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20 Must-Read Collections for Short Story Month

Explore some of the most exciting voices in short fiction. the collections below include established authors and newcomers – celebrate short story month with the collections below., the thing around your neck, by chimamanda ngozi adichie.

Paperback $17.00

Buy from other retailers:, the safety of objects, by a.m. homes.

Paperback $22.00

American housewife, by helen ellis.

by Ramona Ausubel

Paperback $16.00

By jenny zhang.

Paperback $18.00

The king is always above the people, by daniel alarcón.

After the Quake

By haruki murakami.

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

By denis johnson.

Stories of Your Life and Others

By ted chiang.

Paperback $15.95

The bus driver who wanted to be god & other stories, by etgar keret.

Tenth of December

By george saunders.

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

By helen oyeyemi.

Homesick for Another World

By ottessa moshfegh.

Things We Lost in the Fire

By mariana enriquez.

The Bed Moved

By rebecca schiff.

Paperback $20.00

This is how you lose her, by junot díaz.

by Alice Munro

Lovers on All Saints’ Day

By juan gabriel vasquez.

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

By mona awad.

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The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2022

Featuring george saunders, ling ma, colin barrett, jamil jan kochai, and more.

We’ve come to the end of another bountiful literary year, and for all of us review rabbits here at Book Marks, that can mean only one thing: basic math, and lots of it.

Yes, using reviews drawn from more than 150 publications, over the next two weeks we’ll be calculating and revealing the most critically-acclaimed books of 2022, in the categories of (deep breath): Fiction ; Nonfiction ; Memoir and Biography ; Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror ; Short Story Collections; Essay Collections; Poetry; Mystery and Crime; Graphic Literature ; and Literature in Translation .

Today’s installment: Short Story Collections .

Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.”

1. Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

21 Rave • 5 Positive • 2 Mixed Read an interview with Ling Ma here

“The eight wily tales mark the return of an author whose inventive debut, Severance, urgently announced her as a writer worth watching … an assured follow-up, a striking collection that peddles in the uncanny and the surreal, but it often lacks Severance ’s zest. Some stories are confident in their strangeness and ambiguity, a handful feel like promising sketches of sturdier narratives and the rest fall somewhere in between. The connections between them are loose, tethered by similar leads …

Wry, peculiar stories like Los Angeles and Yeti Lovemaking confirm that Ma’s imagination operates on the same chimerical frequency as those of Helen Oyeyemi, Samanta Schweblin, Meng Jin. Each of these stories leans un-self-consciously into the speculative, illuminating Ma’s phantasmagoric interests. They are funny, too … Despite their nagging loose ends, Ma’s stories stay with you—evidence of a gifted writer curious about the limits of theoretical possibility. They twist and turn in unpredictable ways and although the ride wasn’t always smooth, I never regretted getting on.”

–Lovia Gyarkye ( The New York Times Book Review )

2. Liberation Day by George Saunders (Random House)

16 Rave • 6 Positive • 5 Mixed (86) Read George Saunders on reading chaotically and the power of generous teachers, here

“Acutely relevant … Let’s bask in this new collection of short stories, which is how many of us first discovered him and where he excels like no other … Saunders’ imaginative capacity is on full display … Liberation Day carries echoes of Saunders’ previous work, but the ideas in this collection are more complex and nuanced, perhaps reflecting the new complexities of this brave new world of ours. The title story is only one of a handful of the nine stories in this collection that show us our collective and personal dilemmas, but in reading the problems so expressed—with compassion and humanity—our spirits are raised and perhaps healed. Part of the Saunders elixir is that we feel more empathetic after reading his work.”

