検索キーワード： 選集・短編小説

From the author of Malas comes a short story collection that centers the challenges of family, with characters constantly trying to navigate a web of allegiances and seeking breathing space for themselves. A young boy from the barrio settles a wager his dead father made with a rich man. A sister tries to make sense of her brother’s career as a bull rider. A group of kids searches for the bogeyman haunting their grandmother’s house. A suburban wife aches to understand her volatile husband.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Beyond the Play Collection and get swept away into the compelling world of sports romance.

Moving from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist's second chance at love, from the momentous to the mundane, Nunez maintains her irrepressible humor, bite, and insight, her expert balance between intimacy and universality, gravity and levity, all while entertainingly probing the philosophical questions we have come to expect from her writing, such as: How can we withstand the passage of time? Is memory the greatest fiction?

Three original stories of different Doctors and different Icons through time and space.

The debut story collection from Los Angeles writer Kate Braverman assembles a vivid patchwork of interconnected narratives set in Southern California. Through brief, often haunting snapshots of women’s lives, Braverman presents portraits of individuals and communities entangled in cycles of longing and substance dependency—with affection and addiction often being destructively braided together.

In these seven searing, atmospheric stories, Aamina Ahmad finds a world of pathos in the tightest circumstances, from the fugitive intimacies of villages where nothing escapes notice to the crevices where city-dwellers seek refuge from urban striving and indifference. A man witnesses the last tender moment between two lovers before fate intervenes. A woman takes matters into her own hands in the face of an unexpected pregnancy. A young girl’s perception of her father is forever altered when she follows him to a secret meeting.

Their Summer Rescue & Serving Up a Second Chance has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

This bundle includes Manila Takes Manhattan and The Last Guy You Kiss.

This bundle includes Fake Flame and The Anti-Social Season.

This bundle includes Romancing Miss Stone and Destination Weddings and Other Disasters.

This bundle includes Princess, Pregnant, Prisoner, King's Captive Bride, and The King's Until Midnight.

There are many sides to Danny McBride: he starred as the iconic character Kenny Powers in the cult classic HBO show Eastbound & Down, a series he also wrote and created, just as he did with Vice Principals and The Righteous Gemstones. He’s produced horror films (Halloween) and starred in sci-fi (Alien: Covenant). But ever since he was young, he’s been writing short fiction, and it’s always been private. Until now.

In story, Clark excavates the push and pull of desire and power running beneath tender and bare moments. With sharp sentences and great affection, All This Want (and I Can't Get None) centers characters whose points of view are too often sidelined.

Joyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of short fiction have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and have won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. In The Frenzy: Stories, Oates plunges us into the lives of her characters at moments of crisis and confusion, when much of what they understand about themselves and those they love comes undone.

An aimless ghost haunts his ex-girlfriend for evidence that she’s actually upset about his death. A group of teens discovers a machine that purports to predict the best day of its users’ lives. A young woman is horrified to discover that an aggressive stranger she met on a night of bar-hopping now manifests in every photo that is taken of her. A drunken posse descends into the woods in search of clowns that have been terrorizing their small town.

This bundle includes One Night Charmer, Tough Luck Hero, and Last Chance Rebel.

This bundle includes Act of Valor, Justice Mission, and Shield of Protection.

In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story, exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention, and the unsparing clarity of old age. With her distinctive blend of wit, warmth, and deep humanity, she brings us twelve richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds—grappling with faded ideals, evolving identities, and the inevitable compromises that shape a life.

Are you ready to play? Have you ever found yourself doom-scrolling, worrying about that weird pain in your leg, only to have your plans for the day completely trashed by the appearance of a literal axe-wielding troll? What about that time you came across a perfect double of yourself in the...

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands. Allerdings ummantelt er seine Geschichten ebenso gerne mit einem Grotesk-Phantastischen Gewand, so dass man zum einen nie weiß was als nächstes kommt und zum anderen immer das Gefühl vermittelt bekommt hautnah dabei zu sein, wobei einem die beschriebenen Szenen sofort an dem geistigen Auge vorüberzuziehen scheinen.