Showing results for "Salt" in Anthologies & Short Stories

By day, Mark Wojcik can be found elbow-deep in engine grease, making cars and trucks safe for the highway. By night, he can be found traipsing through the wilds of Pennsylvania, making the world safe for humans. He's more than just a mechanic, he's a New Templar Knight. He travels the backroads and byways fighting weresquonks, ningen, selkies, ghosts, and . . . gnomes? Is that gnome . . . naked? (Sigh.) Season One collects the first four novellas in the Spells, Salt, & Steel series: Spells, Salt, & Steel; Open Season; Deep Trouble; and Close Encounters.

Bruce Pascoe has been described as a ‘living national treasure’ and his work as ‘revelatory’. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, ranges across his long career, and explores his enduring fascination with Australia’s landscape, culture, land management and history. Featuring new and previously unpublished fiction alongside his most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction - including extracts from his modern classic Dark Emu - this collection is perfect for Pascoe fans and new listeners alike.

Salt Water Tears delivers 11 stories from Bram Stoker Award winning author Brian A. Hopkins. These stories share a common theme, the oceans that cover seven-tenths of our world, but each is as unique and emotionally-charged as you've come to expect from this talented, seasoned, if not-heard-from-often-enough author. Submerge yourself in the worlds of this gifted storyteller, and you'll not want to come up for air.

What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags, and personal spacecraft? They're among the multiple venues where award-winning writer Tania Hershman sets her unique tales in this spellbinding debut collection. This audiobook, adbridged from the original collection, is read by the author, Tania Hershman.

Sal Hutton books a trip to Cancún on a whim. Needing some time off from work, he sees an opportunity to go and takes it—alone. After a red-eye flight and full of excitement for what he might experience over the next week, he strikes up a conversation with the handsome taxi driver who gives him a ride to his hotel, and hopes their paths cross again.

"Why the Sea Is Salt" is a fairy tale narrative that explains in fictional form how the sea came to be salty. It all started with a poor farmer with information he did not share. A moral tale for all ages.

While not being not particularly scary by the standards of today many of the ghost stories of the Victorian Era are very entertaining, and represent escapist literature of the highest quality. In To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt, which first appeared in the 1865 Christmas Edition of All the Year Round, the master novelist presents a lively portrait of the spectre of a murder victim with a desire for vengeance.

This is a story from the Classic Ghost Stories collection.

Tamurot, Goddess of the Deep, has been growing in power. And at long last, her moment is at hand. Her meticulous plans now set in motion, she'll soon drown the whole of mankind in a tidal wave of vengeance. All she requires is one final sacrifice.

This is a story set in war-torn Okinawa - back in the final days of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The story is told from the point of view of a young Kamikaze pilot preparing to fly his fighter plane into the side of an American battleship. It is a story of guilt, loneliness, memory, and the taste of the sea. Oh, and there's a sea monster as well. I expect I ought to mention that...

In deze erotische novelle vertelt Liam hoe hij de meest begeerde escortboy van Stockholm werd en neemt hij de lezer mee terug naar een maagdelijke jongeman die net achttien is geworden en die heel intieme lessen krijgt van zijn lerares Frans. Vanessa Salt is een pseudoniem. Vanessa vindt inspiratie voor haar verhalen tijdens haar vele reizen, waar warme erotische locaties haar erotische fantasieën koesteren.

In haar luxe flat brengt Natasja een slapeloze nacht door waarin ze fantaseert over Christian en Dionysos, haar pianoleerlingen die twintig jaar jonger zijn dan zij. Niet alleen is ze hun lerares, ze is ook getrouwd en twee keer zo oud. De volgende dag, als blijkt dat de twee jongemannen dubbel geboekt zijn, besluit ze haar leerlingen voor te stellen quatre-mains te spelen... Zal haar fantasie werkelijkheid worden?

"Förbjudna platser" innehåller erotiska noveller om förbjuden lust och att inte kunna låta bli. Sexuella fantasier blir till verklighet på förbjudna platser till exempel på flygplanet och på pendeltåget.

"In unserem Mittelgang liegt eine Flugbegleiterin auf dem Rücken. Ihre Brüste werden von dem halb aufgerissenen Hemd bedeckt, sie sind so prall, als würden sie jeden Moment bersten. Ihre Beine sind gespreizt. Vier Männer lecken sie. Gleichzeitig. Nasse, hungrige Zungen nehmen ihren Unterleib in Besitz und schlürfen um die Wette. Es ist tierisch und leidenschaftlich. Die Männer reiben sich am Boden, fassen sich und sie an. Einer hat seine Finger tief in ihrem Anus, ein anderer drückt ihren Schenkel und ein dritter bohrt die Hände in ihre Schamhaare."