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The Twilight Region is a collection of stories that will shake the cultural edifice of your mind. Written by established writer Carlos B. Camacho, some of them are thrillers; the others are psychological, horror, science fiction, historical and philosophical stories but all of them are gripping and spellbinding:
'....He drove a short distance and stopped at the entrance of the old sugar mill. He got out and pushed opened the heavy front gate. Seizing...
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What does a day in the life of a dog groomer look like? Why is it so expensive to get your dog's haircut? Does the groomer know she has makeup running down her face? Wait, is that makeup, or is that something that came out the backside of the dog? Is she just going to leave it there while she drinks her coffee? What is the most common dog name? What is the name heard around the store through the loudspeaker that no one will ever forget? What happens...
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'Let her live amongst us in darkness…' Simple words were used to pass a judgment over a child who was only few hours old; a judgment that left her to live in darkness within the walls of a castle filled with secrets, blood, and suffering. It is a castle filled with gold and hope for a better life above the darkness in its basement. What is the path to the light of hope among monsters who love darkness and wear human skin as a disguise? Set in the...
44) Lost Reflection
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In Dennis Callaci's third book, Lost Reflection, the author has assembled seven short stories that are sewn together with characters whose reflections on the past are not to be trusted. Tug at the seams of the book to find the connective tissue-a clone of a character in one story appearing with an assumed name in the next, a reinterpretation of previous events here and again there. Or pay no mind to the lost echo searching eternally.
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Like Paul, try having a heart-to-heart conversation with an appliance and see what happens, but beware: you are entering unchartered territory. Anton, the keen archer keeps seeing blue lights flitting around. Could they be a message from beyond? Learn to what extent a woman goes to make the man, in whose shadow she shelters, happy. What would you choose to do if, like Aella, you came across a set of brightly coloured doors? Or, follow Nikhil the ogre...
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Often quirky, containing unexpected, sometimes unnerving twists, these tales can catch the reader unawares. A lonely boy on holiday with his absent mother; an elderly lady still living in her exciting, wartime past; a kindly, old gentleman, trapped inside a body which no longer works; a teenage girl who finds she might possibly be capable of murder, the central characters spring to life in our imaginations as each short tale unfolds. Sometimes you...
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Mientras el mundo cambia es una compilación de relatos escritos con una precisión exquisita. J. M. Aguilera perfila cada una de los personajes protagonistas de estas historias con un cincel diestro, con el que ilumina las complejas aristas psicológicas de todo ser humano ubicándolos en situaciones comprometidas, inquietantes o meramente desapacibles mientras el mundo alrededor sigue su curso, «mientras el mundo cambia».
Entre otros, conoceremos...
48) Platinum data
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The body was wearing a bright blue halter top that covered her large breasts, but because she had no bottoms, she was naked from the waist down. The neck was cluttered by a navy blue scarf, and the upper part of the scarf turned red and black. Any qualified searcher would have seen right away that this was the killer's freehand work
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'Carol Patterson deserves much wider recognition for her brilliant mastery of the short story form. Each story immerses the reader in an entirely different, vividly depicted setting with complex and contrasting characters. Patterson brings these characters to life as they confront a range of human dilemmas and emotional challenges. Her work is superbly crafted with control of syntax, voice and style.' - Janet Upcher
'In these stories, there is a...
50) Presto
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Presto chronicles the adventures of an employee for a temp agency as he goes out on what often seem like absurd assignments for which he occasionally has to make up the rules as he goes along, improvise. As the sequence deepens, we see this unidentified character in later work situations. His attitude seems unchanged as he deals with the absurdities life throws his way.
51) Ballsy
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In this collection of novellas by Perry Glasser, three very different women find themselves confronting a world of men unable to see them for who they are.They are pursued, tracked, and fearful, but they are never timid.When they turn to face their foes, they must rely on their extraordinary courage and will to prevail.Call it guts, call it bravery – or call it ballsy.
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A collection of short stories by one of America's great twentieth-century writers In his introduction to this collection of sharply crafted short stories, James Jones compares novel writing to a long-term, chronic illness. Writing short stories, he says, is like a brief, intense fever: the kind that can kill or disappear in a matter of days. Although best known for epic war novels such as From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line, Jones also wrote...
54) Holly Day's Café
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This collection of one novella and three short stories captures the traditional, emotional spirit of Christmas and presents the spirit in contemporary settings. Holly Day's Caf, the novella, relates the story of the last day of business at a Kentucky diner. This last day happens to be Christmas Eve. It is also the day of a rare blizzard-one which strands several customers in the diner. What occurs next demonstrates the magic and wonder of the power...
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The stories are glimpses into the lives of women and men, parents, and children. They explore the fundamental questions of growing up, of loss, of being lost, of learning to love, of how powerful or fragile we can be, of the randomness in our lives and of our capacity for transmutation.
They are a refreshment for the spirit and a celebration of life, hope and love in its various forms.
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Esta antología contiene Cinco cuentos al azar. Algunos son divertidos, otros son escalofriantes y la mayoría son simplemente raros:Contiene las siguientes historias.Caos NavideñoLa Amenaza EnmascaradaLa Eternidad puede esperar.La misión de Martin Puther en China.Serendípia salvó al Pirómano.
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Having very little memory very few memories of my childhood in Iran… and less and less as time goes by… I chose to pay tribute to the Iranians… my own way… at last I have a bridge back to Iran again…Iran is often confused with a country with ill-famed people… little do people know how wrong they can be in assuming so… and those (usually self-proclaimed) specialist of Iran and Iranian life and culture are not specialist at all…Iran...
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Lyli wants to know what's over the mountains that surround her crowded city. She's not scared of the ferocious Stone-Muncher that is rumoured to live in a tunnel nearby. She doesn't believe in monsters!
But when Lyli sets out on her expedition, she finds a lot more than she bargained for. Were the legends true all along? And what's really over the mountains?
A lively story of friendship, adventure and extending your horizons.
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Everything Natalie said seemed, to herself, to have been said better by him. He was less fond of speaking, however, than he was of hitting people in the face, which seemed a more likely source of her love to those of us who knew him," begins Jason Brown's linked collection of beautifully haunted, violent, and wry stories set in the densely forested lands of northern New England. In these tales of forbidden love, runaway children, patrimony, alcohol,...
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Make you cry. Fuck off and get cancer. I hope you die. Urban tales of despair and dysfunction are Laura Hird's trademark and she does not disappoint in Hope and Other Urban Tales.
Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's slices of reality are gritty, bleak and often darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal the morally obscure darkness in 'good'...
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