Download or read book The Mind Meddler A Short Story written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Publications. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All it takes to seal your fate is a single thought. The Mind Meddler will sneak it into your mind when you aren’t looking. True to his name, the Mind Meddler messes with people’s minds. He plants a single innocuous thought in his victim’s mind, then steps back and watches as it slowly ensnares and destroys them. The ghost-girl has the gift of pure sight. She sees nothing but the truth. The objective, unadulterated truth. Without judgement or deliberation. Thoughts do not trouble her. The Mind Meddler has never met anybody like the ghost-girl in his entire existence. Her uncanny ability is a challenge he cannot resist… This speculative fiction tale by Anitha Krishnan secured an Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest for the 2nd Quarter (January—March) 2022.
Download or read book The Party Across The Street written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the house across the street swallows up a visitor dressed for a party at 1 a.m., three-year-old Dorian is curious to know more. Excited at the prospect of an entertaining departure from the monotony of parenting, his sleep-deprived mother accompanies him out the door and across the street to the house where a party is indeed in full swing. Guests with painted faces and elaborate costumes heartily welcome the mother-son duo, luring them in with the promise of free babysitting and loads of tasty treats. But no one mentions the presence of a magician in their midst, a magician who knows how to make little children disappear.
Download or read book The Goldilocks Zone written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly suburban mother, Sonia, yearns for the support of a community to raise her almost three-year-old son, Aarash. But she discovers, to her great disappointment, that her new neighbourhood is filled with far too many gestures of polite friendliness but no real friendship. Until one day a bike accident transports them into a parallel world that promises her the perfect community she has been longing for. But being part of a community means her child will no longer be only hers. Will she be willing to make such a sacrifice?
Download or read book Hide and Seek written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child’s favourite game. One mother’s worst nightmare. In a seemingly endless game of hide-and-seek, a mother looks for her child in all his favourite hiding spots. But he has hidden himself so well she’s unable to find him. Then she comes up with the perfect bait to coax him out. His favourite toys! Will they entice him to reveal himself? Or has she been playing the wrong game all along? Hide-and-Seek secured an Honourable Mention in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Allegory Magazine, Volume 39/66.
Download or read book A Suitable Colour For A Ghost written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytime is my realm. I am the expert at spinning bedtime stories for my four-year-old child. It’s a ritual both of us look forward to every evening, much to my husband’s consternation. Tonight, I intend to tell my little one a ghost story. Not to spook him, but as an exercise in imagination. A blurring of lines between fact and fiction. Little do I know that he too has a ghost story of his own to share with me. A tale that is truer than all the lies... erm, stories... I’ve been telling him all along.
Download or read book Mrs D Souza s Dispute With God written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two things were annoying Mrs. D’Souza. One, the fact that she was dead. And second, the line of dead folks waiting to meet their Maker was insufferably long and impossibly docile. Restless and teeming with questions, she decides to take matters in her own hands and sets out to find God. Not a big deal, really. Except for one small thing. How do you seek someone when you don’t even know what they look like?
Download or read book The Gift Of Time written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time! Ah, that slippery measure of our lives! Which parent would turn down a generous offer of a little more time in their day? Not Myra. Single mom. Immigrant. Hobbyist painter. Myra unexpectedly finds the gift of time in an ordinary-looking mirror that cost her ten bucks. She steps into it for a much needed mid-day snooze when her little boy, Arjun, is away at school. She steps out to find that no time has lapsed in the real world in the meantime. That additional time to rest and recover makes her a much better parent, she finds. And she is grateful for it. Until Arjun stumbles into the mirror one day, leaving Myra with no choice but to figure out with great urgency what price the mirror will extract from her for its gift of time. Because sometimes, in life and in magic, there is no such thing as a free gift.
Download or read book Memory Games written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning after his seventh birthday, Skyla gives her son a gift without his knowledge. Also, without his consent. She has all his painful memories excised from his brain. She considers it the best gift of all. The memory of a perfect childhood. But no one could possibly gift something that simply does not exist. At least, not without unfortunate consequences. Memory Games secured an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (July—September 2023).
Download or read book Your Mother s Nightmares written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst is not what happens. The worst is what every mother fears could happen. Imagination collides with maternal fear in this bold collection of troubling, twisted tales from a fiction writer who isn’t afraid to plumb the often terrifying emotional depths of the motherhood experience. A party across the street lures a trusting three-year-old into an adventure, but thrusts his mother into a nightmare. A mirror offers the gift of more time, something every parent longs for, but what will it take in return? A mother erases her seven-year-old’s painful memories to leave him with the impression of a perfect childhood. Only, it leads to imperfect consequences. Teeming with the unthinkable, this collection of six never-before-seen short stories tugs at every mother’s helpless heartstrings, coaxes out her deepest and darkest fears for her children, and presents them in the guise of fantasy fiction so that her nightmares won’t come true. Stories included are: The Party across the Street A Suitable Colour for a Ghost Memory Games* The Goldilocks Zone Hide-and-Seek** The Gift of Time *Memory Games secured an Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, July—September 2023 quarter. **Hide-and-Seek secured an Honourable Mention in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Allegory Magazine, Volume 39/66.
Download or read book A Benevolent Goddess written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Publications. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless gods you pray to. Only one answers. It will cost her dearly. In a land where gods have long mastered the art of ignoring the prayers of human beings, a new goddess arrives. She desires nothing more than to help those who call out in faith. But every choice, no matter how noble, comes with its own consequences. Even the benevolent goddess will have to pay a steep price if she chooses to follow her heart’s desire.
