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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The End of Youth	Rebecca Brown	The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid…	OL12037831W
This War Called Love	Alejandro Murguía	From Mexico City to San Francisco's Mission District, nothing comes easy—in life or in love. Here is an unstereotypical view of a world as treacherous as it is tender, as hilarious as it is heartbrea…	OL13786226W
Visions of Darkness (Cask of Amontillado / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Raven / Tell-T…	Edgar Allan Poe,C. Merton Babcock	[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Oval Portrait Raven [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works…	OL14938132W
The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse	Lonely Christopher	The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, a radical map of shortcomings in our daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, presents thematically related windows into serious emotional…	OL16461309W
Impossible Princess	Kevin Killian	Impossible Princess is the third collection of gay short fiction by PEN Award–winning San Francisco–based author Kevin Killian. A member of the “new narrative” circle including Dennis Cooper and Ka…	OL17272047W
Stories New and Old	J. H. Shorthouse,James Lane Allen,Hamilton Wright Mabie,J Brown,Austin, William,Charles Dickens,Robert Louis Stevenson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,O. Wister,Thomas Bailey Aldrich	General introduction: The short story, by H. W. Mabie-- Peter Ragg, the missing man, by W. Austin Dr. Marigold's prescriptions, by C. Dickens Rab and his friends, by J. Brown Ethan Brand, by N. H…	OL1796555W
The Man Who Built Boxes	Frank Tavares	A remarkable debut collection from an already accomplished storyteller In these twelve stories, you’ll meet a remarkable cast of complex, quirky characters tangled up in the limits they’ve put on th…	OL18149683W
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes	Dana Cameron,Denise Mina,Cory Doctorow,Tasha Alexander,Catriona McPherson,Jonathan Maberry,Laurie R. King,David Morrell,Anne Perry,John Connolly,Tony Lee,Meg Gardiner,Leslie S. Klinger,Hallie Ephron,Gary Phillips,William Kent Krueger,Michael Scott,Bevis Musson,Hand Phillippi Ryan	Holmes on the range / by John Connolly -- Irregular / by Meg Gardiner -- Where there is honey / by Dana Cameron -- Before a Bohemian scandal / by Tasha Alexander -- The spiritualist / by David Mo…	OL18418593W
Fun & Games	Clarence Major	Stories deal with romance, childhood, a man's obsession with three women, a single woman who becomes involved with a wrong number, and an elderly white man living in what has become a Black neighborh…	OL1936256W
The End of Youth	Rebecca Brown	The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid…	OL1947973W
A manual for cleaning women	Lucia Berlin	"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No miti…	OL20007324W
Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant	Aurelie Sheehan	"It takes a long time to see you are a slave, " muses one character in Aurelie Sheehan's first collection of stories—lyrical, sometimes bitingly funny chronicles of women breaking out of imposed role…	OL3466262W
The One Marvelous Thing	Rikki Ducornet	Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist, but is known perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. In the traditi…	OL444117W
Conditions Uncertain and Likely to Pass Away	Frank Stanford	Fiction. "These are not stories in the contemporary sense, but tales spun out of the mystical and the ordinary, a history of men sizing up other men and bottles being passed around a campfire. ...If …	OL4444151W
Signal Hill	Alan Rifkin	Five stories track boys and men as they navigate among the ghosts and mirages of greater Los Angeles. Rifkin’s male protagonists are part fuck-up, part primal force, and full of longing—for fathers, …	OL6029406W
Mirrors Beneath the Earth	Ray González,Ray Gonzalez	<em>Mirrors Beneath the Earth</em> is an historic and unique collection of contemporary Chicano fiction: 31 stories depicting the richly varied experiences of Mexican-Americans in the U.S. Some, like…	OL7990291W
Under the Pomegranate Tree	Ray González,Ray Gonzalez	Sensual, diverse, and electrifying, the first major collection of Latino erotica redefines our perceptions of Latin American and U.S. Latino writers. By turns suggestive and explicit, <em>Under the P…	OL7990295W
Histoires grotesques et sérieuses (Angel of the Odd / Domain of Arnheim / Eleonora / Landor's Cott…	Edgar Allan Poe	Contains: Angel of the Odd [Domain of Arnheim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645889W) [Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W) [Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL…	OL8000561W
Get Down	Asali Solomon	Asali Solomon’s characters are vivid misfits—a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a c…	OL8034619W
Arbitrary Tales	Daniel Borzutzky	In the tradition of Ben Marcus, Matthew Derby, and David Ohle, Daniel Borzutzky's fictions mine the fables that comprise our understanding of ourselves: the tales that are woven up so intricately wit…	OL9764895W