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  • Ten More Things About Us
    Nancy Welch
    Spring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner'There’s no such thing as society,' Margaret Thatcher famously-and cruelly-proclaimed. 'There are individual men and women and there are families.' Through three stories in Ten More Things About Us, Nancy Welch illuminates the consequences of this philosophy-writ-policy in the very particular lives of women who labor to care fo...
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    10,49 €

  • Ravings of an Unsettled Mind
    J.A. Barrios
    This first collection from storyteller J.A. Barrios takes themes that haunt us in everyday life - grief, loneliness, desire, addiction - and twists them into horrific nightmares.We’ve all faced the challenge of accepting our own fate and releasing fear, but could you make the ultimate Acceptance? Nathan is a desperate child who makes an innocent wish to finally find a friend i...
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    13,17 €

  • Unredeemable and other stories
    Glen Heefner
    Sixteen short literary stories, each told in a different voice and place. Recipient of the Kirkus Star. The Book Commentary awarded this collection five stars.IN THE NAMESAKE STORYAn institution that has brought people together is now pushing them apart.IN THE OTHER STORIESA mother persistently refuses to turn against her self-absorbed son. A lonely man on borrowed time reconst...
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    12,41 €

  • Casey Masterson’s Revelations of the Raven Master Volume One
    Casey Masterson
    Legend has it that if the six resident ravens leave the Tower of London, the Kingdom, and the tower itself will fall. It is the Raven Master’s calling to protect those regal but, at times, evil birds. However, the Raven Master holds more secrets in the world’s darkest, dankest dungeon, for he is the master storyteller, older than time itself. Each tale of the macabre and deprav...
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    21,32 €

  • Toasting The Yogi
    Gautam Nadkarni
    This is an extraordinary, light-hearted book written by Gautam Nadkarni. Filled with a series of short stories -- or haibun as the genre is known in Japanese --set in India to make you laugh and smile. This book was created for those who enjoy a boost in the soul and makes you feel good after reading every chapter. Each of the wonderful drawings within, executed by the author h...
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    16,39 €

  • The Resurrection
    Carlos B. Camacho
    Written in first person, ’The Resurrection’ is about the strange story of the author, who is a foreigner, and the unearthly way he learned to speak and write English fluently. This piece of high-quality literature is gripping and full of suspense, with twists. It’s worth reading it till the very end. Down below, extracts from the story:When I woke up again, it was already late ...
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    14,49 €

  • Time Lines
    Karen J Mossman
    Time travel can be a useful resource, but what if something unexpected goes wrong?In the year 3236, the government uses time travel to document the mistakes of the past. It’s a way to gain power in the present by learning from history.During a leap back to WWII, Astro-archeologist Julie finds her safe projection hasn’t gone as planned. Instead of the ethereal presence she’s sup...
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    15,07 €

  • Compassion Fatigue
    Humberto da Silva
    A father comforts his young son, hoping against hope their last little island of the Azorean archipelago won’t be strip mined by the Singularity.A couple choose a cheap upload for the consciousness of their young daughter who is dying from a disease they can’t afford to cure.A tourist doing yoga on a Canary Island beach watches the distance diminish between himself and the Afri...
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    21,79 €

  • A Lighter Shade of Night
    K.A. Bachus
    Why don’t you kill the guards and let us fight our way out? They grew up together and are distantly related. But can three such different personalities form an effective fighting team? When a car bomb leaves Misha orphaned at nineteen, his life changes its trajectory. The possibilities of a privileged youth fade to a dismal choice between a brutal death or a violent life. He wi...
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    16,57 €

  • Dancescritos: Recuerdos y fantasías textuales
    Daniela Ceballos Escudero
    Libélula Editores, 2023.Este libro es para quienes desean soñar, elevar su imaginación y saborear de nuevo el sabor de la infancia, con la misma dulce ingenuidad con la que transcurrieron esos dichosos días en los que la realidad era un sueño y cada sueño se hacía realidad con sólo imaginarlo.A través de su imaginación y sus recuerdos, Daniela Ceballos nos trae una obra su prim...
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    9,69 €

