Short Stories
An Unrestored Woman and Other Stories
This was the first time I have encountered stories relating to the period of the Partition between India and Pakistan…
Reader, I Married Him
As anyone with even a passing familiarity with Charlotte Brontë knows, “Reader, I married him,” is the climactic sentence of…
They Were Like Family to Me
Editors' choice
A compelling blend of folktales, magical realism, Nazi barbarity, and family history, They Were Like Family to Me offers a series…
1066 Turned Upside Down
Editors' choice
This volume is a collection of short stories by nine well-known authors, all concerned with the same theme – the…
Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
Survivors of the Great War (1914–1918) inhabit these stories of love and hope in the aftermath of carnage. Written by…
A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls
This is a deceptively titled anthology of unpublished short stories by notable authors of young adult fiction. Historical YA fiction…
The Peace Weaver
This volume collects five stories starring Charles Barnitz’s main character, 8th century former monk-turned-advocate, Hring, in a Britannia that has…
Voices
Voices is a collection of twenty short stories and covers some varied time periods and locations. We begin with a…
Only the Animals
Handicapped by homocentric prejudice, few humans can properly comment on themselves, or upon their species. Who else shall speak to…
I Was a Revolutionary
Andrew Malan Milward opens his collection of short stories with an academic investigation of the 1863 raid on Lawrence, Kansas,…
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