Let a Sleeping Witch Lie
Between 1965 and 1975, Elizabeth Walter published five collections of supernatural stories. But whilst the names of her contemporaries such as Robert Aickman are widely recognised, Walter is relatively unknown to modern readers. Nothing is as it seems in these haunting tales which draw on Walter's Welsh heritage and the rich inspiration of South Wales and the border country. Mixing folklore, history, and ancient traditions, Let a Sleeping Witch Lie is the perfect way to rediscover Elizabeth Walter's chillingly remarkable talent.
Voices Carry Here
Voices Carry Here is a collection of short stories with themes of mystery, suspense, and the supernatural.A henpecked husband learns that "till death do us part" isn't the end of the story when his dead wife returns. A newly retired couple uncovers a pestilent secret buried beneath their dream home.A young woman retreats to the countryside to discover herself, only to stumble upon an unsolved tragedy calling out for justice.Voices Carry Here is a collection of short stories steeped in mystery, suspense, and the supernatural. Set against the beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, these tales will reveal secrets just beneath the surface of tranquil lakes, cries for help echoing from shadowed campgrounds, and small-town characters experiencing extraordinary circumstances. Blending chills with warmth, author Gail Galotta's flair for supernatural suspense is tempered with touches of humor, romance, and nostalgia.
Release of Information
A doctor attends a weekend medical convention in St. Louis; a new mother shops at a Minneapolis suburban Target with her newborn and indulges in a secret habit; two rural southern Iowa brothers hunt a rare mountain lion; a teenage girl attends the ten-year anniversary of her dramatic rescue from a deep pipe on her uncle's farm in rural Missouri; a young woman comes across shocking information while working in a Des Moines hospital records department. Midwesterners reveal secrets at pivotal moments in their lives in Release of Information, award-winning writer Kali White VanBaale's radiantly gripping story collection. Exploring marital roles, complex family legacies, abuse, and generational trauma, the interconnected characters and stories move through time and space, as VanBaale catches ordinary people in extraordinary moments of revelation.
Serendipity of Fiction Concepts
Serendipity of Fiction Concepts is a luminous anthology of eighty micro stories that celebrate the quiet power of human connection. Blending flash fiction, contemporary short stories and touches of magical realism, Morgan Hale invites readers into moments where small encounters spark unexpected meaning. Perfect for lovers of uplifting short stories, reflective reading and feel good fiction.Across four themed sections Hope, Winter Magic, Serendipity and Quiet Transformations this collection reveals how the smallest gestures can shift a life. Each micro story captures an ordinary moment infused with wonder, from lantern warm evenings in snowlit towns to chance meetings that change a person's direction. These are character driven storiescrafted with tenderness, atmosphere and insight.Readers who enjoy cozy winter tales, inspirational fiction, or thoughtful literary micro stories will find themselves returning to these pages again and again. The stories explore everyday miracles, emotional renewal and the gentle beauty hidden inside routine days. Whether read in a single sitting or savored slowly, this book offers a refuge of calm and imagination.Ideal for fans of short story collections for adults, seasonal gift books and anyone drawn to themes of hope, serendipity and personal growth. With its blend of intimate storytelling and soft wonder, Serendipity of Fiction Concepts makes a heartfelt gift for winter holidays, quiet evenings or moments when readers crave a reminder that small things still hold magic.If you believe in the significance of simple gestures, the shimmer of coincidence or the slow unfolding of quiet transformations, this anthology will meet you exactly where you are.
The Silent Driver
You ever wonder what people really do when they think nobody's watching?I do.Because for years, they forgot I was there.I drove in silence-listening to lies, secrets, arguments, breakups, hookups, promises, prayers, and the kind of truth people only spill when the doors close and the city gets quiet.A limo will make you comfortable enough to confess things you should probably keep to yourself.And I've heard it all.Marriages cracking in the dark.Men cheating like it's just another appointment.Women holding in tears until the highway hum settles their breathing.Executives bragging about crimes they'll never say out loud.Stories that changed me.Stories I never forgot.This time, I'm telling it.Just the truth the way I lived it-sixteen rides that pushed me, taught me, shook me, and showed me exactly who people really are when they think the driver isn't listening.If you've ever wondered what gets said in the back of a luxury SUV...If you've ever questioned how much of yourself you've shown to a stranger...If you're ready for something honest, grown, messy, and unfiltered-Get in.I'll drive.You just listen.
