Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, Susan Lowell's Two Desperados is a collection of southwest-flavoured stories that feature a blacksmith, several smugglers, a mule, a jaguar, a runaway groom, a murderess, a witch, a basket weaver, a Gremlin, three cowboys, and a ghost.

Classic Bradbury, this collection of tales offers images that are as keen as a tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that stain the body. Featuring a new Introduction, "The Illustrated Man" presents 18 startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin.

"In these stories set in the southwest, the mostly working class characters struggle to rise beyond their pasts and their own worst tendencies. Sojourner uses passion, high -- energy storytelling, and unflinching empathy to break the reader's heart." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS.

A collection of illustrated short stories, each one about the relationship of humans and the animals, both wild and domestic, that share the urban environment of the inner city.

A collection of stories about ghosts and other spooky subjects by such authors as Ruskin Bond, Faustin Charles, Susan Price, and Vivien Alcock.

"A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of grace in the cafeterias and Laundromats of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Northern California upper classes, and from the perspective of a cleaning woman alone in a hotel dining room in Mexico City. The women of Berlin's stories...

A collection of ten short horror stories featuring a ghoulish Halloween party, a long, mysterious car trip, and a very dangerous imaginary friend. Each story includes drawings by a different illustrator.

"Flights is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, broaching life, death, motion and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuff and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow...