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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Ireland

Bram Stoker

A Gipsy Prophecy

classics - mystery - suspense - young love

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Rodge Glass

59 Places to Fuck in Arizona

contemporary - funny - love - traveling

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Russia

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Like Penelope

coming of age - Russia

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Israel

Esty G. Haim

A Black Dancer in a One-person Dance Company

coming of age - melancholy - sexuality

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Austria

Arthur Schnitzler

The Death of a Bachelor

affair - betrayal - classics - manhood

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USA

Sherwood Anderson

The Other Woman

American literature - betrayal - classics - love - lust - marriage - sexuality

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Israel

Nurit Zarchi

Madame Bovary from Neveh Tsedek

alternative history - female authors - feminism - passion - Tel-Aviv

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Russia

Anton Chekhov

Romance with a Double Bass

allegory - classics - love - Russia - sexuality - witty

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Tunisia

Maha Jouini

The Last Arab Man

arabic literature - female authors - manhood - romance - witty

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Palestine

Iyad Barghouti

The Orange Ribbon

Arab-Israeli - love - political

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Sweden

Eric Stenbock

Hylas

classics - death - jealousy - myths - tragic love

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Syria

Ahmed Omar

River of Honey, Lake of Milk

arabic literature - atmospheric - childhood - coming of age - Freudian - melancholy - unrequited love

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