A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A local sailor in Venice is upset by the irreverence exhibited by tourists—and it gets him into immense danger.

In the near future, an energy crisis compels humanity to take advantage of the one source left untouched by industrialization: the past.

A crow tries to make a name for herself.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.