Bath Short Story Award 2017 Anthology

Bath Short Story Award 2017 Anthology

Author: Bath Short Story Awards

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2017-10-29

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1785452274

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A funny, yet heartbreaking, tale about a teenager and her fascination with writing. A widow and her golden horse. When the names of plants disappear. Broken vases and broken hearts. A slow revelation about a marriage...These six winning stories and the twelve dazzling others in the anthology will keep you gripped.


Let's Tell This Story Properly

Let's Tell This Story Properly

Author: Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2015-05-16

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1459730577

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Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.


Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World

Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World

Author: James Thomas

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0393352420

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A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always—and everywhere—been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian “Queen of the Microstory” Ana María Shua, among many others. These brilliantly chosen stories challenge readers to widen their vision and celebrate both the local and the universal.


The Longest Fight

The Longest Fight

Author: Emily Bullock

Publisher: Myriad Editions

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1908434546

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Set in 1950s London amidst the gritty and violent world of boxing, this beautiful and brutal debut is the story of one man's struggle to overcome the mistakes and tragedies of his past. Jack Munday has been fighting all his life. His early memories are shaped by the thrill of the boxing ring. Since then he has grown numb, scarred by his bullying father and haunted by the tragic fate of his first love. Now a grafting boxing manager, Jack is hungry for change. So when hope and ambition appear in the form of Frank, a young fighter with a winning prospect, and Georgie, a new girl who can match him step for step, Jack seizes his chance for a better future, determined to win at all costs.


The Porcelain Doll

The Porcelain Doll

Author: Kristen Loesch

Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 074902870X

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'A masterful debut' - Ellen Alpsten, author of TsarinaIn a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land .... Rosie's only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a notebook full of handwritten fairy tales. But another story is lurking between the lines.Desperate for answers to questions that have tormented her for years, Rosie travels to Moscow and uncovers a devastating family history spanning the 1917 Revolution, Stalin's bloody purgesand beyond. At the heart of those answers stands a young noblewoman, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions reverberate across the century .


The Battle of Watling Street

The Battle of Watling Street

Author: Margaret McGoverne

Publisher:

Published: 2017-02-22

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781520676401

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A historical science fiction novella set in 1st century Roman-occupied Britain, The Battle of Watling Street re-imagines the disappearance of the rebellious Iceni Queen Boudicca, and introduces the resourceful Celtic hero Dedo, attendant to the doomed warrior queen. Historians still dispute the end of Boudicca and the Iceni; did they escape to Wales or Ireland? Or did they stumble across a very different kind of deadly foreign occupier of their native lands?


This Taste for Silence

This Taste for Silence

Author: Amanda O'Callaghan

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0702262021

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The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a &‘taste for silence'


The Leipzig Affair

The Leipzig Affair

Author: Fiona Rintoul

Publisher: Aurora Metro Publications

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781906582975

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Set in 1980s communist East Germany, Leipzig is a tale of personal and political betrayal. When Robert travels from St. Andrews to Leipzig University on a student exchange and falls in love with Magda, an enigmatic linguist from Berlin, he enters a world he doesn't understand. Magda has a hidden agenda, and his stumbling attempts to help her end tragically.


All That Is Between Us

All That Is Between Us

Author: Km Elkes

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-21

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781912095537

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This collection of flash fiction stories explores the complex fragility of human relationships, both the challenges of belonging and how much we risk to avoid being alone. It is a book of moments, evoking the beauty and comfort that connection brings...and the pain when it is severed. Whoever you are, whatever you like to read, you need these stories in your life. Tania Hershman, author of Some Of Us Glow More Than Others These insightful and disarmingly honest stories shimmer with quirky brilliance. Meg Pokrass, author of Alligators At Night K.M. Elkes writes like a fallen angel, making the ordinary divine...This is breath-taking flash fiction at its finest. Angela Readman, author of Something Like Breathing Brings a Cheeveresque emotional punch to his stories...a masterclass in the heart-jolting satisfaction of great flash fiction. Nuala OConnor, author of Joyride to Jupiter


The Best Small Fictions 2017

The Best Small Fictions 2017

Author: Amy Hempel

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780998966717

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Fiction. Short Stories. Flash Fiction. Hybrid Genre. THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2017 offers readers 55 exceptional small fictions by 53 authors. This acclaimed new annual series, hailed as a "milestone for the short story," continues to honor contemporary masters and emerging writers of short- short and hybrid forms from across the globe. Guest editor Amy Hempel chose the winners from a pool of 105 finalists: "They conjure and seduce, they startle and haunt, they are funny and searing, short and shorter." The 2017 volume includes Pamela Painter, Brian Doyle, Ian Seed, Frankie McMillan, Karen Brennan, Stuart Dybek, and W. Todd Kaneko, and spolights Joy Williams and SmokeLong Quarterly. Additional Contributors include Nick Admussen, Nick Almeida, Lydia Armstrong, Matthew Baker, Amy Sayre Baptista, Larry Brown, Randall Brown, Erin Calabria, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Carrie Cooperider, Emily Corwin, Christopher DeWan, Kathy Fish, Sherrie Flick, Scott Garson, Jesse Goolsby, Michael Hammerle, Hannah Harlow, Allegra Hyde, Joy Katz, Jen Knox, Len Kuntz, Tara Laskowski, Oscar Mancinas, Ras Mashramani, Heather McQuillan, Cole Meyer, Eugenie Montague, Alvin Park, Kimberly King Parsons, Gen Del Raye, Mona Leigh Rose, Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, Cameron Quincy Todd, Matt Sailor, Rebecca Schiff, Robert Scotellaro, Alex Simand, Julia Slavin, Michael C. Smith, Phillip Sterling, Anne Valente, Harriot West, Keith Woodruff, William Woolfitt