Showing results for "Shot" in Anthologies & Short Stories

In this gripping prequel to the blockbuster best seller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, listeners will discover exactly how Amber Patterson transformed from small-town girl to master manipulator - after all, practice makes perfect.

TO THE PUBLIC, "THE SHOT" IS A TRIUMPH. TO GUY MANTOOTH, IT'S EVIDENCE. Thirty years ago, wildlife photographer Guy Mantooth took a photograph that changed everything. The image captured a bird previously believed extinct—the last known member of its species. It became iconic. Exhibited around the world. Reproduced in books, magazines, museums, documentaries, and calendars. Critics hailed it. Environmentalists embraced it. Guy called it a mistake.

Sussex, England, 1929. Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But things are about to liven up there, when young and handsome Sir Harry Mortimer returns home from his diplomatic posting in Cairo, with his beautiful and unconventional American wife, Kat. No sooner have the two arrived, when a jewel robbery occurs at Harry's aunt's home - Mydworth Manor. The police are baffled and overwhelmed with the case. But Harry and Kat have an edge in the hunt for the dangerous culprit.

There are two things I’ve always hated about December: Yuletide and Carols. Apparently, my besties are tired of my Scrooge-like behavior. Instead of commiserating with me at my annual nonChristmas, foreverSingle party, they’re forcing me to go on a luxury trip to the worst magical place on Earth—for two. I’ve never been girlfriend material. Too much work, not enough good feelings. Now I have ten dates, ten shots to find a plus one. The one caveat? My friends pick the dates—even ex-boyfriends are not off limits. 

The hallowed halls of Cahaba University have welcomed women of refinement and distinction since 1864. Nestled in a quaint small town in the Alabama hills. We are proud to be known for our academics, travel, lifelong friendship, and the proud traditions of our Greek societies. Here, young women discover who they were always meant to become. Within our storied sororities, students find sisterhood, legacy, and a family that will shape the rest of their lives.

Pushkin was one of the giants of 19th century Russian literature but, unlike Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, he was most famous for his short stories. The Shot, one of his most anthologized, tells the story of a terrible revenge.

Ambientado en la Rusia del siglo XIX, este relato teje un emocionante drama entre dos tiradores de inigualable destreza, cuyas vidas y reputaciones penden de un hilo con cada disparo. A medida que el pasado y el presente colisionan, se revelan oscuros secretos y decisiones que han cambiado destinos. Este cuento, lleno de tensión y misterio, cuestiona la verdadera esencia del valor y los demonios que todos guardamos en nuestro interior.

Tonia Brown brings you three unusual vampire tales: Getting Lucky, Sunshine, and Sweet Tooth.

Tonia Brown shoots for the weirder side of horror with this collection of strange tales.

Tonia Brown brings you nine short, short stories to shock and terrify!

Tonia Brown brings you another triple shot of horror, this time with a southern bent. A sheriff of a small town tries to keep the secret of a local bootlegger, but at what cost? A small town sin eater takes on more than he can handle, leaving him sick to the core. While on the run from zombies, Mary stumbles across an old farmhouse. But of course, nothing is as it seems in a post zombie apocalypse world.

Marine Veteran Jerry McNeal was born with a psychic ability that allows him to know when something will happen before it happens. Jerry can also see and speak with spirits, making for some “lively” conversations. The series starts when, one fateful night, while on patrol as a Pennsylvania State Trooper, Jerry finds himself aided by the ghost of a K-9 police officer. Without the dog’s help, a woman would have died. With each book that follows, their unique partnership grows as they navigate their next adventure.

The colorful cast of characters in The End of the Road, Alaska. congregate around the coffeepot at the Big Garage to share wit and wisdom...

This erotic collection features sexy milfs and potent, virile, virgin men who can’t hold back. Luckily, they’re horny enough to have multiple releases and impeccable stamina. The cougars in these stories are going to get satisfied one way or another.

MILFs extract multiple loads from their horny, virgin, younger counterparts, taking hot seed inside, outside, and everywhere in between from virulent men who have plenty to give! Features anal sex and breeding.

His Curvy Shot Girl - Your steamy, instalove, high-heat romance featuring love at first sight between a sexy, muscular bar owner and a sassy, curvy shot girl who live happily ever after!

Seductive MILFs extract multiple loads from their horny, younger male counterparts, taking hot seed inside, outside, and everywhere in between from virulent men who have plenty to give in this age gap, breeding, adult sex, short story, erotica bundle!

In the near future, a nameless video game console allows players to literally control the game with their movements without hindering their real life bodies. A new set of games spawn from this new and oddly cheap technology. A trio of long time friends run into an old friend in preparation for a tournament in the new Virtual Reality game, Kugel Online. With the commencement of the tournament, the trio quickly learn that there is more to their old friend and the game, than what was once let on.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, and John D. MacDonald all got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by the magazine.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 – 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. He was notoriously sensitive about his own personal honour and is believed to have fought as many as twenty-nine duels... the last of which proved fatal for him.A duel is the crux of his masterful short story "The Pistol-Shot" - but it is a duel with a difference.