–Scott Laughlin ( The San Francisco Chronicle )

3. Homesickness by Colin Barrett (Grove Press)

16 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed Read an essay by Colin Barrett here

“Its comedy stands in balance to the collection’s more tragic tenor … expands [Barrett’s] range, and though the first took place in the fictional Irish town of Glanbeigh, the books share a fabric shot through with dark humor, pitch-perfect dialogue and a signature freshness that makes life palpable on the page. The language counterpoints the sometimes inarticulate desperation of the working-class characters, and that dissonance lends an emotional complexity to their stories …

As a writer, Barrett doesn’t legislate from the top down. His unruly characters surge up with their vitality and their mystery intact. Their stories aren’t shaped by familiar resolutions—no realizations, morals or epiphanies. The absence of a conventional resolution does risk leaving an otherwise charming story like The Silver Coast with the rambling feel of a slice of life. But in the majority of the stories in this book, to reinvent an ending is to reinvent how a story is told, and overall, Homesickness is graced with an original, lingering beauty.”

–Stuart Dybek ( The New York Times Book Review )

4. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (Tin House)

13 Rave • 4 Positive Read a story from Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century here

“..the horrors are more intimate, smaller, and less global in scale. This is not a collection filled with fantastic beasts, although a sea monster does make an appearance, but instead illuminates the monstrous nature of humanity … Technology, rather than magic, catalyzes these changes. That is not to say there are not some traces of unexplained fantasy, such as a girl who sprouts wings from her ankles, but mostly, Fu’s monsters manifest from modernity … The success of Kim Fu’s stories is the element of the unexpected. There are surprises lurking in these narratives, whether it is a quick final plot twist or unexpected peculiarity …

Although Fu seems more concerned with alienation stemming from individual relationships, there is criticism of conventional consumer capitalism … The characters in Fu’s collection are eccentric and unexpected in their choices, and many of their stories feature unforeseen endings that strike the right tone for the dark era we live in … Fu opens a window looking onto the sad possibilities of our own failures.”

–Ian MacAllen ( The Chicago Review of Books )

5. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (MCD)

12 Rave • 4 Positive Read an essay by Jonathan Escoffery here

“Ravishing … The book, about an immigrant family struggling to make ends meet, delights in mocking the trope of an immigrant family struggling to make ends meet … There’s peacocking humor, capers, and passages of shuddering eroticism. The book feels thrillingly free … Escoffery’s protagonists, though resourceful, can’t accomplish the impossible; nor do they sacrifice themselves for the reader’s sentimental education … The prose comes alive …

These characters are strange amalgams of limited agency and boundless originality. Their survival, perhaps, comes down to their style … Escoffery deftly renders the disorienting effects of race as they fall, veil-like and hostile, over a world of children … Throughout, the refrain runs like an incantation: What are you? Escoffery, hosing his characters in a stream of fines, bills, and pay stubs, studies the bleak math of self-determination.”

–Katy Waldman ( The New Yorker )

6. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai (Viking)

12 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed Read an essay by Jamil Jan Kochai  here

“Kochai, an Afghan-American writer, shapes and reshapes his material through a variety of formal techniques, including a fantasy of salvation through video gaming, a darkly surrealist fable of loss, a life story told through a mock résumé, and the story of a man’s transformation into a monkey who becomes a rebel leader…Like Asturias, Kochai is a master conjurer…The collection’s cohesion lies in its thematic exploration of the complexities of contemporary Afghan experience (both in Afghanistan and the United States), and in the recurring family narrative at its core: many of the stories deal with an Afghan family settled in California… Kochai is a thrillingly gifted writer, and this collection is a pleasure to read, filled with stories at once funny and profoundly serious, formally daring, and complex in their apprehension of the contradictory yet overlapping worlds of their characters.”

–Claire Messud ( Harper’s )

7. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Tin House Book)

12 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed Listen to an interview with Morgan Talty here

“Talty depicts the relationship between David and Paige perfectly—the siblings clearly care for each other; it’s evident beneath the bickering and the long periods when they don’t see each other … The story ends with both mother and son experiencing terrifying medical emergencies; it’s almost excruciating to read, but it’s undeniably powerful, and, in its own way, beautiful … Talty’s prose is flawless throughout; he writes with a straightforward leanness that will likely appeal to admirers of Thom Jones or Denis Johnson. But his style is all his own, as is his immense sense of compassion. Night of the Living Rez is a stunning look at a family navigating their lives through crisis—it’s a shockingly strong debut, sure, but it’s also a masterwork by a major talent.”

