Lawrence author Amy Stuber has steadily published her short stories in magazines for years. Literary agents inquired, multiple manuscripts were sent out, but the book deal never came. Now, more than ...

With a writing career spanning three decades, author Bill Gaythwaite was recognized this year with the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection A Place in the World: Stories (Univ. of Pittsburgh ...

A short story by Dracula author Bram Stoker was discovered by a pharmacist in Dublin in a newspaper published in 1890. Gibbet Hill is a gruesome tale about three kids that accost a man on the road.

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

Imagine a woman who, during the pandemic, finds an old card from someone, one she’s kept since she was kid. She starts thinking about her life as if it were a romantic comedy, its storyline ignited by ...