Not surprisingly, typewriters figure prominently in The Typing Lady: and other fictions. In “The Typing Lady,” the lady collects typewrite...

  https://medium.com/@chantal.walvoord In ten stories, Vara describes the gamut of human predicaments and their corresponding emotional stat...

This story combines loneliness with magical realism, the uncanny, canning, and longing. El has lived with almost unbearable loneliness--...

The Shell Collector is a rich collection of stories by Anthony Doerr, winner of the Pulitzer prize. These stories preceded All The Ligh...

These stories are about desperate, blue-collar workers. Written in 2008, these stories still seem completely fresh because it's easy t...

Some of the stories like "The Summer People" involve supernatural beings. In others, such as,"Secret Identity," the ch...

Each of stories in Night at the Fiestas  are about family members embroiled in complicated, ambivalent relationships. Maria both admires a...

From Pulitzer-prize winning Adam Johnson, comes a collection of thought-provoking short stories. "Nirvana," is a poignant story ...

This is a strange, magical realism story about endings–the end of Jungleland, the end of the golden age of Hollywood, the end of the MGM ...

Laura Van Den Berg's stories have a quirky feel much like  Rivka Galchen's stories. Characters are "at sea," weathering ...

The opening novella, "Evil Eye," is a powerful story about a woman who could be on the verge of losing her mind. In a fit of despa...

In his astonishing short story collection, Fountain gives readers humorous, politically-aware stories. Several stories are set in Haiti wher...

Something Magic This Way Comes ed. Martin H. Greenberg. All of the short stories in this collection have the central theme of magic. Som...

The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier Recently, I came across this series of short stories published by HarperCollins. The...