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Keep Moving and No Questions James Kelman
James Kelman’s inimitable voice brings the stories of lost men to light in these twenty-one tales of down-on-their-luck antiheroes who wander, drink, hatch plans, ponder existence, and survive in an unwelcoming… More
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Stealing the Fire Jane Ciabattari
This collection of stories by award-winning writer Jane Ciabattari introduces a strong, original voice with a wide-ranging understanding of human nature. In fierce lyrical language, she explores the aftershocks… More
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The Consummation of Dirk Jonathan Callahan
“The stories in this collection have the texture of the long bad nights that one keeps to oneself and is prone to think no one else experienced. The gifted children contemplating murder, the husband drowning in… More
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A Different Bed Every Time Jac Jemc
A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rot from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive … More
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A Girl Goes into the Forest Peg Alford Pursell
Following her acclaimed debut, Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes into the Forest immerses… More
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A Moral Tale And Other Moral Tales Josh Emmons
A Moral Tale, and Other Moral Tales presents a twist on the classic morality play, where rewards and punishments betray the classic fairytale logic and the greatest redemption is “to thine own self be true.”… More
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All Over Roy Kesey
The debut story collection from Kesey includes nineteen stories previously published in literary journals such as Ninth Letter, McSweeney’s, and The Kenyon Review. The story “Wait” was included in the Best American… More
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Another Perfect Catastrophe Brad Barkley
With his keen ability to evoke characters in the South and Middle America who find themselves in reduced circumstances, Brad Barkley restores our faith in human beings to endure the ravages of time with decency and humor.… More
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Any Deadly Thing Roy Kesey
Following the critical success of his debut collection, All Over, and of his debut novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey now brings us a new gathering of short stories, Any Deadly Thing. These stories first appeared in magazines… More
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Asunder Robert Lopez
The unforgettable stories in Robert Lopez’s Asunder vary in length and style, but all of them devastate, all constantly cross the boundaries between poetry and prose. Here we have characters who are uncertain of … More
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Between Wrecks George Singleton
Between Wrecks takes readers on a raucous bar crawl through an America both startlingly familiar and hilariously absurd, examining paranoia, fear, relentless “truths,” longstanding personal habits gone awry, … More
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By Light We Knew Our Names Anne Valente
From ghosts to pink dolphins to a fight club of young women who practice beneath the Alaskan aurora borealis, By Light We Knew Our Names examines the beauty and heartbreak of the world we live in. Across thirteen stories,… More
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Calloustown George Singleton
Calloustown, the seventh collection from master raconteur George Singleton, who’s been praised by the Atlanta Journal Constitution as the “unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story,” finds the author… More
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Circle View Brad Barkley
Brad Barkley’s first collection of short stories centers on the lives of working-class men and women frequently fighting desperation or dissatisfaction, but a few of the thirteen illuminating tales maintain hope,… More
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Clothed, Female Figure Kirstin Allio
Through ten independent but thematically linked stories, Allio conjures women in conflict and on the edge, who embrace, battle, and transcend their domestic dimensions. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection… More
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Dead Girls Emily Geminder
With lyric artistry and emotional force, Emily Geminder’s debut collection charts a vivid constellation of characters fleeing their own stories. A teenage runaway and her mute brother seek salvation in houses, buses,… More