In Andrew Kaufman’s wry, bawdy, and surreal supernatural short story collection "Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel", travelers at personal crossroads happen upon a motel where unexplainable events alter their perceptions of... Read More

Ed Valfre’s artful collection "Tales from Dreamland" signposts the “ordinary magic of the everyday” via whimsical flash fiction and eye-catching photographs. The paragraph-length stories range from poetry to fables. In... Read More

In the eighteen tales comprising Josh Denslow’s enjoyable short story collection "Magic Can’t Save Us", creatures including zombies, mermaids, and dragons make their presences felt by forcing the humans around them into difficult... Read More

First published in 1962, Edith Bruck’s masterful short story collection "This Darkness Will Never End" bears witness to the atrocities of World War II and the lives of those affected by the Holocaust. Hungarian-born Bruck was liberated... Read More

Demree McGhee’s "Sympathy for Wild Girls" is an atmospheric short story collection about the restlessness of Black girls and women. Attentive to queer Black femininity, this collection centers those who are discontent with love,... Read More

With supernatural and horror elements, the short stories collected in "Tyrant" tantalize with hints of mystery concealed behind linguistic brevity. A mysterious future universe is the setting for the dark, gripping tales in Michael... Read More

Z. Hanna’s short story collection We’re Gonna Get Through This Together delivers sharp social commentary on twenty-first-century life. Examining race, class, sexuality, gender, capitalism, and activism, the collection uses satire to... Read More

Humorous and endearing, the short stories collected in Tales From the Backyard go beneath the surface of everyday stories to discover universal connections. Carolyn Gaye’s diverse short story collection "Tales from the Backyard"... Read More