Engaging and Heartfelt Short Stories for Seniors
⚡ THE PERFECT GIFT UNDER $25. Engaging and Heartfelt Short Stories for Seniors is written in a cinematic style, with each story unfolding like a quiet film. Emotionally vivid, instantly engaging, and easy to connect with. Perfect for morning coffee, a bedtime read, or a quiet afternoon, these stories invite readers of all ages to share time with characters who feel like old friends. Crafted for seniors, this collection features LARGE PRINT for easy reading and printed on cream colored paper to reduce glare and minimize eye strain.This charming collection of stories for seniors is a blend of lighthearted humor and heartfelt moments that celebrate the beauty, wisdom, and wonder of life, with a touch of mystery and light puzzles woven into some stories to keep readers curious and engaged.Diana Cameron, a retired teacher who has spent decades helping people fall in love with reading, calls this book a darling book that "is full of warmth and wisdom with great messaging."Engaging and Heartfelt Short Stories for Seniors makes a thoughtful gift for seniors, caregivers, and anyone looking to share comfort, conversation, and connection, from parents reading with children to family members spending time with loved ones in a care home.✅ ADD TO CART to bring warmth, curiosity, and connection into your day.
Elder Conklin And Other Stories
Elder Conklin and other stories presents a vivid collection that is centered on the rugged spirit and emotional depth of frontier life. Each tale captures the tension between personal aspiration and community expectation, exploring how individuals navigate love, pride, and moral conviction within the shifting boundaries of a young nation. The title story opens in a rustic setting marked by warmth, social gathering, and undercurrents of rivalry, reflecting how affection and ambition are tested by circumstance and social code. Through the delicate interplay between romance and conflict, the narrative portrays the complexities of honor and human connection against the raw backdrop of American frontier society. The wider collection continues this exploration through varied lives and moods, balancing realism with moral reflection. Together, the stories evoke themes of integrity, resilience, and the inevitable friction between duty and desire, revealing a deeply human portrait of strength shaped by both passion and restraint.
The Toys Of Peace And Other Papers
The toys of peace and other papers presents a collection of short pieces that use humor and sharp observation to reveal contradictions within social expectations and everyday behavior. The opening story introduces an attempt to encourage children to embrace civility through nonviolent play. Instead of the usual battle toys, they receive objects representing institutions, historical figures, and civic order. The intention is to inspire thoughtful engagement and peaceful imagination. However, the children do not respond as hoped. They twist the intended meaning of the gifts and transform the items into chaotic scenes that mirror conflict. This reaction highlights how imagination does not always follow the ideals adults try to impose. Throughout the collection, the book examines the gap between what society claims to value and what people actually do. It suggests that rules and moral instructions often fail to address natural curiosity and impulse. Through playful scenarios and sharp wit, each piece exposes the humorous tension between guidance and behavior. The narrative invites readers to reflect on how attempts to shape attitudes can backfire when they ignore genuine interests and emotions, making the collection both insightful and entertaining.
Reprinted Pieces
Reprinted pieces explores the social and emotional landscapes of human life through a collection of essays and short stories that reveal Charles Dickens's deep understanding of society. The work blends humor, melancholy, and reflection as it delves into the struggles of ordinary people, exposing the tension between compassion and deceit, and the enduring power of memory. The book examines human endurance, portraying experiences of hardship, kindness, and moral conflict with vivid realism. Through reflections on travel and exploration, Dickens presents the world as both inspiring and perilous, where courage coexists with regret and discovery with loss. His writing captures the voice of the reflective traveler who contemplates the fleeting nature of opportunity and the permanence of human emotion. The stories engage readers with their rich detail and empathy, illustrating the complexities of everyday existence and the moral questions that shape human society. Reprinted pieces stands as a work that invites introspection about life's contradictions and the resilience of the human spirit.
The Moon Endureth Tales And Fancies
The moon endureth: Tales and fancies unfolds as a diverse collection blending travel, romance, and historical resonance into a vivid mosaic of human experiences. Opening with a lyrical scene of dawn in the Scottish countryside, the work moves seamlessly into narratives grounded in landscapes and themes of discovery. One early tale traces a journey through the Italian Alps that reveals both the allure of distant places and the allure of mystery. In a secluded town, political currents and questions of lineage emerge, drawing the traveler into a subtle dance of intrigue, personal destiny, and cultural intersections. The stories invite readers into encounters marked by refinement and uncertainty, contrasting rugged terrains with the equally complex human heart. Through its layered episodes, the collection reflects on identity, heritage, and the influence of environment on fate. Merging poetic imagery with thoughtful prose, it offers glimpses into the delicate interplay between individual ambition and historical circumstance, weaving fancies and realities into a memorable literary tapestry.
