Download or read book Short Story Press Presents In The Scope written by Short Story Press and published by Short Story Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Story Press Presents In The Scope by Don Codner An assassin is at the top of his field and each of his kills are never the same. In this way, he never leaves a signature and that keeps the law two steps behind. It’s a life full of turmoil and continuous travel, but it’s the life he chose. • He gets a job that requires him to kill not only the mother and father, but also the heir apparent. The client wants this done, so there’ll be no one to step in and take what’s rightfully his. • The assassin has done this on many occasions and has no problem with it, until he finds his crosshairs on a one-year-old baby. • He can’t take this baby’s life, but he can’t leave him there either. So, he takes the little one into his home and raises him as his own. • The kid learns everything that the assassin knows and he tries desperately not to subject him to the life he leads. • One day the kid, now aged 18, finds a box that reveals who he really is and that his ‘Father’ is responsible for killing his parents. • He comes out to the public and takes the fortune that rightfully belongs to him. He can’t stop thinking about what the assassin took from him and sends out various characters to kill him. • He decides that he must take on his teacher on his own. Mr. Smith the Assassin has no choice but to play cat and mouse with his own son and takes the fight across the globe. The world has his face in their crosshairs and many would-be killers come out to collect the bounty on his head. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Download or read book Short Story Press Presents In The Scope written by Short Story Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assassin is at the top of his field and each of his kills are never the same. In this way, he never leaves a signature and that keeps the law two steps behind. It's a life full of turmoil and continuous travel, but it's the life he chose. - He gets a job that requires him to kill not only the mother and father, but also the heir apparent. The client wants this done, so there'll be no one to step in and take what's rightfully his. - The assassin has done this on many occasions and has no problem with it, until he finds his crosshairs on a one-year-old baby. - He can't take this baby's life, but he can't leave him there either. So, he takes the little one into his home and raises him as his own. - The kid learns everything that the assassin knows and he tries desperately not to subject him to the life he leads. - One day the kid, now aged 18, finds a box that reveals who he really is and that his 'Father' is responsible for killing his parents. - He comes out to the public and takes the fortune that rightfully belongs to him. He can't stop thinking about what the assassin took from him and sends out various characters to kill him. - He decides that he must take on his teacher on his own. Mr. Smith the Assassin has no choice but to play cat and mouse with his own son and takes the fight across the globe. The world has his face in their crosshairs and many would-be killers come out to collect the bounty on his head. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Download or read book The New Valley written by Josh Weil and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Great Glass Sea, three linked novellas set between the Virginias about men confronting love, loss, and personal demons. Set in the hardscrabble hill country between the Virginias, The New Valley contains characters striving to forge new lives in the absence of those they have loved. Told in three varied and distinct voices—a soft-spoken middle-aged beef farmer struggling to hold himself together after his dad’s death; a health-obsessed single father desperate to control his reckless, overweight daughter; and a developmentally delayed man who falls in love with a married woman intent on using him in a scheme that will wound them both—each story explores survival, isolation, and the deep, consuming ache for human connection. As the men battle against grief and solitude, their heartache leads them all to commit acts that will bring both ruin and salvation, in these tales “full of tenderness and looming menace” (The New York Times Book Review). “Stark and haunting . . . Delivers great beauty” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “[Weil’s] language is exquisite, his sentences glorious. . . . Refreshing and engaging.” —Ploughshares

Download or read book River Weather written by Cameron MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the D.C. city sprawl moved west along the banks of the Potomac in the late 1990s, what had once been a rural backwater was rapidly transformed into a dystopian suburbia of suspicion, greed, and naked self-interest. This collection examines the resulting blends of money, race, and class that have come to define the ongoing metamorphosis of Northern Virginia. In "Kalim Mansour," a boy trying to understand his father fixates on a mysterious Saudi car salesman. In "Rowdy," a man who was sexually assaulted by his high school football team still romanticizes their masculine code of behavior. In "A Non-Smoking House," two contractors battle the realtors who control their livelihood as the ties that bind civil behavior pull tight, and then snap. Each of MacKenzie's stories explores the incommensurable moments that lie at the heart of shared experience, the yawning gaps that separate us, and our desperate attempts to close them.Content warnings: suicide, derogatory epithets, sports rape, peer pressure, strong language, racism, xenophobia, social injustice, war trauma, disability, toxic masculinity

