Try our Advanced SearchShort stories by Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of two books of fiction, The Point and Other Stories _and _The Dead Fish Museum, and two collections of essays_, Orphans_, and Loitering: New & Collected Essays. Many of his stories originally appeared in The New Yorker, and he has also published fiction in The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. His work has been widely anthologized and selected for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Award. His first book was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and his most recent collection, The Dead Fish Museum, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has been the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writer's Award and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Listing 4 stories.
A bipolar screenwriter in a New York City psych ward falls in love with a depressed Yugoslavian ballerina.
Ignatius, a young orphan, develops an unlikely friendship with his bully, Donny, and Donny's father.
A young man from The Point, has been given the role of escorting older drunk party guests back to their houses.
A recovered heroin addict begins to doubt that the man she ran away with knows what is best for her future.