Coolest American Stories 2024

By: Mark Wish

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

America’s most talented storytellers share their most interesting, engaging, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers.

The third volume of the annual anthology that’s been praised nationwide by readers and numerous award-winning and bestselling authors, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2024 exudes its editors’ philosophy that a collection of widely appealing short stories can make for common ground that could unite rather than divide Americans.

Toward this end, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2024 features a funny yet heart-stopping story by Agatha, Macavity, and Anthony Award winning Tara Laskowski, author of the heralded One Night Gone; a suspenseful and thought-provoking story about trust by widely acclaimed playwright D.W. Gregory; and rising star Matthew Goldberg's hilarious tale about family love in a future dominated by robotics and AI.

And since interesting storytelling―rather than a bunch of publishing credits―matters most to story-hungry readers, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2024 also includes a laugh out loud page-turner about a young woman’s search for love in Paris by brand new author Hannah Mumm; a shocking dystopian tale about sacrifices necessary for survival by up-and-coming author T. N. Eyer; and a haunting rural mystery by novelist Dennis McFadden―among others in this treasure trove of unputdownable, sharply written, sometimes comic, sometimes frightening, always suspenseful stories loaded with twists and turns.