–Michael Schaub ( The Star Tribune )

8. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (William Morrow)

10 Rave • 6 Positive • 1 Mixed • 1 Pan Read an excerpt from How High We Go in the Dark here

“If you’re a short-story lover—as I am—you’ll be impressed with Nagamatsu’s meticulous craft. If you crave sustained character and plot arcs, well, you’ll have to settle for admiring the well-honed prose, poignant meditations and unique concepts. Hardly small pleasures … The reader might best approach the book like a melancholy Black Mirror season … This is a lovely though bleak book. Humanity has long turned to humor in our darkest moments, but levity feels absent even in a chapter narrated by a stand-up comedian. That said, the somber tone unifies the disparate characters and story lines … a welcome addition to a growing trend of what we might call the ‘speculative epic’: genre-bending novels that use a wide aperture to tackle large issues like climate change while jumping between characters, timelines and even narrative modes … Nagamatsu squarely hits both the ‘literary’ and ‘science fiction’ targets, offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits … a book of sorrow for the destruction we’re bringing on ourselves. Yet the novel reminds us there’s still hope in human connections, despite our sadness.”

–Lincoln Michel ( The New York Times Book Review )

9. Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle (Viking)

9 Rave •  5 Positive • 1 Mixed

“… a quietly devastating collection of short stories that brilliantly portrays the pervasive sense of hopelessness that immobilised us during the dog days of Covid … Lest he be accused of focusing too much on men and their sense of victimhood, the countervailing magnificence of his women is worth noting. Part of Doyle’s genius resides in a kind of bathetic amusement at the follies of his male characters and always it’s the stoical good sense of women that saves the day … Another of his great strengths is the ability to drop in those little epiphanies that resolve the tension and conflict of a story in a single significant moment … Doyle breaks our free fall into despair by emphasizing the redemptive power of humor, love and the kindness of strangers.”

–Bert Wright ( The Sunday Times )

10. Stories From the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana (Scribner)

12 Rave Read an interview with Sidik Fofana here

“… outstanding … The brilliance of this debut, however, is that Fofana doesn’t let anyone go unseen … masterfully paints a portrait of the people most impacted by gentrification … Fofana brings his characters to life through their idiosyncratic speech patterns. Auxiliary verbs are dropped, words are misspelled, prepositions are jostled, all to create a sense of vernacular authenticity…Grammar is an instrument that Fofana plays by ear, to much success.”

–Joseph Cassara ( The New York Times Book Review )

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Amor Towles on 'A Gentleman in Moscow', 'Table for Two' characters: 'A lot of what-iffing'

Bestselling novelist Amor Towles is having a moment.

His novel “ A Gentleman in Moscow ,” about a Russian count sentenced to live out his life inside an elegant Moscow hotel, has been adapted into an eight-episode series starring Ewan McGregor. It premieres March 29 on Showtime and Paramount+, an episode weekly through May 17.

On April 2, Towles’ latest work, “ Table for Two ” – a collection of six short stories and one novella – hits stores. The novella picks up the story of Eve Ross, a character from Towles’ 2011 debut, “Rules of Civility.”

Towles invited the USA TODAY Network to his lakeside retreat in Garrison, New York, where he spends weekends most of the year and where “A Gentleman in Moscow” was finished. He talked about creating characters, the authenticity of the film adaptation, the power of the short story as a novelist’s proving ground, and a scene in the new series that annoyed him slightly – but made his wife cry.  

How did Amor Towles create 'A Gentleman in Moscow'?

The way Towles explains it, when he first met Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, the title character in “A Gentleman in Moscow,” he was in the dark.

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“I don't know much about him when I start, other than there's going to be an aristocrat in a hotel," the writer said. "And then you start to say, 'I don't want him to be a dilettante, but he's got to be trained in manners.’”

