Allegiance and Betrayal: Stories

Allegiance and Betrayal" is constituted of a dozen brief tales, all facing kin in a single approach or one other. The tales are set in New England and the South, together with particular destinations equivalent to Connecticut and coastal North Carolina. Makuck writes approximately an offshore fishing journey to settle outdated ratings, a scuba diving event that rescues a friendship, a relations reunion that turns grotesque as regards to faith, a widower attempting to live on, and a home painter learning a necessity to house continual anger, among others.

How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship

Carl Djerassi crafts a wise selection of comedies of manners, exposing the foibles of elite tribes—business executives, cooks, scientists, professors, musicians, and different smart characters. They spar in battles of one-upmanship utilizing classification, schooling, gender, or status as their guns, occasionally leaving broken bystanders of their wake yet occasionally discovering their superiority deflated via unforeseen turns of occasions.

The Run for the Elbertas

In language either spare and colourful, yes in its command of Appalachian dialect and poetic in its evocation of mountain settings, James Still's tales demonstrate the lives of his humans -- lives of privation and fight, lived with honesty in addition to humor. With a foreword by way of Cleanth Brooks and an afterword through the writer, The Run for the Elbertas positive factors 13 tales from one in all America's masters of the quick tale.

Gravity Changes (American Readers Series)

Gravity adjustments is a set of fantastical, off-beat tales that view the quotidian international during the lens of the absurd. Set in a surreal fictional global that's populated by means of unusual characters—children who defy gravity, a guy who marries a light-bulb, the satan and his miracle-worker wife—these tales take huge steps open air of fact, discovering new how one can light up fact.