"In a way, all stories are about storytelling. Characters make up stories; they lie, or conceal the truth, and they latch onto things—knowing something is missing. Quick to embellish, they are likely to stretch things a bit, to tell listeners, 'Look, you won’t believe what happened to me. Do you have a minute? Boy, have I got a story for you, a whopper.'”—Leslee Becker on her collection of short stories, The Sincere Cafe

If, as author Leslee Becker asks, "you have a minute," browse through the collections of stories offered here. Keenly observed characters, exquisitely controlled language, well-honed irony, powerfully affecting drama—you'll find these qualities and more in the award-winning short fiction collections of Becker, Bill Oliver, Lindsey Crittenden, Ron Wallace, Lucy Ferriss, and Gregory Spatz.

	The Sincere Cafe: stories by Leslee Becker 184 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811288 $14.00 More
	Women & Children First: stories by Bill Oliver 192 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811350 $14.00 More
	The View from Below: stories by Lindsey Crittenden 160 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811407 $14.00 More
	Quick Bright Things: stories by Ron Wallace 172 pages, trade paper ISBN: 092281144X $14.00 More
	Leaving the Neighborhood: and other stories by Lucy Ferriss 174 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811504 $14.00 More
	Wonderful Tricks: stories by Gregory Spatz 246 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811555 $15.00 More
	The Trouble with You Is: and other stories by Susan Jackson Rodgers 172 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811601 $16.00 More
	Pleasant Drugs: and other stories by Kathryn Kulpa 232 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811628 $16.00 More
	The Woman Who Never Cooked: and other stories by Mary L. Tabor 192 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811687 $16.00 More