Fiction, Short Stories (Single Author)
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The Gospel According to Saint Scooter
And Other Tales from the Frontiers of Life by Phil Burpee
The seventeen stories in this collection range from short vignettes to sprawling novellas. The characters who appear in them are ordinary folk, full of flaws and frailties, who embark upon journeys that call them to rise to unforeseen challenges....
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Cane Wood
Based on True Stories by Stephen L. Howard
There are billions of people in the world and they all have their stories. This is just one of mine. A man changes a lot over the course of fifty years and in Cane Wood, ten lovely, observant short stories chronicle this journey, from an...
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Tyrant
A Collection of Stories by Michael Wilde
Tyrant is a collection of stories exploring arcane realms and dystopian landscapes. "Harness,” follows three High Riggers hired for an obscure salvage mission on an alien planet. In "Tank," a reporter interviews witnesses to a drug den at the...
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Colors
Stories and Poems in Different Shades by Samuel Lucy
“Colors” is a blend of short fiction and poems folded into one collection. Rural settings both rugged and soft act equal parts with the characters. Human relations, animal relations and never ending relationships with the land itself play-out...
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A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists
by Radu Guiaşu
Growing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don’t seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in all corners. Radu Guiaşu draws on his own...
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Christmas Tales and Stories
by Tony Hamilton-Irving
It is when we understand that the spirit of Christmas is a beautiful gift, that we embrace everything that Christmas is meant to be. I remember fondly the Christmas’ of my childhood. We often heard the stories of mum and dad’s Christmas’ spent...
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Every Seven Years and I Don't Remember
Two Books by Cindy I. Wilson
"Every Seven Years" and "I Don't Remember" My grandmother always said life changes every seven years, "Sometimes for better, Sometimes for worse". In the book "Every Seven Years" a young American draft dodger meets the "love of his life" at a...
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The Devil Spinners
by Margit Hesthammar
Meet The Devil Spinners: edge-dwellers, poets and lovable scoundrels who bluster, blunder and bellow their way to redemption—or not—between stops at Crawley's Pub. Each faces a moment of life-bafflement, brief or prolonged, that finds resolution...
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this is all we know
by Robin Anne Ettles
In this second collection of short stories, Ettles offers a version of the Canadian landscape against which eccentric tales and colourful characters evoke ever-shifting perspectives on what we see and who we are. A modern working woman of 1983...
