Nathan Leslie

Elena Stiehler

2020 Anthology

The Best Small Fictions

In his debut collection of short fiction, Nathan Leslie delivers a dark and scathing portrait of contemporary American society. Here, each gothic story reveals the vicious division of the sexes that lurks behind the glossy exterior of our everyday lives. Within this collection you will find a tale of a man stricken with vivid prophetic visions, a story of a tormented father who leads his son on a strange late-night journey through the woods, and another in which a man tries to sabotage his own wedding with a perfectly forged ring. Intense, urgent, and larger-than-life, these stories sketch the characters that lurk in the shadows of our strip-mall culture: phrenologists, tortured mystics, twisted egg collectors, spelunker bluesmen, control freaks, seedy yacht salesmen, and male escorts. Rants and Raves offers nothing less than a portrait of hell, a picture of an America about to implode.

Rants and Raves

The Best Small Fictions anthology, now in its fifth year, presents one hundred and forty-­six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-­six nations and six continents. These short, elliptical works are varied and edgy, sorrowful and triumphant, provocative and visionary. The small fictions enclosed within this volume are always vibrant. They scintillate. They linger. With each story brief enough to savor at a stoplight or quick coffee break, the tales contained within 2019's The Best Small Fictions promise to leave a mark.

The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology

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Believers is a short story collection that vividly examines surprising people and their belief systems. Leslie's intricate stories delve into the often odd behaviors of snake handlers and voodoo specialists, mystical new age preachers, agnostics and hermits, prophets and jazz junkies, and born-again tapestry collectors. All believe deeply in their various gods.

Believers

Steve Almond

This print anthology will compile the best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that onine literary journals have to offer in an eclectic collection in the manner of other broad-ranging anthologies such as The Pushcart Prize anthology, The O.Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Short Stories.

Best of the Web 2008

Fiction. The thematically intertwined stories in Nathan Leslie's SIBS, the author's seventh collection, center around brothers and sisters. Often gritty and vivid, we see siblings bond, scrap, and everything in between. Many of these intense stories revolve around childhood and the stresses that siblings must overcome; others are concerned with brothers and sisters doing their best to make do with often tenuous, dysfunctional situations. Playing chess in a local park, two brothers are confronted by a strange young girl. Two sisters struggle with shopaholic behavior. A brother and sister defy spousal abuse. In 1970s America, two sisters move to a hippie commune and experience the unexpected. SIBS is set in remote corners of California, run-down Western Maryland towns, and in post-Industrial wastelands: this is America barely clinging to its sense of family and purpose. Stories from SIBS were originally published in North American Review, Gargoyle, Prick of the Spindle, StorySouth, JMWW, and Scribble.

Nathan Leslie

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