検索キーワード： "Anonymous" 短編小説

காதல், பிரிவு, தோல்வி, ஏக்கம் இவைகளால் பாதிப்படையாத மனிதனே இல்லை. ஒரு சதவீத இன்பத்துக்காக தொண்ணூற்று ஒன்பது சதவீத துயரங்களைப் பொறுத்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டியுள்ளது.

They say that confession is necessary to purify the soul. However, there are some deeds that are so sinister, so wicked, that even the most remorseful admission of guilt is not enough to atone for them. From the mind of Vincent V. Cava comes his most twisted book to date: Nine frightening stories told through the voices of those who witnessed them.

Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights, but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.

An aging gay man finds a way to remain forever young on hookup sites, but his real face pays a terrible price. A sexual fetish takes an ominous turn from boyhood to adulthood. A meth-addicted middle-aged man hangs on to life and sanity in order to receive visits from his long-dead mother. And, a desperate man kidnaps his terminally-ill romantic rival in hopes of receiving an atonement he may not deserve.