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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Germany

Ralf Rothmann

Gethsemane

death - loss - love - melancholy

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Germany

Karen Köhler

We Were Fishing For Rockets

death - funny - tragic love - witty

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Bolivia

Liliana Colanzi

I Pray For You

journey - relationships

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Israel

Benjamin Tammuz

The Seamstress

coming of age - love - passion

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Germany

Maxim Biller

The Architect

affair - betrayal - love - relationships

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Canada

Camilla Grudova

Notes From a Spider

fetishism - loneliness - love - murder - obsession - surreal

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Cuba

Karla Suárez

The Collector

affair - funny - plot twist - relationships - unrequited love

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Italy

Giovanni Carmelo Verga

Rustic Chivalry

affair - classics - manhood

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USA

Elizabeth McCracken

Some Terpsichore

female authors - music - relationships - violence

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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

Ángel Zapata

Half-Measures

betrayal - jealousy - relationships

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