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82) The Lost Boy
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Merry Watson is a fifty-something retired teacher who embarks on a grand adventure: driving across America by herself! She changes lives and leaves an impact on every town or city she visits.This first in this series of short stories takes our heroine to Boston - one of Merry's favourite cities and the first stop on her grand adventure. When she and her intriguing new friend Jake visit the Paul Revere House together, they're not prepared for the unexpected...
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Christmas is a lonely time for Kelly Lane. In her thirty's and single, she has given up the dream she'd always had.Mac Brentwell is only going through the motions. Living the high profile life people believe lawyers have, he's a playboy, a different woman on his arm every night. What people don't know is that most nights he goes home alone. And he's lonely, dreaming of the day he might get that Christmas wish he had so long ago.Kelly is the shy one,...
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"As far as I knew, my mother was the last woman alive on Earth the day her heart stopped beating in the produce section and she plunged face-first into the romaine."Thus begins Life on Other Moons, a collection of eleven short stories about people in different realities, times, and stages of life who are just seeking happiness and clarity in the strange, harsh environments they call home.What does it mean to be a man, a parent, or a child? How far...
85) Forgotten Fears
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Eleven tales of terror from the bestselling author of Whisper, Funhouse, TheIsland and Meat.Forgotten Fears is a collection of stories, many of which have either never been released before and others which were kindle exclusive titles. Most of these tales come from the Dark Corners and Funhouse writing sessions, whilst others were a part of the previously kindle only Taste of Fear series.
86) The Adept
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For hundreds of years generations of alchemists looked for a substance that would turn any metal into gold - the Philosopher's Stone. But what if, all those years, they were looking for the wrong thing? Alios, a young adept at the Alchemist Academy, just had a revelation…A short story of 3,700 words.
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Diferentes épocas habían padecido y a su vez rememorado otras igualmente tremendas. De este modo, se confundían entre ellas en una curva trazada sobre un tiempo inespecífico, sin cronologías ni escansiones. Quizás este era el dato inicial más notable de la primera calamidad devenida en pandemia furiosa en el siglo XXI. Posiblemente habría otras plagas, o nuevos brotes de la misma, porque, como decían algunos, la peste había venido para quedarse...
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To the moon and back, here are 10 tales with a twist. The unlikely characters have one thing in common - they're ready and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. As the old saying goes, "You have to watch out for the quiet ones."
From a quirky inventor, humored by his neighbors, to two old men out to dinner, to a more-than-meets-the-eye beverage maker, the stories will take you into the minds of the overlooked and unseen. Ignore...
89) Mar y punto
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El exilio y el tiempo, la fragilidad de la experiencia, la persecución política, la falta de cordura –no de los seres humanos sino de la realidad–, la búsqueda imposible de un punto fijo, de algún indicio de permanencia, de algún sentido del que pueda deducirse todo lo demás, desde la injusticia hasta la trascendencia. Recortados sobre un fondo faulkneriano, tal vez saeriano, estos son los hilos que tejen los relatos aparentemente inconexos...
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Themes of fractured dreams, poignant memories, and loneliness unite the fourteen short stories in "Open Wounds, Secret Obsessions".In this debut collection, you'll meet a variety of eccentric characters including a young traveller who is duped by a charismatic thief in Rome, a woman who obsessively attends strangers' weddings, a son who gets to really know his father only after he has died, and a woman whose mother's puzzling disappearance has tainted...
91) Hecatombes
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Hecatombes no es solo la historia de una mujer intoxicada de realidad, es sobre todo una sucesión de vidas en la que cualquiera podría reconocer la suya. Una mujer aprende desde el horror que le está negada la posibilidad de ser madre, un juego de poderes desata el crimen pasional que impulsa la carrera de un inexperto periodista, un incidente cotidiano revela realidades insospechadas entre vecinos, la desesperación por conseguir un premio lleva...
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Un hombre llamado Marcelo Cohen, nativo de Onzena –una de las tantas islas que conforman el Delta Panorámico–, decide compartir con los lectores algunas de las películas que más lo han impactado. Lo hace por amor al cine, por supuesto, esa "escuela práctica de la vida", pero también para darse el gusto de narrar por narrar.
Y es tal su don que puede contar cualquier historia que se proponga, como el descubrimiento de la pasión por una parejita...
93) Polderbeest
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Holland's windmills were once vital to protect the lowlands from flooding and from something else... something that lived in the polder, the lands protected by Holland's dikes. Fifteen years ago, Arjan van den Berg uncovered the polderbeest just before it awakened. As the storms raged and the windmills struggled to drain the polder, the polderbeest awakened and raged. Moving beneath the waters, it struck again and again. Its fury cost Arjan dearly,...
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The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, in the United States, and in the emigration in-between. Love, marriage, infidelity, disillusionment, intimacy and the lack of it, rootlessness are subjects that move from an improbable reality...
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Heather Browne's short fiction collection questions our ways of knowing. Each story's protagonist finds affinity in unexpected places: a moose in a kitchen helps old friends communicate; a skull saves a child from drowning. Browne's stories risk the intervention of the uncanny, and immersion in the elements. "…seductive, slippery, and sometimes a little shifty-eyed" – Diane Schoemperlen, author of This is Not My Life
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This book begins with "We're in Trouble," a suite of three stories that introduces its common theme: love darkening and persevering as it is tried by the cold fact of death. And in the vivid stories that follow, as Coake's unforgettable characters experience love staring at the face of death, it elicits either the best or the worst in them. From a wife waiting for news of her husband's latest death-defying climb to a sheriff thrown into turmoil after...
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After the Plains queered him, Dave Madden decided to return the favor. This outstanding collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind of difference-one not set in the glittering lights of New York or Los Angeles, but in the grand and wide American Midwest. For Madden's characters, their queerness is part of the environment, like the soil, the sky, and the supermarket: an HIV-positive chemist uses football to connect with his brothers,...
98) Love Breaks
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Take a break for romance with these 10 short stories...Midnight Sentry ~ Someone is stalking her and will go to any lengths to get her attention-even kill. Is the new man in her life-her midnight sentry-a murderer?Blue Christmas ~ His job is to protect her. But can she protect him from another blue Christmas?Christmas Sham ~ Reluctantly, she agrees to pose as her sexy, curmudgeony boss's date at Christmas. She soon learns that, sometimes, things…and...
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Sometimes there is no escaping the past. Hannah Jones is a relatively happy woman doing a job she loves, counseling high school students, owning her own place and working with her best friend. She seems to have everything she ever wanted. The only problem is she still wants the one who got away. Adam Cooper. The love of Hannah's life and the man who broke her heart. She hasn't heard from him in fifteen years and suddenly there he is asking her to...
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A parade of people in need of solace find a mysterious sympathizer, in this uniquely moving classic by a New York Times–bestselling author.
They come day and night to confess their troubles to an anonymous listener positioned behind a curtain. Could it be a priest, a psychiatrist, a friend, or a judge? Each person draws a different conclusion. From a businessman who feels betrayed by someone he trusted, to a society woman with contempt for her...
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