Full name: The Stolen: Two Short Stories

Author: Michelle Browne Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

In "The Fields", Clarice is a governess on a small, remote backwater colony. Her previous misdemeanours in a nightmarishly controlling world have caught up to her, and she is taken in with other felons for re-education. Little does she know what this re-education will include...or its price. In "WordThieves", Sarah White is trapped in a nightmarishly bureaucratic peacenik paradise on Io. Spending her days daydreaming about untranslatable words and craving candy, her world is mostly idyllic. Until, that is, she runs into an old familiar face, and breaks the fragile tension holding her life together. What crimes are committed in the name of peace, control, and harmony? In a world where public violence is a distant memory and peer pressure is a mandated punishment, Clarice and Sarah are about to find out. Similar books: Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace An Actor's Life by Duncan Whitehead Selected Stories by Alice Munro Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel Dear Life by Alice Munro The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff Short Cuts by Raymond Carver City Solipsism by Zack Love The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud One Arm and Other Stories by Tennessee Williams The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff The Great Frustration by Seth Fried The Collected Stories by Grace Paley Collected Children's Stories by Sylvia Plath Rock Springs by Richard Ford