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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I'm A Fool to Want You
Argentine writer and actress Villada’s remarkable collection of stories portrays queer characters struggling to find their place in society.
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Manywhere
The nine stories in Morgan Thomas’s shimmering debut collection witness Southern queer and genderqueer characters determined to find themselves reflected in the annals of history, whatever the cost. As Thomas’s subjects trace deceit and violence through Southern tall tales and their own pasts, their journeys reveal the porous boundaries of body, land, and history, and the sometimes ruthless awakenings of self-discovery.
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Table for Two
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.
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The Beast You Are
The fifteen pieces in this collection are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
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Concerning the Future of Souls
Azrael - transporter of souls and the most troubled and thoughtful of the angels - confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death, and his friendship with the Devil. Over the course of these ninety-nine illuminations, a collection of connected and disparate beings - ranging from ordinary folk to grand, known figures such as Jung, Nietzsche, Pythagoras, Bach, and Rilke; to mountains, oceans, dogs, birds, whales, horses, butterflies, a sixty-year-old tortoise, and a chimp named Washoe - experience the varying fate of the soul as each encounters the darkness of transcendence in this era of extinction.
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Jewel Box
A collection of short stories, both new and previously published, ranging from bittersweet to profound, from the award-winning author of On Fragile Waves include tales of angels, monsters, bees, birdwatchers, emperors, monsters and prison wardens.
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