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Short Story Fever

Try something new this summer and pick up one of these exciting collections of short stories.

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  • As urban dwellers' sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan's shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates'. As a popular band gathers momentum, the…
    Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019. — FICTION Armfield J
  • Strange Weather

    Four Short Novels

    Hill, Joe,
    A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, Joe Hill Snapshot is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by “The Phoenician,” a tattooed thug…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — HILL, J
  • A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. A group of girls goes camping. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together her touchstones of music…
    Book, 2023Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2023] — FICTION Pinsker S
  • The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury is a captivating collection of 18 short stories that delve into speculative fiction. First published in 1951, The Illustrated Man remains a timeless classic. The collection is named after the central character,…
    Book, 2001New York : William Morrow, 2001. — BRADBURY, R
  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Short Fictions and Illusions

    Gaiman, Neil
    A collection of fantasy stories and poems. In Chivalry, a woman discovers the Holy Grail in a secondhand shop, in Murder Mysteries, an angel visiting Los Angeles provides the inside story on Lucifer's revolt against God, and there are revisionist…
    Book, 2007New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2007] — GAIMAN, N
  • "Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers-characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their…
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023] — FICTION Link K
  • In a series of stories that are shocking, sexy, charming, and ultimately unforgettable, Miranda July explores the hearts and minds of characters who are desperate for human connection and yet don't know what to do when it actually happens. In the…
    eAudiobook, 2007Simon & Schuster Audio, 2007
  • The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of…
    Book, 2016New York : Riverhead Books, [2016] — OYEYEMI, H
  • “The book is a collection of Daniel A. Olivas' distinct, Chicano short stories-sharing once again some of his best-loved, unforgettable and somewhat strange tales and also introduces readers to new stories. The characters and episodes in the book…
    Book, 2022Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2022] — 813.6 O481h
  • Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published, featuring such characters as a boy who decides to become a writer to impress the rich girl he has fallen in love with and an architect with…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — FICTION Ruiz Zafon C