Seattle Picks: Short Stories
Recently published single-author short story collections and multi-author anthologies. Annotations from NoveList unless otherwise specified. (Updated August 2024)
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Old Crimes
In this masterful collection of complex stories about crimes large and small, the New York Times bestselling author delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close and who, despite their yearnings for connection, can't seem to tell the whole truth.
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom
Set across the temples, slums and gated estates of late 20th-century Bangkok, three families -- a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, a family abandoned by their white American patriarch and an adopted brotherhood of orphaned boys -- search for reinvention in a city unmade by a financial crisis.
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Never Whistle at Night
Celebrating Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, these twenty-seven spinetingling stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, intricate family legacies, desperate deeds and unsettling acts of revenge.
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Other Terrors
Horror writers representing varied cultures, genders, and sexual orientations contribute stories cataloging anxieties of, and toward, “the other”—whatever that “other” may be. (Kirkus)
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Out There Screaming
For this electrifying anthology, horror movie director Peele (Get Out: The Annotated Screenplay) brings together 19 Black authors to “give us their Sunken Places.” (Publishers Weekly)
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The Perfect Crime
From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York--twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories.
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A Dream of A Woman
Centering transgender women living stable, adult lives, these stories find quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human.
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Wafers
In Ha’s impressive and suspenseful collection, contemporary South Koreans contend with loss, the unreliability of memory, and the lingering effects of past traumas. (Publishers Weekly)
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Afterparties
Short stories that portray of the lives of Cambodian Americans still dealing with the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide including a young, disillusioned teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick and a child whose mother survived a school shooting.
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Someplace Generous
...Someplace Generous presents voices largely new to the genre of romance, each bringing a fresh take on what it means to tell a love story. In these pages, desire is centered and explored through queer, trans, Black, AAPI, Latinx, Jewish, disabled, and neurodivergent lenses, and the ages of authors and characters span generations.
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