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    • Seashells, Gator Bones, and the Church of Everlasting Liability
      Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      June 2013

      Seashells, Gator Bones, and the Church of Everlasting Liability

      Stories from a Small Florida Town in the 1930s

      by Susan Adger (author)

      In the 1930s, the fictional town of Toad Springs, Florida, is filled with the adventures and daily whatnots of worthy, down-to-earth folk such as Flavey Stroudamore, owner of a three-legged gator named Precious who also just happens to have a birthmark of Jesus on his side. Joining Flavey are Buck Blander, pastor of the Church of Everlasting Liability, who honed his preaching skills in prison but doesn't tell his parishioners, and Sweetie Mooney, whose attempt to run a beauty shop in her aunt's home fails after tragedies with head lice and henna hair dye. This lively, heartwarming collection of tales from the Sunshine State will inspire you to smile!

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    • Best Paris Stories
      Literary Fiction
      January 2012

      Best Paris Stories

      Anthology of the winners of the Paris Short Story Contest

      by Marie Houzelle

      For some, Paris is home, for others, merely a dream. By turns humorous, bittersweet, historical or surreal, each of these carefully selected stories invites us to explore a different facet of Paris. BEST PARIS STORIES brings together the winning short stories of the 2011 Paris Short Story Contest with works by Jeannine Alter, Bob Levy, Lisa Burkitt, Nafkote Tamirat, Marie Houzelle, Jo Nguyen, Julia Mary Lichtblau, Mary Byrne, Marie Houzelle, Jane M. Handel, and Jim Archibald. "Exciting new voices from the winners of the 2011 Paris Short Story Contest" - Paris Writers News

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    • Bonds of Love and Blood
      Fiction
      January 2016

      Bonds of Love and Blood

      by Marylee Macdonald

      Whether far from home or longing to escape, the people in these stories find themselves displaced from their normal routines. They misread the signals and wind up stranded on lonely beaches or seizing the moment before happiness flits away. "MacDonald applies insight, power, and delicacy to create characters between whom the psychic space virtually sizzles." —FOREWORD REVIEWS "engrossing"—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and/or trust abroad or at home."—KIRKUS REVIEWS "Author Marylee MacDonald has done an absolutely masterful job of presenting her readers with short stories so beautifully written that the characters will stay in your mind long after the story, and indeed the book, is done."—READERS’ FAVORITE "In her collection of twelve brilliantly-written short stories, MacDonald explores the pain and beauty of human relationships. MacDonald’s writing is raw and visceral, creating a strong emotional connection between her characters and the reader."—US REVIEW OF BOOKS "Bonds of Love and Blood is brilliantly written and nothing less than emotive."—HOLLYWOOD BOOK REVIEWS "Poignant, honest,and compelling... Highly recommended."—PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW "MacDonald dares to question which is the greater, more unsettling risk: the alluring intimacy of foreign terrains, or the intimate dangers of domesticity?" —Tara Ison, author of Reeling Through Life and Child out of Alcatraz "Her characters remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection. Savor this book. Enjoy being in the hands of a generous and visionary writer." —Eileen Favorite, author of The Heroines "These elegantly crafted stories brim with emotional wisdom and eloquence. Bearing you around the world, they will imprint themselves, deeply, indelibly, upon your heart." —Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino

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    • Bright Matter
      Fiction
      January 2019

      Bright Matter

      Close Fiction

      by Sina Kamala Kaufmann

      What if men were forced to be female for a day? What if a global wealth tax turned into an addictive game for the super-rich? Bright Matter can be read as a humanistic manifesto between hope and surrender. 13 stories that explore unconventional behaviour and introduce new kinds of borders with huge media acclaim. Each story is a brief, tight twist on the modern world, its contradictions, and the personal struggle to find direction within it. Funny, absurd, tragic, unexpected. These visions of utopian social innovations for the future nonetheless remain closely tied to our present daily lives and ever-never-changing human nature. The narratives open up unthinkable paths; traveling down them may, at times, feel like sex in space. Not as technically constructed as the work of Ted Chiang, and not as pessimistic about human nature as Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, Kaufmann’s stories target a growing audience of individuals who feel doubt about themselves and about the future. Without giving pre-formatted answers, she takes doubts and desires seriously and explores different possible ways forward. Without any media spending, the book has been widely recognised and has already received a number of excited reviews. The 13 stories in Bright Matter address the questions we all carry around with us: what the hell is going on? And: where are we going? Sample translations into English available.

