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The nine stories in this collection are told by and about teenagers, mid-lifers, and elders. They are about settled lives and drastically disordered ones, working people, dying people. They are about people you have never met and others you see every day; sometimes, they are people you know very well, people you work and live with. You may find they are about you. Like all of us, the characters are finding their way forward in the face of loss. They...
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From 2007 to 2011, Martin Livings conducted what could only be described as a misguided attempt to overcome his own writer's block by irregularly asking friends reading his blog to contribute words and ideas, which he would then form into short-short stories in under ten minutes, and usually on a Tuesday.And thus Tuesday's Ten Minute Tales were born.Working with such evocative - and oft-times purposely oblique - terms as "nyctophobia", "depressing...
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Alejados de cualquier mirada complaciente, los relatos de esta antología abordan algunas de las caprichosas interacciones de los vínculos familiares, donde lo afectivo se ve contaminado por el inevitable mandato cultural que los atraviesan.
Roles que se confunden, ausencias notorias, presencias absolutas, reacciones intempestivas y búsquedas obsesivas de respuestas son parte de los temas que sobrevuelan estas historias. Cada texto propone la necesaria...
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En Biografía de un ocaso, el autor nos ofrece un compendio de relatos donde la muerte se erige como hilo conductor, tejiendo con maestría narrativa los destinos de sus personajes. A lo largo de estas historias, la muerte se manifiesta en diversas formas, y los personajes, meticulosamente concebidos, adoptan posturas variadas ante el inexorable fenómeno de la muerte. Cada relato se erige como un espejo literario que refleja las distintas facetas...
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Esta es una obra literaria escrita por el escritor venezolano Carlos Rafael Fernández Morillo, mejor conocido en el mundo de las letras con el seudónimo de: CARFER, quien es autor de los celebres y aclamados; Cuentos de CARFER, este escritor es autor de centeneres de cuentos eróticos, drama, humor, policiacos, religiosos y políticos. Delírium Tremens es la historia de Charly, un hombre adicto a la bebida que recoge desperdicios y basura en...
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S.S. Reed's Story Fictionis a monthly publicationof free verse short stories,essays and storytelling deep diveswritten and collected by the author. In this volume... A young master and his maidtake a moment to reconnect on a snowy day. Two friends are stumpedwhile trying to solve a mystery. A boy is visited by a cosmic snail while he sleeps. What is the joy of edutainment? What is the storyof the novel Kamogawa Runner? If you wanna knowwhat Story...
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El autor ha recopilado ocho cuentos aterradores de una manera fantástica, en los que abarca ese temeroso universo del morbo que no se detendrá ni un minuto durante el recorrido de estas páginas espantosas. Siempre existirá esa atracción por el morbo…
¿Te dan curiosidad los relatos detrás de los suicidios en los rieles, las invocaciones y los experimentos en la penumbra? Estos cuentos están destinados a aquellos que sutilmente se regocijan...
8) Trinium
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In a not-so-distant future, the Earth has become a desolate wasteland, prompting humanity to establish colonies on distant planets. Among these colonies is Trinium, a thriving settlement where certain families are entrusted with the crucial task of raising and training horses, integral for transportation and work on this new world. Amelia, an imaginative and headstrong teenage girl, embraces her family's responsibility with fervor and determination....
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Dedicated with affection to all those (and there are many) who have given their love to someone and had to contend with their illness, even though they knew that they have no chance of winning; and to those who had to coexist with a love like this. "Over twenty years ago a girl I loved like myself asked me to leave her forever because of her poor health, and not to contact her again. I agreed, with death in my heart, and intending it only as an act...
11) Pressed Leaves
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Diverse readers will find these tales interesting and involving. A miscellaneous collection, the varied narratives touch on the natural and supernatural with a flair for mystery and experimentation.
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Siguiendo la estructura musical del réquiem, Javier Sáez de Ibarra nos sorprende con la composición de un libro de cuentos como notas a veces discordantes y otras, armónicas que dejan su temblor en la atmósfera. La riqueza de sus partes e himnos se transforman en una mirada sobre nuestros comportamientos: los malentendidos, la mezquindad, el rencor, los prejuicios, la disociación íntima, la violencia como también la generosidad, el amor o...
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How many were there? Enough. Over the centuries they had evolved to satisfy their needs with a more passive source of the nutrients they required; after all, blood was blood. But not for all. Some could not resist the ancient urge to satisfy their blood lust with the warm, flowing liquid of a living being. In those instances, errant members of the Network were tracked by the death squad known as the Shield, from whom there was no escape.
Jordan lived...
14) Shorts
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Short stories are, in my mind, just a brief snapshot of what could be a longer tale. A taster. Something in development. Fragments.Each of these collected shorts are just that. Saying something different in each one and writing each one, was a bit like trying to paint the pictures accordingly. Each story has a different personality and so they each a need little bit of something here, a little bit of that there, just like people. Some people you can't...
15) This Kind of Man
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THIS KIND OF MAN offers an unvarnished look at life in 21st Century America, excavating the complicated, tender, wild truth of what it is to be a man across generations and relationships. These stories interrogate the pressures and tensions of late-stage capitalism, and the ways men grapple with them, often without success. Issues such as marriage, fatherhood, aggression, alcoholism, gender expectations, generational backlash, and the inexorable dread...
16) immortality
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More than twenty years had passed since the Nine Countries War in 7878, and the remaining five countries, namely Qingfeng, Baymoon, Hantang, Wushuang and Xinming, had recovered greatly after years of recuperation. The continent has been revitalized with a prosperous scene of song and dance.
The Valley of Eternal Life was located within the Han Tang Empire, and the valley was always lush and full of life throughout the year.
Here is an ancient...
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People like him from hell, not worthy of family, love, friendship, he left only good memories and unrealistic fantasies.
The devil is the devil after all, and his arrival has brought more grief to the world.
He is a star from the dark night who brings dark sorrow to the world.
He was a demon from hell who longed for the light and feared it.Angels drunk for him, demons shed tears for him. He came with darkness, from darkness, darkness is his eternal...
18) Dragon rat
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In his previous life, he was mediocre and miserable. Now, reborn as a rat, he is willing to risk his life and hold his head high to be a human being!
Against the heavenly road, treading songs, only respect good and evil a thought!
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Everyone has a storyEveryone has secrets A cancer patient's stream of consciousnessA teenager's coming of age with a mysterious girlA veteran's Korean War reminiscences A baseball scout's encounter with a legendary creature in 1940's AlabamaAn Alzheimer's patient's last days of clarity
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Liao Long in front of the mirror in front of the mapping is their own body naked luo, was inserted full of infusion tube appearance, two feet of the soles of the feet, calves, and above the knee, chest arm, neck and even temples all inserted transparent infusion tube, and they are lying in a full metal operating table, surrounded by the walls of a snow-white reflecting the light there is not a single person, bizarre ~ extremely bizarre scene.
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