There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Chaucer’s Books will host Santa Barbara author Mary Tonetti Dorra for a book talk and signing of her short story collection “I Am a Portrait: Flash Fiction and Other Short Stories,” 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan ...

DOMESTIC RELATIONS, by Frank O’Connor (260 pp.; Knopf; $3.50), introduces an engaging child named Larry Delaney who wants to know where babies come from. His father says that they are dropped from ...

Hell Hath No Fury (Hachette India) is a compilation of 13 short stories about revenge. The title is fittingly borrowed from ...