Showing results for "Air" in Short Stories

This time Heaven means business!... Ricky has been secretly in love with his best friend Jez forever, but he's never dared confess his feelings because he thinks Jez is too high-class for him. One day, while sharing a quiet evening with Jez, a mysterious angel, Madred, appears and tries to persuade Ricky to take a chance on love.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A journalist in a rundown New York tenement meets a doctor suffering from a strange disease that makes him able to live only in low temperatures...

Pauline falls through the floor and no one notices. A chance encounter with a “goddamn mermaid” defines a boy’s life. Scarves flying in a storm turn a wealthy child into a high priestess whether she likes it or not. A mysterious rain messes with Virgil’s memories…Set in New York and Long Island, these brilliantly crafted stories spy on the most private of human pivots and culminations, on those moments of absolute clarity when we’re on the brink of letting go. Sometimes we do, and the wind takes us. Sometimes we hold tight. Or we take a deep breath and raise our flags.

From “a marvelous new voice” (Rebecca Makkai), these “extraordinarily imaginative” (Sigrid Nunez), “revelatory” (Nicole Krauss), “superb” (Kiran Desai) stories transcend borders as they render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. WINNER OF THE AJL JEWISH...

Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.

"A Pail of Air” by Fritz Leiber is a haunting and poetic science fiction short story set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic Earth where the sun has gone dark. Written in the early 1950s, this atmospheric tale follows a resilient family struggling to survive in a world turned to eternal night, where even breathable air must be collected by hand. Told through the eyes of a young boy, the story captures the stark beauty of isolation, the desperation of survival, and the enduring hope that flickers in humanity’s darkest hours.

Cool Air is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him.

From cooks and correspondents to clerks and comptrollers, DEROS Vietnam distills the essence of life for soldiers in the rear during the war, and later, back home in a divided America.

Ryan, an aspiring actor who recently moved to Los Angeles, gets his first acting gig in a horror movie-themed costume party at the mansion of a famous Hollywood producer in the exclusive neighborhood of Bel Air. The night he thinks could be his big break takes a surreal turn when the guests turn into the horrific characters that they are dressed as, and the movie plots begin to play out for real.

No hay en la cultura española moderna fenómeno de personalidad, creatividad, gracia, hondura y libertad, de genio en suma, como Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán. Fue, junto a Galdós y Clarín, una de las más importantes novelistas españolas del siglo XIX.

Dans On air, le nouvel épisode de Steamy, l’appréhension monte à mesure qu’elle sait qu’elle arrivera en retard pour son premier jour de travail. Elle transpire, rougit et prend finalement place dans une salle insonorisée de la Maison de la Radio. Seul son casque la relie au monde...