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Jack and Maggie Harris are adrift on ravaged streets during the London Blitz. Their home is gone. They have nowhere to go and nothing left to lose. With only the memories of their greatest loss - the death of their child during a Christmas years before - Jack and Maggie settle in a seemingly deserted mansion for the night.

Tyler, Channing, and Sammy Clauster have descended on their childhood home, with significant others and four-year-old twins in tow, for another good old-fashioned Christmas. Overwhelming holiday magic, as always, comes courtesy of their mom, Claire. They know she’s thrilled to cook, wrap gifts, decorate, accommodate, play games, overprepare every Christmas Eve Eve Eve tradition, and still let Dad be known as the Fun One. It’s her thing, right? Maybe the family should have paid closer attention. Because this year, something is a little off-key—and it’s not just the carols.

From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories. Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son's best friend. A cul-de-sac WhatsApp group discusses eggs at length. A heavily pregnant woman finds a way to time travel and a girl discovers joy on a stolen bicycle. Each tale paints a life in miniature and offers an escape chute from the catastrophes of modern life.

Esta obra es una profunda exploración del alma humana y sus conflictos eternos. A través de una narración conmovedora, Tólstoi nos lleva en un viaje por las pasiones, miedos y esperanzas que definen nuestra existencia. Enfrentando dilemas morales y espirituales, los personajes de esta obra buscan respuestas a la pregunta esencial: ¿Qué es lo que realmente da sentido y propósito a la vida?

This is the Tahoe Series Finale: a collection of 4 short stories about each featured couple in the series. The events take place after each story's respective Epilogue.

is a stunning fiction debut by one of the most promising new writers in Canada. The novella and stories in these pages startle and engage the reader with their humour, warmth and grace. The novella traces one week in the life of a young, unmarried Irish woman about to give birth. The heroine is a hip, independent woman who muses on memory, love, loss and inheritance in a clever, wry and moving way.

Tolstoy’s famous book consists of four stories and in each of which he makes the reader witness the journey within. In What Men Live By, he looks for the answers of the following three questions: What guides people? What is missing in people? What men live by? In The Coffee House of Surat, he listens the conversations of men of all nations and religions, trying to comprehend God and the universe. In How Much Land Does A Man Need, he paints a quite clear picture of how far greed and gluttony can reach. In The Three Questions, he shows us the real value of the moment we are in.

Twelve make-believe spoof comedy documentaries charting the lives of celebrated fictional characters ‘Gorgeously silly’ The Independent Have you ever wondered what became of the protagonists from your favourite childhood stories? Well, wonder no more: in these hilarious mockumentaries, the...

Handsome gay collage hockey player defenseman Braden Kimmel is a shy guy, whose best friend gets him to post himself on the hook up site: WINK, where he meets a cute quirky young Sam Morgan an aspiring comedian. Sam knows other about the sport, but they end up enjoying playing with each other one night... but as they get intimate he finds Braden using hockey play terms at various intimate moments... which he thinks is hilarious. He uses this story in his new act. Braden loves to laugh and soon loves Sam too. He was only looking for a hook up but finds himself wanting more.

Shortly after the turn of the century, my wife, Terry, and I moved to the mountains of Colorado. Shortly after that, I wrote this humorous story about our lives and how my hero wife lived in spite of the debilitating illness of MCS - multiple chemical sensitivity. Terry lives with the severe face pain, the mind fog, the lack of energy. And she swears every time she's out for a walk and somebody is doing their laundry with some fragrant detergent - her biggest bane. Sometimes she falters and doesn't bear it well, but to me, she's always a hero. This is her story.

Cheating death, cheating time, looking for the easy way out. These things have consequences. Consequences that can be violent and painful.

Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and...

Un viajante, vendedor de lencería, espera ansioso al volante la reaparición del hijo huido y recibe la milagrosa ayuda de un héroe del rock. El misterio de la luz de un cuadro, La lechera de Vermeer, devuelve a un escritor al regazo de la madre. Un joven cuenta su historia de amor después de fallecer en un atraco frustrado. Un músico de saxo encuentra el don de la música en la mirada de una muchacha. Una amistad fraternal entre un escolar y un maestro anarquista, que nace de la mutua curiosidad por la vida de los animales, es destrozada por la brutalidad de 1936.

What If... – A Thrilling Blend of Horror, Humor, and Humanity A Riveting Collection of Stories from a Seasoned Entomologist Turned Storyteller What if the line between reality and imagination blurred? What if the eerie, the absurd, and the profound converged in unexpected ways? In What If..., accomplishedentomologist Joseph Mahar—a former Peace Corps volunteer and Integrated Pest Management expert—brings you a captivating collection of short stories inspired by real-life events.

What Christmas is as We Grow Older is a short Christmas story by Charles Dickens. Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire; and made the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

Enter the literary world of Frank Talaber, Canada's Foremost Off-Beat Author. A natural storyteller, whose compelling thoughts are freed from the depths of the heart and the subconscious before being poured onto the page.

Im Normalfall entsteht ein Buch im Kopf des Autors. Da ist plötzlich diese Idee... Sie führt zum Pitch, zum Plot, zur Geschichte. Aber was passiert, wenn die Initialzündung nicht vom Schreiber, sondern vom Leser kommt. Dieser Challenge hat sich Fanny Bechert gestellt. Ein Jahr lang durfte ihre Community jeden Monat Einfluss auf eine Kurzgeschichte nehmen und die Autorin aktiv herausfordern, an ihre kreative Grenze zu gehen. Das Ergebnis ist eine bunte Mischung romantischer, spannender und lustiger Geschichten, die nur selten so verlaufen, wie es sich die Community vorgestellt hat.

These historical fiction stories take the listener on a journey into the most tragic time in our history—the Civil War. Arranged along a rough timeline of the period, they cover a broad area of mood and events and range from a young man’s escape from an outlaw gang in Missouri to join a North Carolina regiment back home, to the discovery of Lee’s lost orders by a Union sergeant, to a boy too curious about war, to a young woman who has dressed like a man to join her brother in the war, to enemies who become friends over a fishing hole.

Im Normalfall entsteht ein Buch im Kopf des Autors. Da ist plötzlich diese Idee... Sie führt zum Pitch, zum Plot, zur Geschichte. Aber was passiert, wenn die Initialzündung nicht vom Schreiber, sondern vom Leser kommt? Dieser Challenge hat sich Fanny Bechert gestellt. Ein Jahr lang durfte ihre Community jeden Monat Einfluss auf eine Kurzgeschichte nehmen und die Autorin aktiv herausfordern, an ihre kreative Grenze zu gehen. Das Ergebnis ist eine bunte Mischung romantischer, spannender und lustiger Geschichten, die nur selten so verlaufen, wie es sich die Community vorgestellt hat.

More craziness, oddball stories from the muse inspired pencil of Canada’s foremost off the wall author.