  • Cuentos de Ulises mudos, sirenas varadas y otros mares
    Carolina Saavedra
    Cuentos de Ulises mudo, sirenas varadas y otros mares es una recopilación de cuentos donde conviven el amor y la desolación, la soledad en compañía y la ilusión con el desaliento. Un libro dividido en tres estancias, en cada una de ellas se reúnen los relatos que se encuentran más confortables entre sí.Su lectura puede empezar desde cualquier página, son relatos cortos con en??...
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    16,00 €

  • Still Time
    Brian Bourner
    Entertaining short stories, short enough to read in a coffee-break, often set in Edinburgh, these tales cover a wide variety of subjects, scenarios, emotions, and social behaviours. ...
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    16,04 €

  • Children’s Short Stories
    Koos Verkaik
    We suggest this fascinating children’s story book by author Koos Verkaik to people who are spending time at home and seeking a cozy adventure or bedtime tale. Lessons of friendship, courage, honesty, good, evil, deceit, hard work, and integrity are taught through the amazing stories in the book, which open doors to delight, information, engagement, and empathy. These simple fab...
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    16,78 €

  • The Raft and the Speedboat
    John A King
    If life is a journey and not a destination, why are we not happy just wandering aimlessly?If life is a destination at the end of a journey, why are we not content when we arrive at wherever ’there’ is?I think there is one more component, maybe two that are missing in the matrix of living a satisfied life.So grab a beverage, maybe a cigar and sit for a minute; I want to tell you...
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    10,42 €

  • The Long, the Short and the Tall
    E.P. Rose
    The long, the short and the tall, we all have them, stories accumulated over our lives. Elizabeth, an English transplant, recorded the fifty-two in this collection over the forty years she has spent in America. Some shocking, some sad, some to set you laughing, and others purely fantastical, each story triggered by a true event or impression, will give you a topic to think or l...
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    33,31 €

  • A Waltz Through The Dark Wood
    Adam Dickson
    Twelve powerful short stories that strip away the veneer and get right to the heart of the human condition. From the tensions that exist between lovers, to the heart-breaking realities of war. Out of these diverse elements, the forging of qualities that enable hope, dignity and ultimately transcendence to emerge. The essential dilemma of being human in a sometimes ruthless envi...
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    11,84 €

  • Riding the Nightmare
    Lisa Tuttle
    Over the past few decades, Lisa Tuttle has quietly established her place as one of today’s very best writers of weird and horror fiction. Her previous collection, The Dead Hours of Night, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, and now she is back with this new volume containing twelve more unsettling tales.In ’Bits and Pieces’, a woman is surprised to find her lover has left...
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    25,22 €

  • Riding the Nightmare
    Lisa Tuttle
    Over the past few decades, Lisa Tuttle has quietly established her place as one of today’s very best writers of weird and horror fiction. Her previous collection, The Dead Hours of Night, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, and now she is back with this new volume containing twelve more unsettling tales.In ’Bits and Pieces’, a woman is surprised to find her lover has left...
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    43,13 €

  • BRUISES
    Kurt Newton
    A collection of 23 stories from Kurt Newton, including:The Pit, Puppies For Sale, Bruises, Under the Bridge, Thumbin ’, Something Profound, The Whittling, creak!, Angels of Mercy, Angels of Grief, Skins, The Banana Man, Dead Dogs, Trunk Story, Nature Walk, The Dog Park, B - Side, Lost Dog, Periphery, Post Mortem, The Stagnant Ponds, Thirty-Two Scenes from A Dead Hooker’s Mouth,...
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    23,18 €

  • RUN FREE
    S. Bannerway
    A nerve-racking tale of a highly decorated, strong-minded British soldier who was emotionally and physically brought to his knees through a series of events, only to be rescued by an unfamiliar companion. This short story takes you on an emotional rollercoaster with ups, downs and unexpected twists and turns with every turn of the page. The ups are exciting and exhilarating, th...
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    8,75 €