The Goodness Of St. Rocque And Other Stories
The goodness of St. Rocque and other stories presents a vivid portrayal of Creole culture through a series of interconnected short stories filled with atmosphere and emotion. The opening narrative follows a young woman facing the anguish of lost love and seeking spiritual comfort through her deep-rooted devotion to St. Rocque, the symbolic guardian of lovers. Her reliance on prayers and rituals reflects a world where faith and folklore coalesce, revealing the enduring human desire for hope and redemption. Across the collection, relationships are tested, emotions turn inward, and the tension between personal will and cultural expectation takes form. The stories draw readers into vibrant scenes of community, highlighting the charm, customs, and struggles of Creole society. Beneath moments of heartbreak and healing lies a subtle critique of social conventions, especially concerning gender roles, love, and moral judgment. The work captures the emotional richness and resilience of individuals as they navigate devotion, belief, and passion within a lush and often unpredictable world.
Stripped to the Bone
Seven short stories by Dr. Al Atrash about the plight of Syrian women, all different, in all walks of life, whether in the homeland or abroad, interspersed with well-known Middle Eastern poetry and songs. A reflection of life in Syria, with light shed on aspects of the culture, people's names, and Arabic and Persian words. The writing shows inter-connectedness, extended families and a network of caring, among persons of various faiths. Fictional portraits, but infused with realism and true to life. Memories of childhood, forbidden love, motherhood, disappointment, self-discovery and more. An exploration of the Syrian homeland through its women. Short, simple and appealing writing that touches on delicate issues.
A Walk in the Park
This is my first book containing an anthology of several dozen short stories and poems. They were mostly collaborated with an organisation called Perthshire Writers where we share our work with one another. There are a lot of short stories in a 500-word Flash Fiction format. This has been arranged so that every member of the club can read out their work on the night. Poetry tends to be about 30 to 40 lines.They are a wide variety of styles and types of writing I employ to produce short stories and poems. They range from fantasy and science fiction to realistic reports and comedy. I have been compiling my work for a long time, and I have attended Perthshire Writers for 18 years.This has given me a lot of experience and attitude to work with, and I hope that it has made my anthology clear and understandable. I enjoy writing poetry in the format of pattern as well as rhyme and the topics range from fantasy to comedy. I have drawn on my long stay in Perth for many of my subjects of work and many local areas and landmarks are shown. There is also a fantasy city called Millchester that I use for my work with its own narrative of streets and buildings. I hope you understand and enjoy my writing.
Nurses and Nursing
30 short stories that include chapters on student nurse experiences, registered nurse experiences and nursing education. The initial chapter about student nursing provides a variety of experiences that describe and analyze the challenges to the learning of the content and craft of nursing. The second chapter is of the experienced registered nurse and focuses on delivery of nursing care under unusual circumstances in the hospital and in the community. The final chapter highlights nursing education and provides an analysis of past and current practices as well as the identification of future trends.
Collected Short Stories
No doubt the verdant mountain ranges, the mist and the cold are majestic backdrop providing much of the mystic for Hamada's Collected Short Stories. But it is the hardy women and men, their refusal to be mere victims of nature or supposed 'progress', their stoic, down-to-earth decency in the face of all adversity that is the beating heart of Hamada's fiction.Sinai's stories are a window to a place and time long gone. The highlanders he speaks of survive but through his tales. Hamada transforms tribal myth and personal memory into lasting art.Many of Sinai's stories were written when he was a young man and betray the longings and passions of the young: unrequited love, the desire for intimacy that unfulfilled may result in solitude, loneliness, and the abiding melancholy underlying some of his best work.Still, Hamada does not romanticize the native. His highlanders are neither innocent nor na簿ve to the ways of the world. They are the children, after all, of warriors who took heads and slaves and survived by their peculiar code. In the later stories we can hear the grievances and aspirations of locals whose livelihoods have been upturned by lowlanders as well as by the larger colonial and global forces at play. We see their own pretenses and machinations as they navigate the new realities. The melancholy of the earlier stories replaced it seems by a knowing, satirical tone.The contemporary reader may question certain word choices of the author, no doubt influenced by the literature and orthodoxies of his day, that sound inappropriate in our age of cultural sensitivity and 'political correctness, ' but these too are part of the journey of Hamada's tales from past to present, from mountain fastness to city street and academe.In the end he sings of the nobility of forebears, the triumph of family and of a love as old as the mountains.- Charlson Ong, Award winning writer, fictionist, scriptwriter
Collected Short Stories
