Showing results for "Touch" in Short Stories

Carter's obsession with Karen has drawn the notice of his pack. One night with her just wasn't enough for the regional Alpha, and now there are whispers of scandal at Sky High Ranch. Luckily, his beta is looking out for him. That won't be enough, though, when the council comes to lay an ultimatum before him. Carter is faced with a difficult choice, and neither one leads to being with the woman he loves.

Carter has made the ultimate decision, to take Karen as his alpha mate. The council of regional alphas is not pleased. In fact, they're out for blood, determined to execute both Carter and Karen for their crimes against lycan society. When the couple flee the country looking for protection, they're introduced to a life far removed from what they were used to. Adapting is difficult, and protection isn't guaranteed.

For as long as she can remember, beautiful Laurel deCourtney has loved Matthew Hughes and has always assumed the handsome landowner and consummate gentleman loves her in turn. But with her coming out now three years behind her, Laurel is starting to get a little anxious. Why hasn't Matthew proposed? What is he waiting for?

In the collection’s first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades, while in the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped, and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in “Thank You No Thank You” a young woman who grew up in a cloistered religious community and escaped to a liberal law school grapples with the rules she learned in childhood, the rules of her new life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend.

Tiggy Tiggy Touch Wood is a collection of ten original short stories by professional storyteller and author Madelyn Rohrer. While some are true (shared with appropriate permissions of those involved) and others are products of pure imagination, they are some of her favorites. Included are two true stories of WWII, insights into the author's family, Celtic tales (including the title story of the ancient game of Tiggy Tiggy Touch Wood), spiritual stories, and some that may elicit laughter.

A follow-up to his 1970 science fiction collection, The General Zapped an Angel, Fast’s book of 13 new science fiction stories is brisk and engrossing. In "The Hoop", a scientist builds a portal to an unknown destination, which the mayor of New York City hijacks to use as a garbage dump until the location’s surprising, and hilarious, revelation. And in "The Egg", set 3,000 years in the future, a research team discovers an egg, something they have never seen before, cryogenically frozen in a nuclear bunker. These 13 stories are bizarre, hilarious, poignant, and sure to entertain.

For Rem and Lem, thieving is an art form and the city of Perry is an ever expanding canvas for the twins to practice their artistic nature. The life of a thief is anything but dull in the epidemic-afflicted Perry. That strikes doubly true for the Pestelson twins. After burgling the wrong house, Rem and Lem are offered a position in the famed Touch organization.

Bianca St. Pierre has a problem. She's afraid of commitment. She's been trying to find her knight in shining armor. Instead, she winds up with a stalker. Bryson Thatcher just might be the solution. He's wanted Bianca since the moment that he saw her and now is finally his chance to get close to her and show her that they're meant to be together.

Adeline Monroe is ready for more. Her life has been on pause but not anymore. She wants to experience things. She wants a new routine. She wants to find her happily ever after. Lincoln Hook is ready for love. One look at Adeline and he’s hooked. He craves her spirit, enthusiasm, and love. Now he just needs to convince Adeline that they’re meant to be.

Newly widowed business woman, Elizabeth Carson, is trying her best to keep her busy life moving forward even though the shock of losing her husband is making it difficult. She knows that her daughter needs her, but this too is a reminder of what she’s lost. It had always been her husband who’d been the one to lend emotional support to their now young adult daughter - a fact that both annoyed Elizabeth and made her feel envious. Always one to be in control, she knows that she’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown, which is the last thing she needs in her life.

Short story: A super-powered thief gets caught in the power struggle between superheroes and supervillians as one of the city's biggest baddies is brought down. Originally appeared in The Gruff Variations, edited by Eric James Stone, a charity anthology featuring retellings of the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.

This is the first of many collections of my short stories. Some are sweet, some are scandalous. If horror or hermaphrodites send you running, this is not the book for you. If you like romance, sex, intersex, and scandal, then you are in the right place. Your plane flight will go much smoother. If you like tame stories with no sex or hand holding, I also have a murder mystery series about Marvin the Magnificent Squirrel.

“Entra a casa y cierra la reja. Deja al mundo tras de sí. Dentro, una televisión encendida, los trastes sucios, el alpiste servido”. Al estilo de las fábulas de Esopo, los nueve cuentos que integran el libro "Donde el río se toca" de la escritora mexicana Rose Mary Salum, nos llevan a lugares que es difícil visitar.

Eine Frau und ihr Mann finden das wahre Glück ihres Lebens unter dem himmlischen Schalom Mantel, der ihre kleine Welt für immer verwandeln wird. Lass Dich mit unter diesen Schutzmantel einladen.

Ein einfaches Mädchen erlebt durch die Liebe des großen Königs das größte Geschenk, das man ihr auf Erden machen kann. Der König schenkt nicht nur etwas von seinem Reichtum; er schenkt sich selbst!

Wir dürfen mit dabei sein, wie der Allmächtige und Schöpfer des gesamten Seins das kleine blaue Wunder auf die Erde sendet. Dabei können selbst Engel ins Staunen geraten.

Man kann tatsächlich ein Geschenk vergessen. Aber die Liebe kommt nie zu spät. Sie erreicht auch auf Umwegen ihr Ziel.

Wer mit dem ewig-alten Weisen das Spielen lernt, der entdeckt die Welt mit neuen Augen. Nicht festhalten wollen, sondern wieder los-lassen ist dabei die wichtige Spielregel.

Ein geheimnisvoller Geschichtenerzähler berührt die Herzen vieler Menschen auf wundersame Weise. Erfahre mehr darüber, wie seine Geschichten das Leben von so vielen heilt und verändert. Wohlmöglich können sie auch Dein Leben revolutionieren.

Lausche dem Konzert der Himmelswesen. Die Schönheit ihrer Harmonie berührt nicht nur das Herz des Schöpfers , sondern wird auch Dein Herz verändern.