Showing results for "Shot" in 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 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.

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!

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.

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.

Kenny, a former sitcom star, is a veteran comedian whose career nosedives after a damaging video goes viral. In these 18 stories we also meet: a distraught husband who experiences heartbreak and salvation after a texting teenager changes his life; a man who returns to his hometown to find his first love stacking jars in Costco; a western sheriff who confronts a pedophile - and his own past; and a successful attorney who abandons his career to play the iPad guitar.

मुंबई की बरसात, आधी रात का वक्त, कहीं दूर बजते पुराने फ़िल्मी गीत और एक खतरनाक प्लान. एक ऐसा प्लान जिसे पूरा करने का...

A single mother rents a fundamentalist preacher's carriage house. A pop star contemplates suicide in the hotel where Janis Joplin died. A philandering ex-pat doctor gets hooked on morphine while reeling from his wife's death. And in the title story, a train engineer, after running over a young girl on his tracks, grapples with the pervasive question: what propels a life toward such a disastrous end?

"Cold Boiler Blues": When the miners of Ironstation go on strike, Otto Von Maxwell must provide wives for his all male staff or stoop to the low act of purchasing the coal he needs to keep his boilers hot and his science hotter. "Calliope": The arrival of a traveling exterminator and his miraculous musical contraption brings joy to a vermin ridden town, until it comes time to give the piper his due. "Excellent Service": Harold has fallen in love with his clockwork maid. Unfortunately, the act that is not only frowned upon by polite society, it's against the law.

Enjoy a brief excursion into the warped mind of author, Will Patching, "hosted" by award-winning narrator, Gary Furlong.

Tonia Brown brings you three tales of terror from the wild outdoors. Poor Steven falls into a snake pit and tries not to panic. To his dismay, the situation gets weird when the snakes start calling him by name. Kids have gone missing all over a small town. But that won't stop this trio of boys from seeking some late night summer fun by sneaking into the local witch's garden. A backwoods roadkill connoisseur comes across an almost perfect deer carcass. She thinks she's getting a free meal, but will she become the dinner instead of the diner?

A collection of five short stories, now available in audio format.