Short Stories

A short story is a short work of prose fiction. It may be in any genre of fiction, and the exact definition of "short" will often depend on the genre. Short stories are often collected together with other short stories, poetry, art, and/or essays in order to form a larger book, although it is becoming more common for short stories to be released as stand-alone ebooks.

What Really Happened in Peru (The Bane Chronicles, #1)
Unnatural Creatures
Breathless (Elemental, #2.5)
The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After
Headed for Trouble (Troubleshooters #16.5)
Snapper
The Right Wrong Number
A Plague of Zombies
Tarnished Knight (London Steampunk, #1.5)
Tethered (Iron Seas, #2.5)
Autumn Once More
The Other Side
Bound In Death (Bound, #5)
A Textbook Case (a Lincoln Rhyme story)
The Love Handles Club (Love in the City. #1)

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  • Staring Into the Abyss by Richard   Thomas
    Staring Into the Abyss
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    Release date: Apr 16, 2013
    SIGNED COPIES.

    In this collection of short stories Richard Thomas shows us in dark, layered prose the human condition in all of its beauty and dysfunct…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 19 - May 26, 2013
    3 copies available, 266 people requesting
    Countries available: US, CA, and GB more
  • Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
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    Winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!

    Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders—real, imagined, sexual, human, the line betwee…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 06 - May 27, 2013
    5 copies available, 226 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Hideous Exuberance by Stephen C. Bird
    Hideous Exuberance
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    Release date: Jan 31, 2013
    The predecessor / doppelgänger / kindred spirit of "Catastrophically Consequential", "Hideous Exuberance" remains, in this revised edition, a characte…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: Apr 23 - May 28, 2013
    30 copies available, 239 people requesting
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    This is How You Lose Her
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    Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
    Hana (Delirium, #1.5)
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    Samantha Young
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    Alex (Delirium, #3.5)
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    Unaccustomed Earth
    The Human Division
    Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
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    Andrea Speed
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    299 books — 224 voters
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    115 books — 73 voters

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    YA Short Stories and Novellas
    233 books — 397 voters
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    119 books — 88 voters

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    Fragile Things
    Dubliners
    Unaccustomed Earth
    No One Belongs Here More Than You
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    The Complete Stories
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
    The Tales of Beedle the Bard
    Complete Stories and Poems
    The Lottery and Other Stories
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
    The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

    Danielle Evans
    Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
    Her new collection of short stories, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, illuminates the choices of young women grappling with identity, family, race, and sexuality.
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    Cassandra Clare
    He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of his mouth on hers, all the things he could never say out loud: I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you.
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

    Salman Rushdie
    Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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