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    • The Seasons Go By
      Fiction
      October 2019

      The Seasons Go By

      by Kurniawan Gunadi

      How desperate you are to change your current life path? Even though you are aware, that it is unlikely to happen? From Indonesian bestseller author, Kurniawan Gunadi, comes a new prose which tackles about human insecurities. He addresses personal matters and common issues to help us understanding destiny and whichever plan the universe makes for us.

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    • Assesta's Short Stories - Water
      Fiction
      May 2019

      Assesta's Short Stories - Water

      by Assesta

      In this second volume of short stories by the authors of Assesta (Writers Association of Alentejo), water was the chosen theme to bring to life the imagination of writers and illustrators of Assesta.Short stories or poetic prose wanderings, the reader will find everything in these small texts followed by marvellous illustrations, all made in Alentejo.

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    • nothing else to append... book 3
      Fiction
      April 2019

      nothing else to append... book 3

      by Vítor Encarnação, Joaquim Rosa

      A series of two year newspaper chronicles (2017-2019) in the form of beautiful poetic prose, with no particular theme in the background, with the exception of people and their general behaviour towards life, death, family, love or the lack of it, nature, land, home.

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    • nothing else to append... book 2
      Fiction
      April 2017

      nothing else to append... book 2

      by Vítor Encarnação, Joaquim Rosa

      A series of two year newspaper chronicles (2015-2017) in the form of beautiful poetic prose, with no particular theme in the background, with the exception of people and their general behaviour towards life, death, family, love or the lack of it, nature, land, home.

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    • A Heart Too Big
      Fiction

      A Heart Too Big

      by Eider Rodríguez

      UN CORAZÓN DEMASIADO GRANDE (A Heart Too Big), is a wonderful book of short stories by Eider Rodríguez. The book was published in 2018 in Basque and in 2019 in Spanish and Catalan (Literatura Random House and Edicions del Periscopi). Eider Rodríguez (1977) writes in Basque and translates herself into Spanish. The Basque edition was awarded the Euskadi Prize for Literature (the most prestigious in the Basque language) and the Booksellers of the Basque Country Prize (alongside with Vivian Gornik’s Fierce Attachments). Great reviews have appeared in the most influential and prestigious Spanish literary supplements (Babelia, El Cultural, ABC, La Vanguardia). El País/Babelia chose the book as ‘Book of the week’. And the author has been compared to other talended writers such as John Cheever, Samantha Swheblin, Sara Mesa or Raymond Carver. The editions in Catalan and Spanish consist of the complete translation of Eider Rodríguez's last book of stories in Basque (also entitled A Heart Too Big, which is about 120 pages) followed by a selection of stories from the three previous books by Eider Rodríguez. Un corazón demasiado grande was included in the list of Best Books of 2019 by newspapers as El País and ABC.

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    • SHE AND HERS
      Women's Fiction

      SHE AND HERS

      by Mara Charmanta

      In this women’s short stories collection, you could stay so close to each woman’s lives, secrets, hidden truths and thoughts that seem impossible to be spoken out or put into words. Each story seems so different and separate, but at the same time, so charmingly and familiar. Those stories carry us away while at the same time, some figures of the women that impacted our lives may appear right before our eyes: our grandmother, mother, sister, girlfriend, wife, lover, daughter, the girl sitting right next to us on the subway and moreover… even our own selves. It works like a spectrum of souls and humanities, exploring the subtle, complicated inner world of the women and the intricate, intertwined relationship among them. Through those affairs and trial matters in the daily lives, we could see each live soul and read their characters, independent, generous, confessions, greed, envy, selfish, betray, redemption, dedication, love, friendship and every single feminine side.

