Linked stories are short stories with a common thread. Some might term them as "a novel in stories". Essentially a larger story that is told through several smaller stories. The common thread might be characters / subject matter / or locale etc.
Here are five collections that you may enjoy.
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by Zane Lovitt
The story of detective John Dorn told in ten cases. The "cases" are as different as can be, but each one reveals a little more of Dorn's own troubled past and his dire present, leading to a final confrontation with his arch nemesis: himself.
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"This is the story of a place that never looks the same way twice: a place imagined anew by each citizen who walks through the changing streets, among voices half-heard, signs half-glimpsed and desires half-acknowledged." - Publisher.
A History of the Present Illness: stories (M)
by Louise Aronson
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News From Heaven: the Bakerton stories (M)
by Jennifer Haigh
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When It Happens to You: a novel in stories (M)
by Molly Ringwald
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A collection of interlinked stories follows a Los Angeles family and their friends and neighbors as they negotiate the deceptions and heartbreaks of everyday life.
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