Fiction & Short Stories

In these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women’s family lives.What happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces...

These prizewinning stories champion the everyday person who tries to do his or her best in demanding and even demeaning situations.The stories in A Common Person and Other Stories, R. M. Kinder’s...

Down Along the Piney is a touching collection of short stories that provides ironic and poignantly honest perspectives of rural American communities across the country.

Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short...

On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visits Dublin and muses on death, sex, love, Irish immigrant history, and his days as a student in Europe.

Loss and Gain is a novel by Saint John Henry Newman in which his hero, Charles Reding, explores Anglicanism and other schools of theology before finally finding Catholicism.

What I Found Out About Her explores how everyday life for many can often provide a window into the contemporary American psyche.

Frank's second story collection explores the uncertainties and triumphs of love and marriage in a variety of settings of contemporary American life.

In Spirits in the Grass, Luke Tanner, while helping to build a new baseball field in his hometown, discovers a small bone fragment on the field, which quickly becomes his obsession.

A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however,...