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Adult Fiction - Short Stories
Updated May 19, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
Oak Creek Public Library
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Catapult : stories
Fridlund, Emily
Paper Book
"Fridlund writes of families, marriage, and childhood as if our received wisdom--what we thought we knew about life and love and family--needs reparation. This is fiction as excavation, peeling away the machinery of people and converting it to narrative. Fridlund shines a spotlight on what...
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Half wild : stories
MacArthur, Robin
Paper Book
"This heartbreakingly honest and authentic fiction will make you weep over, laugh at, and finally cheer for, mothers and daughters, sons and fathers, lovers and losers, and the human race in general. Half Wild is American fiction, and American literature, at its very best."--Howard Frank Mosher,...
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All the beloved ghosts
MacLeod, Alison
Ebook
An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and memoir--from a Booker-longlisted author.Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the boundary...
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The other language : stories
Marciano, Francesca.
Ebook
Hailed by The New York Times as "a natural-born storyteller," the acclaimed author of Rules of the Wild gives us nine incandescently smart stories, funny, elegant, and poignant by turns, that explore the power of change--in relationships, in geographies, and across cultures--to...
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Dinosaurs on other planets : stories
McLaughlin, Danielle
Paper Book
For fans of Alice Munro, Anne Enright, and William Trevor comes a stunning debut collection from a deeply original writer and observer of love, betrayal, and turning points in ordinary peoples' lives. In a raw seacoast cabin, a young woman watches her boyfriend go...
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Honeydew : stories
Pearlman, Edith
Paper Book
Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and...
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Nothing gold can stay : stories
Rash, Ron
Paper Book
From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear--spanning the Civil War to the present day. <...
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Squirrel seeks chipmunk : a modest bestiary
Sedaris, David.
Paper Book
Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad...
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The unfinished world : and other stories
Sparks, Amber
Ebook
A Washington Post Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Selection One of Electric Literature's Best Short Story Collections of the Year A highly anticipated collection of wildly imaginative short stories from "one of contemporary fiction's true mad scientists" (Necessary...
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Memoirs of a polar bear
Tawada, Y?ko
Ebook
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"--Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East...
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