A collection of 14 short stories reveals Hemingway's impressions of life and mankind.

Reality can be more astounding than fantasy, and often unfurls a mysterious tendril to draw in the unsuspecting person. Encounters with troglodytes in a crypt, fluorescent honey and the house that goes to the ultimate extreme to get rid of its inhabitants, can happen.

A collection of Short Stories by Anton Chekhov featuring A Tragic Actor, In A Strange Land, Oh The Public, The Looking Glass, Her Husband and Overdoing It. These stories are small masterpieces. The scene is set quickly and within a few sentences the story line is underway. But all seem to contain an element of the unexpected.

Chekhov's trilogy of interlinked stories about Truth, Freedom and Love. First published in 1898 in Russian and released as separate stories. This title, based on translations by Constance Garnett with revision and adaptation by Max Bollinger follows Chekhov's original vision by bringing the three stories together once again.

Guyanese born and UK trained Registered Nurse has published Short Stories through XLIBIS publishers in 2011. She has captured the minds of the reader by expressing how a couple bade sad farewell to their beloved pooch when his time was up The Contented, in the first chapter. The Day I Rode into Balloch Town follows a Native American womans unforgettable dreamlike encounter with a handsome young man by the name of Clint Eastwood. Shanti shared My Experience...

In this collection of short stories, Stanislas M. Yassukovich has indulged his taste for nostalgic reverie. The tales are, inspired by the people and places the author has, encountered during a lifetime spent in cosmopolitan circles. The quirks of fate that move people from an apparently predestined course of life have provoked his imagination. Stanislas has drawn on a variety of conditions and personalities to colour his stories with the shades and...

Five powerful and original stories: "Free," "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phoebe."

The amiable extraterrestrials in this novella dispel the myth of hostile aliens. These stories focus on the light side of life with many amusing moments."A Short Story with Short Aliens" contains the first public contact with extraterrestrial beings, who were introduced by the victor of the 2036 United States presidential election. This act results in the president's rivals in the legislative branch losing an enormous amount of surreptitious funds....

The genre and style of Derryl G. Berry's "Short Stories" is quite varied. Some are straightforward, first- or third- persons POV. Some are off-the-wall perspectives and musings. Some are "circular" in that they begin and end pretty much at the same point, e.g., "Let's Act Normal." Many of Derryl's short stories began as an idea that came to him while hiking and were fleshed out later, e.g., "Five Shots," and "The Empty Hook." Others were triggered...

4 short stories The Little Fox..... How a little fox learned to be proud of himself, and not want to be someone else. The Old Man and the Rapper...... Two people from different age groups must learn to respect, and trust each other in order to save themselves. A Snake is Always a Snake...... A tale of lying and deception. The Tai Chi Fist....... A brash young martial artist is taught a lession about the value of listening.