Browse Items (37 total)
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The Way That Water Enters Stone
Author: Dufresne, JohnDate: 1991 (1997)Publication: NortonLanguage : enFind in a library: 21677261Collection of short stories from native of Worcester, Massachusetts and professor of creative writing at Florida International University. Author of the novels "Louisiana Power & Light" (1994), "Love Warps the Mind a Little" (1997), "Requiem, Mass." (2008), and several other works of prose.Tags Baton Rouge LA, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Family, Florida, Gorham ME, Irish Americans, Lake Winepesaukee NH, Leominster MA, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Old Orchard Beach ME, Orono ME, Providence RI, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Scarborough ME, Violence, Worcester MA -
The Back Roads
Author: Martin, JaneDate: 2013-fallLanguage : enFind in a library: 60637997Short story narrating Maxime's detours: from a rare West Coast business trip out of Maine to visit his sister and her partner in San Francisco; from routes of his present to certain back roads of memory. -
The Angel on the Roof
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 2000 (2011)Publication: HarperCollinsLanguage : enSource : Preview (2011 edition)Find in a library: 42861911Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in Catamount, moving furniture in Florida hotels, dodging family matters over the telephone, and accidental death. Many stories set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. -
Floor Models
Author: Kadetsky, ElizabethDate: 2014-01-09Language : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 46728412Short short fiction piece of a Lewiston, Maine grandmother, mother, and daughter; family stories whose narrator captures family maladies and how they extend across time. Published for the web on New England Review, NER Digital. -
Loup Garou
Author: Kadetsky, ElizabethDate: 2012-sprLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1757375Short story narrated by a writer frequently at odds with her spiny and somewhat distant lover on their roadtrip from Oregon to the East Coast. -
Little French Mary
Author: Jewett, Sarah OrneDate: 1895 NovemberLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1762497Short story about a French Canadian family newly arrived to Dulham, in New England, and its six-year-old daughter, Mary, who captures the hearts of Dulham's old men. First published in The Pocket Magazine in 1895. Reprinted in The Life of Nancy (1969) (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47340) and published online by Coe College: http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/lon/mary.htm. -
Man and His World
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1992Publication: Porcupine's QuillLanguage : enFind in a library: 26801089Book of international short stories rooted in Montréal and the US Northeast. Written in English with a recognizable play of languages, especially French and German. From renowned fiction writer and essayist, Clark Blaise, author of such books as "I Had a Father," "A North American Education," and "Tribal Justice." Blaise is the former director of the International Writing Program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. -
Translation
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1987Publication: MethuenLanguage : enFind in a library: 16044405Short fiction piece about a writer who can be either American (Phil Porter) or French Canadian (Philippe Carrier) depending from which side of the border he is travelling, or upon which side he sits. The complexity of a dual identity lived out in a single life - with accounts of his troubled youth in Montréal, his adult life in upstate New York - that seems to surface in his epilepsy. The success of his recent autobiography, "Head Waters," and the connections he makes with familiarity, his past, and his estranged father on a book tour that brings him to Montréal. -
Woman in a Bar
Author: Laux, DorianneDate: 2009-06-25Language : enSource : Full textFind in a library: UnknownShort story about a friend who, always when visiting the narrator, is eager to find a bar. From the author of the poetry collections, "Awake," "What We Carry," "Smoke," and "Facts About the Moon." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly. -
The Captain
Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.Date: 2006-06-15Language : enSource : Full textFind in a library: UnknownShort fiction piece that finds a retired navy captain long after World War II, and his housekeeper, far from the sea. From the author of "God is Dead," "Everything Matters!" and "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly -
The Pleasures of a Destroyed City
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1986 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 37589723Short story featuring Joseph Beauchemin, an American expatriate in London, and Dolores, in their apartment in the wake of a public protest. The ways in which they struggle to know one another and to make themselves known - or not - amidst death, politics, and sex. From the author of "The Country," "The Family," and the recent memoir, "American Ghosts." -
The Tent in the Wind
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1997 FallLanguage : enFind in a library: 2256746Short story that finds James Briggs in London receiving a New York phone call in the nighttime from the mother of his ex-wife, Joanna, an expatriate in London, alerting him to Joanna's attempt at suicide across town. -
Say No More
Author: Bonnie, FredDate: 1994-04-00Language : enFind in a library: 29353487Short story that finds Norman Malloy sitting in a kitchen alone. He segregates himself from his wife, Colette, their infant daughter, and Colette's large extended family as they celebrate in two languages a grandmother's birthday in the living room nearby. Norman and Colette's car trip home - in tension and in snowfall - from the Biddeford, Maine gathering back to nearby Scarborough. Featured in Portland Monthly Magazine. From Maine author of short story collections "Too Hot & Other Maine Stories" and "Squatter's Rights." -
