Love - A Collection Of Short Stories | The Short Story Project

A curated collection of short stories about love. One of the most popular themes in literature, expressed in all its exhilarating and excruciating glory by pen of great authors from all genders, cultures and periods. Stories on passionate affairs, unrequited loves and enduring bonds, everything that touches the heart.

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USA

Elizabeth McCracken

Some Terpsichore

female authors - music - relationships - violence

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Spain

Ángel Zapata

Half-Measures

betrayal - jealousy - relationships

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Greece

Rhea Galanaki

An Almost Sky Blue Hand

loss - love - melancholy

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France

Guy de Maupassant

Was It a Dream?

betrayal - classics - ghosts - secret - tragic love

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Australia

Laura Jean McKay

The Real Cambodia

femme fatale - orient - plot twist - traveling - unrequited love

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Spain

Antonio Ortuño

The Japanese Garden

funny - memories - unrequited love - witty

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Puerto Rico

Luis Negrón

The Garden

HIV - LGBT - lovers - melancholy - tragic love

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Taiwan

Sabrina Huang

The Girl of his Dreams

angst - loneliness - plot twist - unrequited love

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Spain

Aixa de la Cruz

Famous Blue Raincoat

affair - melancholy - unrequited love

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USA

O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi

classics - irony - love - melancholy

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France

Irène Némirovsky

Sunday

atmospheric - female authors - love - melancholy

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Israel

Alma Ganihar

The Enemy of the Love Story

Freudian - introspective - love - psychological - writing

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