From science fiction to the surreal, this astonishing collection explores — amongst other things — gender dynamics, matriarchy, and sex, whilst intersecting with fictional lives from literacy classics.
Exploring the impact of social and technological change on the family dynamic, these short stories illuminate the chasms between generations. A finalist for The Story Prize.
Amongst the oddities of contemporary American life, a collection of conflicted characters strive for balance in their personal relationships — ill at ease with their surroundings and the times.
Ten evocative stories that go deep into male friendships and marital relationships, from a mourning couple who take up dancing lessons to find their closeness again, to two drifters who plan a murder to save a life.
The king of the comic Southern short story does it again, with this collection set around the wildly improbable and entertaining inhabitants of the book’s title.
This collection of short fictions contains a cast of down-and-out characters fixed on losing everything until there’s nothing left to lose — with darkly comic consequences.
Tales that task their readers with determining the true nature of reality, from a man trapped between the walls of his favourite restaurant to an unhappy woman who enters the world of whirlwinds.
These new and selected collection from critically acclaimed author Lance Olsen encompasses 25 years and 21 fictions, in an amalgam of form and content.
In the Carolina mountains and foothills, pines decline and businesses fail. Existing in bleak boomtowns, with violence an ever-present threat, women strive for survival.
Interesting and innovative, nineteen writers merge narrative spaces between genres: personal and political writing, realism and fantasy, poetry and scholarly work. Interstitial fictions.
Ten stories set in carefully crafted worlds (usually Kentucky). Taking different forms, from flash fiction to novella, each one leads you inside a strange or dystopian dimension, and then pulls the rug.
Drawing upon the Bible, fairy tales, and science fiction, these hauntingly hallucinatory stories explore the darkest manifestations of history, gender, and sexuality.
A double A-side of stories featuring a reclusive seventies folk singer who drops her guard to a music journalist on a stormy night in London, and a young English couple who become entangled with a charming yet mysterious stranger in a Mexican resort.
From one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed writers, comes a hauntingly surreal collection of short stories from a Christmas gathering with one person missing to an obsessively observant neighbour. Told with a Kafkaesque sense of detachment.
An American master of short fiction, comprehensively collected and immortalised in a single volume. Thematically encompassing home, family, place, time, sexuality, isolation, and memory, explore writings deliberately set adrift from categorisation.
Four disturbing tales of love gone wrong from one of the most eminent writers of her generation. From a shy teenager in the first throws of love to the fourth wife of a prominent intellectual, these stories explore what people will do to find, keep and end love.
In this collection of short speculative fiction, award-winning author and musician Alaya Dawn Johnson explores oppression from new angles such as a group of invading vampires and their ethical treatment of humans.
