Showing results for "Invisible" in Short Stories

This is a story from the The Innocence of Father Brown collection. Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but certainly not innocent priest!

Self-determined 15-year-old Becky lives a cozy, idyllic life with her grandma in a small northern town. Inspired by the numerous crime films she's watched on television, she's convinced that she could carry out a successful robbery and get away with it.

Some gifts can't be put down. Some gifts won't let you. Calla has been a remote viewer for as long as she can remember. She has built a quiet life on the edge of a Washington state park — an ordered house, a careful routine, a single unbreakable rule: no active cases involving children. She learned that rule the hard way. She intends to keep it. Then seven-year-old Iris Vance disappears into the woods sixty feet from her back fence, and the sheriff calls.

"The Invisible Man" is a detective story written by G. K. Chesterton which concerns the nature of the crimes committed by one James Welkin, who had been harassing Laura Hope and menacing his romantic rival, Isidore Smythe (whom he would later murder), all without ever being seen.

What if the greatest scientific breakthroughs were not miracles… but curses? In this haunting 2-in-1 audiobook, two of H.G. Wells’ most visionary works unfold—stories that question not what science can do, but what it should never do. In "The Invisible Man", a gifted scientist discovers how to erase himself from sight. Invisible, untouchable, freed from consequence, he begins to shed more than his physical form. As isolation deepens, something colder emerges—a quiet unraveling of conscience.

Funny, moving, tender, infused with wit and emotional intelligence, this is a collection of bittersweet tales of those seemingly inconsequential events which profoundly affect our lives. A journey to the heart of human experience, these stories are exquisitely imagined reflections of life tangled in a web of circumstance.

En este libro Couto mantiene su visión poética y casi mítica, creando mundos con dosis exactas de ironía y humor, para poner un ojo crítico en la historia de Mozambique. Su literatura interroga suavemente a las sociedades poscoloniales y pone a dialogar tanto a sus diferentes habitantes como a sus memorias. Se trata de una literatura certera y mágica a la vez. Así, con ternura, estos cuentos develan la complejidad y diversidad de la sociedad contemporánea.

Moon Castillo has hidden her impossible gift for thirty years. She sees what used to be, layered over what is — ancient waterways, vanished forests, people who walked this land centuries ago. She's told no one. She's built a careful, logical life to keep it buried. But when a failing dam, missing records, and a seventy-year-old cover-up threaten her town, the visions she's spent a lifetime denying become the only path to the truth.

En estas tres luminosas novelas cortas, los niños navegan cambios profundos que reconfiguran sus familias y su comprensión del mundo. Un joven encuentra significado a través del fútbol mientras la enfermedad y muerte de su madre transforma los ritmos familiares. En Bogotá, una niña descubre que la máquina de coser de su madre puede hablar, revelando magia protectora tejida en sus ropas mientras planean una arriesgada huida.

Si el terror irrumpió en la literatura del siglo XVIII para contraponer la potencia latente de lo inexplicable por sobre la fe racionalista de la Ilustración, estas tres nouvelles de Diego Muzzio encuentran el momento preciso en que esas fuerzas colisionan en la historia local: el brote de...

First published in the English literary anthology annual The Keepsake in 1833 by Mary Shelly, master of Gothic fiction, The Invisible Girl is a story about the turbulence of secret love. Like much of her work, Shelly blends the dark and the supernatural with elements of romance and intimacy and unravels this story within a story with aplomb, and the setting of rural Wales in the early 19th century lends to the foreboding and bittersweet tone of the tale.

"The Invisible Man" is a detective story written by G. K. Chesterton which concerns the nature of the crimes committed by one James Welkin, who had been harassing Laura Hope and menacing his romantic rival, Isidore Smythe (whom he would later murder), all without ever being seen.

Mary Shelley had an abiding interest in the mysterious and the supernatural. In this atmospheric tale, she describes the nocturnal wanderings of an enigmatic figure in the woods, and the expectations and conclusions those who have witnessed its activities.

There's no question it was murder. But who killed whom? What begins as a typical corporate event for magician Eli Marks turns into a twisted mystery when he is called to the site of a recent murder/suicide.

For three years, Alice has been waking up in strangers' bodies. Not in dreams. Actually inhabiting someone else—feeling what they feel, seeing through their eyes, living their crisis. Sometimes while they sleep. Often while they're wide awake, going about their day, with no idea she's there.

George has always hated dirt, but somehow now into his retirement it feels like all he does is work with it. His days seem to fall into a pattern of working his garden to bring in its fruits and vegetables and make his wife happy. Today, though, is different and something else is brought in from the garden.