Download or read book Plastic Jesus and Other Stories written by Judith Ets-Hokin and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLASTIC JESUS AND OTHER STORIES covers a range of genres, including fantasy, mystery, and romance in a collection of 13 stories to be consumed either straight-up or, most often, with a twist. From the title story, where the inanimate dashboard Jesus animates his surrounding characters (and himself) in unexpected ways, to the surprise in "Chance" that awaits Charles in the aftermath of his winning the prestigious National Integrity Award, the stories each deliver their own sensibility, quirkiness, and punch. A long-lost love is touchingly rekindled in "Edward and Stella," while a health nut about to receive special recognition doesn't realize what's about to hit her in "The Award," and life lessons are learned for more than just the participants in "The Affair." Can witchcraft actually play a role in drastically upsetting people's lives in "The New Neighbors," or are some things "...just terrible coincidences," as the witch Wyndsong proclaims? Then, there's "Destiny," with a female entrepreneur about to sell her successful business and move on to what's next (which comes as a devastating disclosure to her family), "The Hunt," about whether the deer belong on Deer Island or not (and who gets to decide), and "The Dowry," when young love in another culture can be fatally misunderstood. Through these varied and wonderful tales we get a vision of the wonderful world of Judith Ets-Hokin.
Download or read book Plastic Jesus written by Poppy Z. Brite and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960's brought Seth and Payton all they'd fantasized about—perfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospered and suffered in one another's arms. The two men carried each other and carried a group that created both a history and a future for rock. But at some point their music blurred with the news of their love and the world was faced with the choice to embrace its heroes or revert back to its deep-rooted prejudices.
Download or read book Maria Maria Other Stories written by Marytza K. Rubio and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut. “The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won’t always know what it is until payment is due.” This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in “Tijuca,” who promises to bury her husband’s head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in “Moksha,” who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol. But magic isn’t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in “Tunnels,” and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in “Burial.” A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in “Art Show,” including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, “Maria, Maria”—a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.
Download or read book The Middleman written by Bharati Mukherjee and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World). Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle. Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (The New York Times Book Review).
Download or read book Plastic Jesus written by Robert Miskimon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fire that drives creativity sometimes kills artists, as John Preston learns in his rollicking journey across America in search of his own soul. From Hells Angels to Indian uprisings to romance on the run, his journey takes him deeper into the creative process and a connection with all humanity.
Download or read book The One Handed Pianist and Other Stories written by Ilan Stavans and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The One-Handed Pianist was published to acclaim in the early 1990’s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992. Its tales look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic world—a world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy. Stavans constructs fables that raise questions about ethnicity and community; even Stavans’ person raises questions about ethnicity and community: what does it mean that a Jew of Eastern European lineage can call himself Latino and speak for that group?
Download or read book Whatever Happened to Good Old Plastic Jesus written by Earnest Larsen and published by William C Brown Pub. This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mecha Jesus and Other Stories written by Derwin Mak and published by Brain Lag. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From distant stars to a Cocoa Beach Hooters, Derwin Mak's short fiction takes readers through tales of mystery, wonder, and horror. Ethnic traditions meld with fantastic visions in these twelve stories about memory fabric, eldritch gods during the Salem witch trials, and of course, Mecha-Jesus, Japan's very own android kami.
Download or read book Jesus Calms the Storm written by Connie Morgan Wade and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sturdy board book for ages 3-6 presents the story of Jesus calming the storm with delightful illustrations that is fun to read or sing!
Download or read book La Posada and Other Stories written by Robert Miskimon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-03-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories that includes the novella-length La Posada, the story of a group of Mexican-American farmworkers in the Salinas Valley of California who defy their corporate bosses to form a union and create their own farming cooperative. Other stories deal with the pain of adolescent love, rural eccentrics of the South and the death of a loved one.
Download or read book Good Old Plastic Jesus written by Earnest Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book pshew short stories about this that and the other written by curtis shalo and published by curtis shalo. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories that are totally unrelated! some are fiction, some not. Some are from the past, some from the present, and some from the future. there's a children's story, an advice column, and even lyrics to a rap musical.
Download or read book Jesus the Friend of Children written by and published by Faith Kidz. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the David C. Cook Bible Story Series. Packed with stories that unveil the truth and power of God's Word to start transforming even the youngest heart! This classic children's book has been repackaged to introduce the favourite stories about Jesus' life to a whole new generation of young readers. Forty-nine of the best-loved stories are retold in simple words and accompanied by the world-renowned art of Richard and Francis Hook. Stories are grouped around four major themes of Jesus' life - The Early Years - The Beginning of His Work - Teaching and Healing - The Saviour.
Download or read book Wokelore written by Hardeep Matharu and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the story wherever it goes can take you to some unexpected places Wokelore is a thought-provoking collection of more than fifty articles, essays and stories you won’t find anywhere else. The first book from the independent and fearless newspaper Byline Times, it transports you from 1970s Europe to Putin’s Russia, from the days of empire in Kenya to Brexit Britain, shedding light on America’s political crisis and exposing the UK’s disastrous handling of COVID-19. The work collected here – from an impressive range of writers including Anthony Barnett, Otto English, Misha Glenny, Bonnie Greer, Salena Godden, Peter Oborne and Musa Okwonga – explores race, identity, disinformation, populism, the state of journalism, threats to our democracy and more, each piece offering a fresh take and new ideas.
Download or read book The Creepy Girl and Other Stories written by Janet Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Winner of the 5th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. At turns funny, heartfelt, and wise, THE CREEPY GIRL gives us 15 stories, remarkable in their variety, about families and childhood, small towns and prophets, boys and girls, life and death. In every story, the exuberant, playful language of Janet Mitchell's debut continually surprises.
Download or read book Jesus Was My Father and Other Stories written by Dominick Ricca and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories written by Donald Katz and published by AtRandom. This book was released on 2001-04-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories collects journalist Donald Katz's most fascinating profiles of people whose lives tell us something about business, adventure, sports, politics, culture, and in a brilliant, ancillary way, ourselves. Katz's opening story and the title piece of the book offers a hilarious yet appropriately reverential look at 72-year old Reg Mellor, unparalleled "ferret legging" champion of Yorkshire and the world. Other characters who populate this book include fitness guru Jack LaLanne, legendary entrepreneur Paul Hawken, and master political cartoonist and inspired troublemaker Bill Mauldin. While this collection contains portraits that are varied in scene and tone, their depictions of obsession, delusion, perseverance, creativity, and good-heartedness-the list could go on and on-remain a constant. Each of these stories conveys a sense of the strangeness, wonder, and oddity of life-a theme that provides a gravitational center to this multifarious selection drawn from twenty years of an award-winning non-fiction story-teller's body of work.
