Cassingle: Five Stories Jim Hanas http://feedbooks.com/userbook/8248 en 2009 A follow-up to 2006's Single, Cassingle is a collection of stories that originally appeared in Fence, McSweeney's, Bridge: Stories & Ideas, and Twelve Stories. Creative Commons short stories flash fiction short fiction literary fiction literary journals mcsweeneys twelve stories fence http://feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/8248.mobi Dirty Litte Angels Chris Tusa http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7427 en 2009 Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses’s lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses’s twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape. literary fiction southern literature contemporary literature crime fiction grit lit dark fiction must read http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7427.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7427.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7427.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7427.mobi Single: Two Stories Jim Hanas http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4023 en 2006 This free ebook—which I like to think of as a "fiction single"—features two previously published short stories: "Miss Tennessee" and "The Cryerer," which originally appeared in The Land-Grant College Review and One Story, respectively. Creative Commons short stories Contemporary literary fiction one story land-grant collage review literary journals http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4023.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4023.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4023.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4023.mobi Smallfish Clover Heather Shaw http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2270 en 2008 Smallfish Clover, like most affluent American boys, has many skills and inner resources. But how these gifts get used in the real world can lead to success and happiness, or useless death. It’s a test all young people must take at some time or another, although in our society we often try to postpone it indefinitely. The children of poverty, however, don’t have the luxury of wasting difficult decisions. And in a sense, the writing of this book was a kind of incantation to protect my own children from making bad choices with terrible consequences. Heather Shaw paints a beautiful masterpiece of a story that leaves the reader feeling proud, sad, and somewhat confused—much like Smallfish and his friends feel much of the time. This is powerful, reality-based fiction—albeit of a reality few of us know, and one which no boy should ever have to face head-on the way Smallfish does. —Daniel Jolley, Top 50 Reviewer at Amazon.com …Shaw deftly evokes the wonder of an ordinary individual’s ability to affect changes beyond his wildest dreams. —ForeWord Magazine mythology literary fiction dreams street kids fairy tales street theater illegal immigration Guatemala Peru http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2270.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2270.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2270.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2270.mobi Segue Wiley Davis http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022 en 2008 A segue. A short story about a transitional moment. short story literary fiction wiley davis segue coffee dreams http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.mobi Fall Love Anne Whitehouse http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1900 en 2008 Fall Love tells the intertwined stories of four twenties-something artists and professionals adrift in the bad old pre-AIDS New York of 1980. From a summer of love through an autumn of deceit and regret, we follow the lives of Althea, Jeanne, Paul, and Bryce from self-sacrifice to self-knowledge. fiction roman love absurd comedy Amor romantic triangle literature literary fiction art and artists art/teaching artists in love gay novel bisexual novel http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1900.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1900.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1900.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1900.mobi