Download or read book Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology A Collection of Short Stories written by Laura Hunter and published by Gritty South. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Christmas stories set in the South. Stories filled with heartache, hard truths, and real people trying to make it through the holidays. Written by true Southerners who know firsthand the pain of life in the South and the love that keeps everything together.
Download or read book Christmas in the South written by Charline R. McCord and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holiday anthology features short fiction by Doris Betts, Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Carolyn Haines and other contemporary Southern fiction writers.
Download or read book Christmas Stories from the South s Best Writers written by Charline R. McCord and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories by Olympia Vernon, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Ward Brown, and more that look at Christmas from unexpected angles. While Christmas stories are traditionally sweet, not every holiday memory generates a feeling of ease, merriment, and plenty. In the capable hands of twelve of the best writers in the South, Christmas is a season not only of traditions and family, but of sacrifice and endurance, loneliness and faith. The stories in this anthology embrace the rich and varied aspects of the Christmas season, upholding family, forgiveness, and love as virtues of redemption. A divorcee finds strength in an artifact from her childhood in “Queen Elizabeth Running Free,” while an elderly couple struggles to find comfort in “The Cold Giraffe.” From Elizabeth Spencer’s “Carrollton Christmas in Olden Days,” recalling warm family memories of a particularly cold holiday, to Mark Richard’s “The Birds for Christmas,” wherein a bleak and difficult Christmas is endured by two boys in an orphanage, the stories in this anthology exemplify the best that Southern fiction has to offer.
Download or read book Deck the Halls Y all written by Charles Fail and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Southern Christmas short stories that reflect the awe, wonder, and joy of this special time of the year.
Download or read book A Dixie Christmas written by Charline R. McCord and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assortment of Christmas stories, essays, and illustrations celebrates Southern authors, including tales by Bailey White, Rick Bass, Ellen Gilchrist, Marianne Gingher, George Singleton, Michael Parker, Steve Yarbrough, Lynne Barrett, Bret Anthony Johnston, Stephen Marion, and Aaron Gwyn.
Download or read book A Very Southern Christmas written by Charline R. McCord and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the spirit of a southern Christmas in a collection of short fiction by some of the region's contemporary fiction writers.
Download or read book Frail Union written by Nylah Lyman and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning page-turner that stands out in the field of contemporary poetry as distinctly as a solitary sunflower rose from the middle / of the grass like a small yellow sun, Nylah Lyman's Frail Union is a love letter to all women who secretly know their strength and quietly go about the work of manifesting their ambitions and desires. -Lissa Kiernan, author of Two Faint Lines in the Violet and The Whispering Wall
Download or read book Christmas Treasures written by Patty Wysong and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartwarming stories of Christmas that will become favorites to read year after year. Join us for stroll through America, yesterday and today, where hearts are joined at Christmas time.
Download or read book Anthology of Christmas Memories written by University Of Dayton Writers Group and published by Hart & Daughters Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories, memories, and poems written by 16 seniors from southwestern Ohio, nearly all in their 70s spanning holidays from 1930-2011. Reflections are about what it's really like to play Santa, how a child perceives the mysteries of Christmas, adult worries as well as memories of the Great Depression and World War II.
Download or read book Southern Christmas written by Judy Long and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas has always captured the hearts of southern writers. Here in the volume are twenty-eight classic stories and memories of the holidays.
Download or read book American Christmas Stories written by Connie Willis and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book ** Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of our culture. Spanning from the origins of the American tradition of holiday storytelling in the wake of the Civil War to today, this is the biggest and best anthology of American Christmas stories ever assembled. From ghost stories to the genres of crime, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, humor, and horror, stories of Christmas morning, gifts, wise men, nativities, family, commercialism, and dinners from New York to Texas to outer space, this anthology reveals the evolution of Christmas in America--as well as the surprising ways in which it has remained the same.
