Julesburg Public Library

Features ten short works that follow the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Hurricane Katrina.

The residents of Clayton, Colorado, must learn to live with what has burned and what threatens to ignite. In Defensible Spaces, a bus driver confronts a rush of memories when an old flame climbs aboard; a trailer park resident attempts to save her home; a reclusive fire mitigation worker fuels public outrage. Throughout ten linked short stories, townspeople work through relationships with alcoholism, history, and each other, negotiating where and...

"In fifteen gemlike tales, Fowler lets her wit and vision roam freely, turning accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside down--pushing us to reconsider our unquestioned verities and proving once again that she is among our most subversive writers"--

Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes"

Reveling in the uncanny and richly in conversation with other creative minds, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing--and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves. ""The Woman in the Window"...opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative...

Contains eighteen stories by leading fantasy writers, such as Neil Gaiman and Eoin Colfer, which feature wizards.

Inertia — Friends Claire and Matt stopped speaking six months ago. When Matt gets into a car accident and his end looks certain, he requests a visitation, a procedure which allows him and Claire to revisit shared memories and a chance to discover what went wrong. The Spinners — Bounty hunter Atleigh Kent tracks and kills leeches, a predatory extraterrestrial race which illegal absorbs human host bodies. But death begets all death, and Atleigh...

An anthology of short fiction selected by the author herself features selections from "The Wheel of Love," "Marriages and Infidelities," and "Heat," as well as nine previously unpublished works.

Presents a collection of scary short stories.

Presents a collection of stories originally published in magazines and anthologies, including "Thief," in which an aluminum worker turns unlikely detective to determine which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund.