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The two short stories in this collection are steeped in the revelries and tragedies of nostalgia.

With their staccato rhythm and attention to detail these stories recall emotions, memories, atmosphere, and even physical sensations with a powerful freshness.

The resistance of the human spirit in face of time, disloyalty, and oblivion is the theme of Marina Sonkina’s new collection of short stories.

Len Gasparini is a master of the dark, hard-edged, densely layered story.

The game of life. Stories about competition in sports and games and activities.

From celebrated Toronto poet, Domenico Capilongo, comes a collection of powerful and humorous stories inspired by love: the love of family and tradition, the passion shared between two people when

I have written Life Stories virtually in the space of one breath -- these stories have been imagined in such concentration, that I had to free myself from them.

Twelve stories that provide startling glimpses of contemporary life in Bombay, and elsewhere.

The accomplished stories found in this book take the reader from Cuba to the Yukon, from a parched landscape in Canada to the cool streets of southern Spain, from Toronto to the Rockies, and from t

Kenneth Scambray's first collection of short stories, set in Southern California, the Central Coast, and the San Joaquin Valley, depict that expansive California landscape also found in John Fante'

Each of these impeccably crafted and sensitive stories is built around the outstanding ordinary individuals, the eccentrics of the rural working class of Mary Bush's native upstate New York.

Whether it's Toronto, a French or Italian town, Pierre L'Abbe's stories are rich with a sense of place where the ambiance and characters fuse in a loaded sense of expectation.

Her characters stumble into the light, clutching their existential problems. Their stories float up like dark episodes from the subconscious.

Writing Our Way Home is an important contribution to literary studies.

Ranging from the Persian Gulf to the American South, from ancient Greece to pre-Islamic Arabia, Ali Eteraz's stories observe the clash of civilizations through the surrealist's monocle: lovers play