Fiction, Short Stories (Single Author)
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Compassion Fatigue
...and Other Stories of the Indecent Past, Weird Present, and Feared Future by Humberto da Silva
A father comforts his young son, hoping against hope their last little island of the Azorean archipelago won’t be strip mined by the Singularity. A couple choose a cheap upload for the consciousness of their young daughter who is dying from a ...
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Stuffed Animals
A Collection of Microfiction by Wayne Johnston
Stuffed Animals is a collection of haunting, sparsely wrought micro fiction. Each story invites the reader in and then delights and torments them with surprises and plot twists. Whether you are in the mood for black humour, spine-tingling horror, or ...
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Look Up
by Kenneth Thompson
These are short stories. Ranging from a Hit Man becoming infatuated with the person he is meant to kill to a person getting into a philosophical debate with their executioner to answering the fundamental nature of consciousness, these stories will ...
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Life Orbits The Barn
...and other short stories by Lyndenn Behm
Lyndenn Behm draws on personal experience to tell stories set in the world of Prairie farms, small towns and First Nations. Some of the tales are pure in their sincerity; others are comical and may seem far fetched, but people who have lived in ...
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Tales My Father Told Me*
*When Mother Wasn't Home by E. R. Morris
In this original collection of short stories, author E. R. Morris updates classic nursery rhymes and fairytales with a modern, grown-up bent. Written with other adults in mind—especially grandparents—Morris gives these well-worn tales a wry sardonic ...
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Wandering Thoughts
by John Oross
This collection of poetry, prose, open political letters, lyrics, and short stories is mostly autobiographical and entirely illuminating. It is the poignant tale of a life marked by loss but also by strength of character and the will to push forward ...
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Bedtime Stories for Women Who Can't Sleep at Night
Tales and Reminiscences for the Awakened Woman by Laurissa Wieler
Is there anything better than sleeping deeply, and waking up to a rising dawn with a smile? Studies show that 57 percent of North American women experience insomnia at least a few times a week, making their way through restless nights as best they ...
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A Bedouin Dies in the City
And Other Works by Muna Abougoush
A Bedouin Dies in the City is a deep, introspective collection of short stories and poems that will challenge readers’ thoughts and feelings regarding a variety of topics, from faith to identity to love, revenge, and death. Above all, it calls ...
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A Pocketful of Starlight
by Rubyha McKenzie
A Pocketful of Starlight is a collection of twenty-three vignettes of the human condition, beautifully supported by the magical water-colours of Denise Williams. Some are wrapped in the genre of fairy tale, and the trappings of times past; some ...
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Painting Trains
Three Adventures Into the Unknown by Steve Godsoe
Painting Trains is a collection of three short stories which each capture both the romanticism of the steel rail and the carefree nostalgia of childhood. “Gus” follows a young narrator and his older cousin as a venture from their campsite finds them ...