Download or read book Short Story Press Presents Mr Holystone s Demise written by Short Story Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions written by Yilmaz, Recep and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of the concept of narrative has undergone a significant transformation over time, particularly today as new communication technologies are developed and popularized. As new narrative genres are born and old ones undergo great change by the minute, a thorough understanding can shed light on which storytelling elements work best in what format. That deep understanding can then help build strong, satisfying stories. The Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions is an essential publication that examines the relationships between types of narratives in a shifting and widening scope of storytelling forms. While highlighting a wide range of topics including contemporary culture, advertising, and transmedia storytelling, this book is ideally designed for media professionals, content creators, advertisers, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, and students.

Download or read book A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories written by Jung Young-moon and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka. Adopting strange, warped, unstable characters and drawing heavily on the literature of the absurd, Jung's stories nonetheless do not wallow in darkness, despair, or negativity. Instead, we find a world in which the bizarre and terrifying are often put to comic use, even in direst of situations, and point toward a sort of redemption to be found precisely in the "weirdest" and most unsettling parts of life . . .

Download or read book Teachers of Children who are Partially Seeing written by Abul Hassan K. Sassani and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study Guide for Samuel Beckett s Endgame written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Download or read book Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Election written by Stephen J. Wayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 elections are over, but the debate over the fairness and accuracy of our electoral process has never been more contentious. Hacking, fake news, a 'rigged system,' voter ID challenges, Super PACs, and an Electoral College defying the popular vote count all lead to a common question and concern: Is this any way to run a democratic election? New to the Sixth Edition New data and timely illustrations from the 2016 elections. Social media (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter) and their impact. Fake news vs. more objective and traditional election news coverage. Election integrity in the face of hacking, rumoring, and instantaneous news. Money—the role of Super PACs and billionaire donors as well as candidates. Updates and refinements to pedagogical features including chapter introductions, end of chapter exercises, and online references in the suggested readings.

Download or read book My Son s Girlfriend written by Jung Mi Kyung and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical acclaim. With empathy and an overarching melancholy that is at times tinged with sarcasm but always deeply meaningful, Jung explores the ambition and chaos of urban life, the lives of the lost and damaged souls it creates, and the subtle shades of love found between them.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory written by Paul Dawson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lonesome You written by Park Wan-suh and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well before her death in 2011, Park Wan-Suh had established herself as a canonical figure in Korean literature. Her work—often based upon her own personal experiences, and showing keen insight into divisive social issues from the Korean partition to the position of women in Korean society—has touched readers for over forty years. In this collection, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore—at its best, accompanied by great beauty and compassion; at its worst by a cynicism that nonetheless turns a bitter smile upon the changing world.

Download or read book JACK LONDON Novels Short Stories Poems Plays Memoirs Essays Over 250 Titles in One Illustrated Edition written by Jack London and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 8228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences. Content: The Cruise of the Dazzler A Daughter of the Snows The Call of the Wild The Kempton-Wace Letters The Sea-Wolf The Game White Fang Before Adam The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Adventure The Scarlet Plague A Son of the Sun The Abysmal Brute The Valley of the Moon The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Star Rover The Little Lady of the Big House Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry Hearts of Three Son of the Wolf The God of His Fathers Children of the Frost The Faith of Men Tales of the Fish Patrol Moon-Face Love of Life Lost Face South Sea Tales When God Laughs The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii Smoke Bellew The Night Born The Strength of the Strong The Turtles of Tasman The Human Drift The Red One On the Makaloa Mat Dutch Courage Uncollected Stories The Road The Cruise of the Snark John Barleycorn The People of the Abyss Theft Daughters of the Rich The Acorn-Planter A Wicked Woman The Birth Mark The First Poet Scorn of Woman Revolution and Other Essays The War of the Classes What Socialism Is What Communities Lose by the Competitive System Through The Rapids on the Way to the Klondike From Dawson to the Sea Our Adventures in Tampico With Funston's Men The Joy of Small Boat Sailing Husky, Wolf Dog of the North The Impossibility of War...