No doubt the verdant mountain ranges, the mist and the cold are majestic backdrop providing much of the mystic for Hamada's Collected Short Stories. But it is the hardy women and men, their refusal to be mere victims of nature or supposed 'progress', their stoic, down-to-earth decency in the face of all adversity that is the beating heart of Hamada's fiction.Sinai's stories are a window to a place and time long gone. The highlanders he speaks of survive but through his tales. Hamada transforms tribal myth and personal memory into lasting art.Many of Sinai's stories were written when he was a young man and betray the longings and passions of the young: unrequited love, the desire for intimacy that unfulfilled may result in solitude, loneliness, and the abiding melancholy underlying some of his best work.Still, Hamada does not romanticize the native. His highlanders are neither innocent nor na簿ve to the ways of the world. They are the children, after all, of warriors who took heads and slaves and survived by their peculiar code. In the later stories we can hear the grievances and aspirations of locals whose livelihoods have been upturned by lowlanders as well as by the larger colonial and global forces at play. We see their own pretenses and machinations as they navigate the new realities. The melancholy of the earlier stories replaced it seems by a knowing, satirical tone.The contemporary reader may question certain word choices of the author, no doubt influenced by the literature and orthodoxies of his day, that sound inappropriate in our age of cultural sensitivity and 'political correctness, ' but these too are part of the journey of Hamada's tales from past to present, from mountain fastness to city street and academe.In the end he sings of the nobility of forebears, the triumph of family and of a love as old as the mountains.- Charlson Ong, Award winning writer, fictionist, scriptwriter
Nurses and Nursing
30 short stories that include chapters on student nurse experiences, registered nurse experiences and nursing education. The initial chapter about student nursing provides a variety of experiences that describe and analyze the challenges to the learning of the content and craft of nursing. The second chapter is of the experienced registered nurse and focuses on delivery of nursing care under unusual circumstances in the hospital and in the community. The final chapter highlights nursing education and provides an analysis of past and current practices as well as the identification of future trends.
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Seven Dials [Tv Tie-In]
The inspiration for the Netflix original series starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, coming January 2026!A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie's classic detective story, Seven Dials.Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences.For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance. . . .
Essays Of To-Day And Yesterday
Step into a world where the echoes of the early 20th century resonate with the vibrant pulse of contemporary issues. This essays collection, once lost to the shadows of time, has been resurrected by Alpha Editions, offering a window into the profound societal reflections and cultural observations of its era. As you delve into the modern essays within these pages, you'll find yourself in the company of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley, whose insights into British society remain as relevant now as they were then. This edition is not just a reprint-it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously restored for today's and future generations. It invites both literary enthusiasts and academic readers to explore the nuanced tapestry of British essays that shaped and mirrored the societal norms and challenges of their time. The voices captured here speak to the timeless dialogue between past and present, offering reflections that continue to inspire and provoke thought. With its rich historical significance and renewed accessibility, this book bridges the gap between yesterday's wisdom and today's curiosity. Rediscover the narratives that have been out of print for decades, now revived to illuminate the complexities of human experience and the enduring quest for understanding in an ever-evolving world.
Like An Assassin
The acclaimed author Jonathan Evan Hudson at the very top of his game! This unforgettable page-turner bleeds white-knuckle thrills and riveting mystery.An unlikely spy retired and lonely. Suddenly upside down one bright afternoon day. The culprit. Deadly dangerous.The reason. Even more deadly dangerous.A pulse-pounding masterpiece of a short story. Perfect for fans of thrillers and mysteries alike. Read Like An Assassin today!
A Shuriken Comet Christmas
A compulsive, white-knuckled read peppered with winning characters, a stunning setting, and a touch of humor by the acclaimed Jonathan Evan Hudson.A strange two ninja team. A strange building. And a strange mission.With stakes far deadlier than ever expected.A thrilling mystery short story like no other. If you love turning pages late into the night then go read A Shuriken Comet Christmas today!
Gunning for Ho, 25th Anniversary Edition
Honoring 25 Years of Gunning for Ho: This special edition contains a new preface by the author, revisiting the stories of Vietnam and offering fresh insights and reflections. In this rich and varied collection of short stories (six stories & one novella), former Green Beret H. Lee Barnes deals with the war itself and with its aftermath, but his stories focus more on the human aspects of men in armed conflict and families at home than on the violent drama or political aspects of that war.
Cloistered
Award-winning author Liz Kellebrew debuts a short story collection of Mobius strip plots and shapeshifting points of view, where isolation amplifies connection and Ouroboros rules a reality stranger than dreams. A tiger emerges from a self-mutilation, traveling through time and TV channels to teach a guru how to be reborn as a gunslinger. An earthquake triggers an electrifying hookup that shrinks a man to half his former self, whom he meets at the bus stop afterwards. A woman imprisoned by border agents unlocks freedom in her mind before she finds it among the stars. An omniscient eye escapes from an egg and takes up residence in a Mormon boy's skull, showing him things he never knew existed.With crackling, sensual, cinematic prose, Cloistered is a surreal journey through self-destruction and into self-transcendence. Kellebrew's stories are a series of gentle detonations that will break open your expectations, dissolve the limits of your perception, and leave you deliciously perturbed.
