The Kabuliwallah: And Other Stories
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Rabindranath Tagore, India's foremost writer and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for...
The Roots Run Deep
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Dug from the twisted mind of C.M. Forest, the acclaimed author of Infested, comes a collection of 15...
Horror Short Story Collection
Sarah (7798 KP) rated Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales in Books
Apr 2, 2020
Everything’s Eventual is a collection of short stories that I read well over a decade ago, and as short stories require a lot less brain power than a full on novel, I decided to give this a go as I couldn’t recall many of the stories. And overall this is a very good collection of short stories. They’re all well written with developed characters (as you’d expect with King I’m sure), and the stories themselves have all got very good plots and storylines. The stories are all well balanced and there are none in here that are either overly long or too short, they’re very well paced. There are some great stories in here, most notably for me the John Dillinger story ‘The Death of Jack Hamilton’ and the Dark Tower prequel ‘The Little Sisters of Eluria’, but all of the stories are entertaining and very enjoyable. I wouldn’t say there are any amazing standout ‘wow’ stories in this, which is possibly why I’ve marked it down a little from some of King’s other collections of short stories.
The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories
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LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2017. The first collection of short stories from one...
EmersonRose (320 KP) rated Running Plain Sight & Other Stories in Books
Nov 20, 2019
What I found most captivating about each of these stories were the characters. Both the main characters and the characters around them are flawed people, otherwise known as real people. No one is perfect in these stories, but that makes them easier to be sympatric to. What makes them strong characters is that they take responsibility for their actions. Even though the short stories really only give us glimpses into the lives of the characters that live within them, their flaws and character growth make them deeply developed characters.
Charles R. Butts Jr. published this collection in 2017 and published his first book, For Only A Season in 2016. These stories are quick reads but beautiful and powerful stories. Butts’s writing style is easy and often conversational as you are in the heads of the main characters. However, the simplicity makes the voices stronger, and the meaning of the stories shine through. I greatly enjoyed reading these stories and would highly recommend them.
Taking Care
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From a true American master of the short story, comes a collection of disturbing, comic, and moving...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated A Thousand Years of Good Prayers in Books
Sep 21, 2017
The first story about an elderly woman trying to work and survive, and feeling love for a young boy after many years of loneliness is poignant and sombre. While the final story is similar to Li's experience of living in America - she is in reality a dissident and at one point couldn't leave the country to collect an award for this book, hence the book is remarkable in the fact that it feels completely plausible. Even more laudable is the fact that she had only learnt English for six years when she wrote the book. It is a wonderful collection of stories.
The Necklace and Other Short Stories
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The French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed...
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories #2
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The second collection of short stories actually consists of one long, and two short tales. The first...