Henry Carter Hull

Collection of twenty-eight short stories drawn from the author's seven collections, reflecting the work of almost thirty years.

"This book weaves tales of young women-- deeply flawed and intensely real-- who struggle to get out of their own way. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own baggage, they are united in their unrelenting suspicion that they deserve better. Taking a microscope to delicate patterns of love and intimacy, Miller evokes the reticent love among the misunderstood, the gritty comfort in bad habits that can't be broken, and the beat-by-beat...

Sometimes calculating, other times bewildered, Catapult's characters orbit around each other enacting the deeply human tragicomedy of wit and misunderstanding and loss. With dexterous, atmospheric, and darkly comic prose, Fridlund conjures worlds where longing is open-ended, intentions misfire, and the line between comfort and cruelty is often difficult to discern. A gripping collection, unsettling in its familiar strangeness.

Presents a collection of short stories full of teenage drug use, anorexia, cruise-ship stowaways, and a widowed nail tech who finds herself falling for a client.

Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage.

Contains original short novels by eleven best-selling modern creators of fantasy fiction, each set in an imaginary universe made famous by the author in previous books. Includes works by Stephen King, Terry Goodkind, Ursula Le Guin, and Anne McCaffrey.

"From F. Scott Fitzgerald to John Cheever, the swimming pool has long held a unique place in the mythos of the American idyll, by turns status symbol and respite. The fourteen stories that comprise NO DIVING ALLOWED fearlessly plunge the depths of the human condition as award-winning author Louise Marburg freights her narratives with the often unfathomable pressure of what lies beneath. In "Identical," sibling rivalry between brothers exposes lingering...