Towles gave the count a considerable mustache. Asked how he spends his time, the count replies: “Dining, discussing. Reading, reflecting. The usual rigmarole.”

Towles created situations for the count to navigate, to test his reactions.

“It starts with something small, and then you do a lot of what-iffing,” Towles said.

What if the count isn’t just in a hotel? What if he’s under house arrest, albeit in Moscow’s opulent Hotel Metropol, in 1922? What if the count will be shot if he sets foot outside? How does the count react?

By staying inside, for one thing. For 32 years, as Lenin gives way to Stalin outside the confines of the Metropol, these “situations” keep walking through the hotel’s front door and finding the count.

Crafting a character, Towles said, is not unlike how strangers become friends. First impressions change when you have dinner with them, or when you're on a trip with them and something goes wrong and they have to deal with a problem.

"You see them in a whole new circumstance, and then you revise your opinion," he said.

The count's isolation – being forced to stay at home – made “A Gentleman in Moscow” a touchstone during COVID times, remarkable for a novel published four years before the pandemic and one its author intended to be universal and timeless. He heard from readers who connected with the trapped count.

“If you're successful in writing something that has the quality of timelessness, then what can happen is that the times find the narrative,” Towles said. “Different times will find the narrative in different ways.”

What are Amor Towles' most popular books?

Towles, a former investment banker with degrees from Yale and Stanford, has found success with an impressive string of bestsellers that have sold more than 6 million copies collectively, and have been translated into 30 languages. They are:

• 2011’s “Rules of Civility,” which followed a 25-year-old woman as she navigates the Manhattan social scene of the 1930s.
• 2016’s “A Gentleman in Moscow,” which follows 32 years in the life of Count Rostov, who keeps his purpose while losing everything.
• 2021’s “The Lincoln Highway,” which follows three 18-year-olds and an 8-year-old on a 10-day odyssey from Nebraska to New York City in 1954.

"Usually, I'll spend a couple of years designing the book, where I'm just imagining it and filling notebooks," he said. "Then I'll outline it, and then I'll write it and rewrite it. The writing is probably only three to four years, but the thought process is more like eight."

'A Gentleman in Moscow' TV series format allows attention to detail

A "Rules of Civility" feature film has stalled. Christopher Storer, who created FX's "The Bear," has signed on to adapt and direct "The Lincoln Highway" for Warner Bros.

When the offers for film rights percolated for "A Gentleman in Moscow," Towles knew what he didn't want.

"We had interest to make it into a feature with terrific talent and I just said no," he said. "There's no way you're gonna be able to tell this 30-year story in two hours. You're going to end up deciding to focus on a couple of years or starting in the middle. We're in a period where the quality of long-form television has gotten so good, why wouldn't you turn to that medium?"

His contract gave him approval over the writer (Ben Vanstone of PBS’ “All Creatures Great and Small” is head writer and showrunner), the director (Sam Miller of TV’s “I May Destroy You”), lead actor (McGregor, "Obi-Wan Kenobi") and lead actress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, of “10 Cloverfield Lane,” and McGregor’s real-life wife).

While Towles had early conversations with the creative team, he stepped back and let them do their thing.

When he visited the soundstage in Manchester, England, where the film was shot, he said he was stunned by the level of detail the designers had achieved, by their knowledge of his book and how its attention to detail inspired them to create a world, down to the last detail.

They had recreated vintage liquor bottles for the background of a bar scene. They had designed and commissioned fabrics for the upholstered chairs in the hotel.

"The team who put this project together were operating at that level, where they were committed to having as much authenticity as possible to the smallest detail on set, with the notion that even when it's barely seen by the viewer, that it will be taken in, will add to the richness of the visual experience, but will also give the actors a stronger sense that they are in that place at that time."

A Zoom call with Ewan McGregor

While he left the writing to showrunner Vanstone, Towles did have a conversation with McGregor, who now becomes the face of the count to the wider world. McGregor took over the role when Kenneth Branagh stepped away from the project.

