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  When Questions Abound - A...

  Lorana Hoopes

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  What do you do when everything you learn just creates more questions? 
  Detective Jordan Graves is one of the first responders on the scene of a horrific accident, but his gut tells him it wasn't just an accident. When the victim wakes up with no memory, will he be able to put the clues together to find out who's after her, or will he always remain one step behind? 
  This story is a companion to Lost Memories and New Beginnings. It is the same story line told from detective Jordan Graves' point of view instead of the victim and her doctor. Listen to it as a stand-alone story or listen to it along with Lost Memories to get the full story.

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  The Jade Earrings

  Andrew Soutar

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  Andrew Soutar (1879–1941) was a British author and journalist best known for his novels and short stories."The Jade Earrings" is the story of an elderly antiques collector with a young and pretty wife, Rosetta. One day he presents her with a pair of jade earrings with a legend attached to them. It is said that any faithful wife who wears them will become unfaithful. Of course the legend is complete nonsense... but then one day Rosetta offers to negotiate the purchase of a rare Queen Anne four-poster bed with a young handsome antiques dealer....

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  Scar Tissue - Seven Stories of...

  Marcus Sakey

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  An anthology of seven short stories:* "The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away" (nominated for Thriller and Macavity Awards)* "The Days When You Were Anything Else"* "No One"* "Gravity and Need"* "As Breathing"* "Cobalt"* "The Time Before the Last"These stories of men and women pushed to-and beyond-the ragged edge demonstrate why National Public Radio declared Sakey writes "crime drama for the 21st century.""Author-narrated titles can be hit or miss. This one hits the bull's-eye. Bestselling crime novelist Marcus Sakey delivers the seven stories in this collection, bringing out their powerful images and psychological complexity with an intense yet conversational narration. Listeners are drawn into each unique story and main character. Sakey's skillful approach to pacing and emphasis enhances the listening experience. In a short story, every word matters. Sakey delivers on each one. K.C.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine"

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  Relics of General Chassé

  Anthony Trollope

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  Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of England's most successful and respected novelists. 
  
  
  "Relics of General Chassé" is a humorous tale of a corpulent and somewhat dandified clergyman who, while visiting the castle at Antwerp, inadvertently becomes separated from his breeches. What follows shakes him to the core. The breeches fall into the hands of a group of female English tourists who decide to take some sample of the cloth as a souvenir. 
  
  
  Having snipped enough of the garment to make a bag, a needle case, a pin cushion, a pair of slippers and some leggings there are only a few seams and buttons left. The clergyman is left in a highly embarrassing position, not least because his nearest spare pair of breeches is in Brussels. What follows is pure comedy....

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  Classic Short Stories - Volume...

  Thomas Hardy, Jerome K

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  Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements.  Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page. 
   
  Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft.  Many attempt, but few achieve.

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  Here Is What You Do - Stories

  Chris Dennis

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  A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our humanity from a new, vital queer voice. 
  A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that is by turns tender and brutal.  A family buys a rural slaughterhouse, and tensions quickly escalate between them and their religious neighbors.  A teen raised by his eccentric gay father, a Turkish immigrant, finds his life fractured by violence. A fictionalized Coretta Scott King, surveilled and harassed by the FBI, considers the costs of her life with her husband. 
  Here Is What You Do is a bravura, far-ranging collection, its stories linked by sorrow and latent hope; each one drills toward his characters' darkest emotional centers. In muscularly robust prose, with an unfailing eye for human drives and frailties, Chris Dennis captures the raw need, desire, cruelty of characters trying to connect with, and consume, each other.

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