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These ten strikingly original stories explore love and escape--how we escape to love, escape through love, and escape ourselves and hold on to love.

Ian Williams's Not Anyones Anything is a trio of trios: three sets of three stories, with three of those stories further divided into thirds.

Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean up real nice, but can’t help but unravel back to their origin

Explores the notion of disappearance and the anxieties associated with things gone missing--family, friendship, sanity, love.

A poverty-stricken, nineteenth-century guitar virtuoso navigates the tricky political landscape of Parisian society as he comes out of retirement for one final concert.

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother.

A NATURAL HISTORY OF TRANSITION is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation.

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights.

"There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E.

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life.

In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a nove

Featuring new and exclusive stories, as well as classics of the genre, Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond, to the things that are created after.

N'avez-vous jamais imaginé ce qui vous attend derrière la Porte ? Avant d'y parvenir, un long chemin vous attend.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband.

Introduced by Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker finalist novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing From one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast Chin