On a Zoom call, McGregor asked Towles about what wasn’t in the book.

They spoke about the history of the Metropol, how the Bolsheviks realized they needed a fine hotel to impress ambassadors and businessmen. He told McGregor that while many aristocrats fled post-Revolutionary Russia and others died or were imprisoned, a significant population – perhaps as much as one-third, Towles said – stayed in Russia and lived in diminished circumstances.

“Most importantly, we discussed the count’s journey to rediscover purpose,” Towles said.

Towles said Vanstone's script has heart and that McGregor's performance brings emotional relatability to the count.

"He can be vulnerable, he can be witty, he can be charming, he can be sophisticated. He can express sorrow. The count does all those things, and (McGregor) can do it very fluidly and naturally. It's really quite impressive," Towles said.

Winstead plays the film star Anna Urbanova, a role that is larger – and enters the story earlier – than in the novel.

"Seeing them interact is so delicious," Towles said. "It opens with count being humbled. And she has her own humbling. Seeing their personalities converge and their circumstances converge, watching them perform, it is really dynamic."

The scene in the Showtime TV series that 'frustrated' Amor Towles

Writing a novel is a solitary pursuit, Towles said, but filmmaking is the opposite. Having his novel adapted meant “embracing the fact that the material isn't going to be exactly the way you wrote it.”

“I'm very happy with the outcome, but of course, there are times where I'm like, ‘Oh, why did they change that?’”

One such time came while watching with his wife, Maggie, during a scene Vanstone wrote between the count and his childhood friend, Mishka.

“They're having a serious, heartfelt conversation, and I was thinking, ‘Oh, that's not the way I wrote it. It wasn't like that.' And I was a little frustrated by it and I turned to say something to my wife, and she's crying like, 'Oh, it's so beautiful.' And I'm like, 'Oh, great, I didn't write that, honey.' And she goes, 'I know.'

"So Ben did fine,” he said with a laugh.

'Table for Two' short stories collection out April 2

Towles also has a new collection of stories, "Table for Two," which finds him returning to a form that helped him develop his voice as a young writer: the short story.

The short stories he wrote in high school outside Boston, at Yale and at graduate school at Stanford were a proving ground, he said, "to master elements of craft, to master setting, dialogue, plot, the poetic sentence, the beginning, the end, how to write a thematic passage."

"One of the most important aspects of all of that is bringing your characters to life. You're writing different stories set in different places about different people – and you're getting to the point where creating a person from scratch becomes second nature."

The six short stories have ties to New York and involve: a Russian peasant named Pushkin who enjoys standing in line; a would-be novelist whose partnership makes for an adventure; a man whose chance encounter at LaGuardia Airport leads to a dramatic night; a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity and has her fears realized, but not in the way one might think; a story of a curse at Carnegie Hall; and "The DiDomenico Fragment," a Towles story that began life on Audible.com, about a work of art that is handed down, bit by bit.

In each, Towles varies the narrator's perspective. In two, the story is told by an omniscient, if judgmental, storyteller. In others, by firsthand witnesses of a story that happened to someone else; in the last, it's told in the first-person.

The second half of "Table for Two" is a novella set in Los Angeles and marks a departure – and a return, of sorts – for the writer.

Typically, when he publishes a book, he's through with the characters. Not so for Eve Ross, from "Rules of Civility."

A tough, independent woman who leaves New York by train to put a relationship and a tragic accident behind her, Eve tells friends and family she's heading home to Indiana, but she doesn't get off the train till it reaches Los Angeles. The final glimpse of her is in a Hollywood gossip magazine, arm-in-arm with the actress Olivia de Havilland.

"When 'Rules of Civility' was done, I had no desire to write about (the other main characters) Katie or Tinker further. I felt like everything that I should tell you about them is in that book, that if I were to start telling you other things about them, it would be a disservice to that book. But Eve was the one where I was like, 'Man, what is she doing?'"

