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Death in the Cathedral: A Novella in Stories by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 16,910. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: December 7, 2022 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
These five linked stories immerse readers in the turbulent, disturbing and sometimes hilarious misadventures and rivalries of Catholic schoolboys in late 20th century Liverpool— the boy who tries to play by the rules, his rebellious and scornful classmates who torment their cassocked teachers, the misfit who runs the campus sundries shop.
The Satisfaction of Longing: Stories by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,310. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2022 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » American / General
An emotionally rich and ethically complicated short story collection, suffused in longing and loss
Arrest: Stories by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,370. Language: English. Published: December 18, 2021 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » Russian & Former Soviet Union
A riveting and grimly comic collection, Arrest is the account of a Moldavian-Jewish dissident's interrogation by the KGB, his subsequent imprisonment in a labor camp, and a difficult emigration from the former Soviet Union. The author's life is the source for this fiction, narrated by a character named Lazarus Trubman—a survivor scarred by his experience, who finds a new home in the USA.
Snitch: Stories by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 22,370. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2021 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Ten powerful and gritty, interlinked tales take readers inside an impoverished, drug-ridden central Florida neighborhood where the Collins family lives. The three children are being raised by their bartender mother while their father is in prison.
Emotions Musical eBook by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 370. Language: English. Published: March 3, 2021 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Concepts / Senses & Sensation, Nonfiction » Children's Books » Body, Mind, & Spirit
Calling all children! You are invited on an enriching musical journey to learn about emotions! This is a sing-along interactive audio-visual book, with award-winning Canadian musicians. EMOTIONS Musical eBook introduces psycho-neuroimmunology to children, enabling them to recognize, distinguish and talk about different feelings with clarity. Illustrated with clickable links to mp3 audio tracks.
First Kings and Other Stories by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 16,920. Language: English. Published: December 15, 2020 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In three dreamy and introspective stories, award-winning author Morrissey takes us to a remote and frigid landscape where blinding white snow and sky are indistinguishable, and those who must venture out to pit their resolve against icy weather lose their way and possibly their senses.
The Estrangement Effect by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,770. Language: English. Published: August 19, 2020 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » American / General, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Wordrunner eChapbooks' summer 2020 fiction issue: Five stories by Rebecca Andem explore the startling, disconcerting, unsatisfying, and liberating moments in which we understand that the most central relationships in our lives are inhabited by strangers, strangers we are deeply connected to, be they lovers, spouses, parents, siblings or children.
New Songs for Old Radios by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,120. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2019 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » American / General
B. B. Garin's closely-observed and exuberant tales are inspired by itinerant guitar players and the women and men drawn to them and their songs. The collection opens and closes with encounters between vagabonds and reclusive loners—a tragedy-haunted barfly, the estranged son of a famous musician. Other stories depict immigrant rock n' roll hipsters, and a slacker who murders a man for his song.
Female Education by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,240. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2019 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist
Ciresi's 14 thought-provoking flash fictions deal with love, loss, and the hard choices women make. Her characters experience great joy and passion; they endure failed marriages, displacement, rejection, and grief. In spare prose, these stories are hilarious, poignant, and sad, and sometimes all at once. 
By the Sea, by the Sea... by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 17,890. Language: English. Published: December 13, 2018 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Jim Beane's five riveting tales of the Eastern seashore depict the elemental beauty and terror of salt air and wild water and its impact on the harsh, often stormy lives of coastal dwellers who fish the sea, service boats, surf breakers and work in the building trades.
Ovenbirds and Other Stories by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 17,600. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2018 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary
In this disturbing and powerful, sometimes bitingly funny, short story collection, award-winning author Dorene O’Brien explores the disasters and misadventures that shape or distort lives — among them the plight of a young girl held captive in a remote cabin, an elderly woman bewildered by dementia, a man who takes antidepressants to placate his overly-anxious wife, and more.
Protected Contact by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 22,140. Language: English. Published: November 17, 2017 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Seven stories explore the vibrant and troubling connections between people and the worlds they delight in, be it nature, art or literature -- ranging from the cloning of a woolly mammoth to a romantic encounter in a London bookstore.
Nowhere Is Always Somewhere by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,220. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2017 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In the six tales of Nowhere is Always Somewhere, short story master Robert Earle again creates compelling characters caught up in life’s dramas all over the world: Americans imprisoned in Bolivia, homeless kids forging a relationship under a bridge in L.A., a Brit encountering the Chechen insurgent who cast him off as a child, a young young girl challenging her father’s racism in the South.
Lost in Translation by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 14,310. Language: English. Published: November 15, 2016 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
A cycle of linked stories about love, loss, and the difficulty of communicating emotion in any language. Jesse, Roy, and Julie lead complicated intertwined lives; whether funny, sad, ecstatic or outraged, theirs are pitch perfect voices.
Beyond the Line by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,290. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2016 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In this powerful collection of short fiction from “down under” — by turns, beautiful, disturbing and funny — Goldsmith gives us resilient characters who push or are swept beyond the lines of acceptable or customary behavior; some of them live in barely sustainable emotional territory.
The Marriage Bed by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,650. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2015 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
View love and marriage from every angle except Happily Ever After in these five stories and two novel excerpts. Ford sympathetically captures the emptiness of faded love, the disappointment of affection misplaced, the humor of narrowly-escaped misalliance. Many err but none are mocked in this sparely-written, humane collection.
Family Ties by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 12,130. Language: English. Published: September 16, 2015 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In these five vivid, unsettling tales, Bache has created flawed characters who might be related to any of us. They are the family black sheep you helplessly love or hate — here so finely drawn you will never forget them.
Grace by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 17,040. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2014 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The seven luminous stories collected in Robert Mouthrop's "Grace" range from lightly comic to darkly complex. The voices are diverse — hopeful, angry, uncertain, amused, despairing — even where loss is profound, there are grace notes.
Translation of Light by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,150. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2014 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
A collection of new and selected early poems exploring the ground of memory, vision and the illuminations of everyday life.
Catching the Send-Off Train by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,370. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2014 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
A work of imagination and heart, Melanie Faith’s Catching the Send-Off Train traces the impacts war has on the family left behind. With the lightest of touches, Faith’s poems tell intimate stories of separation, remembrance, and return. Each short vignette adds another layer to the narrative and to an understanding of her characters.
Talk in the Reading Room by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 12,710. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2014 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
The first poet laureate of the Silicon Valley meditates on the meaning and mystery of memory, looking back on his childhood as the son of a chauffeur in New York and his college days in Eastern Kentucky. This is an insightful and often funny memoir from a member of the last generation to grow up without TV or coed dormitories.
Distortions by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,340. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2014 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
A novella in stories: In this subtle and nuanced probing of family dynamics, a brother and sister find themselves “in the middle of the kind of stillness that comes from size.” She wants to disappear; he likes mysteries.
Job Hazards by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 10,630. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2014 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Milbrodt's stories probe the impact of job choices on the lives of a love-lorn circus clown, a racecar driver/pole dancer, a retired sideshow fat lady and her “skeleton man” friend, a 60-year-old, cliff-jumping caregiver, and two shopping mall security guards who are single parents.
Monsters in the Agapanthus by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,140. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2014 by Wordrunner eChapbooks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
These powerful, edgy stories explore love and estrangement between daughters and mothers, siblings, and spouses. Inclán's characters stretch the outer bounds of family responsibility, creating burdens they never dreamed of.

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