In a Strange Land
In a Strange Land is a collection of joined-up stories for these disjointed times, for the exiled and the out-of-place. Have you ever felt you are not where you should be? Rome's favourite love poet does; he must now entertain a bunch of hairy barbarians. A blood-stained dictator finds himself making breakfast for his nine youngest children in a Novotel. On the Edgware Road a Syrian ophthalmologist tells his girlfriend about a sudden career change whilst, on the other side of the city, a stock-market darling explains how his sudden flight abroad is all part of the strategy. France's chic empress languishes in the damp Kent countryside - how did it come to this? In Beijing, an Ulsterman's friendship with the Empress Dowager is not going to prevent him being massacred. On the Western front, a Cumbrian gunner celebrates, finally, his imminent demobilization... The action in this strange book, stretches from Chislehurst to the Chagos Islands, from Billericay to the Black Sea. What these men and women have in a common is one thing: they are all terribly far from home. And you?
Night Stream
Here are seventeen stories that pose many questions. Driving his old hitchhiking route, a successful septuagenarian looks back at his young mid-60s era self. All the things that happened. Does he owe a debt to the road? What follows when a counselor follows his mental health consumer in the darkness of the riverbank? Will big pink shoes scare the trout, night fishing in the stream with the guys? Who is Edna's Last Greeter and what's he up to? Might there be Love in the Time of Pizza? What has happened to the beautiful corpulent mermaid, Melusine?Does it pay to invade the privacy of Dr. Neanderthal? What if Stephanie benches her stalker? Is Dual Income No Grandchildren much the same as DINKS? In the future, will you learn to love the new New Speak? How will you be surprised from atop the pyramid of Cob獺 and beyond?
Tales from the Other Place
"There are parts of our world where the membrane between dimensions is thin, and we can perceive that raw abstract energy through visions, sounds, and physical sensations. One such place is a district in the Australian state of Victoria known as Upper Plenty." Tales from the Other Place is a collection of short stories that explores the mysterious, historical, mythological, grotesque, and paranormal. These Lynchian tales push beyond the tangible realm and dip their toe into the incomprehensible dimensions beyond the known universe through crimes, ghosts, gods, and forgotten lore. Tales from the Other Place reminds us that as frightening as the universe is, the scariest things in it might just be human in origin...
Night Stream
Here are seventeen stories that pose many questions. Driving his old hitchhiking route, a successful septuagenarian looks back at his young mid-60s era self. All the things that happened. Does he owe a debt to the road? What follows when a counselor follows his mental health consumer in the darkness of the riverbank? Will big pink shoes scare the trout, night fishing in the stream with the guys? Who is Edna's Last Greeter and what's he up to? Might there be Love in the Time of Pizza? What has happened to the beautiful corpulent mermaid, Melusine?Does it pay to invade the privacy of Dr. Neanderthal? What if Stephanie benches her stalker? Is Dual Income No Grandchildren much the same as DINKS? In the future, will you learn to love the new New Speak? How will you be surprised from atop the pyramid of Cob獺 and beyond?
Shaggydog Dog Memoirs
John Lewis has spent his life doing many different things, but the passion that has stayed closest to his heart is the care and training of dogs. After time spent in the army and the corporate world of business, Lewis began to focus on his love for dogs and his seemingly natural ability to train them. Shaggy Dog Memoirs explores his work alongside these four-legged friends in a personally humorous way. Throughout these entertaining memoirs John paints a picture of his love and connection with dogs, creating a collection of stories that share much wisdom as well as allow the reader to get to know the writer himself.
The Man Without A Head
A lyrical collection of contemporary short stories exploring the fragile beauty and strangeness of the human condition.In The Man Without a Head, author Dennis Morton gathers eighteen stories that drift between the real and the surreal - from windswept gardens and quiet villages to distant coasts, African plains, and imagined worlds. Each tale offers a moment of transformation where memory, nature, and imagination intersect.Written in flowing poetic prose with touches of magical realism, these stories illuminate ordinary lives in extraordinary light. Artists, travellers, dreamers, and wanderers move through landscapes shaped by grief, wonder, intimacy, and revelation, finding meaning in places both seen and unseen.This contemporary literary collection is rich in atmosphere and emotion - a testament to the power of language, belonging, and our enduring search for connection.Keywords: literary fiction; short story collection; poetic prose; magical realism; contemporary anthology; human condition; memory and transformation; travel and belonging; surrealism; psychological fiction.The Man Without a HeadSettle into your seat and prepare to journey into a world where the surreal meets the macabre, where the eerie waltzes with the absurd, and where reality is never quite what it seems.Across these eighteen tales, reality malfunctions: soil is eaten, books are swallowed, flesh fuses with bark. From an Irish pub where men gargle seawater, to a Kensington basement where a chef prepares a final, impossible meal, Morton moves between dark comedy and darker transformations.Meet the Turkana boy whose nose reveals oil and alters his village forever. The three men who wait a decade for a garden plot. The taxidermist who perfects an art born of grief. The old dog philosopher warming himself by the fire.These stories traverse the aftershocks of empire, the edges of belonging, and the strange price we pay for the things we desire.The Man Without a Head is a haunting, tender, and imaginative debut - a collection where the world tilts, the familiar becomes uncanny, and every page opens a door into a place just slightly sideways from our own.
