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From award-winning author T.D. Johnston comes his second collection of short stories, eighteen standalone tales which are described by author D.G. Bracey as "a master class on how to deliver stories that grab you from the first page and don't let you go until long after reading." "With Weeding for Eisenhower, his second volume of poignant, powerful, perfectly crafted stories, T.D. Johnston confirms his place in the two-hundred-year tradition...

Fasten your seatbelt. You are about to be transported by a master storyteller . . ." - Jayne Adams, author of For All the Right Seasons In this debut collection of short stories, John W. MacIlroy delights in teasing the moment when everything changes, when the reader suddenly and completely knows the heart of each character and the fullness of the human experience. That slip may be gentle, air-brushed with a sly and lighthearted wink in sto...

Tony Jarvis may have been the most distinctive private school headmaster of the past half century, if not in the history of American schooling. He was for thirty years headmaster of Boston's Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continuous operation in the United States, founded in 1645 by the Puritan divine John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians. Roxbury Latin School today is a school of 300 boys in grades seven through twelve, and it is ann...

This sixth volume in the acclaimed anthology series of short fiction from Short Story America contains thirty excellent new short stories by today's authors, including award-winning writers like Gregg Cusick, Martin McCaw, Marjorie Brody, T.D. Johnston, and Nancy Allen, among many others.

This excellent collection of 31 contemporary short stories is the fifth volume in the acclaimed Short Story America anthology series of short fiction, featuring tales by established, emerging and new authors in the tradition of this great original American literary art form. Authors such as Mathieu Cailler, Gregg Cusick, T.D. Johnston, Richard Hawley, James Goertel, Douglas Campbell, Meg Kimmel, Ray Morrison, Nim Stevens and Lawrence Buentello...

In this superb debut collection of short stories, Mathieu Cailler weaves tales which bring to life the deeply-human experience with loss and its range of outcomes. From loneliness to recovered relationships, from despair to redemption, from heartbreak to humor, these fifteen stories illuminate the sadness, bewilderment, conflict and ultimate hope which can come from each human being's inevitable encounters with loss. Author Laurie Alberts writ...

In this third novel in the classic saga which includes THE HEADMASTER'S PAPERS and THE HEADMASTER'S WIFE, Richard Hawley brilliantly weaves the diary writings of headmaster John Greeve's cancer-stricken wife and estranged grown son into a tale which, when combined with the letters of John Greeve, paints a haunting picture of the spiraling sadness which comes from the dread of impending loss, the distant wanderings of grown children, and the tr...

This collection of 33 new short stories is the fourth volume in the acclaimed Short Story America series. Short Story America is known for its eclectic literary fiction, and this volume continues the great contemporary tradition established by this superb independent press. Featuring stories by Jodi Paloni, Eric Witchey, Gregg Cusick, Ray Morrison, Marjorie Brody, Richard Hawley, T.D. Johnston, Nim Stevens, Mathieu Cailler, Eryk Pruitt, Dougla...

As he proves emphatically with his new collection, T.D. Johnston is clearly one of the modern masters of the short story."-James Dodson, Editor, O. Henry Magazine Author Marjorie Brody writes of the dozen tales in Friday Afternoon and Other Stories: "This is an important collection. Powerful, provocative, and significant. To read a T.D. Johnston story is to plunge head first into the world of unforgettable characters, 3-D experiences, and stun...