Welcome to Cafe Stories

Welcome to Cafe StoriesWelcome to Cafe StoriesWelcome to Cafe Stories

Welcome to Cafe Stories

Welcome to Cafe StoriesWelcome to Cafe StoriesWelcome to Cafe Stories
  • Home
  • Stories You Can Read
  • The Best of Cafe Stories
  • Cafe Stories: Mysteries
  • Cafe Stories on Audible
  • Cafe Stories: west coast
  • The Da Vinci Diamond
  • CafeStories relationships
  • Trilogies
  • Reviews
  • Published Stories
  • About Jerry Guarino
  • Resources
  • Writing Blog
  • YMCA Writing Class
  • Big Harbor
  • Write in the Harbor 2019
  • Friends of Cafe Stories
  • Submissions
  • More
    • Home
    • Stories You Can Read
    • The Best of Cafe Stories
    • Cafe Stories: Mysteries
    • Cafe Stories on Audible
    • Cafe Stories: west coast
    • The Da Vinci Diamond
    • CafeStories relationships
    • Trilogies
    • Reviews
    • Published Stories
    • About Jerry Guarino
    • Resources
    • Writing Blog
    • YMCA Writing Class
    • Big Harbor
    • Write in the Harbor 2019
    • Friends of Cafe Stories
    • Submissions
  • Home
  • Stories You Can Read
  • The Best of Cafe Stories
  • Cafe Stories: Mysteries
  • Cafe Stories on Audible
  • Cafe Stories: west coast
  • The Da Vinci Diamond
  • CafeStories relationships
  • Trilogies
  • Reviews
  • Published Stories
  • About Jerry Guarino
  • Resources
  • Writing Blog
  • YMCA Writing Class
  • Big Harbor
  • Write in the Harbor 2019
  • Friends of Cafe Stories
  • Submissions

Humor and Romance stories

Vegan Dog and Stoned Cat (pdf)Download
Can't Buy Me Love (pdf)Download
Buon Cibo (pdf)Download
Coq a Doodle Do (pdf)Download
Rooster Redux (pdf)Download
The Great Zucchini (pdf)Download
The Duke of Yelp (pdf)Download
Love, Luck and Fate (pdf)Download
Ice Cream Girl (pdf)Download
Jack and Jill (pdf)Download
Practical Goldberg- A Love Story in 3 Parts (pdf)Download
Girls Selling Fireworks (pdf)Download

Mystery stories

The Thief (pdf)Download
The Sonoma Murder Mystery (pdf)Download
The Dream Detective (pdf)Download
Trick or Treat (pdf)Download
Dream a Little Dream (pdf)Download
Who Stole Asbury Park? (pdf)Download
Double Sting (pdf)Download
The Waiting Room (pdf)Download
The Devil's Orchestra (pdf)Download
The Duke of Yelp (pdf)Download

Quirky stories

Preheat the Microwave.Com (pdf)Download
Death After Dinner (pdf)Download
No Turkey on Thanksgiving? (pdf)Download
Anything But Indian Food (pdf)Download
Babybump.Com (pdf)Download
Make Love, Not Pickleball (pdf)Download
Phone Booths and Mailboxes (pdf)Download
Respectable Sinners (pdf)Download
The Rich are Going to Hell (pdf)Download
Little Rubber Feet (pdf)Download
Bush Man (pdf)Download
Yankee Doodle (pdf)Download
Bird Lady and the Bunnies (pdf)Download

Trilogies: 18 sets of short fiction

This is my book Trilogies, free to download. Stories may include adult content.

Trilogies 18 sets of short fiction (pdf)Download

Three of my favorite stories

The Tightrope: the story of two people leading different lives in the same place (pdf)Download
The Lighthouse: a hippy love story for our time (pdf)Download
The Grand Poobah: my O. Henry Story (pdf)Download

More About My Stories


I have written nearly 150 stories, all of which have been published by magazines and literary journals in the United States, Canada, Australia and Great Britain including:


6 Tales, Alfie Dog Fiction (Great Britain), Apocrypha and Abstractions, Ariel Chart (Australia), Bewildering Stories (Canada), Blogcritics, The Blotter Magazine, CafeLit (Great Britain), The Chaffey Review Literary Magazine,  The Daily Drunk, Daily Flash Fiction 2012, Daily Love, Eskimo Pie, The Feathered Flounder, Flashquake, The Fringe Magazine (Australia), The Glass Coin (Canada), Hackwriters Magazine (Great Britain), Hobo Pancakes, Jokes Review, Larks Fiction Magazine, Leaning House Press, The Legendary, Linguistic Erosion, Literally Stories (Great Britain), Litsnack, MediaVirus, Motley Press, Mouseprose, The Piker Press, Pill Hill Press, Postcard Shorts, Potato Soup Journal, Ray's Road Review, The Rusty Nail, The Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada), The Scarlet Sound, Scissors and Spackle, Shadow Fiction, The Short Humour Site (Great Britain), Stanley the Whale, State of Imagination, The Stream Press, Thadd Presley Publications (Great Britain), Troubadour 21, Twenty or Less Press, Watch Me Bounce, Weirdyear, Wherever It Pleases, Writing Raw and Zouch Magazine and Miscellany (Canada).  


My books are collections of these stories for sale on Amazon in paperback and Kindle (eBook) formats.  But if you ask nicely, I'll send you a digital copy of one of these collections:


Cafe Stories: west coast stories

The Best of Cafe Stories

Cafe Stories: relationships


Links to the Kindle eBooks and paperbacks can be found on this website.


Brian Huggett is my favorite editor in the UK and has published many of my stories.  Check out these stories of mine on the Short Humour Site.

http://www.short-humour.org.uk/6writersshowcase/6writersshowcase.htm#JEG


Sand Pilarski is one of my favorite editors and has published many of my stories.  Check out  these stories of mine on The Piker Press.

http://www.pikerpress.com/authors/showauthor.php?aID=111


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