Download or read book Cigarette Angel Other Stories written by Blake Pitcher and published by Blake Pitcher. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cigarette Angel includes three short stories by Blake Pitcher. Cold, as I am A loner in a strange city overthinks an innocuous question. Cigarette Angel Teacher said smoking kills, so Cindy hides her daddy's cigarettes everyday. When Daddy finally quits, Cindy realizes more people must be saved. Now she's known village-wide as the cigarette angel--until a big tobacco executive attempts to correct a sales anomaly. Ice Cream for Smitty When Smitty is terrorized by two young boys, a tiny thought inspires meaningful action.
Download or read book The Angel Tiger and Other Stories written by Barrie Sherwood and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the complex bonds between lovers are unravelled to the point of breaking, and the often strange and touching ways we define ourselves and our relationships in a fluctuating world.
Download or read book The Little Angel and Other Stories written by Leonid Andreyev and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable collection of short expressionist stories by Russian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who was considered to be the father of Expressionism in Russian literature. Traces of compassion, beauty, and sympathetic insight are encountered on every page side by side with barbarity and crudeness, the reason being that Andreyev portrays life without hiding, without neglecting any part of it. The Little Angel, and other stories (1916) was of one of his collections that were extensively translated into book form. The plots in these stories are straightforward, the characters are isolated, and the endings are harsh and profound in their sadness. Because of the cumulative descriptions of the strange and the dreadful, Andreyev has been called the Russian Edgar Allan Poe. During the 1914-1929 period, America was eager for anything similar to Edgar Allan Poe. As Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. This collection contains the following short stories: The Little Angel At the Roadside Station Snapper The Lie An Original Petka at the Bungalow Silence Laughter The Friend In the Basement The City The Marseillaise The Tocsin Bargamot and Garaska Stepping-stones The Spy
Download or read book Cigarettes written by Harry Mathews and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, horse racing, and sexual intrigues. Or, as one critic did, compare it to a Jane Austen creation, or to an Aldous Huxley novel—and be right and wrong on both counts. What one can emphatically say is that Cigarettes is a brilliant display of Harry Mathews's ingenuity and deadly playfulness.
Download or read book The Bell Ringer of Angel s and Other Stories written by Bret Harte and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Creeping Siamese and Other Stories written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether chasing hoodlums or solving impossible murders, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op is one of the toughest detectives in the history of crime fiction The Continental Op is going over his expense reports when a raw-boned man staggers through the door of his office, stretches out his arms, and dies. As the stranger falls to the floor, he utters a final word: Hell. It’s apt, because this man’s death will drag the Op right into the inferno. The contents of the man’s pockets are enough to send the Op off in search of his identity, his connection to San Francisco, and the treacherous underworld dealings of both the victim and his killers. The Continental Op made his name taking punches and dodging bullets, but unraveling “The Creeping Siamese” is the kind of mystery that will baffle even him. This story, along with “The Big Knock-Over” and “$106,000 Blood Money,” is a testament to the enduring genius of Dashiell Hammett.
Download or read book Fire from Heaven and Other Stories written by Philip Marshall and published by Philip Marshall. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Family Terrorist and Other Stories written by J. L. Torres and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the story ñA Natural Thing,î Eric and MonicaÍs lovemaking is interrupted by an odd sound. Eric has a sinking feeling that it has something to do with his grandfather. HeÍs mortified when he sees what has entered the room: A full-grown rooster, its wattles cut, the feathers trimmed except the wings; its legs plucked to pimpled skin, strutting and bobbing its head like it owned the place. Instantly, Eric realizes that Don Epifanio has converted the basement into a cock-fighting ring. When Don Epifanio offered to renovate the basement it seemed like a blessing, something to keep him busy. Why did he bring the old man to New York City from the island, Eric wonders. Now Don Epifanio complains about everything: the cold weather, the even colder disposition of gringos, the difficulty of finding guayabas and other tropical delicacies. What will the neighbors say when they hear and worse, smell the roosters? How can he bring business associates home? What will Monica think about his family? This is the Bronx, not Puerto Rico! In this stirring collection of eleven stories set in Latino communities in the northeast, J.L. Torres crafts deft reflections of Puerto Ricans living on the mainland. A son who follows his fatherÍs wish to be buried in his beloved isla but canÍt seem to meet his fatherÍs other wish to not be covered with the American flag, a right he has as a veteran of World War II and Korea. A Nuyorican visiting his aunt in Cayey is fascinated with a run-down shack where a mysterious woman lives, surrounded by conflicting stories about her life and loves. In the Bronx, Ralph and Lou are unnerved by a spooky sight: eight red kerchiefs tied equidistantly apart on a cyclone fence. TorresÍ characters reveal the circumstances that shape their lives in these thought-provoking stories that explore machismo, family relationships, love, and even santeria.