After the novel was published, Towles began to what-if again. He wrote six glimpses of Eve in Hollywood, each from a different perspective, a different narrator. But she continued to occupy his thoughts – "like I didn't really do justice to her" – until the short story collection came up. He returned to Eve, and extended her story, appending an LA noir caper to what he had written and, he said, finally doing justice to the character who had bedeviled him.

A book tour will find him in Atlanta; Nashville, Tennessee; and Miami; then Los Angeles; San Diego: and San Francisco. (His only New York stop is April 24 at 6 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square. See tour dates at https://www.amortowles.com/events .)

The tour will pause the what-iffing.

For a moment.

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Author Interviews

Isabel allende tells a story of impossible love in 'lovers at the museum'.

Marcela Davison Aviles

Chilean author Isabel Allende poses for a photograph in Madrid on June 5, 2017. Francisco Seco/AP hide caption

Chilean author Isabel Allende poses for a photograph in Madrid on June 5, 2017.

Isabel Allende has a new short story out, a delightfully ribald tale of impossible love — with plenty of sex-at-first-sight.

The impossible part is because the lovers' adventure takes place in a locked fortress of a museum, Bilbao's famous Guggenheim; the lovers walk in after hours through massive doors that, well, just open for them. In the tradition of Calderón de la Barca, Voltaire's optimism of cultivation, and even Yip Harburg, Lovers at the Museum is a story of dreams, justice, and free will — and a powerful allegory of our human condition and the mystery of love.

We caught up with the 81-year-old Allende to ask her a few questions about her latest work. But first, a quick summary: Bibiña Aranda, a runaway bride, wakes up in the Guggenheim still wearing her wedding dress, draped in the arms of Indra Zubieta, a man she doesn't know. Caught by museum staff, and brought before the inspector of police Detective Larramendi — their improbable explanation of a transcendent night in the museum defies reality and his attempts to pin a rule of law, any rule, on an escapade that defines what dreams are made of.

Allende's creativity — extending to the work she pursues through her foundation, formed in memory of her daughter Paula — shows no signs of slowing down. This conversation, which took place by video conference, has been edited for length and clarity.

This story is optimistic and mischievous, a validation of optimism, really. Are you hoping your readers will find this as well?

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'the wind knows my name' is a reference and a refrain in the search for home.

You know, I never have an agenda. I'm not expecting the reader to get this or that out of whatever I write. I write because I love storytelling. And why do I write certain things at a certain moment? Usually because it is connected with something that is happening in my life at that point. I know what was happening when I wrote The Wind Knows My Name , that's for sure. I had a long interview about that book, and this person was talking about how the book is two tragic stories, the Holocaust and, and the horrible thing that happened in El Salvador. And it's not a tragic story. In spite of everything, it has optimism in it. For me, it's much more interesting to focus on the people who are helping, right? Not on the victim, because we all know about the victims. We have all heard about the Holocaust, but we seldom hear about that person who risked his life to save somebody. And that always touches me. So I focus on that. And maybe that's why my stories in general have a sort of redeeming quality.

In Lovers at the Museum you explore what's real and what's not, how to navigate an adventure in love vs. pragmatism. Like the inspector in this story, so pragmatic trying to figure out what he can pin on these lovers. It's a playful discourse of what it means to be investigating falling in love.

'A Long Petal Of The Sea' Finds Love In A Time Of Chaos

Every book is an invitation. Every book opens a conversation. When I write, I often think that I'm in the kitchen with a cup of tea, telling the story to someone, inviting them in.

And how do you see the world of storytelling we're discussing versus the new AI threats from the digital world?

I don't pay much attention because I'm not scared. I think that humanity has a need for stories since the beginning of language. The first thing that cave people did was play drums and tell each other stories. That need to hear stories will always be there. And now the media changes. Of course, before it was all oral and then we started reading books, and then we started doing audiobooks and digital books and ebooks and whatever. And now we have other media and the movies. I remember that when television came out, people said, movies are dead. No one is going to make movies anymore. And when movies came out, people said, nobody's going to read anymore, right? But whatever the media, storytelling is prevalent, it will always be there.

