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First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...
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Immerse yourself in the sinister imagination of author Joan De La Haye as she unleashes a captivating collection of 13 dark and twisted tales in her second collection. Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride of suspense as each story explores the depths of human nature and the supernatural. Uncover the harrowing tale of a hunter turned hunted, where the line between predator and prey becomes blurred. Witness a diabolical wedding as the Devil himself...
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In "The Medway Tales," you will find seven short stories that, although initially may seem intended for children, will easily have the power to touch the hearts of young people, adults, and individuals of all ages.
These stories are set in the picturesque area bathed by the Medway River (United Kingdom) and share a deep anthropological foundation centered around human behaviour. They originate from the observation and appreciation of the life that...
4) Jasmine
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A retired college instructor and former teacher in India meet online and decide to meet in person during COVID. They form a pact to be together forever.
5) Anonymous
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The pursuit of the vain hopes of success and the total invisibility of entire segments of the population are the two complementary visions that characterize the protagonists of this novel.Seven stories, separated in places and environments, meet only on a chronological level, leaving each immersed in anonymity, the only possible solution between an unattainable affirmation and a tragedy not consonant with the characteristics of contemporary society....
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As a writer, Shira Gorshman is most notable for her unflinching examination of women's lives, and her willingness to dwell on uncomfortable emotions. Her lean storytelling style foregrounds the moral quandaries her characters face. Her writing is plain-spoken, unembellished, even blunt. Her characters are also straightforwardly who they appear to be. In Gorshman's text, everything is about the situation, the event, the interplay of right and wrong,...
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Short stories from a master of the form, this collection scrapes away superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless; in particular, they probe the limitations of middle class norms and blinkered identities and grapple with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of privileged ghettoes. Mixing satire with brutal realism,...
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En los siete cuentos de este libro aparecen situaciones concretas que se terminan resolviendo por las decisiones morales que se deben ir tomando momento a momento. Los distintos personajes en las diferentes tramas son arrastrados por euforias y corduras, culpas y absoluciones, vidas y muertes, amores y felicidades, normalidades y prejuicios, miedos y audacias, sosiegos y rutinas, desarraigos y dolores, y también por aspectos materiales e inmateriales...
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Meet Ramone, a stoic and ruggedly handsome man searching for his destiny. Though sparing with words, Ramone's magnetic presence and insatiable thirst for life's vibrancy hints at deeper complexities within. His visionary sight is fixed on the horizon, compelled by a mysterious force to continue seeking something unknown before anyone else discovers it first.
The encounters upon Ramone's ominous journey are unspeakably chilling, enough to make one's...
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Stanislas Yassukovich returns with another riveting collection of short stories, a worthy successor to his acclaimed Short Stories and A Cape Town Decameron. Each tale, woven from his vast experiences, spans an array of subjects, characters, and locales.
Drawing inspiration from his illustrious career as an international investment banker, Yassukovich gives readers a privileged peek into the intersections of finance, adventure, and the human spirit.
Every...
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Thirty nine short stories, including an assassination Italian style, a hidden garden, a murder on a misty lake, a double suicide attempt, a Kenyan conman, love in Florence, a meeting in a snowdrift, an angel hovering by a spire, sheep rustling, fraud on a cruise, a Spanish vineyard and a pig farm, an unidentified man in a coma, what the crane driver saw, a find in the attic, a body floating down a river, a rescue by dolphins, curing arachnophobia,...
12) Dropped Calls
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Dropped Calls will ring like a lost phone and have you scrambling to pick up the call. Should water, food, and even the air we breathe become threatened? Providence assembles at the bugler's call. When democracy is under threat from our collective complacency, these words shall find meaning in the screaming echoes of two centuries past "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty". In this work of fiction, the resonance of truth should challenge the...
13) Seagulls
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Seagulls is an eclectic collection of short, shorter and micro stories by GJ Maher which takes us from the refugee trails of Africa to Charles Dickens' country studio, from a monkey writing his first story to a jetty somewhere in coastal Australia where they sell, of all things, ideas.From politics to travel, word games to love poems, campfire conversations to polemic - if you're a sucker for exotic locations and unexpected encounters, this is the...
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Los secretos de la muerte te sumerge en un intrigante mundo de misterio que desafía los tabúes más arraigados sobre las enfermedades mentales que acechan a individuos en nuestra sociedad, consumiéndolos hasta llevarlos a la desesperación y a una vida solitaria. A través de una serie de relatos cautivadores, cada uno teje una historia única alrededor de personajes que luchan con diversas enfermedades mentales. Estos trastornos deforman sus vidas...
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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si tu mundo y lo que te rodea en tu cotidianeidad es lo único que existe?
Pues no. Desde mi lugar frente a la imaginación, quisiera demostrarte que hay tantas historias como seres que habitan o habitaron, con un lenguaje propio, con sentimientos singulares y que la intriga no siempre es lo que nos adentra en ellas. Una madre joven con un bebé muerto en medio de la nada en otra época histórica, creencias de antes...
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Like Paul, try having a heart-to-heart conversation with an appliance and see what happens, but beware: you are entering unchartered territory. Anton, the keen archer keeps seeing blue lights flitting around. Could they be a message from beyond? Learn to what extent a woman goes to make the man, in whose shadow she shelters, happy. What would you choose to do if, like Aella, you came across a set of brightly coloured doors? Or, follow Nikhil the ogre...
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In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after...
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"They say time and tide wait for no man. I, on the other hand, wait for you all."
A clock ticks above your head, counting down time, counting down your life. There's no escaping it. For millennia, I have walked amongst you. I have only one job: collection of the newly departed. My name is Death. In all this time I have never spoken to a living soul… That is until now.
Follow Death through the annals of time as he shares the tales of his 'collections'...
19) We'll Be Alright
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Fighting is the most natural instinct in mankind, whether they are young or old; whether it is fighting back an oppressive system; fighting in wars; fighting back our desires, or fighting each other. We all fight.
A memorable history lesson that will change the course of two teenagers lives, little voices that speak up big words, a soldier's diary and the vows of a broken lover.
We'll Be Alright tells the story of everyday struggles wrapped up...
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Charlie Peach's Pumpkins and other stories' is Jenny Sanders' second collection of six humorous tales. Once again, she treats her readers to quirky characters and another abundance of welcome nonsense. This time, you'll be taken from a disastrous garden experiment which finds success from an unlikely source, to the new ambassador's attempts to solve an international crisis in Carletia, and to a crumbling castle which threatens to wipe out the fortunes...
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