Download or read book Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories written by John David Wells and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dark, edgy and riveting, the stories by John David Wells are white knuckles for the mind, capturing the incomprehensible depths of madness, cruelty and despair in modern society. Written from the gut these stories rise up from the same lyrical dark well as Bukowski, Shelby Jr.. and Burroughs." Robert T. Allen A narcissistic, confused college student is brutally raped and murdered; a "bony-headed psychopath" makes his two step-sons clear out rats in the basement; a traveling American finds horror in a Casablanca opium den; a young man is driven insane by the voice of English writer Daniel Defoe; three college students have a drug-fueled menage 'a trios in the back of a Range Rover with disastrous results, and a drummer in a rock band hallucinates the Apostle John from the Book of Revelation flashing out of an MTV video. Reading Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories is like having a veil lifted from your eyes, revealing a world more intense, terrifying, and imaginary than you ever knew. Traveling through the book, we meet a vivid unforgettable cast of characters driven to all sorts of depravitydrugs, sex, murder, madnessas they hurl ninety-miles-an hour down dangerous dead-end streets. Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories reveals in stark detail the omnipresence of the grotesque in everyday life. Mired in dystopia, these characters have lost their their fragile hold on sanity, entering a world where reality is up for grabs, bizarre, and repulsively ugly. Often they innocent victims torn between the heartless demands of society and the desire to maintain their sense of identity and freedom.
Download or read book Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories written by John David Wells and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “bony-headed psychopath” makes his two step-sons clear out rats in the basement; a traveling American finds horror in a Casablanca opium den; a young man is driven insane by the voice of English writer Daniel Defoe; a former black player in the Negro Leagues tells the awful truth about why he quit playing; a grieving family tries to understand why a loved one committed suicide; and a drummer in a rock band hallucinates the Apostle John from the Book of Revelation flashing out of an MTV video. Reading Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories is like having a veil lifted from your eyes, revealing a world more intense, terrifying, and imaginary than you ever thought possible. Traveling through the book we meet an unforgettable cast of characters driven to all sorts of depravity---drugs---sex---suicide---madness---as they hurl ninety miles an hour down dangerous dead-end streets. Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories reveals in stark detail the omnipresence of the grotesque in everyday life. Mired in dystopia, these people have lost their fragile hold on sanity, entering a world where reality is up for grabs, bizarre and brutally ugly. Often they are innocent victims torn between the heartless demands of society and the desire to maintain their sense of identity and freedom.
Download or read book Solitary written by Travis Thrasher and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Solitary Tales suspense series will remind you what it means to believe in what you cannot see.
Download or read book Solitary written by Albert Woodfox and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York Times Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived at all was a feat of extraordinary endurance. That he emerged whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit. While behind bars in his early twenties, Albert was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a fifty-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement. Without a shred of evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice. Decades passed before Albert was finally released in February 2016. Sustained by the solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Solitary is a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world.
Download or read book Suffolk Tales Other Stories Fairy Legends Poems Miscellaneous Articles written by Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant anthology features six of Fitzgerald's most popular stories: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," the title tale, "The Offshore Pirate," "The Ice Palace," "The Jelly-bean," and "May Day."
Download or read book Theorizing Animals written by Nik Taylor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on current trends in post-modernism and post-humanism this books offers a challenge to current ways of thinking, theorising and talking about animals and humanimal relations
Download or read book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven written by Sherman Alexie and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth. We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexie’s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all. The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals,the Chicago Tribune noted, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven . . . is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.” The collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie’s personal collection.
Download or read book A Star Above It and Other Stories written by Chad Oliver and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Star Above It and Other Stories is volume 1 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF, containing the following: Blood's a Rover The Land of Lost Content The Ant and the Eye Artifact Any More At Home Like You? Rewrite Man The Edge of Forever The Boy Next Door A Star Above It The Mother of Necessity Night Technical Advisor Between the Thunder and the Sun The One That Got Away Transfusion Guardian Spirit The Gift To Whom It May Concern A Stick for Harry Eddington Old Four-Eyes
Download or read book The Jumping Frog and Other Stories Sketches written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solitary Fire written by Eve Lestrange and published by Eve Lestrange. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solitary Fire continues to follow Christina Lafage along the left handed path to Vienna where wealthy nobleman, Paul Mrzak promises her and Madame Duchamp unimaginable riches and a string of affluent clients at his castle in Hungary. Paul's castle offers much intrigue and deception that feeds Christina's own suspicions about Paul's true motive behind his generous invitation. Christina's power continues to blossom and fascinate the nobles of Paul's court, who flock to her for all manners of occult services. But it is Paul's own request and the promise of a substantial fortune that lead Christina deeper into the black arts where strange visions and feelings of destiny haunt her dreams. Meanwhile, Paul's plan begins to unravel, bringing sinister secrets to light, however it is not only Paul harboring secrets as Christina confronts her master, Lucien, about her intensifying visions. Can the intimacy that she and Lucien have come to share prepare Christina for the whole shocking truth?
Download or read book The Call of the Wild White Fang and Other Stories written by Jack London and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-06-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories - 'Bâtard', 'Moon-Face', 'Brown Wolf', 'That Spot', and 'To Build a Fire'. 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 Book of the Lone Man written by Sam Trajan and published by House of Vidarr. This book was released on with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carad claimed the One Throne through treachery, blackmail and murder. What will he need to do to keep it? For seven years he has ruled the Brotherhood with a havy hand and a tight leash. Now enemies beset him on all sides, Citadel inhabitants are turning up murdered and all fingers point to Carad. Worse, he begins to suspect that one of the very few he trusts with his life might be conspiring to end it. With tensions running high, Carad needs to figure out who the traitor is before the "for life" aspect of his position becomes unfortunately literal. Meanwhile in Dealgan, an increasingly desperate Ardal walks a disappearingly thin line between the Glór-Hunters who want to annihilate his people and the Council, who claim to have his best interests at heart. When those 'best interests' include taking his niece hostage, he is forced to make a final choice between his duty, his family and his people.Time is running out.
Download or read book The Secret Sharers written by Bruce Bassoff and published by A M S Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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