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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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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.
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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...
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What does a memory look like? Often it will appear personal and sacred because we have created it ourselves with every sensual focus we brought to our experience. Then, we sprinkle our thoughts and perspectives on it. A memory will reconnect us to the past for a reimagining, a review, and a reframing. It will end up looking very much like who we are. I hope the stories on these pages will entice you to return home to your...
5) 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...
7) 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.
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Lōa H (also Lai He, 1894-1943) was a pioneering writer from Taiwan often called the 'father of New Taiwanese Literature'. As a doctor during the colonial period in Taiwan, Loa witnessed the cruelty of Japanese rule and wrote stories which display both his sense of justice and social insight. His writing often utilized irony and satire to criticize the status quo, and his work provides a fascinating window into the struggle for Taiwanese self-determination...
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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...
10) 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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'This collection blends candid and personal worlds, short stories, allegories and vignettes. The warmth of "Knight in Shining Chain Mail" moves to the chilling short story "Undertow", with its secrets, to heart-rending "The Broken Windmill". Decima does not shy away from reality, with all its twists and turns of family angst, defiant love, jealousy, betrayal, blackmail and the ache of the road not taken, balanced by the humour of light-hearted stories...
12) Lost Reflection
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In Dennis Callaci's third book, Lost Reflection, the author has assembled seven short stories that are sewn together with characters whose reflections on the past are not to be trusted. Tug at the seams of the book to find the connective tissue-a clone of a character in one story appearing with an assumed name in the next, a reinterpretation of previous events here and again there. Or pay no mind to the lost echo searching eternally.
13) Rock and Sea
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The sixteen short stories in Rock and Sea span an extraordinary range of mood and style. There are tales of tragedy, of mischief, of mystery and of gothic horror. Rock and Sea contains stories written by Jeanell Buckley over more than a decade, beginning in the late 1990s.
14) Small Doses
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Martin Penny, a disillusioned and awkward young man, looks back to a turning point in his life – when his old, boring, and enthusiasm-destroying English teacher was arrested for pimping and was replaced by a fresh new teacher, a man who managed to blow off the dead-dust of his predecessor and rekindle the reader and writer in Martin. Martin, now an English teacher himself, has to come to terms with which of these two teachers he has come to resemble...
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Across the wounds of the past, standing before his arch-enemy, he silently drew his already overloaded blade and drew a break in his destiny. Defeat and glory are but a mutual cycle of suffering. In the end, it is found that each other is receiving the judgment of the other. ...... In this era of the first opening of Myth, they were the pioneers of the martial arts, and under the leadership of the commander-in-chief, they crossed the grasslands, crossed...
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"Whispers and Echoes: Tales of Love and Loss" is a poignant collection of stories that explores the intricacies of love and the enduring impact of loss. Set against diverse backdrops and themes, each narrative weaves a tapestry of emotions, capturing the essence of the human experience. From chance encounters during storms to rediscovering love after personal tragedies, the collection delves into the various facets of relationships-fragile and resilient,...
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En el multiverso de una exitosa estrella de reggaetón hay muchos perdedores
A través de relatos trepidantes e ingeniosos, este libro nos presenta las perspectivas de la derrota y la degradación humana, propias del postexistencialismo psicótico tropical: es decir, el remix del remix de la sensación que experimenta quien se encuentra siempre a la sombra de las oportunidades.
Atrapados en un Transmilenio, acompañamos esta reflexión sobre la misoginia,...
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Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, this critically acclaimed debut novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a prisoner-of-war camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when an astonishing thing occurs: A young German corporal calls out to her from behind the...
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La deslumbrante reunión de toda la narrativa breve de, irrefutablemente, uno de los prosistas más refinados de la lengua.
Este libro reúne todos los cuentos de Álvaro Uribe. Es decir: contiene cuarenta y un relatos impecables, a un mismo tiempo transparentes y enigmáticos, escritos por uno de los mayores prosistas de la lengua. Una y otra vez se escucha celebrar la redonda escritura de este narrador mexicano, la precisión y potencia de sus frases,...
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What does a day in the life of a dog groomer look like? Why is it so expensive to get your dog's haircut? Does the groomer know she has makeup running down her face? Wait, is that makeup, or is that something that came out the backside of the dog? Is she just going to leave it there while she drinks her coffee? What is the most common dog name? What is the name heard around the store through the loudspeaker that no one will ever forget? What happens...
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