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From the author of The Mercy Seat and Fire in Beulah comes a new collection of six stories troubled by ghosts that linger in our present moment. Set primarily in eastern Oklahoma during the 1970s, The Hungry and the Haunted is Rilla Askew's testament to young women and other outsiders navigating relationships, social change, and the power of place during increasingly precarious times. Some haunted by ancient wrongs, others yearning to escape or reckoning with primal griefs, each character wrestles with the bonds that wound them and the places that keep them tethered to their roots.

Winner of the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Awards. Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. For fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, and Karen Russell. God Isn't Here Today ricochet between form and genre, taking readers on a dark, irreverent, yet poignant journey led by a unique and powerful new voice. Driven by desperation into moments of transformation, Cunningham's characters are presented with moments of choice - some for the better and some for the worse.

Internationally acclaimed as a playwright, screenwriter, comic, and sardonic commentator on the endless gaffs, absurdities, and the profound and painful misunderstandings that continue to characterize social interactions between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples, Taylor's stories in Fearless Warriors are a full-frontal assault on stereotypes of all kinds and an edifying affirmation of humanity unlike anything else in fiction.

Winner of the National Book Award. The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O’Connor’s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O’Connor put together in her short lifetime—Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O’Connor published her first story, “The Geranium,” in 1946, while she was working on her master’s degree at the University of Iowa.

The Collected Stories – a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories. William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting.

Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction – a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central. Hailed by Newsday as "the most unconventional—and possibly the most exciting and imaginative—novelist at work today," William T. Vollmann has also established himself as an intrepid journalist willing to go to the hottest spots on the planet.

Nisi Shawl's steampunk-flavored alternate history of the "Belgian" Congo, Everfair, has taken the science fiction and fantasy world by storm. No surprise there. Their swift, sure, and savvy short stories had already established them as a cutting-edge Afrofuturist icon whose politically charged fiction is in the grand feminist tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Suzy McKee Charnas. In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores the unexpected possibilities and perils opened up by SF&F's new intersectionality.

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin. In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes.

Introduction by Richard Howorth and foreword by the author. The incomparable Lewis Nordan's first two collections of short fiction-Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair and The All-Girl Football Team-originally published in 1983 and 1986, have long been out of print in all editions. Collectors' items, these two books are now almost impossible for Nordan fans to find anywhere.

On en convient, l’époque moderne est celle de l’émancipation des femmes. Mais déjà, dans le passé, combien ont su imposer leur volonté ou leur pouvoir, jusqu’à jouer parfois un rôle de première importance ? En vingt récits, Paul-Loup Sulitzer évoque des personnalités féminines qui ont marqué leur temps : de la reine Zénobie, qui défendit son empire d’Orient contre les Barbares, à l’illustre créatrice de mode Elsa Schiaparelli, ou à Victoria Ocampo, mécène des lettres argentines.