Are punchy prose and revelatory antics the key to a short story renaissance?

Small tales offer medium-sized heroes a grand forum.

Two decades of stories find universal themes in the lives of Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest.

A collection of previously published short fiction by the American master of dread.

In these stories by the author of Mr. Peanut, you don't have to be cruel to be kind, but it helps.

Women face life on their own terms in the author's career-spanning story collection.

Stories that explore the "risky and exhilarating" years of youth, and what follows.

Tales that travel around the globe and into the depths of the heart.

The wives at a military base grapple with the unknown as their husbands head into combat in these linked short stories.

A new volume of stories from Joseph McElroy leads readers from darkness to sudden radiance.

A posthumous short story collection invites a look back at the "style-drenched" work of an audacious writer.

Style and the city.

Short tales of the alien landscape within from an award-winning writer.

An engrossing compendium of the author's short fiction leaves the reader wanting still more.

Tales of men and women trapped by drink, love, obsession, and other -- mostly self-made -- prisons. Read more...