My Grandfather, The First Money Launderer, and Other Stories
A grandfather involved in money laundering, a bureaucrat with short stature and of no importance, and neighbors who place their bets on roulette. These are merely a handful of the numerous uplifting narratives that emerge from the richly woven tapestry of human existence.
They Called Her Bitter Green
Once again, S.P. Peredo draws from both personal experiences and his imagination to present a collection of engaging stories: During a visit to a museum in Alaska, Judy sees the photograph of a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her and sets out to solve the mystery behind it; During a camping trip, a man who nearly drowns has a near-death vision that alters how he thinks about his own mortality; the life story of a young Mexican man who perishes in his attempt to enter the United States Illegally shows the gentle, human side of migrants seeking a better life; A sensitive young man is moved by the paranormal experiences centred around his mother's death; a fantastical allegory of human society as seen through the lives of ectoparasites that live and thrive on human skin; A comical, yet sad, street musician in Mexico City finds an opportunity for success through a chance encounter with two boys on their way to school; An old man, through an amazing dream and his love for a young woman, finds a glimpse of eternity; an audacious man who never thinks twice about consequences In his quest for adventure. These heartfelt, beautifully written stories, full of vivid imagery, are evocative in their range of themes that lead intriguing characters to encounter the spectrum of human emotions, including friendship, betrayal, hope, despair and love.
My Grandfather, The First Money Launderer, and Other Stories
A grandfather involved in money laundering, a bureaucrat with short stature and of no importance, and neighbors who place their bets on roulette. These are merely a handful of the numerous uplifting narratives that emerge from the richly woven tapestry of human existence.
Love Stories of The Central Coast
Love Stories of the Central Coast - T. Garner EdwardsOn California's mist-salted edge, love arrives in all its unruly forms, first chances, second chances, and the quiet, everyday courage to keep opening our hearts. In Love Stories of the Central Coast, T. Garner Edwards delivers 17 luminous short stories set in and around Carmel, Monterey Bay, and the broader Central Coast-where rugged coastline and small-town intimacy become partners in every affair of the heart. Ranchers and bakers, artists and old soldiers, grandchildren and grieving spouses all collide with moments that change everything: a pie shared on a bluff, a post-quake kindness that grows into a life, a widow who picks up her late husband's tools and builds something new. These tender, wry, and deeply human pieces are perfect one-sitting reads that linger long after the last page.
In the Lives of Women
These insightful short stories reveal hidden existential moments in the lives of women as they journey to self-fulfillment."Lina's style engaged not only my thoughts and feelings but also my five senses. Each story left me with powerful emotions, an influential reflection, hopeful inspiration, or a logical question."- Christine Antonious, Montessori Teacher, m Edmonton."Lina's writing is beautiful in a way that both educates and entertains. This book takes you to all parts of the world at different eras, stimulating imagination and all of the senses."- Julie Brown, Career Consultant, Calgary."The stories touched me in the deepest places ... The whole book is a true human experience, combining and intertwining East and West." - Rafael Sasson, Financial Advisor, New York.
Heaven Has Eyes
"Quietly disquieting, these stories shimmer with unsettling currents ... Philip Holden's prose, meditative and thoughtful, has a sharp bite to it."-Jeremy Tiang, author of State of Emergency, winner of the Singapore Literature PrizeSet in Singapore, Vancouver, London, and the spaces in between, the short stories in Heaven Has Eyes offer an imaginative, penetrating look at the complexities of migration, belonging, and a desire to find a home in the world.This updated edition, containing four new stories, is also charged with speculative daring, grappling with the entangled strands of forgotten or suppressed political histories. Pierre Trudeau and Lee Kuan Yew, later to become the prime ministers of Canada and Singapore respectively, converse as young men over beer in a smoky pub. An ageing politician yearns to reconcile the tough policy choices he made with the socialist ideals he championed in his youth. A young therapist in London tries to help a traumatized political exile from Singapore. Couples in transnational marriages struggle to make sense of where they belong-or where they want to belong-while venturing out to raucous political rallies, into abandoned mines, and on fraught plane journeys.In tender, luminous writing, Philip Holden explores piercing psychological questions about what it is like to be haunted by one's past. Deeply moving and emotionally rich, the stories weave together love, loss, grief, miscommunication, forgetting, and remembering- pushing the boundaries of realism, making and unmaking our sense of home.
