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  Everything Inside - Stories

  Edwidge Danticat

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  From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby's christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose.This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart — a master at her best.

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  I Want to Show You More - Stories

  Jamie Quatro

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  “Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable” stories of the American South, “like some franker, modernized Flannery O’Connor” (The New Yorker).   Welcome to Lookout Mountain on the border of Georgia and Tennessee. Mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, this short-story collection of infidelity, spirituality, sexuality, and family is at once “strange, thrilling, and disarmingly honest . . . the closet thing I’ve seen in years to Donald Barthelme’s insouciance, sweetness and ominousness” (The New York Times Book Review).   These fifteen linked tales confront readers with dark theological complexities, fractured marriages, and mercurial temptations: a husband discovers the decaying corpse of his wife’s lover in their bed; an enigmatic deaf man becomes the catalyst in the destruction of his church; a child’s perspective on life is altered after the attempted murder of a loved one; an embarrassed teenager is forced to attend a pool party with her quadriplegic mother; the hole in a young boy’s heart is magically sealed when he falls in love for the first time. “Fasten your seat belt. . . . These amazing stories explore the human boundaries between the physical world and the spiritual—lust, betrayal, and loss in perfect balance with love, redemption, and grace.” —Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life   “These are stories that make you stop whatever you’re doing and read. . . . I salute a brilliant new American writer.” —Tom Franklin, Edgar Award–winning author   “A brilliant new voice in American fiction has arrived. . . . She has earned a place alongside Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, and Alice Munro.” —David Means, author of Hystopia

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  The Gift

  Rachel Lawson

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  Lance snr is a known plant killer he can't keep a plant alive. 
  The Masked Chicken is a superhero his gift is chaos. 
  He decided to give a friend the best present ever. 
  He went to a plant nursery and asked for a plant no one could kill. 
  He was given a blackberry. 
  That even Lance can't kill why?

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  Night Terrors Vol 22 - Short...

  Jack Neel Waddell, Nina...

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  Terror lurks just out of sight. But it won’t stay hidden for long… 
  A terrifying science experiment unleashes a phantasmal killer from beyond the grave. An ancient tome devours the minds of all who dare read its endless pages. And a donut shop waitress discovers a sinister secret ingredient, that keeps customers coming back for more… 
  Scare Street is proud to present a breathtaking new collection of diabolical tales. Every page unleashes a new terror, torn straight from the darkest shadows of the night. 
  You’ve seen them before, just out of the corner of your eye. Dark, slimy things, slithering through the shadows when you turn off the light. 
  And now you hear them, scraping on the door of your bedroom, as you pull the covers over your head. 
  And as their footsteps creak across the floor, you wonder… 
  Will this be the last sound you ever hear? 
  This volume features the following stories: 
  1. Soul Bottle by Jack Neel Waddell 
  2. Good Help is Hard to Find by Nina Wachsman 
  3. Snowblind by Clarence Carter 
  4. Jaws of Glass by Matthew R. Davis and Roger Davis 
  5. Aiyana’s Hearth by Craig Crawford 
  6. The Dashwood Donut Emporium is Now Hiring by Kat Sokol 
  7. Black Wolf's Sedan by P. D. Williams 
  8. Something in the Water by Margaret Eve 
  9. At the Cemetery Gates by D. C. Marcus 
  10. The Nobody Book by Adam Vine 
  11. Good Company by Madeline Jacobson 
  12. Haunting Memories by Justin Boote 
  13. Darling Daughter by Justin Moritz 
  14. The Doll by Ron Ripley and Kevin Saito

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  Here in Hart's Crossing - Four...

  Robin Lee Hatcher

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  In the charming town of Hart’s Crossing, neighbors still care about neighbors and visitors are offered a respite from fast-paced living as they observe the antics of the town’s lovable residents.
  
  In this wonderful collection of four novellas, a daughter returns home from the big city to care for her injured mother, childhood sweethearts reconnect after decades apart, a single mom finds herself the target of her starry-eyed daughter’s matchmaking scheme, and a young couple struggles to find their own American dream.
  
  Celebrating family, faith, and forgiveness, Here in Hart’s Crossing will warm your heart and soothe your spirit.

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  The Difference

  Ellen Glasgow

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  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22nd April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia. 
   
  She published her first novel ‘The Descendant’ anonymously in 1897 at age 24.  
   
  As a ‘Southern’ writer much of her work integrates themes of class and gender struggles, many of them based on her own experiences and relationships.  She wrote realistically of the changing contemporary South; very different from the then idealistic escapist fare after Reconstruction. 
   
  As the women's suffrage movement developed at the turn of the century Glasgow was very active, but later felt it had come at the wrong time for her, accordingly her enthusiasm waned although her later books did have heroines who displayed their ambitions in the social and political struggle. 
   
  In 1923 came her short story collection ‘The Shadowy Third & Other Stories’ which included ‘The Difference’, a classic tale of a marriage hitting a problem and the moral and realistic reaction to that. 
   
  Further works followed and, in 1941, she published ‘In This Our Life’.  This bold and progressive book on African-Americans, followed the central characters and portrayed the blatant injustices they faced in society.  It won the Pulitzer Prize the following year. 
   
  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow died in her sleep at home on 21st November 1945. She was 72.

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