Download or read book The Midnight Mannequins and Other Stories written by Michael Daly and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each of the twelve stories in Michael Daly’s collection, he attempts to cunningly expose our human frailties and foibles with hopefully an expert mixture of humour and sadness at many of life’s challenges. Retirement plans that don’t quite work out, a husband whose wife thought she really knew him well, a pet lover who has to ask an arch-enemy to help her bury her cat, people coping with illness and the lonely lady in London whose life is completely changed by telephoning a random phone number on a used banknote! These short stories may appear perfectly calm on the surface, but readers will quickly find themselves submerged in the murky underwater of real life.
Download or read book The Midnight Mannequins and Other Stories written by Michael Daly and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each of the twelve stories in Michael Daly's collection, he attempts to cunningly expose our human frailties and foibles with hopefully an expert mixture of humour and sadness at many of life's challenges. Retirement plans that don't quite work out, a husband whose wife thought she really knew him well, a pet lover who has to ask an arch-enemy to help her bury her cat, people coping with illness and the lonely lady in London whose life is completely changed by telephoning a random phone number on a used banknote! These short stories may appear perfectly calm on the surface, but readers will quickly find themselves submerged in the murky underwater of real life.
Download or read book Night of the Mannequins written by Stephen Graham Jones and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both? We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead. One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until it starts killing. Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He’ll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. He'll do whatever he needs to so he can save the day. That's the thing about heroes—sometimes you have to become a monster first. "Suffused with questions about the nature of change and friendship, “Night of the Mannequins” is a fairy tale of impermanence showcasing Graham Jones’s signature style of smart, irreverent horror." —The New York Times At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Book of Mychal written by Michael Daly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daly recounts the colorful, astonishing, and, at times, troubled life of the beloved New York Fire Department chaplain who had been among the first to be pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Download or read book The Mannequin written by Franco Fenucci and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: short stories
Download or read book 8 Minnesota Mall Mannequins written by Johnathan Rand and published by Audio Craft Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica, Rachel, and Josh are trapped in the Mall of America with mannequins who are coming to life.
Download or read book Mobius Blvd Stories from the Byway between Reality and Dream No 2 December 2023 written by Wayne Kyle Spitzer and published by Hobb's End Books. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a byway between reality and dream. A transit we call Möbius Blvd … Inspired by the enigmatic Möbius strip, a mathematical construct that defies conventional notions of linearity and infinity, Möbius Blvd has no beginning or end but exists in a place where reality and dream have fused … coalesced … merged. With each turn of the page, you'll encounter a unique blend of horror, fantasy, and science-fiction—fiction that will challenge your perceptions and leave you in awe of the infinite possibilities that exist within the written word. Indeed, Möbius Blvd is far more than a magazine; it's an experience. It's an exploration of the infinite, a passage through dimensions where the only constant is storytelling at its most daring, a kaleidoscope of wonder and terror. Join us on this winding, never-ending journey of speculative fiction that will keep you entranced from the first twist to the last loop. Open your mind to the limitless worlds of Möbius Blvd … and discover that the boundary between fiction and reality is as thin as a strip of paper with a twist. In this issue: DRIVING ALL NIGHT Brad Goldberg EXPIRATION DATE Trish Renee HOUSE MADE OF GINGER Justin Fellows HUNGER Joseph Flynn THE ELEPHANT SLAYER Wayne Kyle Spitzer OPTOPHOBIA Ken Goldman PERIOD. Ginger Keller Gannaway THAT FORGOTTEN MONDAY Mark Connelly THE DREAM THEATER Joe Prosit TYSON’S CORNER Griffith Pound
Download or read book Holding Back Midnight written by Maureen Isaacson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Night Train and Other Stories written by Sathya Saran and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rivers of London written by Ben Aaronovitch and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden ... and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair.The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.
Download or read book Manila Noir written by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manila is not for the faint of heart. Population: over ten million and growing by the minute. Climate: hot, humid and prone to torrential monsoon rains of biblical proportions. The ultimate femme fatale, she's complicated and mysterious, with a tainted, painful past. The perfect, torrid setting for noir. Edited by Dogeaters (Penguin, 1991) author and National Book Award Nominee Jessica Hagedorn, and featuring original stories from a stunning group of multi-award-winning authors.
Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade a proliferation of books and articles have been published about the novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys (Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea). Despite her slim output - five short novels, three volumes of short stories, and a small number of other brief pieces - Jean Rhys has a standing as a major feminist writer in the contemporary era. This text surveys the small canon of Rhys' short fiction, organizing their approach around the outsider theme in Rhys's work. Also included is a biocritical study, and an overview of critical reception of Rhys's writings.
Download or read book Quarter to Midnight written by Darcy Coates and published by Black Owl Books. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Walking Mannequins written by Joya Misra and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers' voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist "beauty" standards by regulating workers' size and look. Interactions with customers, coworkers, and managers further reinforce racial hierarchies. New surveillance technologies also lead to ineffective corporate decision-making based on flawed data. By focusing on the interaction of race, gender, and surveillance, Walking Mannequins sheds important new light on the dynamics of retail work in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Lisette s Paris Notebook written by Catherine Bateson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you wear to Paris? Ami and I discussed it for hours but I still couldn't think of anything suitable. Ami said a trench coat with nothing underneath but your best underwear. That was only if some boy was meeting you at the airport, I said. Eighteen-year-old Lisette has just arrived in Paris (France!) - the city of haute couture and all things stylish - to practise her French and see great works of art. Her clairvoyant landlady Madame Christophe forces her to attend language lessons with a bunch of international students but soon Lise discovers she's more interested in studying boys than art or verbs ... When the undeniably hot Anders jogs into her life it feels too good to be true. Things get even more complicated when she is pursued by Hugo, a charming English antiques dealer. Can she take a chance and follow her own dreams? How far into the future can Madame Christophe see? And could Lise really be falling in love - in Paris?
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