American Fiction Short Stories

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    • A Short Story
    • By: Abraham Verghese
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Fate challenges a boy to find his place in the world in a powerful short story from Abraham Verghese, the New York Times bestselling author of The Covenant of Water.

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    • By: Ted Chiang
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Todd McLaren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,024 ratings
    • This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories....

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    • By: Mary Pope Osborne
    • Narrated by: Scott Snively
    • Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • This superb collection of larger-than-life folk heroes aptly represents America’s robust early days, perfectly capturing the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness....

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    • By: Morgan Talty
    • Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy....

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    • Stories
    • By: Walter Mosley
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd....

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    • BMWW Interracial Romance
    • By: Tamara Black
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • His Name is Snake. He Wants to Be King of the Streets. He’s put in the work and is on his way up in the drug game. When he meets Charity Jones, a...

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    • Stories
    • By: Tananarive Due
    • Narrated by: Tananarive Due, Robin Miles, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by otherness....

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    • By: Gabriel García Márquez
    • Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation....

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    • Selected Stories
    • By: Raymond Carver
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story....

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    • By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen, Carra Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America....

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