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The Lesbian Short Stories section includes a range of mixed author anthologies and collections of single author short stories. Every possible genre is covered as well as many different cultures. The books in our short stories section show how truly diverse lesbian identity and culture is. We hope you enjoy browsing our short stories books!

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	All Books by Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle - Authors of : The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction Paperback - 384 pages (June 1999) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679759522 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Lesbian Short Stories; There are those among us--you know who you are--who tend to avoid lesbian fiction because the genre isn't known for literary excellence. The occasional lesbian mystery or vampire story may slip through as vacation reading, but for something serious you turn to the poets (Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Jewelle Gomez), or to straight women novelists, or to writers such as Dorothy Allison, whose work transcends the boundaries of lesbian fiction. This anthology is for readers like you. The consistently fine quality of the stories is matched by their unusual ingenuity and playfulness with language (the specter of James Joyce hovers over many stories, and not only those by Irish writers). In fact, American writers--who might be thought to have pioneered the genre--may seem sluggish and puritan by comparison. As the editors point out, "the word lesbian is not global in its use and significance," and while most of the authors included would define themselves as lesbian, for others the term is almost without meaning. Selections by Marguerite Yourcenar, Anchee Min (from Red Azalea), and the Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat are among the most striking." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X Tulchinsky - Authors of : To Be Continued Paperback - 160 pages (October 1998) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563411040 "Lesbian Short Stories; Although the concept of To Be Continued sounds gimmicky--lesbian-authored stories with intentionally suspenseful endings, to be completed in a sequel published a year later--most of the pieces included are surprisingly satisfying and self-contained. In Cecilia Tan's slow and lyrical "Dragon's Daughter," a restless Chinese American adolescent finds a magical route to the China of her dreams. In Carla Trujillo's "Huevos Rancheros," two unhappy children tie up and gag their drunken father and try to make him promise to be nicer. Although the children have a knife poised over Daddy's crotch when the story ends, readers can reach their own violent or whimsical conclusions." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz - Author of : My Jewish Face & Other Stories Paperback - 234 pages (May 1990) Aunt Lute Books; ISBN: 0933216718 "Lesbian Short Stories; Collection of interconnected short stories that tackle the issues of Jewish identity, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, social activism, rape, lesbian relationships, parent-child relationships and more." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Lesbian Writing and Publishing Collective - Authors of : Dyke Versions: Lesbian Short Fiction Paperback - 186 pages 1st edition (January 1996) Womens Pr; ISBN: 0889611106 "Lesbian Short Stories; Short Stories on Lesbian Experience and Sexual Identity - "From beginning to end...many stories spoke directly to my experience of being a lesbian." - Lee Fleming, Breaking the Silence" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Lesbian Writing and Publishing Collective - Authors of : Dykewords Paperback - 268 pages 1st edition (1990) Womens Pr; ISBN: 0889611491 "Lesbian Short Stories; An entertaining and refreshing anthology that includes Beth Brant, Dionne Brand, Candis Graham, Dorothy Kidd, Ingrid E. MacDonald, Two Feathers and Ellen Quigley." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jennifer Levin - Author of : Love and Death & Other Disasters : Stories 1977-1995 Paperback - 144 pages (October 1996) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563410788 "Lesbian Short Stories; Jenifer Levin has received acclaim for her novels, particularly Water Dancer and The Sea of Light. This collection of short stories, her first, covers her writing from 1977 to 1995 and treats us to a fine sampling of her talent and imagination. In an introduction, Levin notes that many of these pieces could not be published when they were written because explicitly sexual and butch/fem themes were not considered "appropriate" for lesbian writing. Levin has lasted longer than her critics, and this Love and Death & Other Disasters is as fine and compelling a collection of fiction--lesbian, gay, or straight--as you will find anywhere today." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Christian McEwen - Editor of : Jo's Girls : Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit and Real Life Paperback - 368 pages (June 1997) Beacon Pr; ISBN: 0807062111 "Lesbian Short Stories; From her classic novel Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's energetic and androgynous character Jo March has inspired generations of tomboys, but eventually Jo submitted to the role of wife and mother. Here an assortment of women writers push the tomboy narrative beyond the boundaries of children's literature to reveal the determined tomboy spirit and the variety of paths taken by real life tomboys as they navigate adolescence and adulthood." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Catherine E. McKinley - Author of : Afrekete : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing Paperback - 317 pages (May 1995) Anchor; ISBN: 0385473559 "Lesbian Short Stories; Destined to become a classic in the tradition of Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds and Erotique Noire, this anthology gives collective voice to black lesbian writings. A fresh and engaging journey, Afrekete will both inform and delight." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Alyce Miller - Author of : The Nature of Longing: Stories Paperback Reprint edition (October 1995) W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393313794 "Lesbian Short Stories; Miller has a talent for portraying adolescent moodiness and interracial confusion .... nicely subtle ... marvelously Southern in temperament ... What Miller brings to her narratives of black culture is unique, not because the characters are extraordinary, but because she makes them so particular. Whatever our own experience, we recognize and understand them. Her characters are richly complicated and intriguing, and her language lively and fresh." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Isabel Miller - Author of : Dooryard Full of Flowers and Other Short Pieces Paperback - 160 pages (May 1993) Naiad Pr; ISBN: 1562800299 "Lesbian Short Stories; Romance; Short Stories about Love and Relationships - Love Stories" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Toni Mirosevich - Author of : The Rooms We Make Our Own Paperback - 107 pages (September 1996) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 156341080X "Poetry; Short Stories; Mirosevich's four-part collection of poetry and short prose evokes the ghosts of Gandhi, Betty Crocker, Hamlet's sad Ophelia, and Virginia Woolf, all joining the contemporary workforce approaching the second millennium. Madonna, not yet a ghost, is there, too--a small woman who drives a 35-foot trailer truck and is "scrutinized" by "trucker paparazzi" with "their mouths so open birds could build" in them. Other characters include Russian émigrés who, no longer afraid, no longer whisper; a traveler to Arizona encountering a waitress-seer; and a woman who lost her Brittany spaniel to her ex-lover, whom she can forgive for cruelty, bad judgment, and ignorance but not for giving the dog away. A "lost dog" feeling pervades these portraits of anomic and truncated spirits striving for wholeness against overwhelming odds, both external and internal." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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