Short Story Fiction Writing

Discover how to turn an idea into a story, a story into a book, and a book into a dream fulfilled. Write with clarity, confidence, and direction. An idea lingers in your mind. Maybe it has haunted you for weeks, or perhaps it is just a whisper that flickers between your thoughts before fading away. But there’s something about it; a spark, a promise, telling you it could grow into a great story. The problem is not inspiration but the path forward. Where do you begin? How do you turn that intuition into a powerful, well-written narrative? The Narrative Expedition: A Journey into Creative ...

Taking a trip is like a having a love affair: You arrive at your destination liberated from the mundane details of ordinary life, free to shuck off your inhibitions and awaken to the landscape of the senses. In Foreign Affairs, writers from around the globe explore the romance of travel in 21 explicit stories set in evocative locales, including Rome, Brussels, Tokyo, St. Lucia, Vietnam, and Santorini. Contributors include Opal Palmer Adisa, Lisabet Sarai, and Linda Jaivin (author of the best seller Eat Me).

Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of Olivia's obsessive desire to possess the secret of creative genius. And, although she doesn't know it, Sara is also replaying the sixty-year-old tragedy of her grandmother, Gelsomina.

If you're a Twilight Zone lover or a fantasy freak, this short story about a woman's journey of self-discovery will keep you hooked right up to the end.

An excerpt from the book: "Tiwaka Goes to Waikiki": Tiwaka, our favorite adventurous macaw leaves the Maui Tiki Bar as he re-learns to fly. Unfortunately, he gets sucked up into a tropical storm that deposits him on another island in Waikiki. There he becomes the true hero of all the captive street birds of this Hawaiian resort town.

In this Urdu-language collection: "Woh jo Devaar ko na Chaat Sakay" by Intizar Hussain; "Bhabie" by Ismat Chughtai; and "Pukka Gaana" by Zamiruddin Ahmed.

This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bond's numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a magnificent evocation of the small-town India by one of the country's best storytellers.

Poet Bonnie Weiss presents a collection of stories and poems filled with vivid memories, halfway between verse and prose. Her words are honest, sensitive, and profound but also sometimes humorous, sometimes deep. The style is lyrical and deceptively simple as she presents the incredible power of love and the pain of loss. Empathize with the pain but find beauty and joy, too, as you walk the poet’s path to truth and enlightenment.

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features a bunch of bizarre and strange tales of the paranormal that can happen to you in your travels. Strange things do happen, and mostly they are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys.