Download or read book The Language of Cats and Other Stories written by Spencer Holst and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer Holst is a legendary underground storyteller. He writes his stories by telling and retelling them until they are phrase-perfect. Collector’s items, his handcrafted books always sell out before publication. Kirkus said reading the short stories in this book “is like sitting at the knee of a delightfully demented fairy-tale grandfather.” Holst’s short stories are endlessly entertaining and always surprising.
Download or read book Cat Person and Other Stories written by Kristen Roupenian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes the story “Cat Person”—now a major film* A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. “These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.” —Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award Finalist and author of Her Body and Other Parties “Kristen Roupenian isn’t just an uncannily great writer, she also knows things about the human psyche…The world has made a lot more sense since reading this book.” —Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author Previously published as You Know You Want This, “Cat Person” and Other Stories brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker. Spanning a range of genres and topics—from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural—these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable—or worse, understood—as if to say, “You want this, right? You know you want this.”
Download or read book Cat O Nine Tales written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat O'Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller and bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Archer's trademark of deliciously unexpected conclusions, some of these thirteen stories were inspired by the two years Jeffrey Archer spent in prison, including the story of a company chairman who tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg—with unexpected consequences. The Red King is a tale about a con man who discovers that an English Lord requires one more chess piece to complete a set that would be worth a fortune. In another tale of deception, The Commissioner, a Bombay con artist ends up in the morgue, after he uses the police chief as bait in his latest scam. The Perfect Murder reveals how a convict manages to remove an old enemy while he's locked up in jail, and then set up two prison officers as his alibi. In Charity Begins at Home, an accountant realizes he has achieved nothing in his life, and sets out to make a fortune before he retires. And then there is Archer's favorite, In the Eye of the Beholder, where a handsome star athlete falls in love with a three-hundred-pound woman...who happens to be the ninth richest woman in Italy. Jeffrey Archer is the only author to have topped international bestseller lists with his fiction, non-fiction, and his short stories. Cat O'Nine Tales is Archer at his best: witty, sad, surprising, and unforgettable.
Download or read book Cat Pictures Please written by Naomi Kritzer and published by Fairwood Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer Naomi Kritzer's marvelous tales of science fiction and fantasy are now collected in Cat Pictures and Other Stories. Here are seventeen short stories, including her Hugo Award-winning story "Cat Pictures Please," which is about what would happen if artificial intelligence was born out of our search engine history. Two stories are previously unpublished. Kritzer has a gift for telling stories both humorous and tender. Her stories are filled with wit and intelligence, and require thoughtful reading.
Download or read book The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven engaging, excellently translated tales of talking tea kettles, a monstrous goblin-spider, miniature warriors and other fanciful creatures. 21 original illustrations by Yuko Green.
Download or read book The Cat in the Hat written by Seuss and published by Collins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have fun with your favourite Dr. Seuss characters as you sing the silliest rhymes and piece together the five zany jigsaw puzzles in this book A fabulous gift pack featuring some of Dr. Seuss's most popular characters. Meet the crazy Cat in the Hat, the meanie Grinch and a host of others, then put together the jigsaws, which include The Cat in the Hat, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, How the Grinch Stole Christmas , Green Eggs and Ham and The Sneetches.
Download or read book Meow written by Jane Yolen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales about cats.
Download or read book The Peculiar Stories Behind Raining Cats and Dogs and Other Idioms written by Arnold Ringstad and published by . This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence.
Download or read book The Soul of a Cat and Other Stories written by Margaret Benson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by Margaret Benson, an English author and Egyptologist best known for her excavation of the Precinct of Mut. Despite her achievements in Egyptology, the current publication has no relation to her professional work - instead, it focuses on her admiration of cats through tales that she weaves; be it feral cats or house cats.
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Story Index 1969 1973 written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Story Index written by Estelle A. Fidell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Cat and Other Stories written by and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fantastic Worlds written by Eric S. Rabkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979-06-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.
Download or read book Jump and Other Stories written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
Download or read book The Fluffpocalypse and Other Stories written by Ian Madison Keller and published by Rainbow Dog Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of horror short stories by Ian Madison Keller centered around a very furry apocalypse. Read about a park ranger who needs to escape from intelligent forest creatures out for her blood, a house cat who must decide between revenge or helping her friends, a girl trying to remember who she is with the help of her ghost dog, a vampire who steals the wrong artifact and ends up in over her head, and a half-bat girl out to solve a series of brutal murders. Collection includes The Fluffpocalypse, Escape from the Wild, Survivors of the Holocene, So That They May Rule, Clary's Asylum, Romancing the Tombstone, and Poppy and the Great Expo.
Download or read book Purrieties of Language written by Edith Podhovnik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After conquering the Internet, cats are now taking on linguistics! Since the advent of social media, cats have become a topic central to online communication, and the multitude of cat-related accounts now online has made this a world-wide phenomenon. Through cat-inspired varieties of language, we have developed a genre of cat-inspired vocabulary. And on our special social media accounts for our cats, we take on their identities, as we post, write, talk, and chat - as our feline friends. This innovative book provides linguistic analyses of the cyber 'Cativerse', exploring online language variation, and explaining key linguistic concepts – all through the lens of cat-related communication. Each chapter explores a different sociolinguistic phenomena, drawing on fun and engaging examples including memes, hashtags, captions and 'LOLcats', from platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Innovative yet accessible, it is catnip for all 'hoomans' interested in how language is used online.
