Showing results for "We" in Contemporary Fiction

Should We Fall Behind is about the passing of time and the intricate weaves of joy and suffering, love.

Charming and heroic, there’s nothing about Gabriel Woodruff that Avery Burke doesn’t love. His warm brown eyes, his generosity, that small scar above his lip. The newspaper photo of him carrying her from a burning home only adds to the romance of it all. A fairytale beginning and a picture-perfect marriage practically guarantees Avery and Gabriel a ride into the sunset. But every relationship has flaws, and what they ignored while they were busy being flawless eventually surfaces. The unraveling begins with the smallest tug on the tiniest string.

"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.

Loulou Landers is about to turn 49 and she's feeling seriously overlooked. She hasn't had a relationship for 20 years, her 21-year-old daughter Theo is giving her the cold shoulder, and is that really a bunion making it so painful to walk, or is Christian Louboutin losing his touch? Theo can't see what her mum is so hung up about. It's only another birthday. And she has more important things to think about - mainly herself. For not only is Loulou permanently single, but so is Theo – despite her legendary good looks. But over the course of a summer, everything changes.

She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit.

When 19-year-old Davey finds himself drunk, beaten, and alone, he is rescued by the oddly assorted inhabitants of an abandoned and beautiful house in the West Country. Their only condition for letting him join them is that he asks them no questions. More than 30 years ago in that same house, burned-out rock star Jack Laker writes a ground-breaking comeback album, and abandons the girl who saved his life to embark on a doomed and passionate romance with a young actress. His attempt to escape his destructive lifestyle leads to deceit, debauchery, and even murder.

Grace, a family therapist, returns from a cruise to find that life has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Her daughter's graduate program goes virtual, and her grandson on the spectrum is home 24/7 with school by Zoom. Her best friend, Katrina, contracts the virus early on but isn't recovering. On top of that, Grace is called to facilitate a COVID grief group, whose members express rage and sadness at the senseless deaths of people they love.

Three siblings, reunited in their home town, are struggling to deal with the fallout of a car crash that almost killed their father. This, on top of everything else life is throwing at them. Josh is trying to save his marriage and hard-won TV career in the wake of a painfully public sexual...

दो डायरी; एक अज्ञात शराबी की, जो न सिर्फ भगवान के साथ मदिरा सेवन करता है अपितु भगवान के साथ समाज के हर पहलू पर बातचीत भी करता है। दूसरी डायरी ख़ुदकुशी कर चुके कृष्ण नामक व्यक्ति की है जो एक मुस्लिम लड़की से प्रेम करता था।

Czy prawdziwa miłość jest w stanie pokonać uprzedzenia? Wybaczyć ból i poniżenie? Przegonić duchy przeszłości? Klara i Wojtek przechodzą kryzys małżeński. Klara nie jest już niczego pewna, również tego, czy Wojtek jest mężczyzną jej życia - a może jest nim ktoś inny? Za sprawą ojca, uznanego malarza portrecisty, który nie okazywał zbyt wiele ciepła synowi, Wojtek wzrastał w przekonaniu, że okazywanie uczuć jest objawem słabości. Była jeszcze "ta kobieta" z przeszłości ojca, przez którą jego matka tak cierpiała.

George Worth is a grumpy lifestyle columnist. He hates fashion, mobile phones, computers and Young People. At night he goes home to a borrowed Labrador and feelings of guilt about his dead wife. Justin Smith is a Young Person. A bright newcomer, he’s always on his mobile to his girlfriend, surfing the Net and keeping abreast of the latest trends. Then comes the day when Justin’s girlfriend throws him out and he finds himself having to share a flat with George. As the women around them watch and wonder, both men start to work out what really matters among the distractions of modern life.

We all are mahi! This means, we are all loved by nature. We are nature's most beautiful creations. We are made to love and be loved. This is a story about individuals who came from different cities to Delhi in search of career and freedom. A story of friendship, love and loss. Despite the stress of earning a livelihood and paying day-to-day bills, the characters in this story manage to make a life for themselves. Their story is deeper and more intoxicating than the world's finest wine! So let's go on this roller coaster of emotions and experiences....

Rosie is not like other girls - in fact, she's not like other people. Each day she swells like a balloon, shrinking back to human size only after the sun has set. A funny and sentimental story, She Waxes While We Wane will give listeners new perspective on what it means to be different.

Aquesta és la història d'una transformació. De la relació entre dos germans, explicada a través de la mirada innocent i a estones malèvola del príncep destronat, i del seu odi a la germana que acaba de néixer. Un naixament qu el fa prendre consciència de tot el que l'envolta: la precarietat familiar, les indidelitats i les venjances que hi tenen lloc i la seva gradua desintegració. Una història colpidora però plena de moments tendres i esperançadors, narrada amb ambició i seguretat.