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There's just something magical about cats.Fierce hunters content to rest upon our sofas. Sweet friends but stubbornly independent. Fluffy little murder balls with jellybean toes and razor-sharp claws. It's easier to answer what cats aren't than what they are.In this purr-fect collection, awesome authors pounce upon the challenge of the mysterious cat like the elusive little red dot it is. Curl up with sixteen stories all featuring our furry, frisky,...
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Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles. Along with him went Laura, his childhood sweetheart and soulmate. In L.A., Laura becomes enamoured with the dark side of rock and roll life, leaving Taylor lost, distraught and deeply damaged. Taylor realizes he has to go back home to Nickerson Harbour, to confront Laura's...
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Come aboard for adventure! Set sail on the high seas with eight different tales of swashbuckling and scallywags. Whether in the Caribbean, far off seas or even in outer space, these captains give no quarter.
When Captain James Spark is returned to the court of the woman he once loved and learns a shocking truth, he'll stop at nothing to protect the daughter he never knew he had.
All Alyssandra Burnet wanted was safe passage to her ailing father's...
84) The Blackboard
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What does your mind get striked with, when you think of,THE BLACKBOARD?•He passed by her classroom everyday just to catch a glimpse of her. However, she never knew about the secret admirer. •I was bread and she was my jam. We were the best pair to be thought….Yet, I was toasted And she often went stolen from the jar. Millions of disappearing visitors, Deforming the lives through white scribbles. Letters may fade but knowledge will never. Where...
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Revisit this 2018 collection with a fresh reissue! In the first collection of shorts presented by Writing Bloc Publishing, twenty writers explore the theme of escape, examining the urge to leave daily life behind and how that both helps and hinders us. These gripping tales run the gamut from science fiction and fantasy to political satire and literary fiction. Dive headfirst into this stunning collection, and you might just find that escape is right...
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The wintry month of December has been a time of celebration since the earliest days of caves and campfires. As soon as humans could make sense of the phases of the moon and the wheeling of the stars, we treasured the Winter Solstice - the darkest day of the year. Many counted this period as the turning point for the entire cycle.
Yule sprang from this date, as did the Chinese celebrations. When the Syrians attacked Jerusalem in 167BC, and the locals...
87) All Hallows' Eve
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A ghoulish collection of classic poetry and prose ...
All Hallows' Eve is the perfect gift for the parent, child or friend who revels in the spooky spirit of Halloween. Ghastly poems, sinister short stories, and curious black and white line illustrations throughout are sure to keep your bones chilled and imagination ablaze. Including writing by Thomas Hardy, Hugh Mearnes, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and more, All Hallows' Eve will complement...
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The sheep that's a good listener. The woman and the ice cream salesman. The young man who falls in love with a washing machine. That age old tale.
Funny, macabre, heart-breaking, eerie, disturbing, provocative...the 21 stories in this collection of originals are all winners of the Chipping Norton Literary Festival Short Story Competition Winners from its inception in 2016 to 2022. The stories are hugely varied in style and genre, and will appeal...
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Over the past twenty-five years, New Stories from the South has published the work of now well-known writers, including James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus, Barbara Kingsolver, John Sayles, Joshua Ferris, and Abraham Verghese and nurtured the talents of many others, including Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Brock Clarke, Lee Smith, and Daniel Wallace.
This twenty-fifth volume reachs out beyond the South to one of the most acclaimed short story writers of...
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The unshakable specter of Time hovers over each of the 26 tales in Scribes Divided's second anthology. Brought to you by a collective of accomplished authors from nearly every time zone across the world, these timeless stories inspire, terrify, delight, and explore that most human of shared experiences: living our lives second by second, until our time expires.
Death? Taxes? Please.
Dread naught but Time.
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These six riveting fantasy classics from the golden age of the French short story will keep you glued to your chair. Drawn from the genre's outstanding nineteenth-century writers, they range from the Romantic era to the rise of the Symbolists and Decadents. Presented chronologically by date of publication, they include Charles Nodier's "Trilby; or, The Elf of Argyll," Théophile Gautier's "The Amorous Dead Woman," "The Venus of Ille" by Prosper Mérimée,...
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Spontaneous Combustion is the classic "play-in-a-day" theater exercise in literary event form. We gather writers together, provide three story prompts, and give them 24 hours to compose a unique piece of pulp fiction. Our favorites are invited back to prose-slam their short stories for a public audience. In the end, everyone casts a vote and the people-chosen "Top Tales" are bound in the next volume. Awaiting you in Vol. II of this explosive literary...
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Quizá la crudeza de la realidad vivida a partir de la degradación social y política padecida en las últimas décadas, ha impulsado en escritores jóvenes un notorio interés por tratar las calamidades que subyugan nuestra contemporaneidad. Los escritores que integran esta antología, todos nacidos en la década del setenta, seis hombres y seis mujeres, y todos con una obra ya consolidada pese a su corta edad, abordan la situación actual de México...
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2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!
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Strange coins, crumpled paper, antique watches – a few of many little treasures shipped to a curious collective of writers, challenging them to tell us a story. The writers of the Damn Book Done group had Writerly Kits in common, a subscription box that arrived full of items to inspire their writing. They also shared a desire to spend time with their words, sneaking past inner critics, perfectionism, and all that can stop them, to get their damn...
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From high school drama students to community theater actors, performers everywhere are looking for inexpensive material to entertain audiences. This collection of a dozen royalty-free, one-act plays provides the perfect solution. Classic dramas include Aristophanes' The Birds, J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, and Eugene O'Neill's The Moon of the Caribbees. Other works include August Strindberg's The Stronger, Susan Glaspell's Trifles, Louise Saunders'...
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Intended as a salute to the best in locally crafted short fiction, The Cuffer Prize was launched in March 2008 and attracted nearly 200 entries from across the province. The Cuffer Anthology contains the best of those entries. This is a collection of stories to be savored and remembered. Readers will thrill at the writing talent that abounds in Newfoundland and Labrador. At the same time, they will be contributing to a wonderful cause: a portion of...
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1929 was the end of a golden age. Six aspiring writers spin tales set in a time in history when changes were afoot. While some sought the American Dream, others had to deal with vampiric siblings. Facing lost loves and gaining new freedoms define the beginning of a new age. Of course, the government was going through some changes itself in The Black Chamber, while everyday heroes could be confused with the Devil.
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Winged buds is a conglomeration of poems, stories and other articles penned down by 36 fascinating minds from different parts of India and different walks of life. Through writing, a budding writer gets wings to fly and this delicate work is a collection of magnificent write-ups bewitchingly written for readers to be a part of this journey which takes you through the various aspects of life.
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