Wyrd Tales for Woeful Times
Could you tell a funny, entertaining, meaningful story with a twist in 500 words? How about in 100 words with just 24 hours to write it? Writing this kind of flash fiction is what kept author Aoife Anastasia occupied and mostly sane through the woeful times of the pandemic lockdowns and a cancer diagnosis. The result is an unpredictable, sometimes fun and sometimes twisted collection of twenty-one stories and two narrative poems that include adult fairy tales, science fiction, horror, comedy, and romance. Each story includes one of Aoife's quirky drawings, the original writing prompt, and the woe that helped weave each tale.In Wyrd Tales for Woeful Times, among other amazing characters, you will meet a "mature" Dorothy who has been shacking up with Scarecrow for the last few decades, a flatulent Queen Victoria in a bathtub, a murderer of a murderer, a seductive Gaugin in love with Van Gogh, six martyrs, a hoodlum tooth fairy, two hopeless Panda Sexuality consultants, several treasure hunters, and Adam's Eve: a woman who knows what she wants. This is a collection of weird/wyrd, wonderful, whimsical, wyld stories that cannot be put in a box-except that all were written in a frenetic 24 hours, and all will make you look at the world a little differently than you did before.
Tales from the Irish Club
Tales from the Irish Club contains 11 wry accounts of an enclave of Irish Americans in Pittsburgh during and after World War II. In this first collection of short stories by Lester Goran are the often comic, sometimes tragic tales of Jack Lanahan, the transcendental artist who carves nothing but wooden roosters; Long Conall O'Brien, haunted by the ghosts of prostitutes he has known world-wide; Mrs. Pauline Conlon, famous as the woman who outlives three husbands--until she meets Sailor Kiernan; and the night an image of the Madonna appears on the wall of Local No. 9 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Ranging from the grimly realistic to the fantastic, Goran's stories examine lives so unheralded that only the Irish Club, Forbes Field--where the Pirates break their hearts, and St. Agnes Church--where they attend school and prepare for eternity--know their joys and sorrows. "Tales from the Irish Club presents a group of stories so well imagined that one can hardly tell them apart from life...They are meant to overheard, not heard, as if the reader were a child at a wedding eavesdropping on someone's loquacious, slightly drunken aunt...I abandoned the Hibernian world of Lester Goran's Pittsburgh with a sense of loss. Closing his book felt like driving away from my own boyhood city after a large Thanksgiving dinner, with improbable stories still echoing in my head. Tales from the Irish Club is a memorable work."--New York Times Book Review
Wyrd Tales for Woeful Times
Could you tell a funny, entertaining, meaningful story with a twist in 500 words? How about in 100 words with just 24 hours to write it? Writing this kind of flash fiction is what kept author Aoife Anastasia occupied and mostly sane through the woeful times of the pandemic lockdowns and a cancer diagnosis. The result is an unpredictable, sometimes fun and sometimes twisted collection of twenty-one stories and two narrative poems that include adult fairy tales, science fiction, horror, comedy, and romance. Each story includes one of Aoife's quirky drawings, the original writing prompt, and the woe that helped weave each tale.In Wyrd Tales for Woeful Times, among other amazing characters, you will meet a "mature" Dorothy who has been shacking up with Scarecrow for the last few decades, a flatulent Queen Victoria in a bathtub, a murderer of a murderer, a seductive Gaugin in love with Van Gogh, six martyrs, a hoodlum tooth fairy, two hopeless Panda Sexuality consultants, several treasure hunters, and Adam's Eve: a woman who knows what she wants. This is a collection of weird/wyrd, wonderful, whimsical, wyld stories that cannot be put in a box-except that all were written in a frenetic 24 hours, and all will make you look at the world a little differently than you did before.
For Dear Life
Reintroduces readers to the voice of a strong and compelling Southern writer The republication of this novel reintroduces readers to a strong southern writer, an interesting female voice, and a compelling story. This realistic portrayal of life among the rural poor of the early twentieth century shows the struggle of a tough-minded woman who fought her entire life to overcome the obstacles that confronted women and the working poor. Presented here with two previously unpublished short stories, For Dear Life, edited by Virginia Pruitt and Howard Faulkner, will appeal to those interested in women's studies, social history, and American studies, as well as to anyone who enjoys quality fiction.
