Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Short Stories (single author)

"White Ain't Always Right "-"Instead of Arlene asking for a good honest man whether he be a Black man, Latin man, Indian man or Asian man, Arlene asked for a white man. She got him. Boy did she get him."

"Chocolate Tropical Delights"-"Ming's parents took their daughter's sexual preference very hard. Nevertheless, they had no other choice but to accept their daughter's gay lifestyle."

"Mama's Boy Toy"-."when children are subjected to physical and...

""One morning, a woman went out to walk her dog and returned home a millionaire. What was significant was not that she, a newly recovered alcoholic, redeemed the lottery ticket at B&B Liquors but that, for twenty-three years, she told no one about the winnings.""
-From the short story "Offshore"

This collection of ten short stories tells of ordinary people in extraordinary, sometimes supernatural circumstances. Author Z. Kelley delves into the very essence of our psyche to create a stunning portrait of the human condition.

"Autoerotica"-A woman who cannot remember her own name...

"Christianson forced himself to keep walking. He had no recollection of where he was going and only a vague comprehension of what he was doing there in the first place. He had a pounding headache, his legs were quivering, and he could hardly breathe from all the dust, but he continued. All he knew was that to keep living, he had to keep moving."

Moving freely between literal events and metaphors, "9 Acts of Cowardice: And Other Urban Folktales" is a short-story collection about survival, love, drug abuse and murder. Author Kevin Stricke-9 offers an intriguing compilation of twelve urban...

From a young man grappling with the Kennedy assassination to a battle-weary Vietnam flyer, a ship's officer off Tierra del Fuego to a homesick soldier in war-torn France, we meet recovering alcoholics, aspiring actors, pimps and pols and busted-up football players-people who try to rebuild shattered lives on a landscape scarred by war, littered with fatal fires and shuttered steel...

The main story, "The Fantastic Muse," begins quietly in a small college environment where a young college professor and the beautiful daughter of the dean of the English department fall in...

"Marble Wars" defines the true meaning of faith, as faith becomes the only thing an eight-year old boy has left.

In "Do You Believe in Magic," Susan Lindsey overcomes impossible odds to rescue an unfortunate group of homeless children.

"God's Work" portrays Billy Thompson, a desperate young boy, who summons the help of angels and is bewildered at the response.

These are but...

Here is Joseph Cowley at his best: "Once More With Feeling" the touching story of an old man seeking a lost love after his wife dies; "The Chrysanthemum Garden" a sensitive and moving novel about finding love later in life; "Another Great Day" a novella about a man on a "lost weekend" at the moment his life is coming unraveled; "He Says, She Says" the story of an unemployed writer and beautiful married woman who meet in Alcoholics Anonymous and fall in love, and the lesson it teaches them; and "The Stargazers," a wonderful play about the conflict between the astronomers, Tycho Brahe and...