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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Palestine

Ziad Khadash

Karim the Romantic, Bather of the Dead

arabic literature - death - existentialism - funny

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Russia

Anton Chekhov

He and She

classics - love - marriage - relationships - Russia

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USA

Sarah Orne Jewett

A White Heron

allegory - animals - classics - fairy-tale - female authors - love

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Argentina

Marcelo Cohen

Simidolia

introspective - Latin America - love - psychological - relationships - surreal

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Israel

Deakla Keydar

Safe Zone

family - marriage - parenthood - relationships

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USA

Edith Wharton

The Other Two

classics - female authors - feminism

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United Arab Emirates

Saleem Albeik

Scenario (A Chapter from a Novel)

contemplative - lust - passion - relationships

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Ireland

James Joyce

The Dead

Christmas - contemplative - death - love - relationships

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Richard Marsh

An Old-Fashioned Christmas

childhood - Christmas - coming of age - family - funny - loneliness - love

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Iraq

Irada Al-Jubori

He Saw Too

arabic literature - contemplative - love

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Kamila Shamsie

The Lover’s Tale as told to Kamila Shamsie

Great Britain - refugees - trauma

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Henry James

The Tree of Knowledge

classics - friendship - modernism - relationships - secret

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