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Best-selling author Susie Bright’s first work of fiction and her first collection of short stories. Bright reveals the outlier reaches of family, tribe, last rites—as well as the elegiac care and feeding of the fast-disappearing.

Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail. It’s a premonition, and a chance to make reparations for a failure from his past he can’t even remember. This time, Nameless must do everything in his power not to fail those who trust him with their lives.

The following books are included: Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation and Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled. 

J.R. Hamantaschen returns with a collection of his inimitable weird, dark, and imaginative fiction. In these intelligent and haunting stories, Hamantaschen pushes the boundaries of horror, exploring the deepest corners of the human psyche with an unflinching eye.

A woman flees the hospital even as her infant son is breathing his last breaths. An aging construction worker comes to grips with the end of the only life he's ever known. A deadbeat father meets his son for the first time, only to be blindsided by the boy's birth defect. A man steals a corpse in order to give his father the burial he wanted.

A boy is given a girl's name so that he can escape the attention of malignant ghouls. A devout Catholic priest is suspected of hanky-panky with a submissive Chinese wife when she gives birth to an albino child. A young girl student dies before her English examinations, but still manages to write...

For the better part of our lives, we pass through this struggle to live, to exist, to invest, and to be heard. Our worlds stand in the gap between what we are and what we want to become. So, we work everyday to break through that invisible border between planting and harvesting. Things That Start Small but Sweet is a collection of 12 stories about the lives of many genuine characters, faced with numerous challenges and tears, the desires to be heard.

What begins as an ordinary day for Grace Winters quickly turns to horror when her plane for a company retreat crashes somewhere in the North Atlantic Sea. The following days become a test of survival for her and her co-workers, and threaten to expose their true character. Complicated by Grace's ongoing health struggles, the burden of surviving until help arrives rests heavier upon her shoulders. We Are but Dust thrusts you into a world of chaos, and leaves you stirring with questions.

Exploring the lives of bisexual and gay Puerto Rican men, these 15 stories show a vulnerable, intimate world of yearning and desire. The stars of these narratives linger between living their truest selves and remaining in the wings, embarking on a journey of self-discovery to satisfy their hunger for companionship and belonging.

Hon vill ha honom mer än vad han vill ha henne. Han drar sig undan, är kall. Hon följer efter, vill ha mer. Vad är kärlek utan lite smärta? Hon berättar om sitt förflutna, om den förra mannen som låg bredvid henne. Om ungdomen och om barnet som aldrig skulle få födas. Om man är tillsammans än man mindre ensam. Eller? Inger Frimansson är en svensk journalist och författare. Hon har vunnit priset Bästa svenska kriminalroman två gånger, 1998 och 2005.

This is a collection of insanity. Read nine twisted tales, each one reaches deeper into the Abyss than the previous. Stories about: Serial killers, revenge, addiction, madness, isolation, indescribable horror, cosmic forces beyond our understanding, the very depths of hell, and a broken reality. The first work of fiction by T.L Oberheu will be the cause of sleepless nights and a reason to fear the dark again.

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. 'Something Childish but Very Natural' is a story about a young couple who meet by chance on a train and fall head over heels in hot-headed teenage love.

A tiny commercial film crew finds themselves stranded after a coup d'état in a foreign country, with no means of escape. Using the products for the advertisement they were sent there to film as a distraction, they hide their planned fade-out, in plain sight.

Getting up close and personal to small things, a gently humorous journey from Birmingham in the 80's, to the Northern Isles, to Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, with a stop-off en route to eavesdrop on a crazy creative writing group...

My new girlfriend is about to unleash a side of myself that's wilder than I've ever before seen. I'm just a little bit late to the party when it comes to my sexuality. Growing up, I was what you might call a closeted lesbian, and it took entering into college to break me out of my shell as far as that was concerned. I suppose I should be considered a fully grown adult now, but my squeamishness when it comes to sexual matters has remained largely intact for some time now.