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    • Acceleration Hours
      Fiction

      Acceleration Hours

      Stories

      by Jesse Goolsby

      From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby’s Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America’s twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfather’s grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope, Acceleration Hours is an intense and necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.

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    • Selected Stories by Xuemo
      Fiction
      October 2018 - October 2023

      Selected Stories by Xuemo

      A collection of seven wonderful stories taking place on the silk road.

      by Xuemo

      Selected Stories by Xue Mo is a collection of four wonderful stories taking place on the silk road.The stories features the desert, camels, dholes, yellow sand and a great number of other elements typical in the life of western China,and expressing the themes of love, faith, eternity, life and death, and depicting the souls of the farmers of western China stubbornly arise from pains and suffering.The book is a bridge to the literature world of the novels by the author Xuemo,fitting for reading in fragmented time. Selected Stories by Xue Mo has been translated into more than twenty different languages until now.

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    • The Membranes
      Fiction

      The Membranes

      by Chi Ta-Wei

      It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes―heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies―into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader’s own role.

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    • قيود طينية
      Fiction

      قيود طينية

      by خامسة آل فرحان

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    • من أعماق رحلة أخيرة
      Fiction

      من أعماق رحلة أخيرة

      by أيمن عبد السميع

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    • The Partition
      Fiction

      The Partition

      by Don Lee

      Twenty-one years after the publication of his landmark debut collection Yellow, Don Lee returns to the short story form for his sixth book, The Partition. The Partition is an updated exploration of Asian American identity, this time with characters who are presumptive model minorities in the arts, academia, and media. Spanning decades, these nine novelistic stories traverse an array of cities, from Tokyo to Boston, Honolulu to El Paso, touching upon transient encounters in local bars, restaurants, and hotels. Culminating in a three-story cycle about a Hollywood actor, The Partition incisively examines heartbreak, identity, family, and relationships, the characters searching for answers to universal questions: Where do I belong? How can I find love? What defines an authentic self?

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    • الحلم الأسطوري
      Fiction

      الحلم الأسطوري

      by راشد الوصيفي

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    • THE PUPPET’S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES
      Fiction
      February 2020

      THE PUPPET’S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES

      by Isaac Hsu

      Though technically “short” stories, the eight sci-fi tales in this collection are never short on world building. Drawing on diverse influences from martial arts to high adventure, software engineering to piracy, they are nonetheless bound by a common concern with how technological advances are mediated by the limitations of our humanity. The titular first story presents itself as classic martial arts fiction, but behind the duels and high-minded feats lies a sympathetic exploration of human beings transformed into bio-chemical robot slaves. The interstellar setting of “The Death of Chaos” echoes the terrestrial Age of Discovery, drawing out reflections on colonization, and an investigation into the truth behind a series of momentous prophecies. An AI protagonist named Hamlet features in three stories, “An Affair”, “Hamlet’s Commensurate Crises”, and “Roba’s Farewell”, dialectics on AI morality that pay tribute to Asimov’s three laws of robotics. Addressing the theme of reincarnation against a setting of high seas piracy, “Vengeance” portrays a man grappling with the contradictions between two selves: that of his current life, and that of his previous life. In “Yaliena” the curator of a computer museum discovers a very human mystery embedded in the code of defunct software programs. In the final story, “Inverse Function”, a simple mathematical principal becomes the deciding factor in a criminal case involving a storytelling machine. With a firm grounding in both hard science and classic science fiction, author Isaac Hsu has a gift for posing challenging theoretical and technical questions within a narrative framework. Readers of this diverse collection will know the thrill of keeping pace with his light-speed mind as it pushes into the outer reaches of human thought.

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