Showing results for "Glory" in Short Stories

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael...

He was the most beautiful man in Israel, but beauty is a fragile shield against the silence of a King. Absalom, the golden prince of Jerusalem, has everything: the adoration of the tribes, the lineage of a warrior-king, and a mane of hair so legendary it is weighed annually against the royal standard. But beneath the silver chariots and the public adoration, a cold fury is hardening. When his sister Tamar is brutalized and King David—the man after God's own heart—chooses the path of silence over justice, the bond between father and son is irrevocably severed.

Teri is sinking in a morass of pain. Her dream of being a jockey was brutally shattered by an accident that left her broken in every way. Tired of worrying her family, she seeks out the comforts of her childhood - horses and stables and a sweet, blond boy. But the boy is grown now and so is she. Will Teri be able to remove the armor that's been holding her together long enough to find solace in the arms of an old friend? The Turning Point is a short audio story that takes place after the events in the Blaze of Glory series.

His Share of Glory contains all the short science fiction written solely by C. M. Kornbluth. Many of the stories are SF "classics", such as "The Marching Morons", "The Little Black Bag", "Two Dooms", "The Mindworm", "Thirteen O'Clock", and, of course, "That Share of Glory". His Share of Glory includes all of Kornbluth's solo short science fiction, fifty-six works of short SF in all, with the original bibliographic details including pseudonymous by-line.

These historical fiction stories take the listener on a journey into the most tragic time in our history—the Civil War. Arranged along a rough timeline of the period, they cover a broad area of mood and events and range from a young man’s escape from an outlaw gang in Missouri to join a North Carolina regiment back home, to the discovery of Lee’s lost orders by a Union sergeant, to a boy too curious about war, to a young woman who has dressed like a man to join her brother in the war, to enemies who become friends over a fishing hole.

A short story that tells the story of a man who traveled to a Gulf country, only to have a tremendous and unexpected transformation happen to him, as if it were the second side of the life goat story.