What's next for you?

I wrote a historical novel that will be published next year. And now I'm writing a memoir. And in the meantime, I wrote three books for really young kids. The parents read the book to the kids. I have a dog called Perla and she's a protagonist of the three little books. So I had a lot of fun doing that. But really, if I'm not writing I don't know what to do with my life. I feel that my head is full of stuff, it's always churning, you know?

Marcela Davison Avilés is a writer and independent producer living in Northern California.

8 of the Best Romance Short Stories

Carolina Ciucci

Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking about Ireland, fictional witches, and the Brontë family. Twitter: @carolinabeci

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Love often defies logic. In fact, at times, the only rationale behind the instant connection is magic. A runaway bride, wakes up in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao still wearing her wedding dress, draped in the loving arms of a man whose name she doesn’t know. They attempt to explain to the authorities how they got there. It’s a story of love at first sight and experience beyond compare, one that involves a dreamlike journey through the museum. Isabel Allende’s short story will leave readers pondering the wonders of love. Read and listen FREE with Prime or Kindle Unlimited.

Romance short stories may be tricky to get just right, but when they are, they’re one of my favorite things to read. Delicious love stories that I can gulp down in one greedy bite? Or, alternately, savor like a truly excellent chocolate truffle? Yes, please, and thank you. I love a good doorstopper, but there’s something so satisfying about reading a great love story in a single sitting. And that’s what you’ll find here: eight romance short stories you can read in a single, delightful sitting.

The stories on this list all come in at somewhere between 25 and 50 pages, and there is something for everyone. You like your romance to be retellings of folklore and mythology? You got it. You prefer YA? You will find it here. You’re all about vampires? Knock yourself out. From witty bookstore owners to vampire mercenaries, there’s a variety of characters and relationship dynamics, so you’ll be sure to find something that works for you. (Personally, all of these stories worked for me.)

Most of these are part of anthologies, and a couple of them are part of a longer series of romance short stories, so you’ll be getting an embarrassment of riches if you check these out. Now take a seat, grab a cup of your beverage of choice, and dive in.

“Ọṣun” by Bolu Babalola

Beautiful Ọṣun is in a relationship with selfish Ṣàngó. But when Erinlẹ enters her life, she realizes she can be more than looked at: she can be seen.

From Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Long Distance” by Varaidzo

June finds herself admiring May. There is just one problem: the two women seem to exist four years apart.

From Who’s Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour

“The Way We Love Here” by Dhonielle Clayton

Viola lives in a world where you can tell how close you are to meeting your soulmate by a red coil wrapped around your ring finger. She’s anxious about it…until she meets Sebastian.

From Meet Cute

“Silver and Gold” by Natasha Ngan

Mila and Ru are rivals with a romantic history that neither cares to acknowledge…until they’re snowed in together in the middle of a blizzard.

From Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

“Consignment” by Elaine Burnes

A bookstore owner. A writer looking to get her book in stores. A beautiful love story full of sweetness and (what else?) books.

From Finding Ms. Write

“With Any Luck” (The Improbable Meet-Cute #5) by Ashley Poston

Imagine being the person everyone dates right until they find their soulmate. That’s the case for Audrey Love, who’s afraid she might have kissed her best friend during his bachelor party. Why else would he have disappeared hours before the wedding? Now she needs to find the missing groom — and maybe her own happy ever after.

“Drop, Cover, and Hold On” (The Improbable Meet-Cute #4) by Jasmine Guillory

A natural disaster traps Daisy and Harris together during Valentine’s Day. What else is there to do but get closer (in more ways than one)?

“Fangs for Hire” by Jenna Black

Gemma is just your regular mercenary who’s been assigned her next hit. Regular, that is, except for the fact that she’s a vampire. And her target, Ross, happens to be distractingly hot.

From The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance

If you’re looking for more romance short stories, be sure to read about 9 of the best romance anthologies out there. If you’d like something a bit longer, how about checking out romance novellas ?

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