seen On, the stories are told through a different unnamed character's perspective and follow their life up to the moment of that narrator's disappearance. The stories, most of which are loosely based on real characters or situations, range in sett
Leaning toward redemption, 1994
Leave of absence and other stories, 2004
In these five stories, the main characters either question their lives or the reality that surrounds them, but rarely do they question both.
Leftovers, 2013
Examines the struggle to survive loss, particularly the death of a family member, and how that struggle influences the trajectory of the protagonists' lives as well s the lives of those caught in their orbit.--Abstract.
Lessons in subtraction, 2008
'Lessons in Subtraction' is a collection of stories about characters who struggle to connect - with the past, with the present, and most importantly, with other people. Inner desires are often at odds with outer reality, forcing characters to confront th
Life list, 1995
Life on the sun, 2001
Lightning goes up, 2011
This is a short story collection of six stories. Of the six stories, three are linked ('The Browning,' 'Light and Easy Down on the Water' and Lightning Goes Up') and are centered around three male generations of a family. My primary theme throughout the c