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Unfaithful Together is a series of connected, steamy, romance, short stories following one couple, as they pursue their sexual desires together. They are intended to be read in order. Olivia Van der Mol is conservative, and sweet. The kind of woman to take home to meet the family. Jake Johnson is thoughtful, and kind, but with a sexually adventurous side. A chance encounter leads Olivia to believe they were destined to be together. As they grow, Jake...
2) Assortment
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This is the second collection of short stories. Most come from contest entries. Some are long, some are short. They cover many genres - sci fi, horror, contemporary romance, families, friendship, and a couple deal with politics. The styles vary, as do the themes. Thanks for taking a look. Enjoy.
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Collection of short stories inspired by real life. Most represent a mundane side from science fiction and fantasy writer, Katrina Joyner, people don't get to see often.
Silver - Redemption can come in many ways, depending on how you find it and where you look.
Over It - Sometimes when faced with your evil stepmother, leaving bread crumbs on the trail is not enough.
Ghost in the Water - When water spirits need rescue, heroes come in many shapes...
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One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the 20th century, Richard Matheson ( -- Find out why Stephen King (who wrote the introduction) has called Matheson one of his favorite writers.Narrated by Paul Michael Garcia, Malcolm Hillgartner, Arte Johnson,Jay Karnes, Ray Porter, Lawrence Pressman, Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver, Ned Schmidtke,Conrad John Schuck, and Christine Williams.A Blackstone Audio production.
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Welcome to Creelyville: Slick Rick was on the run. Police were on the hunt for him after a failed robbery attempt. After racing through Pidgeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he needed to get off the main road and followed an old, half-hidden road that led, to his surprise, to a town like nothing he had ever seen before. He might just wish that he hadn't seen this one.
The Failure: Carl Watkins was always a wannabe who never was. A...
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A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch ... with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is "supposedly." In the novel WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, the character "C.D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C.D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer...
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"Prairie Folks" by Hamlin Garland. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The contemporary short-story is unimaginable without Anton Chekhov. He stripped the story of many of the features that had seemed essential to nineteenth-century readers: plot, narrative tension, and denouement. Terms such as "slices of life" and "sketches" are used to highlight the fact that often very little happens in Chekhov's short stories. What is left unsaid...
9) Wild Oranges
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This gripping hybrid of adventure and romance, originally published in the 1918 collection Gold and Iron, is about a man's attempt to escape the stultifying confines of civilization. During his journey in the orange groves of the Georgia coast, he meets a woman, who will change his life.
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Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson's hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime's imaginary box, and from a post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah to unwitting portraitists of the...
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A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV.
The Bet and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories first published in 1899 in RUSSIA.
The title story of this collection, "The Bet," tells of a banker and a lawyer who, while debating the merits of capital punishment or life imprisonment, enter into a strange contractual arrangement. The banker...
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'The Van In My Mind' presents four short stories featuring desperate people at a crossroads, grappling for meaning, purpose, and second chances.
In "Angel In Vegas," a burned-out, numbed-out, mid-career advertising exec named Gus meets a mysteriously congenial soul at a Las Vegas casino. Can the old man persuade Gus to recover his spark, before it's too late?
Motivational speaker and guru "Frank the Tank" peddles self-help and business advice to...
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Go behind the scenes of popular soap opera TO LIVE AND LOVE in this humorous short story in which the backstage drama is more intense than what happens in front of the camera.
Follow hopeful actor Robert Schwarzmann in his journey from a small town in Maine to the glitz and glamor lifestyle of daytime television in Hollywood, California. Discover why in an industry in which looks mean everything, nothing is as it seems.
Serious themes percolate...
14) Winter Count
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A magnificent collection of short fiction by one of America's most original and acclaimed literary authors-haunting and beautiful tales of spiritual mystery and earthly truth Barry Lopez, the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams, has written eloquently on what it means to be human, taking the demands and gifts of the natural world as a frame and setting for his far-reaching narratives. In this evocative and unforgettable collection...
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In a debut volume, the collected short stories of Thomas H. Cook, one of America's most celebrated crime fiction authors Over his acclaimed career, Cook's novels have haunted, riveted, and spellbound readers across the world, and his short stories are equally acclaimed. They range from the intensely focused world of "Fatherhood," the Herodotus Award–winning title story, to the Edgar-nominated "Rain," a dark, kaleidoscopic tale of Manhattan on a...
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En estas cinco narraciones intensas y de atmósfera delicada, Guadalupe Nettel nos propone un cruce de caminos entre el mundo animal y el universo humano para hablar de temas tan naturales como la ferocidad de la vida en pareja, la maternidad "cuando es deseada y cuando no lo es", las crisis existenciales de la adolescencia o los lazos inimaginables que pueden establecerse entre dos enamorados. Su mirada proyecta lo subterráneo y lo secreto de sus...
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Rambles and Daydreams is a short book of short fiction, a collection of short stories and flash fiction by author Billy DeCarlo, with two bonus poems. The works range from under 1,000 to over 5,000 words, and center around the quirky thoughts and behavior of everyday people, similar to the stories of Raymond Carver.
The centerpiece of this collection is Key West, a Hemingway-esque love story. If you loved Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet,...
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Yolande Bastarache est partie trop tt. Lire la quinzaine de nouvelles de ce recueil posthume, c'est découvrir un lumineux jardin secret sur lequel souffle doucement la brise du large, peuplé d'êtres faits de fiction et de mémoire.
«Je dois raconter cette histoire à mon cahier rose. Les adultes ne s'y intéresseront pas. Mon amie Juliette était une fille sage et pas menteuse du tout. Elle ne parlait jamais pour ne rien dire et souvent on se...
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Six short tales of life, death and optimism from Luna harlow.
A young woman looks back on a grandparent and the nature of stories. Robots question the meaning of their existence. An old woman time travels through memory. A young man leaves a party and questions what he wants from life. Thirty-somethings talk about chemistry over brunch.
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