Download or read book Old Soldiers Old Bones and Other Stories written by Abigail Wyatt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages you will find 22 short stories crammed with characters from history, from myth and legend, and from next door. Abigail Wyatt's imagination will surprise and delight short story lovers everywhere. 'I guess that most people, if they are honest, will admit to having one nasty secret, some action or experience, either from their childhood or a long-ago, lost life, the recollection of which fills them with horror, guilt, or disgust; or, perhaps, makes them blush to the roots of their hair with stomach-churning, toe-curling embarrassment. It's natural to suppress such memories - and, in this, I'm no different to most guys - but sometimes it seems that there's something out there that won't let matters rest. At such times, you could almost swear there's this great universal finger that wag, wag, wags away from one side of the ether to the other and then pokes its nail-bitten end deep in someone's private pie...' From Audi Alterem Partem

Download or read book Looking Back written by Taner Murat and published by Nazar Look. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Stories of Our Time Tantra Bensko - california, usa White Arms Papa's Song Mama Carly Berg - texas, usa Bringing Back Beulah Fat Pat The Last Supper Shattered Risen The Horse Head Earrings Turquoise Dreams Ute Carson - texas, usa The Old Should Be Explorers Tony Concannon - massachusetts, usa The Book Rudy Ch. Garcia - colorado, usa Class Epiphany Margaret Karmazin - pennsylvania, usa He'll Do James D. Reed - ohio, usa Just One More Thing (To Go Wrong) W. Jack Savage - california, usa Veterans at the Post Office Tom Sheehan - massachusetts, usa Lover, not Yet Lover The Storekeeper The Rig Runner Bhadauria Manish Singh - gujarat, india The Lunatic Hollis Whitlock - british columbia, canada The Search for Eternal Life Samuel K. Wilkes - alabama, usa Leaving the Nest Abigail Wyatt - england, uk The Long March Home Al Claro de Luna

Download or read book In Dark and Narrow Spaces written by Danielle Blasko and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second anthology of poems inspired by the 30 Day Poetry Challenge.

Download or read book Hysteria 1 written by Linda Parkinson-Hardman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of stories and poetry from winners of the Hysteria 2012 writing competition.

Download or read book People of Few Words Volume 4 written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of Few Words - Volume 4 is the fourth collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.

Download or read book The Wait written by George Sandifer-Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fall of Troy to the Martian sands, and from microwaves to mammograms, The Wait is a collection of one hundred poems covering a swelling gyre of human, and sometimes less human, experiences, from previously unpublished poets to established veterans of the literary world. The profits from the sales of this independently published volume will go entirely to Cancer Research.

Download or read book Three Million Stories written by The OMSCWP and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the third instalment, book three on the journey to a million stories, but of course it is about more than just the numbers. It is about the creative spirit that has given us the drive to write, the energy to express what we think, feel or desire. This year has been a year of innovation and new ideas at millionstories.net. The 52 Shorts Challenge invited writers to respond to weekly writing prompts. As an experiment it helped some authors achieve some incredible results, with fantastic leaps of the imagination combined with terrific industry. It was devised as a way to coach writers into a regular writing habit over the course of a year. Some of these stories are right here in this collection. Within these pages you will discover commentary on the London riots, the monsoon, living with HIV, celebrity, the perils of invisibility, environmental vandalism, ghosts, monsters and a nice cup of tea.

Download or read book The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories written by Ayse Papatya Bucak and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection “As profound as it is lyrical. The stories are music.” —Marcela Davison Avilés, NPR In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount gas explosions and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating, and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of memory with humor and myth, performance and authenticity.

Download or read book The Praetor and Other Stories written by Aurel Stancu and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty-two stories in this new collection reflect the differences between man's real self and the various masks he has to wear in a Romanian society that vacillates between nostalgia for its communist past and restrained optimism about its capitalist future. The characters, who are taken from all walks of life, face constant political intrigues, moral dilemmas, and/or family crises. They must find a way to fit their own life stories, however insignificant, within the often ruthless history of their native land. Written in a journalistic style, and based very loosely on incidents that the author encountered while working for a local newspaper, these stories are filled with unexpected twists and turns, pathos, and small glimpses of average and extraordinary people coping with real-life crises. Gripping tales from Eastern Europe!

Download or read book Iv n Ilyitch and Other Stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Deserter and Other Stories A Book of Two Wars written by Harold Frederic and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars" by Harold Frederic. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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Download or read book The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories written by Gerald Kersh and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father... 'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary Supplement (1944)

Download or read book Old Pines and Other Stories written by James Boyd and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyd's short stories. These stories are as particularly southern as their subject, the small southern community. They emphasize dialogue rather than description and illustrate the economy of the skilled writer who discards false ornaments of style. Originally published in 1952. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Download or read book The Devil and Other Stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm', 'Lucerne', 'The Diary of a Madman', and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. 'Strider' and 'Father Sergy', as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century, from the nobility to the peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Download or read book Numbering All the Bones written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is at an end, but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, it is no time to rejoice. Her younger brother Zeke was sold away, her older brother Neddy joined the Northern war effort, and her master will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter

Download or read book Daughter of Man written by Jacob Steven Mohr and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Joshua Foley might be a disgrace to the royal army and a drunkard to boot, but he knew Diamanda the Berserker, a complicated woman nearly reduced to myth and rumor by even the most seasoned taletellers of Delthain. She was a warrior, a bloodthirsty killer, a monster in the eyes of men—and perhaps the only thing standing between humankind and the true monsters at our door. He was her friend, her lover, her last companion—and when she could no longer speak for herself, he became her voice in our world. Through a startling interview with an eager young student, Captain Foley relates the full story of his encounters with the Daughter of Man, even as the cosmic secret concealed within his narrative threatens to destroy him…