  • Permission to Enter
    Susan Helene Gottfried
    Women feature in this collection of short stories and one novella. Women regaining their power, moving forward through life, learning to face and deal with their pasts. These women have lived, loved, and lost. They have optimism for the future and darkness in their pasts. They have been granted permission to enter, they have seized it, or else they stand ready to do so. Really,...
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    11,10 €

  • A ’Sorta Fairytale
    Mark Binmore
    ’Forward into the mysterious beauty of spring The crocuses, melon-dawn yellow snow-purple veined saffron and milk-hearts And birdsong becoming audible, trilling and chattering in symphony Spools of song, sweet canticles in taunting magniloquence melodious code Like an angelical speech Like golden divination and ambiguous dreamlike augury And I came upon a beekeeper And he said ...
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    15,20 €

  • Super Short Stories
    Mark C. Wallfisch
    Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged? These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short. ...
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    10,51 €

  • America in the Year 2048 and Other Stories
    Shukdeb Sen
    The book America in the Year 2048 and Other Stories includes thirteen stories that range from the futuristic to the current. These stories are in terms of events that inhabit the mind, heart, and spirit of the average American. Thomas Jefferson ignited the flame of the democratic experiment in 1776 to establish a republic where all people are created equal. These people have th...
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    16,02 €

  • Tyranny of the Fey
    Terry Bartley
    A famed Elven researcher is worried about her home. When she discovers a new realm with massive magic potential, she believes she has found the answer. Will the Seasonal Fey Courts allow her to continue her research without interference, or do they have more nefarious plans?An Elven princess runs away from her arranged marriage to a parallel world. Will she be able to find the ...
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    17,71 €

  • I Will, Through the Veil
    Johnny Townsend
    What gay man hasn’t fantasized about hot sex with those repressed Mormon missionaries in their white shirts and conservative ties? But there’s more to Mormon fantasy sex than curious young 'elders.' What about temple workers going at it in the baptismal font after hours? Group sex during a Court of Love?How about an ex-Mormon who throws a 'pity party' (or 'pity orgy') for men w...
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    15,62 €

  • Perspectives and metamorphoses
    Michael Fortescue
    The miniatures in the first part of this book all involve perspective. The perspective in all of them is in one way or another unusual: sometimes frame by frame, sometimes macroscopic, sometimes microscopic; sometimes it is the thing perceived that does the perceiving, and sometimes two or more perspectives are superimposed or blended. The metamorphoses of the second part are l...
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    23,73 €

  • قيودٌ وأجنحةٌ
    M. Younis
    استعدوا للانغماس في رحلة أدبية استثنائية مع الكاتب النابض بالحياة، مصطفى يونس، حيث يعود بقوة في الطبعة الثانية من مجموعته القصصية المذهلة 'قيود وأجنحة'.مصطفى يونس، المؤلف الذي يجسد بأسلوبه الشاعري الفريد عوالمًا متعددة تنبض بالحكايات الخيالية والواقعية، يأخذنا في رحلة ساحرة إلى أعماق البشرية والحياة اليومية. ينسج قصصه ببراعة فائقة، متجاوزًا حدود الزمان والمكان، معزّزًا الروح ال...
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    13,18 €

  • Spinning-Wheel Stories
    Louisa May Alcott
    Unique ElementsAbout the Author / Historical ContextCommentaries / ReviewsA CHARMING Storybook for children by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT.Spinning-Wheel Stories by AMERICAN author LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is a book of short stories for children first published in 1884 in the UNITED STATES.'’Spinning-Wheel Stories,’ by [Miss Alcott], have all the old attraction of hearty good-fellowship with bo...
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    9,78 €

  • The Extremists / 14 Stories
    Chris Dreyfus
    The Extremists / 14 Stories Life and love as seen through the eyes of fourteen central characters on a quest for human connection. This psychologically astute and literary collection of short stories will keep you reading to the end. Darian writes a less-than-romantic letter to an ex revealing a traumatic past in The Extremists. Magic realism enters The House of Lost Men. Carl,...
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    18,66 €


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