Download or read book Hark The Herald Angels Scream written by Christopher Golden and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, and many more. That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. Marley untying the bandage that holds his jaws together. The hideous children--Want and Ignorance--beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The heavy ledgers Marley drags by his chains. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Bestselling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
Download or read book Christmas in Georgia written by Celestine Sibley and published by Peachtree Junior. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories here take place on Southern soil. But their themes and their characters are as universal as Christmas itself. They're the kinds of stories that families and friends will cherish and read aloud to one another every holiday season - year after year. One of the joys of Celestine Sibley's writing is the people she tells us about. That's because "Celestine's People," whether fictitious or otherwise, are always real - the kind of individuals you'd like to sit down with and have a long conversation. This has never been truer than with the characters who populate Christmas In Georgia. Take for example, sightless Mrs. Tippen: "She was a funny looking old thing in her bunchy black clothes, hopping about on the doorstep like a tame crow, but she was good." And there is Mrs. Tippen's friend, ten-year-old Sukey Hart, who knew how to do almost everything - from spinning and weaving to speaking perfect Cherokee - except how to keep her young heart from listening when she heard a wounded Tory soldier tell about his Christmases back in England before the Revolutionary War. There's no one you'll remember more than Henry Grady Huckaby, who, out of love for his sick brother, accidentally saved Christmas for his entire family. Or take cranky, rheumatoid-ridden Gramp Stanton, who makes Christmas come, even to Snout Island. Or get to know adolescent Araminta Morley, who, though "just the age to be cynical, even at Christmastime," will touch your heart and fill you with the holiday spirit. The stories here take place on Southern soil. But their themes and their characters are as universal as Christmas itself. They're the kinds of stories that families and friends will cherish and read aloud to one another every holiday season - year after year.
Download or read book Holiday Short Stories written by J. T. Evergreen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holidays are always hectic with little time left for personal moments. The stories in this volume were designed for those rare quiet moments during the busy holidays. The lead story, A Flying Carpet Named Jack, is a flight of fancy we would all enjoy experiencing if for no other reason than to avoid automobile traffic. This story leads into The Christmas Miracle and the introduction of Father Frederick Monahan who died on the Titanic and chose to stay on this plane, helping those in need. Next is The Christmas Card which got lost in the mail and arrived forty-six years late, but the intended results of the enclosed message reaped the reward hoped for, so many years earlier. The Twelve Days of Christmas is spread over twenty-five days. The end has a twist but definitely a happy and unexpected ending. No collection of Christmas stories would be complete without an old-fashioned ghost story. This one, A Christmas Ghost Story, is set in South Central Kentucky in an old renovated Victorian home. If you don't believe in ghosts, you might change your mind after reading this short story. The last of the Christmas stories revolves around a large family who are confronted with their own shortcomings when one member comes out of the closet during their Christmas Dinner 1973. The weather gods decide to give them an opportunity to come to grips with their failings by providing two days of heavy snow, forcing them to live together - like it or not. To round out this collection of short stories, three little gems have been included. The Valentine finds its way to the addressee twenty years after it was sent but not in the usual manner via the United States Postal System. In this instance, it appears through a magical ancient fairy tale book located in The Olde Book Shoppe. Then there is The Tooth Fairy which is as far off the rails as you can get with this character. And finally, Angel in the Shadow is offered to everyone who may have lost hope in the goodness of the Universe we live in - where all things are possible.
Download or read book A Literary Christmas written by Lilly Golden and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Six Guns and Slay Bells written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put on your Santa hat and saddle up for this collection of creepy Christmas stories from the Western Fictioneers, the world's only organization of professional authors devoted solely to Western fiction. 'Tis the season for ghosts, vampires, monsters, aliens, and other bizarre creatures to make these Old West holiday tales truly special. Legendary Western author Robert J. Randisi spins the spectral yarn of "Sheriff Santa and the Ghost of Two Gun Jim". Peacemaker and Spur Award winning author Troy D. Smith takes the reader on a murderous Christmas journey to "Bitter Mountain". New York Times bestseller and Peacemaker Award winner James Reasoner writes about a strange encounter on the Staked Plains in "Presents for One and All". Larry D. Sweazy, two-time winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western fiction, tells the story of an epic battle between good and evil in "The Longest Night". An isolated stagecoach station under siege by Apaches is the setting of Cheryl Pierson's "The Keepers of Camelot", a tale of rebirth and redemption. These and many other stories by some of today's top writers in the Western field make SIX-GUNS AND SLAY BELLS the most unusual Western Christmas anthology ever published.
Download or read book Say You re One of Them written by Uwem Akpan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. One of the best books of the year: Wall Street Journal, People, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book World, and Entertainment Weekly
