[[Category:Short Stories|*]]
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Kaufman
|title=The Tiny Wife
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It all begins with a bank robbery. Only this isn't your typical sort of bank robbery since the robber demands not money but instead each person in the bank must give him the item of most sentimental value that they have with them. These range from photographs and a key through to a calculator...and on taking these items he says he is also taking fifty percent of their souls, and it is up to the victims to find the way to get their souls back, or to die trying.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007429258</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ludwig Bechstein, Axel Sceffler and Julia Donaldson
|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Janice Galloway
|title=Collected Stories
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In this collection, stories are taken from two previous volumes, Blood and Where You Find It. The forty-two snap shots of life are mainly of women and young girls, struggling with emotions, sometimes realized and sometimes not. In all, there seems to be an underlying link of isolation and truth. The settings are varied, from a visit to the dentist to the place known as home, to a walk in the evening. We have a peek into the deepest darkest corners of everyday relationships, with lovers, partners and most of all ourselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540398</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley Jackson
|title=The Lottery and Other Stories
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Even though it was written over sixty years ago, The Lottery, coming in at fewer than 3,500 words still has the power to shock. When it first appeared in the The New Yorker in 1948 it caused many outraged readers to cancel their subscriptions such was the devastating nature of the story. Time may have lessened sensibilities over the latter half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first but The Lottery, like many of the other stories in this timely reissue, still packs a mighty punch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191430</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly
|title=Tales of Death and Dementia
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=William Bedford
|title=None of the Cadillacs was Pink
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I chose this book because of its superb title – the last and best memoir in a collection of sixteen stories. These Humberside and Lincolnshire stories have a background beat of Fifties' music that sets them firmly in an exciting, disturbing time for young people everywhere, not least for the author and his friends, as old ways of living made way for new along the East Coast of England.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529445</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clive Cussler (editor)
|title=Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=If you enjoy thrillers or short stories then you might find this book a treat. If you enjoy them both then it's a treasure trove. ''Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down'' is edited by best-selling author [[:Category:Clive Cussler|Clive Cussler]] (although none of his work is included) and includes work by some authors who are the top of their game. There are twenty three stories in all, each about twenty pages long and they're perfect for those moments when you just want to dip into something short and satisfying.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303209</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Will Eisner
|title=Minor Miracles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - he's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Agnes Owens
|title=The Complete Novellas
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from the nineteen forties and fifties. Now an octogenarian, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at the age of 58. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new edition, a companion volume to her short stories, published in 2008. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kazuo Ishiguro
|title=Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
|rating=3.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=A jobbing guitarist from an Eastern European country, playing in Venice, is given a most singular gig by an ageing, passing crooner. An old friend of a couple at loggerheads stays in their flat, but enters a nightmare world of comedy, doing greater and greater wrongs to cover his first transgression. A younger couple running a cafe employ a friend to help out, despite his wish to hide in the hills and compose new songs for his not-very illustrious career.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057124498X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aleksandar Hemon
|title=Love and Obstacles
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=We start with the young narrator away from home, and in Africa, due to his diplomat father. He's left behind home, a potential girlfriend, and more, but finds company with an older, chancer character and his junkie girlfriend, and their pot, drinks and 70s rock. Closer to his roots, but still a young man abroad, the second story sees him travelling across his homeland on an errand - to deliver payment for the biggest chest freezer his father could find. But poems, losing his virginity, keeping his money, and various other fantasies might just put a cooler on that unusual task...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464434</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charles Stross
|title=Wireless
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In his introduction, Stross explains that one of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories is because they are the ideal format in which to focus on a particular concept of the future and play around with it. It doesn't matter so much if the idea doesn't ultimately work because neither the reader nor the author has invested in it the way they would in a novel. ''Wireless'' then, is something of an experiment. Stross employs many different styles, tackles many different subjects and is very skilful at creating mood. His stories are a strange blend of the technical and the archaic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk>
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