Arrhythmia
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2011 FallLanguage : enFind in a library: 9801056Short fiction piece about a woman's relationship with her mother illuminated in the ticks and increasing demands of her mother's heart condition. A parallel story of the woman's failed relationship with her partner, Mauricia. -
Your People's Ways
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2010 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1640212Short fiction piece told from the perspective of Rosaire, a young woman who suffers from a painful and mysterious physical injury. Movements in the relationship between Rosaire and her partner Gabriela, a graduate student, who decides to travel from their Michigan home to California, where a past boss and former lover suffers from cancer. -
Buffleheads
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2012 SpringLanguage : enSource : Full text @ Michigan Quarterly ReviewFind in a library: 1757375Short fiction piece that finds Liliane coming upon the news of a suicide within the family of a former relative, gripped still by the emotions and tensions surrounding the suicide of her own sister - her tie to this other family - decades earlier. -
Jumelage
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2012 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1766210Short fiction piece that follows Maggie - a Maine woman in Montréal - through a sudden relationship with her "jumelle interlinguistique," Noémi, and with the province and people of which she discovers she may not be a part. -
The Gray Mills of Farley
Author: Jewett, Sarah OrneDate: 1898-06-00Language : enFind in a library: 1565217Short story that finds a textile mill agent caught between the greed of his directors, the powerlessness and plight of his workers, and the wisdom of a priest around the time of a New England mill's cut-back and shut-down. A New England manufactory-town setting and its diverse characters around the turn of the century. Written by a South Berwick, Maine native and author of The Country of the Pointed Firs. Featured in the following collections:
American Local-Color Stories, edited by Harry R. Warfel. 1941. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1188060
Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, edited by Richard Cary. 1971. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227485
The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, edited by Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza. 1996. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34475664 -
Cecile's Dog Bo
Author: Fuller, Jacquie GiassonDate: 1994Publication: University Press of New EnglandLanguage : enFind in a library: 45731570Short story about Maureen, a young woman with distant Maine roots, returning to her "homeland" in a town like Lewiston. Her roommate, Cecile, and the dog named "Bo" that was left in their care with the departure of Cecile's husband. First published in Yankee Magazine, 1993. Reprinted in a collection of Maine writings edited by Wesley McNair. -
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Madame Simone Lavoie
Author: Fuller, Jacquie GiassonDate: 1993 WinterLanguage : enFind in a library: 10990654Short fiction set in the author's Bateston, Maine. Madame Simone Lavoie narrates suppertime at home with her family - daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. Mémère's illness and some of the changes it has forced on her routine. Dinner conversation. Part II of The Façade, a novel in progress. -
Say No More
Author: Bonnie, FredDate: 1994-04-00Language : enFind in a library: 29353487Short story that finds Norman Malloy sitting in a kitchen alone. He segregates himself from his wife, Colette, their infant daughter, and Colette's large extended family as they celebrate in two languages a grandmother's birthday in the living room nearby. Norman and Colette's car trip home - in tension and in snowfall - from the Biddeford, Maine gathering back to nearby Scarborough. Featured in Portland Monthly Magazine. From Maine author of short story collections "Too Hot & Other Maine Stories" and "Squatter's Rights." -
Atop an Underwood : Early Stories and Other Writings
Author: Kerouac, JackDate: 1999Publication: Viking PenguinLanguage : enFind in a library: 40857068Selections from Jack Kerouac's (1922-1969) earliest imaginative and other writings composed between 1936 and 1943, with introduction and commentary from poet and editor, Paul Marion. Includes notes, poetry, creative and journalistic prose, and an excerpt from Kerouac's early novel, "The Sea Is My Brother." Written during Kerouac's youth in Lowell, Massachusetts, during his time at Columbia University, later as a merchant marine, and elsewhere. Presented in three chronological sections: Pine Forests and Pure Thought, 1936-1940; An Original Kicker, 1941; To Portray Life Accurately, 1942-1943. -
The Buried City
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1976 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1590374Short story that finds George returned to his family's New England home and to Hunter, his brother, as they struggle through the emotional aftermath of their mother's funeral. An early work from Providence, Rhode Island-native author of "The Country," "The Family," and the memoir, "American Ghosts." -
The Tent in the Wind
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1997 FallLanguage : enFind in a library: 2256746Short story that finds James Briggs in London receiving a New York phone call in the nighttime from the mother of his ex-wife, Joanna, an expatriate in London, alerting him to Joanna's attempt at suicide across town.