Asian Short Stories

An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands, a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night, a country-music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy and a young girl's love for her father transcends language. In this stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong.

Living forever isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Hearts can still break, looks can still fade, and money still matters, even in eternity. The ghosts, zombies, and demons in this collection are all shockingly human, and they’re ready to spill their guts. Vanity, love, and tragedy are all candidly explored as the unfulfilled desires of the dead are echoed in the lives of modern-day immigrants. Story-by-story, the line between ghost and human, life and death, becomes increasingly blurred. From Shanghai to Vancouver, the women in this collection haunt and are haunted.

A former NFL star, Lakeebee Jackson is old, broke, handicapped and forgotten. But one day, he enters into a motel in his wheelchair with a pretty Asian woman, and what ensues is the most puzzling stay motel owner Ziggy Patel ever experiences. The Lakeebee Jackson Motel Story touches on the lives of Asian and Indian blue-collar workers and former professional African-American athletes.

The stories of the Panchatantra have been read aloud and shared for thousands of years, kept alive by generation after generation of storytellers. In this captivating collection of ten animal tales, reimagined and read with warmth and wit by Nikita Gill, you'll meet mighty elephants and courageous mice, cunning crocodiles and clever monkeys, talkative tortoises and little lapwing birds. Discover a world of wonder, wisdom and friendship, of helping others, speaking out and finding courage.

Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The consul general of China attempts to save lives following Kristallnacht in Vienna. A family aspires to buy a home in South Africa during the rise of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive.

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Grace hated Trevor. Trevor hated Grace. Forced to work together in mixed doubles for a tennis tournament, Trevor and Grace aren't getting along. Upset, their coach challenges them to work together or find their dreams of making it to the US Open gone. Not wanting to lose a chance at playing in the open, the two argue, and the two enemies realize they have more in common than what they originally believed and a steamy fling in the locker room insues. Will their erotic affair help them or will it make these enemies hate each other even more?

Her name is Tamika and her story is like broken glass. Shards of glass can easily penetrate skin and tissue. Sex, lust, love, and hatred...a small town in Japan holds these secrets. An inspector, a mother, a father, a client, and a body that fell from nowhere...Sometimes there is no logic to life. Nine stories - or one tale?

Plant Your Feet Firmly is an intimate glimpse of Asian America. Through the pages of seven short stories, the listener is treated to a delicate taste of ordinary people living extraordinary lives - from a cool grandpa to a grieving mother to a disillusioned husband.

Explore the vast land of China through the folktales of its people. Included here are such mystifying tales as "The Ghost Who Was Foiled", "The Fairy Bonze", "The Reward for a Benevolent Life", "The Lady of the Moon", "The Ape Sun Wu Kung", and "The Flying Ogre", to name a few.

It is Christmas Day and Jacob Williams is nervous to meet Laura Kim’s parents for the first time. Despite being in love with Laura, it is important for Jacob to gain favor with her father as he wishes for his blessing for Laura’s hand in marriage. However, Laura’s Korean parents are disappointed that Jacob is black, causing a rift between the young couple. Will the couple’s young love survive this Christmas? True to You is a holiday short story romance. It is for mature readers only.

Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, Cake Time's young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. In "How Not to Have an Abortion" the teenage narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In "Easy Target", the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers party with a handsome stranger. A decade later, in "Glow" she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover's secret daughter.

Matthew Jones didn't know what to expect when he checked into the Red Room Inn in Thailand, but to his surprise the hotel offers late night company for those who want it. Eager to to cheat on his wife with a whore, Matthew opts to have the additional company, but quickly realizes selecting a hooker for his late-night pleasure is harder than it seems. Will he be able to decide from the infinite options available for him? Find out in this taboo erotic tale! The Red Room Inn is a steamy erotic tale told from the male POV. It is 3,000 words long and for mature readers only.

For over five decades, Ruskin Bond has written charming tales that have mesmerized people of all ages. This collection brings together his finest stories for children in one volume. Published previously as a Treasury of Stories for Children, this attractive edition includes two new stories: "The Big Race" and "Remember This Day". Filled with a rich cast of characters, The Room of Many Colours, A Treasury of Stories for Children is the definitive book for all Ruskin Bond fans truly a collector's item.

The Path of Light is a collection of short stories nothing if not a mirror to the phenomenal range of human behavior. Taken from the Upanishads to the Jatakas to South Asian folklore, these simple but contemplative tales reveal how people are capable of both extreme cruelty and inordinate kindness.

Faithless is a work of experimental fiction weaving through various scenes and memories of being in love, out of love, and abused by love as told and experienced by Grace, a troubled 20-something-year-old struggling with her identity as a bisexual Korean-American. Everything is recounted as experienced - in fragments.

I am Indian. He is African. I know nothing of him, yet he’s my husband. I don’t know what his interests are. I don’t know the sound of his voice. I don’t even know what he looks like. I am worried about this marriage. Will he love me? Will I love him? Most importantly I wonder if the rumors are true about African men. If he is big…and can I handle that much man? My Arranged Marriage is a short erotic interracial romance. It is for mature readers only.

Mao Chan lacked confidence as she didn’t fall in line with the standard beauty standards for Chinese women. She was a bigger curvier woman, and her father constantly reminded her that no Chinese man would want to marry a woman with her physical traits. Upset, Mao felt undesirable, so she decided to take a nude photo of herself, and post it online in an attempt to see if any man finds her attractive. To her surprise, she gets dozens of suitors all wanting to be with her, and they are all black men! Having never slept with a black man before, Mao is nervous, but upon her first hookup, ...

When top college football player, Jamaal Lewis, wants to transfer schools, his choice won’t be based on the school’s academic prestige, it’s chances of winning a national championship or the amount of money he could receive from NIL deals. What matters the most to him is which school has the most Asian women! Jamaal has always been attracted to Asian women, but at his current university there was a small population of them. Wanting to increase his chances to date an Asian woman, Jamaal decides to transfer to a university with the greatest population of Asian women in the country, ...