Download or read book Hello Dreamer written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Publications. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams for one, dreams for all, some dreams to last all day, some for when the night falls. Written during my sojourns in Canada and Australia, Hello, Dreamer! is an eclectic collection of 100 short poems encompassing musings on the Universe and its mysteries, nature and human life, my secret longings and fears, love and heartbreak, the sun and the moon, the stars and the seas, light and shadow, and joy and nostalgia. Read them all in one sitting. Or read them one a day, savouring each like a tidbit. There's much in here to spark joy and light up your soul.
Download or read book The Land of No Reflection written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don’t need eyes, let alone a mirror, to peer into the depths of your own soul. Sight is a privilege denied to everyone by law in the land of Parinara. Every child is blindfolded at birth. Even the dead are buried blindfolded. To see is an unpardonable crime, punishable by death. Yet, fifteen-year-old Viola indulges in a momentary curiosity and violates the law, only to find that the gift of sight comes at an exorbitant price. To look outward, she must first lose sight of what lies inward. But therein lie the secrets that even sightlessness cannot conceal.
Download or read book Dying Wishes written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Publications. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Finalist *** When I was seven, my mother died. I struck a bargain with the Gods to bring her back to life. For thirteen years now, I have served as a Harbinger of Death, coaxing dying wishes out of mortals so that the God of Death may grant them moksha, liberation from the cycles of birth and death. The man about to die this evening claims he has nothing to offer me. He is dying a content man, a rarity in our world. But when the God of Death arrives to lead his soul away, the man changes his mind about dying and flees, surreptitiously planting on me an enigma. I only know I cannot trust any God with this secret. And that I will pay an unbearable price for this concealment. Yet again, I underestimate how savagely the Gods can wound me. Set in Burlington, Ontario, this contemporary fantasy novel weaves Hindu mythology and South Indian folklore into a quest for belonging across different worlds – the World of Mortals and the World of Gods, India and Canada, the past and the present, the world outside and the one within. It is an offering to lovers of whimsical worlds and heartbreaking prose, and to anyone yearning to simply belong.
Download or read book British Mysteries Collection 14 Novels 70 Short Stories written by H. C. McNeile and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 4300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "British Mysteries Collection: 14 Novels & 70+ Short Stories (Challenge, The Island of Terror, The Female of the Species, The Horror At Staveley Grange, Bulldog Drummond, Out of the Blue and more)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937) commonly known as H. C. McNeile or Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie and on English gentlemen generally. Drummond is a First World War veteran, brutalised by his experiences in the trenches and bored with his post-war lifestyle. He publishes an advertisement looking for adventure, and soon finds himself embroiled in a series of exploits, many of which involve Carl Peterson—who becomes his nemesis—and Peterson's mistress, the femme fatale Irma. McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other detective novels and story collections that included two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish. H. C. McNeile thrillers are a continuation of his war stories, with upper class Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. Content: Jim Maitland The Island of Terror Bulldog Drummond The Black Gang The Third Round The Final Count The Female of the Species Temple Tower The Return of Bulldog Drummond Knock-Out Bulldog Drummond at Bay Challenge The Horror At Staveley Grange Tiny Carteret Ronald Standish Men, Women and Guns The Saving Clause Out of the Blue The Finger of Fate
Download or read book Meddler written by Philip K. Dick and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the visionary mind of Philip K. Dick, author of groundbreaking stories that inspired blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, comes a compelling and suspenseful journey into the complexities of time travel in Meddler. In this gripping sci-fi short story, a secret government agency recklessly manipulates the future through a series of illegal "Time Dips," unleashing devastating consequences upon humanity. Our protagonist, the brilliant historian Hasten, is recruited for a last-ditch attempt to untangle the mystery of how their meddling unravelled time itself; and whether anything can be done to correct the damage. As humanity teeters on the brink of collapse, will Hasten discover the truth hidden within the depths of time, or will their actions seal the fate of the future?
Download or read book The Complete Works of Washington Irving Short Stories Plays Historical Works Poetry and Autobiographical Writings Illustrated written by Washington Irving and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 3500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the 19th century. He is best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington and Oliver Goldsmith, and several histories of 15th-century Spain, dealing with subjects such as the Moors and the Alhambra. Contents: INTRODUCTION SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842 by Charles Dickens COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES: THE SKETCH BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Old Christmas Roscoe The Wife TALES OF A TRAVELLER Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman Buckthorne and His Friends The Italian Banditti The Money Diggers BRACEBRIDGE HALL The Busy Man The Widow The Lovers Family Reliques An Old Soldier WOLFERT'S ROOST AND MISCELLANIES THE CRAYON PAPERS TRAVEL SKETCHES AND MEMOIRS: TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBY A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES SATIRICAL WORKS: KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE, GENT. HISTORICAL WORKS: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE ASTORIA CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON: VOLUME I THE STUDENT'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON DRAMAS: THE WILD HUNTSMAN ABU HASSAN POEMS: ECHO AND SILENCE ON PASSAIC FALLS RHYMED ADDRESS THE DULL LECTURE TO MISS EMILY FOSTER ON HER BIRTHDAY SONG THE LAY OF THE SUNNYSIDE DUCKS SIGNS OF THE TIMES WRITTEN IN THE DEEP DENE ALBUM EXTRACTS FROM ABU HASSAN SONG FROM THE WILD HUNTSMAN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WASHINGTON IRVING AND EDGAR ALLAN POE BIOGRAPHY: WASHINGTON IRVING by Charles Dudley Warner
Download or read book The Complete Works of Washington Irving Short Stories Historical Works Plays Poems and Autobiographical Writings Illustrated Edition written by Washington Irving and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 3500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the 19th century. He is best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington and Oliver Goldsmith, and several histories of 15th-century Spain, dealing with subjects such as the Moors and the Alhambra.
