検索キーワード： "TOUGH―タフ―" 短編小説

Gina Gambino wants revenge. Her life has been turned upside down with the murder of her two hoodlum sons, but she knows who's done it. Her target is Don Francini, leader of one of the most powerful mafia families in Palermo. Using her brain and her body, Gina worms her way into his household, becoming first his housekeeper then his mistress, weaving a complicated web of poison and murder. It seems her plans are going well until one disastrous night.

Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of corkscrewed tales from the author of Great Apes. The Guardian (London) describes Will Self as "a wayward genius", and you can find out why when you observe the author's pitiless dissection of the foibles of men, women, and the Volvo 760 Turbo.

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean’s reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents roiling contemporary life, and each finds a way into the nerves and blood that pulse beneath the question of how to live a decent life.

Katherine knew she was walking into the lion’s den. The underground dungeon, the leather whips, the cold chains, the steel cuffs. There was no mistaking. All signs pointed to a dark and erotic universe that was alien to her. She quietly reminds herself, a dare was a dare. Break in, snap a few pictures, and then disappear. But when the dungeon door slams shut behind her, she finds her innocent and untouched world is shaken to it’s core as it collides with the dark, erotic, and twisted mind of Sebastian.