She Loved Me Once, and Other Stories
Lester Goran's first book of short stories, Tales from the Irish Club, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a "Notable Book of the Year 1996." This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding World War II, but extending at times into the eighties. With evocative settings and narratives ranging from the supernatural to the humorous, from bawdy hilarity to richly detailed realism, Goran creates once more his world of poignant and magical times and places within the mundane affairs of ordinary men and women. With his mastery of language and images he shows again what Paul West has termed "the lunatic sadness of things." As the Pittsburgh Post--Gazette noted in its review of Tales from the Irish Club, "His many characters come alive with an immediacy and clarity that makes their stories seem like today's gossip." She Loved Me Once and Other Stories is a worthy successor to that book.
The Pelican Child
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD - NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST - A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic). "Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night." "Men are but unconscious machines and they perform their cruelties so effortlessly." "Caring was a power she'd once possessed but had given up freely." The sentences of Joy Williams are like no other--the coiled wit, the sense of a confused and ruined landscape, even the slight chortle of hope that lurks between the words--for the scrupulous effort of telling, in these eleven stories, has a ravishing beauty that belies their substance. We meet lost souls like the twin-sister heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune in "After the Haiku Period," who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds; in "Nettle," a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence; the ghost of George Gurdieff, on an obsessive visit to the Arizona birthplace of the shining Susan Sontag; the "pelican child" who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs. All of these characters insist on exploring, often at their peril, an indifferent and caustic world: they struggle against our degradation of the climate, of each other, and of honest human experience ("I try to relate only to what is immediately verifiable," says one narrator ruefully), possibly in vain. But each brief, haunted triumph of understanding is celebrated by Williams, a writer for our time and all time.
A Book for Christmas
An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure-now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classics Hardcover A little girl receives a gift to treasure; the creatures of the forest gather to celebrate the New Year; an evil noblewoman schemes against her beautiful niece; a cantankerous gravedigger dines with an unexpected companion on Christmas Eve...In this enchanting selection of winter stories, now available in English for the first time, the beloved writer Selma Lagerl繹f weaves together magic and miracles, Swedish folklore and timeless fables, darkness and light, heartfelt joy and festive wonder.
Disinheritance
A collection of fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author and "one of the 20th century's great female writers" (The Washington Post), drawn from her ample body of work that has been out of the public eye for decades Ruth Prawer Jhabvala began publishing fiction in 1956 and continued to do so until her death in 2013. Disinheritance showcases some of the finest of these efforts, all demonstrating Jhabvala's powers of keen observation as she examines the westernization of India's middle class, the interplay of social and romantic ambition, and the social mores that plague her characters, regardless of their geographical background. Salman Rushdie has described her as a "rootless intellectual," and John Updike called her an "initiated outsider." All these qualities shine in this very special collection, with stories undiscovered for decades. Including an introduction from the author's 1979 lecture when awarded the Neil Gunn Prize in Scotland, Disinheritance balances a host of cultural influences to showcase Jhabvala's signature voice and her buoyant, satiric fiction.
The Prot矇g矇
A police investigation into an accident on a country road takes an unexpected turn for Inspector George McKlinnon.The Prot矇g矇 forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.Listen to the Case Files: short crime fiction stories podcast on all major streaming services. Find out more at www.shortcrimestories.com.
The Passing of Pete and Other Short Stories
Most of us have at the back of our minds or memories our "Oh yes, I remember whens." These are things from our past, which we have long since forgotten, until someone or something acts as a stimulus to bring them to our minds, whether welcome or possibly even hurtful. Situations which, until something or someone brings them to our mind, come alive at the stimulus, " You remember it as a comment from a friend or even a particular sound or smell. "Oh yes," you say! "I had totally forgotten about that, but now that you mention it, I remember being there and recall when so-and-so said such-and-such..." "How many times have we said to ourselves, 'If only I had recorded and kept a diary of what happened that afternoon!'" If I had done so, I could have written a book on it. But so many of us haven't kept sufficient details to write our magnum opus. But we can try! Instead of trying to write a 100% accurate detail of what transpired, we can include the relevant experiences in a fictional version of what happened. Yes, it all happened, but not strictly as described in this book.
Birds Are Liars
Birds Are Liars is a sharp, lyrical collection of short stories that confronts the fragility and ferocity of a world in crisis. At once timely and timeless, these stories invite the reader to face the end times with intimacy, rather than look away.
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This collection of short stories explores the complexity of relationships and the myriad ways in which people come together and drift apart. It aims to take the romance out of relationships and expose the guts of the beast.
Final Expense
It is not uncommon for thirteen-year-old girls to have regular babysitting jobs for neighbors. It is not uncommon that these business relationships become more like family connections.When Jared and Lisa Thompson's thirteen-year-old babysitter, Nichole, concludes that Jared may be in trouble, this very smart little girl sets out to help Uncle Jared any way she can.