Download or read book Our Casualty and Other Stories written by George A. Birmingham and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George A. Birmingham" was one of the pen names used by James Owen Hannay, a lifelong Church of Ireland minister who also wrote novels and short stories. The tales collected in Our Casualty and Other Stories have a strong sense of place and are brimming with colorful Irish culture; many of the stories also have a military cast of characters.
Download or read book Mohammad Ali Taha s A Rose to Hafeeza s Eyes and Other Stories written by Muḥammad ʻAlī Ṭāhā and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mohammad Ali Taha is a well-known Palestinian writer residing in Galilee as an Israeli citizen. Despite his fame in the Arab world, his works are still unfamiliar to Western audiences. In this volume, translator Jamal Assadi has collected a selection of Taha's short stories, representing a variety of themes, styles, historical periods, contexts, settings, tones, languages, narrations, and characters, with the intent to help Taha enter what Edward Said calls "the large, many-windowed house of human culture as a whole." In his introduction, Assadi discusses the culture, traits, and manners of Taha's world, which provides the reader with a greater appreciation and understanding of the short stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Thornton s Apprentice and Other Stories written by and published by David H Fears. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teen Angel and Other Stories of Young Love written by Marianne Gingher and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto written by Abraham Cahan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto is a collection of short stories by Abraham Cahan. Contents: Imported Bridegroom, A Providential Match, A Sweat-Shop Romance, Circumstances and A Ghetto Wedding.
Download or read book The time machine The wonderful visit and other stories written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Sinners and Other Stories written by Karen Brown and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown’s Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit—and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters’ own: an expectant mother in an isolated cottage on Long Island Sound uncovers an unsettling secret in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by a teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious circumstances; a woman and her lover swim the pools of their neighborhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles with mortality and the abandonments in her past. These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise—a world where women’s roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the characters fashion, recklessly and passionately, their own methods of escape.
Download or read book The Little Angel and Other Stories written by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of separate stories, some longer than others by the celebrated Russian writer, Andreyev. The first story is about a boy, from a very dysfunctional family, whose behaviour has, as a result, become very bad. There is an air of melancholy in the story as it describes the boy and his mother and father and the freezing cold weather they endure.
Download or read book Two Mothers and Other Stories written by Khalid Mohamed and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2012 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of short stories are deeply personal in nature, all located in Mumbai- its folds and seams- which the writer has explored all his life. Familial bond or the lack of them, an intimate dekko at a media group's machinations, a close study of the Irani community which is fast vanishing in the metropolis, the underworld and the staggeringly bold new world of sexual relationships sparked by websites are just some of the narratives, with a twist in the tale. KHALID MOHAMED started as reviewer and co-editor, during his teenage years for close-up, a film society magazine. He reviewed television for The Economic Times basides contributing articles to The Illustrated Weekly of India and Femina. His writing has writing has also featured in India Today,The Indian Express, The Telegraph, the international film weekly Variety and in Sunday Observer, London. He was film critic for Mid-day, Senior Editor of DNA newspaper, and National Culture Editor and film critic for Hindustan Times. Currently, he is Consulting Editor to the Deccan Chronicle media group. He wrote the original stories and screenplays and also directed the films Fiza, Tehzeeb and Silsilaay . He debuted recently as a playwright and director of the stageplay Kennedy Bridge. His documentary The Last Irani Chai has been screened widely. His second documentary Smiles and Tears on Mumbai's street children is under post-production. Presently, he is writing his second stageplay and his first novel.
